Chapter Summaries

Han Xuanji used Thousand Souls City's formations to repel the beast tide and then attacked its four Eternal Deity leaders directly. Zi watched the battle from the rear, stunned by Han Xuanji's power and suspecting that something was wrong.

• Han Xuanji activated three powerful formations, whose barriers stopped the beasts and whose swords of light killed many of them.
• The four Eternal Deity leaders failed to break the city's defenses, and the azure-scaled deity ordered the beasts to keep charging as expendable cannon fodder.
• Han Xuanji activated the Taiqian Spirit Formation, strengthening the city's cultivators as Jiang Hao attacked the beast tide from behind the barrier.
• When the leaders kept their distance, Han Xuanji used the Ten Thousand Swords Diagram to strike them, and sword light rapidly broke the azure-scaled deity's defenses.
• The wounded azure-scaled deity begged his companions and Zi for help, while Zi watched Han Xuanji and realized his strength was far beyond what he had expected.

Han Xuanji used the Ten Thousand Swords Diagram to kill two of Zi’s four Eternal Deity leaders and drive the remaining pair into flight, while keeping his true strength hidden. Zi hesitated to confront him, but a Holy Lord-level Eternal Deity moved to intervene after seeing its subordinate hunted.

• Han Xuanji’s sword light destroyed the Azure Scale Deity, and the city’s cultivators celebrated his victory.
• Han Xuanji targeted the other leaders; sword light killed the giant ape deity and pursued the fleeing crimson giant and black serpent deity.
• The leaderless beast tide fell into chaos as beasts scattered, collapsed, or attacked one another.
• Han Xuanji challenged Zi to fight or retreat, while his disciples questioned whether his supposed Sage Realm strength was believable.
• Zi weighed the danger of confronting Han Xuanji against the disgrace of retreating, suspecting a trap laid by the Sacred Court.
• A bluish Holy Lord-level Eternal Deity, angered that the crimson giant was being hunted, prepared to act.

Zi watched the Eternal Clan attack Thousand Souls City, but Han Xuanji and the city’s defenses held until Mo Chenxiao and two Sacred Court elders arrived. Convinced he could defeat the apparently small group of reinforcements, Zi charged into battle.

• The thunder giant god and other Eternal Deities accused Zi of backing down, so Zi told the thunder giant god to test Thousand Souls City’s strength.
• The thunder giant god attacked the city, and Han Xuanji strengthened its defenses and fought back with the Ten Thousand Swords Diagram.
• As the Eternal Deities joined the attack and Thousand Souls City faced danger, Mo Chenxiao arrived with two Sacred Court elders and drove back the attackers.
• Zi realized the Sacred Court had arranged an ambush but decided the reinforcements were too few to threaten him.
• Believing his power from Zhu gave him the advantage, Zi charged toward the battlefield.

Zi arrived before Thousand Souls City with a vast army and threatened to destroy the city unless Han Xuanji withdrew. Though the Sacred Court elders urged Han Xuanji to retreat, he trusted the Immeasurable Saint Emperor’s assurance and confronted Zi, warning him that death was at his door.

• Zi displayed his overwhelming power before Thousand Souls City and offered to spare Han Xuanji if the Sacred Court forces withdrew.
• The Eternal Deities mocked Zi’s rise but remained wary of his strength.
• The two Sacred Court elders judged Zi to be near peak Holy Lord strength and urged Han Xuanji to retreat while they held him off.
• Mo Chenxiao admitted that Zi’s power exceeded his expectations, but Han Xuanji said he had the Immeasurable Saint Emperor’s assurance and other safeguards.
• Han Xuanji stepped forward and told Zi that death was at his door.

Han Xuanji confronted Zi and five Holy Lord-level Eternal Deities attacking Thousand Souls City, then revealed the Nine Luminaries Sword Case and his Holy Lord Realm cultivation. The chapter left him striking the leading thunder deity with all nine swords, severing its arms and piercing its thigh.

• Zi suspected Han Xuanji was baiting him, so he threatened to destroy Thousand Souls City and ordered the five Eternal Deities to attack its formation.
• Li Taiqing and Yun Wuji reassured Mo Chenxiao that Han Xuanji had a plan while the attackers battered the city barrier.
• Han Xuanji appeared outside the city and opened the Nine Luminaries Sword Case, revealing nine powerful Eternal Saint Artifacts.
• Han Xuanji unleashed his Holy Lord Realm presence and sent the nine swords at the charging thunder deity.
• Han Xuanji's swords severed the thunder deity's arms and pierced its left thigh.

