Recaps

Great Emperor Wanxing chose to help Chen Qingyu rather than join Great Emperor Dongxu and Emperor Huan in the struggle for the Five Great Divine Artifacts. After Chen Qingyu claimed the Five-Colored Heaven Altar and wielded three artifacts, he demanded that his opponents surrender.

• Emperor Huan argued that Great Emperor Wanxing would sacrifice his only chance to become a Heavenly Lord if he sided with Chen Qingyu.
• Chen Qingyu told Great Emperor Wanxing he would not resent him for choosing to fight for his own survival.
• Great Emperor Wanxing gave the Five-Colored Heaven Altar to Chen Qingyu and blocked Great Emperor Dongxu and Emperor Huan from stopping it.
• Chen Qingyu instantly refined the Five-Colored Heaven Altar and raised its power alongside his other divine artifacts.
• Great Emperor Dongxu, Emperor Huan, and the others realized they had lost their advantage, and Chen Qingyu demanded their surrender.

At the Heaven-Reaching Pagoda, Liu Zijian gave up the Five-Colored Heaven Altar for Chen Qingyu, while the Heavenly Lords watched and Danyang Ju recalled his own past choice. Chen Qingyu forced Great Emperor Dongxu and Liang Jingtiao to surrender their divine artifacts, assembled the five artifacts into the bestowal, and began ascending after eating its golden fruit.

• The Heavenly Lords debated whether Liu Zijian would betray Chen Qingyu, then praised him when he relinquished the Five-Colored Heaven Altar to his junior brother.
• Danyang Ju remembered how he had once yielded a bestowal to his friend, who failed to ascend, while Danyang Ju later became a Heavenly Lord.
• Chen Qingyu made Great Emperor Dongxu and Liang Jingtiao surrender the All-Heaven Creation Gate and Qianyuan Spirit-Illuminating Mirror.
• Chen Qingyu combined the five divine artifacts and received a golden fruit containing the bestowal's power.
• Chen Qingyu ate the golden fruit, triggering the transformation of his Dao of Myriad Calamities and twenty-four Upper-Tier Laws.

Chen Qingyu used the golden apple blessing to reach the peak of the Realm of Creation and ascend directly to the Realm of Heaven-Reaching. He gave the remaining blessing to Great Emperor Wanxing, who also became a Heavenly Lord, bringing the struggle for the blessing to an end and ushering in a new era.

• Chen Qingyu realized that his immense foundation let him skip the long accumulation required of Half-Step Heavenly Lords and ascend once he reached the peak of the Realm of Creation.
• Chen Qingyu transformed into a Heavenly Lord, and Great Emperor Dongxu, Emperor Huan, the Dark Emperor, the Nine Phoenix Empress, and the others bowed to him as Heavenly Lord Wanjie.
• Chen Qingyu gave the mostly intact golden apple to Great Emperor Wanxing, shocking the other Half-Step Heavenly Lords.
• Great Emperor Wanxing swallowed the golden apple and transformed his Celestial Body Law, ascending to the Realm of Heaven-Reaching.
• Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing congratulated each other as the blessing struggle ended and two Heavenly Lords marked the arrival of a new era.

After Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing became Heavenly Lords, they joined the other Heavenly Lords in opening a passage to the Heavenly God Palace. Their master, Danyang Ju, revealed that the Heavenly Venerable and Divine Emperor ruled the Three Thousand Dao Domains and warned them to show utmost respect.

• Chen Qingyu dissolved the illusion of the Nine Realms, and he and Great Emperor Wanxing ascended to meet the twenty-four Heavenly Lords.
• The Heavenly Lords congratulated Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing, while Danyang Ju celebrated having three Heavenly Lords among his disciples.
• The Lord of Time announced that the epoch was ending and led the Heavenly Lords in opening a passage to the Heavenly God Palace.
• Danyang Ju explained that the Heavenly God Palace was where the Heavenly Venerable and Divine Emperor cultivated in seclusion, and that they stood above all Heavenly Lords.
• Danyang Ju revealed that the Heavenly Venerable and Divine Emperor controlled Heaven's will and bestowed the boon that allowed mortals to become Heavenly Lords.
• Danyang Ju warned Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing to show the two supreme beings respect, since they could strip a Heavenly Lord of power with a thought.

Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing entered the Heavenly God Palace with Danyang Ju and the other Heavenly Lords, where they met the Heavenly Venerable and Divine Emperor. The Divine Emperor lifted a veil from Chen Qingyu’s memory, and Chen Qingyu recognized him as Mr. Zhang from Central Capital Yangchuan.

• Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing followed Danyang Ju and the Heavenly Lords through the passage into the Heavenly God Palace, where Chen Qingyu saw the Three Thousand Dao Domains spread out below.
• The Lord of Time led the group into the main hall, and the Heavenly Lords, Chen Qingyu, and Great Emperor Wanxing bowed to the Heavenly Venerable and the Divine Emperor.
• The Heavenly Venerable praised Chen Qingyu’s talent and claimed he had noticed him long before the Divine Emperor did.
• The Divine Emperor hinted that the Heavenly Venerable was celebrating too soon, and Chen Qingyu’s suppressed memory returned.
• Chen Qingyu recognized the Divine Emperor as Mr. Zhang, and Mr. Zhang greeted him as an old friend from Central Capital Yangchuan.

Chen Qingyu discovered that the Divine Emperor was the same Mr. Zhang he had met years earlier, then learned from Danyang Ju that the Heavenly Venerable and Divine Emperor had reached the Immeasurable Realm. The chapter left Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing questioning why such powerful beings still needed to cultivate new Heavenly Lords through the Epoch Cycle.

• Chen Qingyu recognized the Divine Emperor as Mr. Zhang, whom he had once met in Central Capital Yangchuan.
• The Divine Emperor and the Heavenly Venerable traded insults before agreeing to begin the Epoch Cycle in a quarter of an hour.
• The Divine Emperor ordered Danyang Ju to explain the Epoch Cycle to Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing.
• Danyang Ju explained that the universe faced a Final Calamity and that the Heavenly Venerable and Divine Emperor could resist it because they had entered the Immeasurable Realm.
• Danyang Ju described the Immeasurable Realm's vast power, prompting Great Emperor Wanxing and Chen Qingyu to wonder why its beings needed to raise new Heavenly Lords.

Danyang Ju explained that the Epoch Cycle was the Heavenly Venerable and Divine Emperor’s attempt to delay the universe’s final calamity by destroying and recreating the Three Thousand Dao Domains. He revealed that, after the cycle, the destinies of all existing beings would be fixed, leaving them unable to extend their lives or advance their cultivation.

• Danyang Ju told Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing that their universe was abnormal and that even the Heavenly Venerable and Divine Emperor could not escape its final calamity without transcending it.
• Danyang Ju explained that the Heavenly Venerable and Divine Emperor would destroy the Three Thousand Dao Domains when a new Heavenly Lord was born, then recreate them and accelerate time until the universe returned to its former state.
• Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing learned that only Heavenly Lords would remember the destruction and reshaping, while other living beings would perceive no change.
• Danyang Ju warned that the Epoch Cycle would lock the destinies of all beings alive at the time, nullifying their Gifts of Eternal Life and permanently fixing their lifespans and cultivation realms.

Danyang Ju explained to Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing that the turning of an epoch fixed the fates of beings from the previous age and revealed the looming final calamity. As the thirty-ninth epoch approached, he told them they would help the Heavenly Venerable and the Divine Emperor reshape the Three Thousand Dao Domains and gain control over its laws.

• Chen Qingyu asked whether the epoch’s turning doomed all living beings to fixed fates, and Danyang Ju said only beings born in the new epoch retained the chance to advance.
• Danyang Ju told Chen Qingyu he could give his family and friends Azure Longevity Fruits or bestow his own Gift of Eternal Life after the epoch turned.
• Great Emperor Wanxing asked how many epochs had passed, and Danyang Ju said there had been thirty-eight turns, with twenty-six Heavenly Lords now living in the thirty-ninth epoch.
• Chen Qingyu learned that epochs had grown shorter and that the Heavenly Venerable and the Divine Emperor hoped a new Immeasurable Realm being would emerge to stop the final calamity.
• Danyang Ju told Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing that they would help destroy and reshape the Three Thousand Dao Domains, giving them a chance to shape its laws and order.

