Recaps

Qin Haoran won the bloodline contest against Long Ying, earning Madam Long’s acceptance and securing his place beside Long Qingqing at the True Dragon Clan’s grand ceremony. As newly ascended Saint Emperor Long Jing began teaching the gathered clansmen, he recounted how a human girl’s victory over him in the Nether Blood Divine Kingdom’s deathmatch arena had sparked his breakthrough and escape.

• Long Ying admitted that Qin Haoran was qualified, then stormed away in humiliation.
• Long Qingqing celebrated Qin Haoran’s victory, and Madam Long accepted him and thanked him for easing the clan’s opposition.
• Madam Long told Long Qingqing and Qin Haoran to take their places on the jade platform before the grand ceremony began.
• Long Jing appeared as the True Dragon Clan’s newly ascended Saint Emperor, and the clansmen gathered to hear his discourse.
• Long Jing recalled how a human girl defeated him in the deathmatch arena, prompting him to comprehend the Saint Emperor Realm, break through, and escape to the True Dragon Clan.
• Long Jing expounded on the Saint Emperor Realm, and his listeners gained insight into their cultivation difficulties.

Saint Emperor Long Jing’s Dao lecture transformed the million cultivators gathered at the celebration, bringing Qin Haoran and Long Qingqing close to breakthroughs. Saint Emperor Long Ying then announced compulsory, unrestricted combat challenges, leaving Long Qingqing fearing that Qin Haoran would be targeted by the True Dragon Clan’s powerful rivals.

• Saint Emperor Long Jing lectured on the Dao for several months, and the gathered cultivators gained major insights and cultivation advances.
• Qin Haoran came within one final step of the Peak God Emperor Stage, while Long Qingqing expected to reach it after seclusion.
• The celebration square shook, and Saint Emperor Long Ying appeared and announced a round of combat discussions with compulsory challenges and few restrictions.
• The cultivators reacted with excitement and alarm as they realized stronger fighters could challenge weaker opponents and settle grudges.
• Long Qingqing feared that Qin Haoran’s rivals would force him into successive battles and exhaust him.

Qin Haoran welcomed the True Dragon Clan’s martial contest as a chance to prove himself and win acceptance for his relationship with Long Qingqing. He accepted Long Han’s challenge and, despite the clan’s doubts, broke Long Han’s arm with a single punch.

• Qin Haoran reassured Long Qingqing that he would defeat the clan’s prodigies and use the contest to establish himself.
• Stone arenas rose across the square, and members of the True Dragon Clan began challenging one another.
• Long Han challenged Qin Haoran, while spectators and elders doubted Qin Haoran’s worth; Madam Long urged them to wait and see.
• Qin Haoran and Long Han exchanged blows, and Long Han realized Qin Haoran’s strength matched or exceeded his own.
• Long Han unleashed his Origin-Returning Dragon Extreme Fist, but Qin Haoran met it head-on and broke Long Han’s arm, sending him flying.

Qin Haoran decisively defeated Long Han, even after Long Han transformed into his true dragon form, and accepted Long Yu’s challenge. Their fight began with Qin Haoran’s sharp finger strike hitting the golden scales on Long Yu’s back.

• Long Han rose after his initial defeat, transformed into his true dragon form, and attacked Qin Haoran with the Vast Sea Dragon Roar.
• Qin Haoran countered Long Han’s roar and overwhelmed him with a barrage of punches until Long Han lost consciousness.
• Long Ying declared Qin Haoran the winner, and Qin Haoran challenged the other True Dragon Clan experts.
• Long Yu entered the arena, revealed his peak God Emperor cultivation, and exchanged attacks with Qin Haoran.
• Qin Haoran fired a purple finger strike at Long Yu’s back, but Long Yu blocked it with golden dragon scales.

Qin Haoran fought Long Yu in the True Dragon Clan arena and gradually gained the upper hand despite their difference in cultivation. Long Yu, driven into a furious retreat, transformed into his enormous golden True Dragon form.