Han Xuanji swiftly defeated and sealed the Thunder Deity, then trapped the remaining Eternal Deities in a sword array. As the panicked deities struggled to decide what to do, Han Xuanji killed the scaled deity and sealed its origin core.

• Han Xuanji used Sword Intent to prevent the Thunder Deity from regenerating, shattered its body, and sealed its core in his sea of consciousness.
• The cultivators on the city walls cheered Han Xuanji's victory, while Mo Chenxiao privately worried that his disciple had surpassed him.
• The four remaining Holy Lord-level Eternal Deities panicked, and Zi tried to convince them that Han Xuanji's strength came from a temporary Secret Method.
• Han Xuanji summoned nine divine swords to form an array that locked space and blocked the Eternal Deities' escape.
• Han Xuanji appeared beside the scaled deity and cut off its head, sealing its origin core with Sword Intent.

Han Xuanji overwhelmed Zi and the other Eternal Holy Lords, killing them one by one until Zi escaped toward Zhu’s territory. Han Xuanji deliberately let Zi break through and pursued him, intending to keep events aligned with the simulation and confront Zhu.

• Zi gathered the surviving deities, urged them to join forces against Han Xuanji, and secretly sent pleas for help to An, Zhu, and other powerful Eternal Deities.
• Zi and the other Eternal Holy Lords attacked Han Xuanji, but he countered their abilities with the Mystic Heaven Sword and his Great Void God-Slaying Sword.
• Han Xuanji struck down the giant bird deity and killed the other Eternal Holy Lords, leaving Zi alone and utterly suppressed.
• Zi unleashed the origin power Zhu had bestowed upon him, broke through Han Xuanji’s Sword Intent barrier, and fled toward the Heavenly South Desolate Domain while calling for help.
• Han Xuanji pursued Zi after deliberately allowing him to escape, choosing to follow the simulation’s course and confront Zhu.

Han Xuanji pursued Zi into the Heavenly South Desolate Domain and fought off Zi and An until the Saint King-level deity Xu appeared. Zi begged Xu to save him, while An realized Han Xuanji was not surprised by Xu's arrival.

• An sensed Zi fleeing from Han Xuanji and rushed out to protect his elder brother.
• Han Xuanji attacked An with a Time Slash, the Ten Directions Seal, and his sword, forcing An and Zi to retreat into the Desolate Domain.
• Han Xuanji pursued the brothers as the living beings of the Heavenly South Desolate Domain watched without intervening.
• Xu emerged from deep within the Desolate Domain, and Zi ran to his feet to plead for help against Han Xuanji.
• An noted that Han Xuanji showed no panic at Xu's appearance and suspected something was wrong.

Han Xuanji attacked Zi despite Xu’s Saint King pressure, prompting Xu to intervene and Holy Venerable Tianming to confront him. Tianming gained the upper hand with the River of Fate and a Saint King weapon, while Xu tried to flee.

• Xu pressured Han Xuanji to retreat, but Han Xuanji used the Unfettered Ultra Instinct Technique and struck at Zi.
• Xu blocked Han Xuanji’s sword, and Holy Venerable Tianming appeared to shield Han Xuanji and challenge Xu for interfering in the duel.
• Holy Venerable Tianming summoned the River of Fate and overwhelmed Xu’s shadow attacks by predicting their paths.
• Tianming pierced Xu with a thread of cause and effect, weakening him, then sent a dark-bird Saint King weapon to attack.
• Xu tried to escape by dispersing his massive form into gray-white mist.

Holy Venerable Tianming wounded Xu, but Zhu appeared to protect him and ordered the cultivators to end the conflict. Han Xuanji learned Zhu had foreseen the Eternal Deities' defeat, while Immeasurable Saint Emperor arrived and told Han Xuanji and Mo Chenxiao to leave.