The Heavenly Venerable destroyed the Three Thousand Dao Domains and opened a new universe with a punch, while the Divine Emperor reshaped time, history, and the lives within it. As the new worlds stabilized, the Divine Emperor called on Heavenly Lord Wanjie to set his order in motion.

• Danyang Ju finished explaining the Epoch Cycle to Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing before leading Chen Qingyu and his sixth senior brother to join the Heavenly Lords.
• The Heavenly Venerable told Chen Qingyu and Heavenly Lord Wanxing they could use the recreation of heaven and earth to establish their orders and spread their influence.
• The Heavenly Venerable destroyed the Three Thousand Dao Domains, then punched open a new universe as Chen Qingyu watched the Heavenly Lords' orders shape its creation.
• The Divine Emperor took control of the river of time and reshaped the fates and history of living beings as the new Dao Domains developed.
• When the new worlds had largely stabilized, the Divine Emperor told Heavenly Lord Wanjie to activate his order of heaven and earth.

Chen Qingyu established the order of Heavenly Tribulation across the Three Thousand Dao Domains with the Divine Emperor’s power. As the Divine Emperor reshaped the destinies of beings throughout history, cultivators’ breakthroughs became subject to tribulations that brought both danger and opportunity.

• The Divine Emperor lent Chen Qingyu his power so the order of Wanjie could overcome the Dao Domains’ existing orders and reach the source of time.
• Chen Qingyu spread the order of Heavenly Tribulation throughout history, making cultivators face targeted calamities when they broke through major realms.
• Chen Qingyu explained that tribulations also strengthened cultivators and granted greater rewards to those who overcame them.
• The Heavenly Lords praised Chen Qingyu’s order, while the Divine Emperor complained that it created extra work for him.
• The Divine Emperor and Chen Qingyu reshaped past destinies so successful breakthroughs included tribulations and failed forced breakthroughs ended in death beneath Heavenly Tribulation.

Chen Qingyu solidified his Heavenly Tribulation Order, accepted responsibility for guiding cultivation, and created Wanjie Heaven as his sanctuary. As Heavenly Lord Wanxing began imprinting his order on the Three Thousand Dao Domains, Danyang Ju explained that reaching the Realm of Immeasurability required mastering a supreme law.

• The Divine Emperor told Chen Qingyu that his Heavenly Tribulation Order had solidified and that he must help identify supreme prodigies and guide cultivators.
• Chen Qingyu created Wanjie Heaven as a sanctuary for cultivation and a future home for his family, friends, and the people of the Desolate Continent and Kunyu Continent.
• The Divine Emperor helped Heavenly Lord Wanxing imprint his order on the Three Thousand Dao Domains, making travel between Dao Domains easier for everyone.
• The Divine Emperor and the Heavenly Venerable traded insults while the other Heavenly Lords stepped aside.
• Danyang Ju explained to Chen Qingyu that Heavenly Lords had no defined cultivation stages and that advancement to the Realm of Immeasurability required command of a supreme law.

Danyang Ju explained the three steps required to control a supreme law and described the relative strength of the Heavenly Lords. He praised Chen Qingyu’s unusual advantages, then began warning him about the Heavenly God Realm.

• Chen Qingyu asked how supreme beings gained control over supreme laws, and Danyang Ju explained that they traced related upper-tier laws back to their roots.
• Danyang Ju said aspiring supreme beings had to comprehend the related laws, raise them to the Realm of the Heavenly Lord, and combine them into a complete supreme law.
• Danyang Ju explained that Chen Qingyu’s mastery of the Laws of Space and Time gave him a major advantage toward controlling the Law of Space-Time.
• Danyang Ju identified the Lord of Time as the foremost Heavenly Lord, with himself and the Mystery Lord ranking second and third, and said all three had reached the third step.
• Danyang Ju began to tell Chen Qingyu something important about the Heavenly God Realm.

