Recaps

Lin Heng arranged for the Battle Heaven Pavilion to train in the Peach Garden Heavenly Abode and proposed robbing the Eight Great Imperial Clans for resources before their expected clash in two years. He then began teaching the Good and Evil Avatars the Heavenly Estate master's inheritance, leaving them to ponder how he had cut a stone with an ordinary leaf.

• Lin Heng arranged for the Battle Heaven Pavilion's disciples to train in Battle Heaven Hall while Sun Yuan oversaw the pavilion and others prepared to expand its forces.
• Lin Heng proposed robbing the Eight Great Imperial Clans for cultivation resources and using them as opponents, arguing they would tolerate it until the five-year agreement came due.
• Lin Heng took the Good and Evil Avatars into the time spirit treasure and predicted that only four members of the Battle Heaven Pavilion could join the decisive battle in the Third Heaven.
• Lin Heng demonstrated how an ordinary leaf could cut a stone without energy and told the Good and Evil Avatars to grasp the principle behind it.
• The Good and Evil Avatars failed to repeat the feat, and the Evil Avatar wondered whether Lin Heng had reached a realm of merging with the universe.

Lin Heng emerged from seclusion as Battle Heaven Pavilion prepared to establish itself in the Third Heaven, after two years of growth and covert attacks on the Eight Great Imperial Clans. He chose a small force for the coming battle and declared that Battle Heaven Pavilion would reach the First Heaven within ten years and rule the Nine Heavens.

• Battle Heaven Pavilion's combat squads ambushed the Eight Great Imperial Clans for two years, killing more than five thousand people, including over a hundred Heavenly Venerables.
• Situ Jiannan reported that Battle Heaven Pavilion had more than a million disciples, ten thousand Heavenly Venerable squad members, and 123 allied sects.
• Lin Heng decided to take his Good and Evil Avatars, Sun Yuan, and three hundred Heavenly Venerable disciples to establish Battle Heaven Pavilion in the Third Heaven.
• Lin Heng told the Evil Avatar and Sun Yuan to fight without restraint, and he explained that Battle Heaven Pavilion was ready to reveal its full strength.
• Lin Heng announced his plan to bring Battle Heaven Pavilion into the First Heaven within ten years and make it the king of the Thirteen Factions.

Lin Heng led the Battle Heaven Pavilion to the Peak of Fallen to claim a place in the Third Heaven, revealing a strength that alarmed the Eight Great Imperial Clans. He agreed to fight eight Heavenly Firmament Venerable Realm experts after the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor offered to return Mei Chu’s grandmother, and warned them to prepare eight coffins.

• Lin Heng arrived at the Peak of Fallen with the Battle Heaven Pavilion, whose four Heavenly Firmament experts and three hundred Heavenly Venerable experts shocked the gathered factions.
• Lin Heng declared that the Battle Heaven Pavilion wanted a place in the Third Heaven and challenged anyone who wished to test its strength.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor proposed three battles, including a final contest in which Lin Heng would face eight Heavenly Firmament Venerable Realm experts alone.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor offered to return Mei Chu’s grandmother if Lin Heng accepted and won the final battle.
• Lin Heng agreed and told the Eight Great Imperial Clans to prepare eight coffins.

Lin Heng agreed to face the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ challenge and sent thirty-six Fifth-Grade Heavenly Venerables into the opening team battle against thirty-six Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables. The fighters’ formations clashed evenly, leaving the clans’ spectators shocked by the Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples’ strength.

• Lin Heng accepted the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor’s challenge and led the Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples to their viewing area.
• Lin Heng ordered thirty-six Fifth-Grade Heavenly Venerables to fight, despite the availability of higher-grade disciples, and the Eight Great Imperial Clans fielded thirty-six Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables.
• Lin Heng asked what would happen if a fighter died, and the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor declared that the matches would allow casualties.
• The Eight Great Imperial Clans’ fighters formed an array that gathered their eight Powers of Origin into a multicolored phoenix, while the Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples formed the Thirty-Six Earthly Baleful Intent Heaven-Slaying Formation and summoned a black qilin.
• The phoenix and qilin collided, and neither side gained an advantage, surprising the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ spectators.