• Qin Haoran and Long Yu traded fierce attacks, and Qin Haoran matched the peak God Emperor with his purple divine power and precise counterattacks.
• Long Yu intensified his assault, but Qin Haoran broke through his golden palm imprints with Divine Qilin Splits the Void, while Long Yu countered with Long Ying Thousand Kills.
• The spectators and elders were astonished by Qin Haoran’s strength, and Madam Long was pleased as Long Qingqing proudly watched him fight.
• Qin Haoran began forcing Long Yu back, unsettling Long Yu as his sense of superiority crumbled.
• Long Yu roared that Qin Haoran would not use him as a stepping stone, then transformed into a huge golden True Dragon and filled the arena with his draconic might.

Qin Haoran and Long Yu fought in their dragon forms, with Qin Haoran enduring severe injuries to trap Long Yu and blast him with a concentrated attack. His strike pierced Long Yu and left the arena’s defensive formation cracked, while the outcome of the battle remained undecided.

• Qin Haoran transformed into a Purple-Gold Divine Dragon whose draconic pressure matched Long Yu’s True Dragon might.
• Long Yu wounded Qin Haoran with his claws, but Qin Haoran struck Long Yu with his tail and broke several of his scales.
• Qin Haoran tore himself free from Long Yu’s jaws despite worsening his own injuries, then bit Long Yu’s neck and coiled around him.
• Long Yu activated Dragon Scale Gold Armor to repel Qin Haoran, who fired a purple ball of Divine Power directly into Long Yu’s wound.
• Qin Haoran’s attack broke through the armor, pierced Long Yu’s body, and cracked the arena’s defensive formation.

Qin Haoran used Qilin techniques and deceptive afterimages to defeat the peak God Emperor Long Yu, leaving him gravely injured and unable to continue. Long Ying reluctantly declared Qin Haoran the winner, while Long Qingqing celebrated his victory as proof that the elders could no longer dismiss him.

• The audience saw that Qin Haoran’s attack had cracked the Saint Emperor-level arena formation and severely wounded Long Yu.
• Qin Haoran transformed into a Qilin and used Qilin Steps and afterimages to evade Long Yu’s Dragon Breath attacks.
• Qin Haoran struck Long Yu’s head with Qilin Tramples the Heavens, leaving him motionless and gravely injured.
• Qin Haoran asked Long Ying to confirm the result, and Long Jing and Madam Long acknowledged that Long Yu could not win.
• Long Ying announced Long Yu’s defeat and Qin Haoran’s victory.
• Long Qingqing cheered, believing Qin Haoran’s victory would silence the elders who opposed her choosing him.

After Qin Haoran defeated Long Han and Long Yu, Saint Emperor Long Ying approved his relationship with Long Qingqing. The celebration ended with a conflict over whether Qin Haoran would join the True Dragon Clan permanently or remain loyal to Kunlun, and Saint Emperor Long Ying angrily confronted him.

• Qin Haoran challenged Long Qingqing's remaining suitors, but Saint Emperor Long Ying announced that the clan's Saint Emperors had approved him as her partner.
• Qin Haoran reunited with Long Qingqing, and Madam Long welcomed him to stay with her daughter and become part of the True Dragon Clan.
• Madam Long explained that the clan expected Qin Haoran to sever his ties with his sect so it could nurture him as its future Saint Emperor.
• Qin Haoran declared that he would never abandon Kunlun, while Long Qingqing asked her mother why he could not belong to both the clan and his sect.
• Saint Emperor Long Ying reappeared and rebuked Qin Haoran for refusing to choose between Kunlun and the True Dragon Clan.

Qin Haoran refused Saint Emperor Long Ying’s demand to join the True Dragon Clan, choosing to remain loyal to his sect while promising Long Qingqing he would return as a Saint Emperor to marry her. As Long Ying tried to kill him, an unknown power froze him, and a huge spatial rift opened above the celebration square as the True Dragon Clan’s Saint Emperors gathered.

• Saint Emperor Long Ying demanded that Qin Haoran join the True Dragon Clan or leave, but Qin Haoran refused to abandon his sect.
• Qin Haoran apologized to Long Qingqing and promised to return as a Saint Emperor to ask for her hand, and she vowed to wait for him.
• Saint Emperor Long Ying attacked Qin Haoran, but an unknown force froze Long Ying and his Saint Emperor power in place.
• A massive spatial rift tore open above the celebration square, drawing the True Dragon Clan’s Saint Emperors to the scene.
• Qin Haoran suspected that whoever had opened the rift had come for him.