Danyang Ju explained the Heavenly God Realm and why the Heavenly Venerable and Divine Emperor valued independently born Immeasurable Realm beings, then prepared to take Chen Qingyu and Heavenly Lord Wanxing there to temper themselves. Chen Qingyu hoped to use the realm as a safer place to sign in, and the chapter ended as Danyang Ju opened its mist-covered entrance.

• Danyang Ju told Chen Qingyu that the Heavenly God Realm was a vast world where Heavenly Lords competed and honed their abilities against one another.
• Danyang Ju explained that only independently born Immeasurable Realm beings could become companions to the Heavenly Venerable and Divine Emperor, and said the Heavenly God Realm would prepare the Heavenly Lords for the final tribulation.
• Chen Qingyu agreed to follow Danyang Ju and planned to try signing in inside the Heavenly God Realm, hoping the supreme beings would be less likely to detect it.
• Heavenly Lord Wanxing finished imprinting his rules and order, establishing Central Crossing Heaven as a hub connecting the Three Thousand Dao Domains.
• The Heavenly Venerable sent Danyang Ju, Chen Qingyu, and Heavenly Lord Wanxing to the Heavenly God Realm, and Danyang Ju opened the mist-filled entrance for his disciples.

Chen Qingyu entered the Heavenly God Realm and discovered that he now had two interconnected true bodies, one in the Three Thousand Dao Domains and one in the realm. His first check-in at the Heavenly God Palace granted him 98,762 law-comprehension rewards, and he decided to find a place to claim one.

• Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Wanxing entered the mist and found themselves with separate but interconnected true bodies in the Heavenly God Realm and the Three Thousand Dao Domains.
• Danyang Ju explained that all twenty-four Heavenly Lords had true bodies in the Heavenly God Realm and led the group onward before the Epoch Cycle ended.
• Chen Qingyu controlled his true body in the Heavenly God Realm and checked in at the Heavenly God Palace.
• The system awarded Chen Qingyu 98,762 stacked law-comprehension rewards, leaving him astonished by the total.
• Chen Qingyu reasoned that law comprehension suited his current stage and decided to find a place to claim a reward.

Chen Qingyu traveled across the Great Wilderness and established the Wanjie Dao Palace as his foothold near a populated region. After claiming his first sign-in reward, he discovered its vast inspiration awaited his choice of a law or path to comprehend.

• Chen Qingyu explored a vast wilderness and found no intelligent beings or Demon Race members.
• He considered how Dao Lords’ territories and conflicting orders made expanding his Order of Wanjie difficult.
• Chen Qingyu flew east for several days and reached populated lands with a flourishing cultivation civilization.
• He created a floating island and built the Wanjie Dao Palace as his base in the Great Wilderness.
• Chen Qingyu claimed his first sign-in reward and received universal inspiration that could be directed toward any law or path.

Chen Qingyu used a law comprehension reward to understand the path ahead and chose the path to omniscience over the path of spacetime. He separated the Law of Order from his Dao of Myriad Calamities, leaving his Dao weakened and unstable as he began to reorganize it.

• Chen Qingyu used the law comprehension reward to clarify the steps toward becoming a Supreme and grasp how to proceed.
• Chen Qingyu weighed the paths of spacetime and omniscience, then chose to pursue omniscience with help from his remaining law comprehension rewards.
• Chen Qingyu decided to separate the Law of Order from his Dao of Myriad Calamities because the Law of Change was too important to abandon.
• Chen Qingyu forcibly tore the Law of Order from the Myriad Calamity Wheel Seal, suffering severe pain and weakening his Dao.
• Chen Qingyu resolved to advance the Law of Order by creating a regulated order unifying heaven and earth, then began reorganizing his unstable Dao of Myriad Calamities.

After a year of recovery and progress in the Law of Order, Chen Qingyu spread the power of his myriad calamities order across the Four Directions Domain. The four Dao Lords ruling the region sensed the newcomer and agreed to offer him courtesy first, while preparing to force him out if he refused.