The Battle Heaven Pavilion’s formation absorbed the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ Power of Origin and swallowed their phoenix formation, leaving their Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables injured. As the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s Fifth-Grade disciples charged into close combat, Lin Heng remained confident, and the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor wondered what he had overlooked.

• The Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples used the Nine Turns of Earthly Baleful Intent, Xuantian's Shocking Transformation to cover the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ phoenix in black Qi that absorbed their Power of Origin.
• A warning prompted the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ experts to stop feeding the formation, giving the Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples time to recover and strengthen their formation.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor ordered the experts to resume pouring in their Power of Origin, but the energy further strengthened the black Qi.
• The Battle Heaven Pavilion’s enlarged qilin swallowed the phoenix, causing the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ formation to collapse and its thirty-six Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables to suffer backlash.
• The Battle Heaven Pavilion’s thirty-six Fifth-Grade Heavenly Venerable disciples charged into close combat, and the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ experts prepared to fight them.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor saw Lin Heng remain composed and wondered where his confidence in the disciples came from.

The Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples defeated the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ thirty-six Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables with Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasures, shocking the assembled experts. Lin Heng agreed to delay the second battle for an hour, giving the Eight Great Imperial Clans time to adjust their plans.

• The Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples charged the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ thirty-six Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables and cut through their weapons with a single exchange.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor suspected the disciples wielded Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasures, and Lin Heng stayed silent as the Eight Great Imperial Clans realized the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s strength.
• The Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples killed all thirty-six Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables, leaving the onlookers in stunned silence.
• Lin Heng asked to begin the second battle immediately, but the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor requested an hour to clear the battlefield and let everyone rest.
• After consulting his good and evil clones and Sun Yuan, Lin Heng agreed to start the second battle an hour later.

After the Battle Heaven Pavilion defeated the Eight Great Imperial Clans' thirty-six Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables, the eight Saint Emperors schemed to kill Lin Heng in the next battle. They agreed to use their Origin Spirit Pearls to control eight fighters and make them self-destruct, then turned their attention to Lin Heng's good and evil clones and Sun Yuan.

• Sects watching the battle discussed the Eight Great Imperial Clans' defeat, and some of their affiliated sects considered joining the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• The eight Saint Emperors gathered during the break and agreed that Lin Heng and the Battle Heaven Pavilion had to be eliminated before the Ascenders could intervene.
• The Saint Emperors proposed using deathsworn, medicinal pills, sealed power, and coordinated self-destruction to kill Lin Heng, but questioned whether eight Heavenly Firmament Venerable Realm experts would agree to certain death.
• Fire Separation Saint Emperor proposed using the Origin Spirit Pearls to control eight fighters and make them self-destruct at the start of the battle, and the other Saint Emperors agreed.
• The Saint Emperors considered the second battle against Lin Heng's good and evil clones and Sun Yuan, and resolved not to concede it easily.

The Eight Saint Emperors decided to lend their Nirvana Spirit Treasures to clan experts so they could defeat Lin Heng’s good and evil avatars and Sun Yuan. Before the second battle, Lin Heng proposed a wager, and the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor agreed, setting the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s rebuilding of the Imperial Clans’ Third Heaven sects as the stakes if the clans won.

• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor proposed lending Nirvana Spirit Treasures to the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ experts, and the other Saint Emperors agreed despite the danger of the living weapons going berserk.
• The Eight Saint Emperors summoned the fighters for the next battle and prepared according to their plan before returning to the battlefield.
• Lin Heng delayed the second battle to propose a bet to the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor, who agreed after recalling the clans’ previous humiliating losses to the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor wagered that if the Eight Great Imperial Clans won, the Battle Heaven Pavilion would rebuild their sects in the Third Heaven.

Lin Heng set earthworm-digging as the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s stakes if it won the second battle, and the Eight Great Saint Emperors reluctantly agreed. As the six contestants entered the battle space, Ao Zhantian challenged the Eight Great Imperial Clans for sending three experts at a higher cultivation level, but Sun Yuan accepted the mismatch and urged the fight to begin.

• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor proposed that the Battle Heaven Pavilion rebuild grounds for the Eight Great Imperial Clans if they won, and Lin Heng accepted.
• Lin Heng asked that each of the eight Saint Emperors dig up a hundred earthworms barehanded if the Battle Heaven Pavilion won, and the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor agreed after consulting the others.
• The Good and Evil Avatars and Sun Yuan entered the battle space, followed by three contestants from the Eight Great Imperial Clans.
• Ao Zhantian objected that the Eight Great Imperial Clans had sent three Heavenly Firmament Venerable Realm Great Perfection experts against two Venerables and one Saint Realm cultivator.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor defended the mismatch by citing Sun Yuan’s strength, and Sun Yuan accepted the stronger opponents and called for the battle to start.

Lin Heng's Evil Avatar won rock-paper-scissors and faced the Eight Great Imperial Clans' three Heavenly Firmament experts alone. He offered to defend against three attacks, then effortlessly blocked the Lei Clan expert's opening strike with his World Power Barrier.

• Lin Heng's Evil Avatar, the Good Avatar, and Sun Yuan argued over who would fight the three opponents and decided to settle it with rock-paper-scissors.
• The Lei Clan expert attacked during their game, but Lin Heng's Evil Avatar caught and shattered his saber beam with one hand.
• Lin Heng's Evil Avatar won the game and challenged all three experts, promising to defend against their first three moves without counterattacking.
• The Lei Clan, Fire Clan, and Tian Yang Clan experts unleashed their attacks in succession.
• Lin Heng's Evil Avatar stopped the Lei Clan expert's saber beam with an unaffected World Power Barrier, revealing the vast gap in their strength.

Lin Heng's Evil Avatar effortlessly blocked the full-force attacks of three Heavenly Firmament experts, who then brought out Nirvana Spirit Treasures lent by their Saint Emperors. The artifact spirits appeared, and the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor defended the loan as merely lending weapons.

• Lin Heng's Evil Avatar blocked attacks from the Lei Clan, Fire Clan, and Heavenly Yang Clan experts without his World Power barrier even rippling.
• Lin Heng's Good Avatar warned the Evil Avatar and Sun Yuan that the three experts still had trump cards.
• The Lei Clan expert summoned the Rushing Thunder Startling Dragon Spear, and Ao Zhantian recognized it as the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor's Nirvana Spirit Treasure.
• The Fire Clan and Heavenly Yang Clan experts brought out their own Nirvana Spirit Treasures, whose artifact spirits appeared and pressured the Ascenders' side.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor acknowledged lending the weapons to his clansmen and argued that no rule had forbidden it.

The Eight Great Imperial Clans brought three Nirvana Spirit Treasures into the battle, and Lin Heng proposed turning the match into a fight to the death. Despite his doubts, the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor agreed, leaving Lin Heng’s clones and Sun Yuan to face the deadly contest.

• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor defended the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ use of Nirvana Spirit Treasures and warned Ao Zhantian that intervening would count as the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s defeat.
• Lin Heng agreed to the terms and proposed that the battle continue until one side had fallen entirely.
• The Eight Great Imperial Clans’ Saint Emperors debated Lin Heng’s proposal, with the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor worrying that Lin Heng might have a hidden counter to the treasures.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor urged the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor to seize the chance to kill Lin Heng’s clones and Sun Yuan, and Lin Heng taunted the clans for being afraid.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor agreed to Lin Heng’s fight-to-the-death proposal.

Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor agreed to Lin Heng’s proposal, and the battle between the three Battle Heaven Pavilion fighters and the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ experts began. As the fighters absorbed the Nirvana Spirit Treasures’ Powers of Origin, the Saint Emperors debated the cause and were left with unanswered questions.

• Lin Heng told the fighters that the battle would decide life and death, and his Evil Avatar, Good Avatar, and Sun Yuan chose opponents from the Lei Clan, Fire Clan, and Heaven Yang Clan.
• The Lei Clan expert summoned the Rushing Thunder Startling Dragon Spear, but the weapon’s thunder dragon broke free and attacked the Evil Avatar.
• The Evil Avatar used a lightning vortex to absorb the thunder dragon’s Power of Origin, weakening it and forcing it to retreat.
• The Good Avatar and Sun Yuan also absorbed the Powers of Origin released by their opponents’ Nirvana Spirit Treasures, alarming the eight Saint Emperors.
• Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor suggested Lin Heng’s eight origins and Sun Yuan’s five-origin physique explained their absorption abilities, but Fire Separation Saint Emperor noted that other Five-Spirit Fierce Apes had never absorbed a Nirvana Spirit Treasure’s origin.