Ye Chen tore through space to protect Qin Haoran after Long Ying tried to kill his disciple, then demanded that Long Ying kowtow and apologize. When the True Dragon Ancestor refused, Ye Chen attacked Long Ying, and the chapter ended with the Ancestor moving to block his blows.

• Qin Haoran recognized Ye Chen as his master, and Ye Chen promised to settle matters with the True Dragon Clan.
• Ye Chen attacked Long Ying with a golden Sword-Ray, but a dragon roar from the ancestral grounds destroyed most of its power and freed Long Ying.
• The True Dragon Ancestor appeared and tried to defuse the conflict, but Ye Chen demanded that Long Ying kowtow to Qin Haoran.
• When the True Dragon Ancestor rejected the demand, Ye Chen tried to seize Long Ying with a Great Dao hand, and the Ancestor intervened to protect him.
• Ye Chen charged at Long Ying with a killing blow, while the True Dragon Ancestor summoned three dragon phantoms to block him.

Ye Chen defeated the True Dragon Ancestor and forced Long Ying to apologize to Qin Haoran. He then declared that Qin Haoran and Long Qingqing would become engaged, and the True Dragon Ancestor agreed to celebrate the engagement that day.

• Ye Chen overwhelmed the True Dragon Ancestor in a fistfight, leaving him badly injured and forcing him to call a halt.
• Ye Chen demanded that Long Ying kowtow and apologize to Qin Haoran, and the True Dragon Ancestor ordered Long Ying to comply.
• Long Ying knelt before Qin Haoran, apologized, and tried to leave, but Ye Chen bound him with Great Dao power and brought him back.
• Ye Chen told the True Dragon Ancestor that Qin Haoran wanted to become engaged to Long Qingqing, and the ancestor enthusiastically approved.
• Ye Chen announced that they would hold a grand engagement banquet that day, leaving Qin Haoran and Long Qingqing excited.

After Qin Haoran and Long Qingqing’s engagement, Ye Chen returned with them to Kunlun Holy Land, where the disciples prepared for the coming war against the Strange Clan. Their reunion turned into a celebration of their strength and Han Li’s bizarre cultivation methods, leaving the disciples astonished by the dangerous pills he used.

• The True Dragon Ancestor celebrated Qin Haoran and Long Qingqing’s betrothal with Ye Chen, who declined to stay and said he would take his disciples to prepare for the front lines.
• Ye Chen brought Long Qingqing and Qin Haoran to Kunlun Holy Land, where Long Qingqing was amazed by the sect’s resources and dense spiritual energy.
• Mu Yan, Yingluo, and the other direct disciples returned to Kunlun and learned they would soon fight Strange Lifeforms in the Myriad Principles Realm.
• The disciples gathered to celebrate and discuss their cultivation, learning that Shi Hao had reached the threshold of the Saint Emperor realm and could attempt a breakthrough.
• Chen Xuanbei and the others questioned Han Li about his pills, then discovered he used torture-grade pills and had adapted to their deadly effects through repeated use.

Youruo and Little Rou broke through to the Saint Emperor Realm, giving Kunlun Holy Land two more Saint Emperors. Ye Chen then took them and Willow God back to Kunlun, where Youruo and Little Rou eagerly prepared to visit Yingluo.

• Han Li said he used Blazing Sun Burns the Heavens Pills to warm himself, and the others marveled at his ability to cultivate by consuming poison pills.
• Youruo and Little Rou broke through to the Saint Emperor Realm, while Willow God watched with Ye Chen after advancing to the third heaven.
• Willow God teased Ye Chen about his relationship with Youruo and Little Rou, then playfully asked whether he would grant her request too.
• Little Rou and Youruo wanted to fight the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom, but Ye Chen scolded them and said it was time to return to Kunlun.
• Willow God explained that the new Saint Emperors would need at least a hundred years to cross the cosmic void, while Ye Chen said he could make the journey in a day or two.
• Ye Chen opened a void tunnel and brought the three women to Kunlun, where Youruo and Little Rou decided to visit Yingluo.

Ye Chen and his thirteen disciples traveled to the Myriad Principles Realm to join the war after the disciples completed their breakthroughs. They arrived at a fortified city, where the True Dragon Ancestor and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor welcomed Ye Chen, leaving the gate commanders stunned by his connections and the strength of his sect.