• Chen Qingyu recovered most of his strength and decided to spread his order through the Heavenly God Realm to accelerate his law comprehension.
• Chen Qingyu unleashed the power of the myriad calamities order from the Wanjie Dao Palace, covering the floating island and the mountains below.
• Dao Lord Great Might Accomplished Virtue sensed the unfamiliar order interrupting his discourse and suspected an outsider Dao Lord had entered the Four Directions Domain.
• Dao Lord Great Might Accomplished Virtue contacted the other three Dao Lords, and they agreed to politely urge the newcomer to leave before using force.

Chen Qingyu expanded the order of Wanjie into the Four Directions Domain, hoping to draw its four ruling Dao Lords into battle. Instead, they sent envoys with gifts, and after he rejected them, the Dao Lords grew wary and began considering that he might be luring them into striking first.

• The four Dao Lords learned that Chen Qingyu’s order conflicted with all four of theirs and decided to send disciples with gifts to visit him.
• Chen Qingyu steadily expanded the order of Wanjie, deliberately provoking the four Dao Lords and waiting for them to attack.
• After three days, envoys from all four Dao Lords arrived at the floating island with lavish gifts.
• Chen Qingyu rejected the envoys and swept them into disarray, intending to force the four Dao Lords into a fight.
• Dao Lord Great Might Accomplished Virtue and the other Dao Lords discussed Chen Qingyu’s refusal, and the Dao Lord with the palm-leaf fan warned that Chen Qingyu might be baiting them into attacking.

Chen Qingyu repelled the four Dao Lords’ combined assault on his order, forcing them to confront him directly over control of the Four Directions Domain. As they prepared to fight in a battlefield formed from Third Step orders, Chen Qingyu briefly glimpsed a possible secret of the Third Step.

• Dao Lord Great Might Accomplished Virtue and the other three Dao Lords joined their orders to drive Chen Qingyu out of the Four Directions Domain.
• Chen Qingyu unleashed the power of myriad calamities, stabilized Wanjie’s order, and pushed back the four Dao Lords.
• Dao Lord Great Might Accomplished Virtue decided the four would face Chen Qingyu in person, and they arrived outside the floating island.
• Chen Qingyu rejected Dao Lord of Lasting Joy’s demand that he yield, and Dao Lord of the Pure Moon called for them to settle matters by their abilities.
• The five Dao Lords formed a battlefield from the orders of dozens of Third Step mighty beings, and Chen Qingyu briefly wondered whether their orders’ ability to compromise revealed the secret of the Third Step.

Chen Qingyu faced four allied Dao Lords, who combined their arts to control, weaken, and strike him. He emerged unharmed and declared that he would end the fight.

• Dao Lord Great Might Accomplished Virtue attacked Chen Qingyu with the Great Might Divine Fist while the Dao Lord of Ultimate Bliss used the Ultimate Bliss Heavenly Wave to dull his will to fight.
• The Dao Lord of the Nine Heavens Hedge confined Chen Qingyu with the Dao Heart Barrier, and the Dao Lord of the Waning Moon weakened him with Crescent Moon Heavenly Deficiency.
• The four Dao Lords coordinated their arts and landed a full-power strike on Chen Qingyu, believing they had seriously injured him.
• Chen Qingyu reappeared completely unharmed, and his presence swept away the lingering force of the Great Might Divine Fist.
• Chen Qingyu explained that his Dao of Myriad Calamities made him far stronger than an ordinary Heavenly Lord and said it was time to end the fight.

Chen Qingyu defeated the four Dao Lords with Absolute Spacetime and forced them to surrender the Four Directions Domain. He gave them one month to gather their disciples and belongings, and Dao Lord Great Might Accomplished Virtue began preparing to leave his longtime territory.

• Chen Qingyu froze the four Dao Lords with Absolute Spacetime and struck them with four powerful punches.
• The injured Dao Lords re-formed, begged for mercy, and offered to hand over the Four Directions Domain.
• Chen Qingyu identified himself as Wanjie Dao Lord and granted the four Dao Lords one month to withdraw their holdings and followers, ordering them to relinquish their regulation and order immediately.
• Chen Qingyu dispersed the spatial domain and sent the four Dao Lords away.
• Dao Lord Great Might Accomplished Virtue lamented losing the territory his group had cultivated for hundreds of millions of years and prepared to summon his followers.