As Sun Yuan and Lin Heng’s good and evil clones devoured the Nirvana Spirit Treasures’ Powers of Origin, the Eight Saint Emperors remembered a mysterious man who once nearly destroyed their clans. They feared Lin Heng might repeat that history, but the Fire Separation Saint Emperor argued that the three cultivators’ Heavenly Firmament Realm limited how much they could absorb.

• Sun Yuan and Lin Heng’s good and evil clones devoured the Powers of Origin of the Nirvana Spirit Treasures, drawing the Eight Saint Emperors’ attention.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor recalled a mysterious man who had once absorbed the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ Powers of Origin and nearly killed the Saint Emperors.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor recognized similarities between Lin Heng and the mysterious man, and regretted agreeing to the fight to the death.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor argued that the three Battle Heaven Pavilion cultivators were still at the Heavenly Firmament Realm and could absorb only a limited amount.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor concluded that the Nirvana Spirit Treasures’ Third Grade Sovereign Realm strength would keep Sun Yuan and the clones from devouring all their Power of Origin.

The Evil Avatar used Eternal Ages to shatter the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor’s Rushing Thunder Startling Dragon Spear and devour its weapon spirit. As Eternal Ages turned toward the other two Nirvana Spirit Treasures, Ao Zhantian and the others blocked the Eight Great Imperial Clans from interfering.

• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor ordered the three Heavenly Firmament Venerable Realm experts to let the Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples absorb the incoming Powers of Origin until they reached their limits.
• The Lei Clan expert attacked the Evil Avatar with the Rushing Thunder Startling Dragon Spear and a flood of the Origin of Lightning.
• With Lin Heng’s approval, the Evil Avatar summoned Eternal Ages and sent it against the spear.
• Eternal Ages shattered the Rushing Thunder Startling Dragon Spear and devoured its lightning dragon weapon spirit, leaving the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor injured by the backlash.
• Eternal Ages targeted the other two Nirvana Spirit Treasures, but Ao Zhantian and more than ten others blocked the Saint Emperors from entering the battle space.

Eternal Ages shattered the Rushing Thunder Startling Dragon Spear, prompting Lin Heng to insist that the battle continue until the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ three Nirvana Spirit Treasures were destroyed. The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor persuaded the other Saint Emperors to preserve their strength and wait for the third battle, fearing the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s hidden numbers and power.

• Eternal Ages shattered the Rushing Thunder Startling Dragon Spear and turned toward the other two Nirvana Spirit Treasures, while Ao Zhantian and the others blocked the Eight Great Imperial Clans from interfering.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor offered to concede and compensate Lin Heng, but Lin Heng rejected compensation and threatened to order the Battle Heaven Pavilion to attack if the battle did not continue.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor urged the other Saint Emperors to stand down, arguing that Lin Heng and the Battle Heaven Pavilion had not revealed their full strength.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor warned that the Battle Heaven Pavilion might command thousands of Heavenly Venerable disciples, enough to overwhelm the Eight Great Imperial Clans.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor and the other Saint Emperors accepted the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor’s advice to preserve their strength and wait for the third battle.

After the Battle Heaven Pavilion won the second battle, Lin Heng refused Ao Zhantian’s advice to sit out the third, insisting he owed it to his disciples to finish the fight. As the third battle was about to begin, the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor tried to ban Eternal Ages, but Qin Hongmian’s threat of all-out war forced him to back down.

• The eight Saint Emperors withdrew after Eternal Ages destroyed all three Nirvana Spirit Treasures, and Sun Yuan and the others killed the three enemy Heavenly Firmament Venerable Realm experts.
• Ao Zhantian urged Lin Heng to avoid the third battle, but Lin Heng refused because he would not betray the disciples who had risked their lives.
• Lin Heng welcomed Sun Yuan and the others back, then called for the third battle to begin.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor tried to forbid Lin Heng from using Eternal Ages again, prompting Ao Zhantian and Qin Hongmian to challenge his authority.
• Qin Hongmian threatened to fight until one side was dead, and the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor hesitated to escalate the dispute.