• Ye Chen stopped Youruo and Little Rou from disturbing their siblings in seclusion, and a hundred years later Shi Hao broke through to the Saint Emperor Realm.
• Youruo and Little Rou congratulated Shi Hao, and the other disciples emerged from seclusion with most reaching the peak God Emperor stage.
• Ye Chen gathered all thirteen disciples and led them on a hundred-year journey to the Myriad Principles Realm.
• Two peak God Emperor gate commanders stopped Ye Chen's group and began directing them to register and undergo screening.
• The True Dragon Ancestor arrived, welcomed Ye Chen, and marveled that three of his disciples were Saint Emperors.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor arrived and warmly greeted Ye Chen as the gate commanders watched in alarm.

Ye Chen arrived in the Myriad Principles Realm, where the True Dragon Ancestor, the Nether Blood Saint Emperor, and the Formless Saint Emperor welcomed him and explained the region’s factional cities. During a feast at True Dragon City, Willow God revealed that she had survived her enemies’ attempt to kill her and had returned to the Saint Emperor Realm.

• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor and the True Dragon Ancestor traded barbs before learning that both considered themselves connected to Ye Chen, and the Formless Saint Emperor joined them to welcome him.
• The three Peak Saint Emperors escorted Ye Chen into the city, and the True Dragon Ancestor hosted a feast at his palace.
• The True Dragon Ancestor, Nether Blood Saint Emperor, and Formless Saint Emperor explained that each Peak Saint Emperor maintained a separate city, while insisting they would unite if a great war threatened the Heavenly Divine Realm.
• Ye Chen clarified that Willow God was a member of Kunlun but not one of his thirteen disciples, prompting the three Saint Emperors to recognize her.
• Willow God confirmed that she was the Willow God believed to have perished after the Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor and others attacked her, and the group condemned those who had betrayed her.

True Dragon Ancestor showed Ye Chen and the disciples the approaching Yamato Divine Realm and explained that its collision with the Heavenly Divine Realm could not be avoided. He then convened a Peak Conference to introduce Ye Chen to the Peak Saint Emperors, whose curiosity and scrutiny greeted the new arrival.

• Formless Saint Emperor described Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor and his companions’ brutal attempts to surpass the Saint Emperor level, prompting Willow God to crush her cup in anger over her destroyed divine kingdom.
• Nether Blood Saint Emperor and Formless Saint Emperor warned Willow God that she could not take revenge yet, and she accepted that she would have to wait for her strength to recover.
• After drinking together, True Dragon Ancestor showed Ye Chen, Willow God, and the disciples the approaching Yamato Divine Realm and explained that the realms’ collision was unavoidable.
• Ye Chen told the disciples to focus on cultivation, and True Dragon Ancestor explained that a Peak Conference was held to welcome new Peak Saint Emperors or discuss major battle plans.
• True Dragon Ancestor brought Ye Chen to the conference in Myriad Principles City, where the Peak Saint Emperors questioned the unfamiliar newcomer and added a seat for him.

Ye Chen introduced himself to the Peak Saint Emperors of the Myriad Principles Realm, who were eager to learn the secrets behind his ascension and rapid rise. After he rebuffed their questions, Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor helped him build Kunlun City, while True Dragon Ancestor revealed that he and Ye Chen were in-laws.

• Ye Chen introduced himself as the Lord of Kunlun Holy Land, prompting the Peak Saint Emperors to react with shock, greed, and jealousy.
• Ye Chen asserted his Peak Saint Emperor pressure, then exchanged introductions with the others and received a token containing information about them.
• Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor asked how Ye Chen had crossed between realms and reached the Peak Saint Emperor Realm, but Ye Chen gave evasive answers.
• After the meeting, Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor offered to help Ye Chen, while True Dragon Ancestor called Ye Chen his in-law.
• Ye Chen selected a site near True Dragon City and Formless City, and Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor raised Kunlun City there.
• Ye Chen carved the name Kunlun City above its gate with Great Dao laws, catching Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor's attention.

Ye Chen brought Willow God to Kunlun City, where Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor recognized her and later concluded that Ye Chen had killed Saint Emperors to help her recover. Convinced that he could not defeat Ye Chen alone, Thunder Abyss gathered three former allies to discuss the danger and a possible opportunity.