After defeating four Dao Lords and taking control of the Four Directions Domain, Chen Qingyu expanded the Order of Wanjie and discovered that the Great Wilderness’s territory increased his rate of comprehending laws. He resolved to cover the entire domain and then expand beyond its borders.

• Dao Lord Great Might Accomplished Virtue told his disciples that he and the other three Dao Lords had lost the battle for the Four Directions Domain and would leave with only a few followers.
• Dao Lord Great Might Accomplished Virtue began withdrawing his order, while the other Dao Lords announced their departure and the news spread through the domain.
• Chen Qingyu renamed the Four Directions Domain the Wanjie Domain and began extending the Order of Wanjie as the four Dao Lords withdrew theirs.
• One month later, the four Dao Lords left, and Chen Qingyu found that covering the entire domain could increase his law-comprehension speed by nearly fifty percent.
• Chen Qingyu decided to finish expanding his order across the Wanjie Domain and then wage war beyond its borders.

Twenty years after rising to power, Chen Qingyu had expanded the Wanjie Domain by conquering several regions, but growing opposition made further campaigns dangerous. After bringing the Seven Stars Domain under his order, he decided to stop expanding and cultivate while the epoch cycle neared its end.

• A purple-robed master of the Frenzied Thunder Pavilion arrived at the Wanjie Dao Palace and learned that Chen Qingyu had not received visitors for twenty years, so he would have to meet the palace stewards instead.
• The old man recounted how Chen Qingyu had defeated Dao Lord alliances and expanded the Wanjie Domain to more than ten times its original size.
• Chen Qingyu completed the extension of his order of Wanjie over the Seven Stars Domain and studied a map showing the alliances surrounding his territory.
• Chen Qingyu judged that further expansion could provoke a joint attack from neighboring Dao Lord alliances and decided to consolidate his domain and cultivate in peace.
• Chen Qingyu sensed something unexpected and reacted with surprise.

Chen Qingyu reunited with Danyang Ju and the Mystery Lord, who praised his rapid progress and discussed how his sixth senior brother was faring. The Mystery Lord revealed that he had come to call in Danyang Ju’s old debt of gratitude and ask Chen Qingyu to help with a perilous place in the Great Wilderness.

• Danyang Ju and the Mystery Lord appeared at Wanjie Dao Palace and praised Chen Qingyu’s progress over the past twenty years.
• Chen Qingyu asked about his sixth senior brother, and Danyang Ju said he had only recently secured a foothold in an alliance.
• Danyang Ju reminded Chen Qingyu of the favor he had incurred from the Mystery Lord when they visited the Heavenly Heart Glazed Realm.
• Chen Qingyu offered to repay the debt, and the Mystery Lord said he wanted Chen Qingyu to join him and Danyang Ju in dealing with a perilous place in the Great Wilderness.
• The Mystery Lord explained that the place could threaten Dao Lords, leaving Chen Qingyu surprised.

The Mystery Lord explained that Innate Dao Artifacts came from the Great Tomb of Eternity, where remnants of earlier Great Destructions were buried. Chen Qingyu learned that these artifacts were formed from fallen Dao Lords and could grant their wielders a powerful law, then realized the Five Great Divine Artifacts might be Innate Dao Artifacts.

• The Mystery Lord asked Chen Qingyu about Innate Dao Artifacts and explained that Dao Lord Tongtian's artifact helped make him dominant among the Tongtian Alliance.
• The Mystery Lord revealed that all Innate Dao Artifacts came from the Great Tomb of Eternity, which held remnants from the Great Wilderness's past destructions.
• Danyang Ju explained that the tomb's remnants were reshaped by destruction and that fallen mighty Third Step Dao Lords could become Innate Dao Artifacts.
• The Mystery Lord explained that Innate Dao Artifacts embodied pure Dao Lord-level laws and could help a Dao Lord approach or reach the Third Step.
• Chen Qingyu recalled the Five Great Divine Artifacts from the Nine Realms and suspected that they were Innate Dao Artifacts.