• Holy Venerable Tianming struck Xu with the Power of Fate, blasting apart his mist form and leaving him badly weakened.
• Han Xuanji withdrew from the fight and spoke with Mo Chenxiao, who reproached him for hiding the plan and marveled at his growth.
• Zhu emerged from the depths of the Heavenly South Desolate Domain, steadied Xu, and warned the cultivators not to kill him.
• Han Xuanji learned that Zhu had used the Origin of Time to foresee the Eternal Deities' defeat and suspected that Zhu could not detect him.
• Holy Venerable Tianming realized Zhu had sent his true body because he cared about Xu, and Immeasurable Saint Emperor appeared beside Han Xuanji and Mo Chenxiao, telling them to leave.

Han Xuanji watched the Saint Kings battle Zhu from inside the Void Grand Canon and asked Ji Mingyue about the difference between Top-Tier and Absolute Peak Saint Kings. Ji Mingyue explained that true Absolute Peak Saint Kings surpassed most Primordial Eternal Deities, and Han Xuanji asked whether Zhu was among them.

• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor brought Han Xuanji and Mo Chenxiao to safety inside the Void Grand Canon, where they met Ji Mingyue.
• The cultivator faction and the Eternal Deities clashed across the Heavenly South Desolate Domain, with the Immeasurable Saint Emperor and other powers barely holding back Zhu.
• Han Xuanji reflected that his pursuit of Zi and Xu had helped draw Zhu into the cultivators’ trap.
• Han Xuanji asked Ji Mingyue how Absolute Peak Saint Kings differed from Top-Tier Saint Kings and how their strength compared.
• Ji Mingyue explained the limits of Saint King cultivation and Dao, and said true Absolute Peak Saint Kings were far stronger than most Primordial Eternal Deities.
• Han Xuanji asked whether Zhu was among the majority of Primordial Eternal Deities.

Ji Mingyue explained why Zhu’s borrowed mastery of time could not match a cultivator’s own Dao, while the cultivators’ forces fought him in the Heavenly South Desolate Domain. She used the God-Slaying Sword to break Zhu’s Time Domain, and the sword’s next strike severed all three of his heads.

• Ji Mingyue explained that breaking the limit of heaven and earth was nearly impossible, and that a cultivator at the Absolute Peak Saint King level could overpower a primordial Eternal Deity.
• Zhu transformed into a colossal three-headed dragon-serpent and faced ten top Saint Kings and dozens of other Saint Kings.
• Zhu activated his Time Domain, shielding himself with interlocking spacetime and a destructive vortex of origin power.
• Ji Mingyue summoned the God-Slaying Sword, whose Sword Ancestor intent shattered Zhu’s Time Domain as the cultivators attacked.
• The God-Slaying Sword struck again and cut off Zhu’s three heads.

The cultivators defeated Zhu and captured or killed the Heavenly South Desolate Domain’s strongest Eternal Deities. Afterward, the Immeasurable Saint Emperor praised Han Xuanji and decided to announce him as the Sacred Court’s Young Emperor, while warning that Zhu’s death would bring further upheaval.

• Ji Mingyue used the God-Slaying Sword to break Zhu’s Time Domain and sever his undying authority, allowing the Saint Kings to overwhelm and pin him to the ground.
• The cultivators captured the Saint King-level Eternal Deities and killed or suppressed others, sweeping away the Heavenly South Desolate Domain’s top fighting forces.
• Han Xuanji told Mo Chenxiao he did not blame himself for the coming conflict, and Mo Chenxiao accepted his reasoning.
• Ji Mingyue, the Immeasurable Saint Emperor, and the other cultivators joined Han Xuanji in the Void Grand Canon, where the Immeasurable Saint Emperor praised him and announced plans to reveal his Young Emperor identity.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor told Han Xuanji that the cultivators had chosen the best course and that the Eternal Deities had helped cause the crisis by exposing the coordinates of space and time.

The Immeasurable Saint Emperor explained the cultivators’ war with the Eternal Deities and revealed that the Eternal Continent was an Origin-level world with the potential to produce an Origin Sovereign. Han Xuanji learned that control of the Eternal Divine Tree or mastery of the Origin Principle might unlock that power, and that the tree’s Origin Principle could be why outsiders sought to annex their world.

• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor said the Eternal Deities had rejected the cultivators’ proposal for peaceful cooperation, then exposed the Eternal True Tree Realm’s coordinates and forced the cultivators into a treaty after outside forces joined the war.
• Han Xuanji compared the conflict to the Dark Forest Principle, and the Immeasurable Saint Emperor agreed before explaining that the Eternal Continent was the center of a Source World within the Infinite True Realm.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor revealed that most Source Worlds could produce at most one Supreme powerhouse, while the Eternal Continent was an Origin-level world capable of producing multiple Supremes and an Origin Sovereign.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor explained that controlling the Eternal Divine Tree could make someone the world’s sovereign, but outsiders were restricted from taking control of it.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor said the Eternal Divine Tree might contain an Origin Principle, which could explain why otherworldly powerhouses wanted to annex the world.

Han Xuanji learned that the system might be the Origin Principle and that Sage King Wendao had died protecting the Eternal Divine Tree during an invasion. The Immeasurable Saint Emperor explained that the war was meant to stop an Origin Sovereign from emerging, and he named Han Xuanji as the cultivator civilization’s likeliest candidate.

• Han Xuanji suspected the Origin Principle had taken the form of his system and connected it to Sage King Wendao.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor revealed that Sage King Wendao had failed to become an Origin Sovereign and died defending the Eternal Divine Tree from invading powerhouses.
• Han Xuanji learned that the Eternal Deities faced a new attack because outsiders feared the rise of an Origin Sovereign in their origin world.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor confirmed that the war and Eternal Plan aimed to nurture an Origin Sovereign, and said he believed Han Xuanji was the likeliest candidate.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor explained that the nine supreme factions forbade killing peerless prodigies because any of them might become a sovereign, following the rule Sage King Wendao had established.

Han Xuanji learned why the Eternal Continent’s strongest experts had agreed to start a war against the Eternal Deities and asked the Immeasurable Saint Emperor to take him to Zhu’s hidden treasures. After Ji Mingyue asked him to help find the missing Eternal Sword Ancestor, news of Zhu’s death reached the remaining Primordial Eternal Deities.

• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor told Han Xuanji that the strongest experts had agreed to kill Zhu and provoke a war to spur talent, and that Zhu’s Origin of Time could help a Dao of Time cultivator approach Absolute Peak Saint King strength.
• Han Xuanji suggested that Zhu’s hidden treasures belonged to the Sacred Court now that the Heavenly South Desolate Domain was its territory, and the Immeasurable Saint Emperor agreed to take him to find them.
• Ji Mingyue asked Han Xuanji to help find the Eternal Sword Ancestor, and Han Xuanji agreed only to do his best.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor explained that the Eternal Sword Ancestor had vanished after being injured and might have entered the Infinite True Realm, where the Eternal Sword Pavilion had lost many experts searching for him.
• News of Zhu’s death reached eight remaining Primordial Eternal Deities gathered in a stone hall in the Heavenly Absoluteness Desolate Domain.

After Zhu's death, the remaining primordial eternal deities agreed to ally with powerful beings from another world and destroy the Eternal True Tree Realm rather than be killed by the cultivators. Qing secretly reported their decision, while the Immeasurable Saint Emperor and Han Xuanji entered Zhu's grotto-heaven.

• Gu told Xuan, Bing, and Mie that the Sacred Court and a cultivator wielding the God-Slaying Sword had killed Zhu.
• Mie urged the deities to ally with powerful beings from another world and destroy the world, and Xuan, Bing, Gu, and the others accepted.
• Qing secretly sent a detailed account of the meeting to an unknown recipient and received a warning to be careful.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor and Han Xuanji broke through Zhu's restrictions and arrived at his grotto-heaven in the Heavenly South Desolate Domain.

After Zhu’s death, Han Xuanji and the Immeasurable Saint Emperor explored Zhu’s grotto-heaven and discovered its treasures. Han Xuanji signed in at Zhu’s Divine Temple, gaining powers that could speed his path toward becoming a Saint King.

• Han Xuanji and the Immeasurable Saint Emperor entered Zhu’s grotto-heaven and saw its rich landscape and creatures.
• The grotto-heaven’s Holy Lord-level creations ended their own lives, while the Immeasurable Saint Emperor explained that Zhu had stored many treasures there.
• Han Xuanji and the Immeasurable Saint Emperor entered Zhu’s Divine Temple, where Han Xuanji used three sign-ins.
• Han Xuanji obtained the Origin of Time, the Power of Zhu’s wind, lightning, and fire, and Zhu’s authority over the Time Domain.