• Ye Chen welcomed Mu Yan and the other disciples to Kunlun City, then introduced Willow God to Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor as a guest elder.
• Willow God claimed she was a new personality unrelated to her former self, and Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor left after hearing her explanation.
• After returning to Thunder Abyss City, Thunder Abyss concluded that Ye Chen had killed Saint Emperors to avenge Willow God and help restore her strength.
• Thunder Abyss summoned Saint Emperor Dubu, Saint Emperor Qionghua, and Saint Emperor Qingjue in secret, saying they faced serious trouble and might also have an unprecedented opportunity.
• Dubu Victorious Emperor and Saint Emperor Qionghua questioned Thunder Abyss's latest plan and doubted that any path beyond Saint Emperor existed.

Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor persuaded Saint Emperor Dubu, Saint Emperor Qionghua, and Saint Emperor Qingjue to plot against Ye Chen and Willow God, even considering borrowing the Strange Lifeforms' power. Meanwhile, Ye Chen and Formless Saint Emperor discussed Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor's suspicious silence, and Ye Chen remained confident he could handle any scheme.

• Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor revealed that Willow God had survived and recovered to the Third Heaven of the Saint Emperor Realm after appearing in Kunlun City with Ye Chen.
• Saint Emperor Dubu, Saint Emperor Qionghua, and Saint Emperor Qingjue agreed that Ye Chen and Willow God threatened them and that they wanted their secrets.
• Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor proposed using the Strange Lifeforms to eliminate Ye Chen and Willow God, and the other three became convinced the betrayal could benefit the Heavenly Divine Realm.
• Days later, Formless Saint Emperor asked Ye Chen about Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor's lack of action, and Ye Chen said the silence meant a scheme was underway.
• Ye Chen assured Formless Saint Emperor that he could deal with any threat, and Formless Saint Emperor offered his support.

Ye Chen and the Formless Saint Emperor rushed to the Heaven Burial Realm, where a cosmic rift was spilling strange lifeforms and contaminating soldiers. After the Saint Emperors cleared the battlefield, Heavenly Emperor Kurosaki emerged from the rift and confronted the Formless Saint Emperor.

• Ye Chen sensed the Yamato Divine Realm’s strange rules and wondered whether its unstable nature was driving the realms toward collision.
• The Formless Saint Emperor told Ye Chen that a cosmic rift had opened in the Heaven Burial Realm, so they gathered Saint Emperors and went to provide support.
• Ye Chen and the Saint Emperors found the Heaven Burial Realm drenched in strange power as soldiers fought swarms of strange lifeforms and began to suffer contamination.
• Two Saint Emperors purged the soldiers’ contamination, while the Formless Saint Emperor and his companions destroyed the invading strange lifeforms.
• Heavenly Emperor Kurosaki appeared from the rift, and the Formless Saint Emperor recognized the Yamato expert he had killed three million years earlier.

Heavenly Emperor Kurosaki summoned three more peak Heavenly Emperors through a stable cosmic rift, forcing Formless Saint Emperor and Ye Chen to fight them. Ye Chen overwhelmed Heavenly Emperor Guigong in their first exchange, and Guigong answered with a soul-attacking bronze bell as Ye Chen summoned the Beginningless Immortal Bell.

• Heavenly Emperor Kurosaki proclaimed that the Supreme Heavenly Emperor made the Yamato Divine Realm's peak Heavenly Emperors impossible to kill and revealed that three more had crossed the cosmic rift.
• Heiqi, Qiandai, Sheye, and Guigong attacked, and Formless Saint Emperor assigned himself to Heiqi, Ye Chen to Guigong, and the other Saint Emperors to Qiandai and Sheye.
• Formless Saint Emperor fought Heiqi while the lower-level Saint Emperors struggled against Qiandai and Sheye, and Ye Chen caught Guigong's punch and battered his face with three blows.
• Guigong broke free, summoned a rust-covered bronze bell, and rang it to attack Ye Chen's soul.
• Ye Chen brought forth the Beginningless Immortal Bell.

Ye Chen defeated and annihilated Heavenly Emperor Guigong with the Immortal-Slaying Sword, then intervened to save the Heavenly Divine Realm’s wounded Saint Emperors from Heavenly Emperor Qiandai and Heavenly Emperor Sheye. Guigong’s death appeared final for now, though Ye Chen knew he could revive in the Yamato Divine Realm.

• Ye Chen used the Beginningless Immortal Bell to repel Guigong’s soul attacks, and their Saint Emperor-grade bells collided with enough force to destroy the Heaven Burial Realm.
• Guigong attacked Ye Chen with a naginata, but Ye Chen’s Immortal-Slaying Sword broke through his blade rays and inflicted numerous wounds.
• Ye Chen unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Void, shattered Guigong’s defenses, and pierced him through before slicing his body into pieces and eradicating his Strange Power.
• Ye Chen sensed the surrounding Principles and confirmed that Guigong had no soul or will remaining, though he knew Guigong could revive in the Yamato Divine Realm.
• Formless Saint Emperor continued to suppress Heavenly Emperor Kurosaki, while Heavenly Emperor Qiandai and Heavenly Emperor Sheye nearly overcame the wounded Heavenly Divine Realm Saint Emperors.
• Ye Chen’s Sword-Ray destroyed Qiandai and Sheye’s joint attack and saved the Saint Emperors, who saw no sign of Guigong behind him.

Ye Chen revealed that he had killed Heavenly Emperor Guigong, then trapped Heavenly Emperor Qiandai and Heavenly Emperor Sheye in the Immortal-Slaying Grand Formation as they tried to destroy him with their strange origins. He overwhelmed their defenses, and Sheye’s attempt to rush him under cover of shed snakeskin ended with her protection shattered and the sword formation bearing down on her.

• Ye Chen told the Saint Emperors that he had killed Heavenly Emperor Guigong, and they confirmed his absence by searching the shattered void.
• Heavenly Emperor Qiandai and Heavenly Emperor Sheye decided Ye Chen was too dangerous and attacked him with their strange origins, intending to detonate themselves and take him down.
• Ye Chen summoned Immortal-Butchering, Immortal-Trapping, and Immortal-Ending alongside the Immortal-Slaying Sword and activated the Immortal-Slaying Grand Formation around himself and the two attackers.
• The formation unleashed endless golden Sword-Rays that battered Qiandai and Sheye’s red shields, rapidly consuming their strange origin power.
• Heavenly Emperor Sheye shed snakeskin to shield herself from the Sword-Rays and charged Ye Chen, but he dodged and struck her with a gigantic golden sword.
• Ye Chen’s strike shattered Sheye’s snakeskin, leaving her exposed as countless Sword-Rays rushed toward her.

Ye Chen’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation overwhelmed Heavenly Emperors Sheye and Qiandai, while distant Saint Emperors watched in disbelief. Sheye was ultimately ground away and killed by the formation, leaving Qiandai still trapped inside.

• Heavenly Emperor Sheye fought off the formation’s golden Sword-Rays with her Strange Rule power and serpentine whip, but Ye Chen remained in control from afar.
• Ye Chen formed ten giant swords and sent them crashing down; Sheye destroyed five, while the remaining five inflicted catastrophic injuries.
• Sheye and Heavenly Emperor Qiandai continued struggling against the formation as the watching Saint Emperors recognized Ye Chen’s overwhelming strength and discussed the long revival period of slain Peak Heavenly Emperors.
• The formation’s relentless Sword-Rays overwhelmed Sheye, tearing her apart until she vanished completely.

Ye Chen defeated the invading Yamato Divine Realm experts, killing Heavenly Emperor Sheye and Heavenly Emperor Qiandai while Heavenly Emperor Kurosaki fled. After learning that the Yamato Divine Realm’s warriors could resurrect and that every battle weakened the barrier between the realms, Ye Chen realized the danger was greater than he had thought.

• Heavenly Emperor Qiandai abandoned her defenses and was annihilated by Ye Chen’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, after witnessing Heavenly Emperor Sheye’s death.
• Ye Chen recalled his swords and watched the Formless Saint Emperor overpower Heavenly Emperor Kurosaki, who fled through a cosmic rift.
• The Formless Saint Emperor destroyed the rift, and the gathered Saint Emperors praised Ye Chen for killing three peak Heavenly Emperors.
• Ye Chen learned that the Yamato Divine Realm had thirty-eight peak Heavenly Emperors who could resurrect, while the Heavenly Divine Realm had lost peak Saint Emperors permanently.
• The Formless Saint Emperor explained that every major battle weakened the barrier between the realms, bringing the future great collision closer.
• Reinforcements arrived after the fighting had ended, leaving the newly arrived Saint Emperors puzzled by the calm battlefield.