Lin Heng agreed not to use Eternal Ages in the third battle in exchange for making the eight Saint Emperors dig up and eat earthworms if he won. The Eight Great Imperial Clans sent eight controlled fighters whose power surged toward the Sovereign Realm, but Lin Heng remained confident as the battle began.

• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor proposed that Lin Heng refrain from using Eternal Ages, and Lin Heng accepted on the condition that the eight Saint Emperors dig up and eat earthworms if he won.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor agreed to Lin Heng's condition after deciding the Eight Great Imperial Clans had a better chance without Eternal Ages.
• Lin Heng and eight Heavenly Firmament Venerable Realm fighters entered the battle space, where Ao Zhantian and the others noticed the fighters had vacant stares and suspected the Saint Emperors were controlling them with Origin Spirit Pearls.
• The eight fighters' power rose to Heavenly Firmament Venerable Realm Great Perfection, with signs they might break into the Sovereign Realm.
• Lin Heng mocked the fighters' apparent advantage and remained calm as Sun Yuan and Lin Heng's good and evil clones watched from the Battle Heaven Pavilion.

The eight Saint Emperors used the Origin Spirit Pearls to turn eight Heavenly Firmament Venerable Realm experts into near-Sovereign puppets to kill Lin Heng. Lin Heng overwhelmed them with storms and lightning, so the Saint Emperors resorted to a desperate move that made the puppets absorb lightning they could not safely assimilate.

• The eight Origin Spirit Pearls infused the eight fighters with Power of Origin, raising them almost to Sovereign First Grade and chilling the hearts of the Eight Great Imperial Clans' watching experts.
• Lin Heng summoned a thunderstorm and turned raindrops into arrows that pierced the eight fighters, who showed no pain or reaction.
• The eight fighters attacked Lin Heng from all sides, but he trapped them in a tornado storm that cut them apart as they continued fighting.
• Lin Heng called down eight enormous lightning bolts, prompting the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and the other Saint Emperors to choose their previously discussed move.
• The eight Saint Emperors made the fighters' bodies swell, and the fighters absorbed the lightning, though seven of them could not assimilate the Origin of Lightning and faced an internal explosion.

Lin Heng stopped eight Heavenly Firmament experts from self-destructing by draining their energy into his Primordial Chaos World, then killed them. He emerged from the battle space and asked the eight Saint Emperors to honor their promise.

• The eight Heavenly Firmament experts absorbed Lin Heng’s lightning origin and began swelling as the eight Saint Emperors expected them to self-destruct.
• Ao Zhantian and the Ascenders prepared to intervene, but the eight Saint Emperors summoned the Origin Spirit Pearls and blocked them.
• Lin Heng opened a spatial vortex that drained the eight experts’ energy and ended the threat of their self-destruction.
• Lin Heng realized the eight experts had lost their consciousnesses, then killed them with a wave of energy.
• Lin Heng left the battle space and asked the eight Saint Emperors to honor their promise after his victory in the third battle.

After defeating the eight Heavenly Firmament Venerable Realm experts, Lin Heng demanded that the eight Saint Emperors fulfill their wager by digging up and eating earthworms. The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor finally began digging as the crowd watched, while Lin Heng’s avatars recognized that the humiliation would weaken the Eight Great Imperial Clans and help the Battle Heaven Pavilion recruit their followers.

• Lin Heng confronted the eight Saint Emperors and demanded they honor their wager after the third battle.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor accused Lin Heng of relying on outside power, and Lin Heng challenged him to let his origin power be devoured as a test.
• The other seven Saint Emperors urged the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor to test Lin Heng, but he hesitated under Lin Heng’s pressure and Ao Zhantian’s watch.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor accepted the wager and walked to an open patch of ground to dig for earthworms as more than a hundred thousand people watched and mocked the Saint Emperors.
• The Good Avatar realized the public humiliation would damage the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ morale and help the Battle Heaven Pavilion grow its forces.

After the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s victory, Lin Heng made the eight Saint Emperors swallow the earthworms they had dug up, though Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor secretly destroyed his worm with Lightning Power of Origin. Fire Separation Saint Emperor agreed to release Mei Chu’s grandmother in three days, and Lin Heng welcomed the Ascenders to celebrate at the Battle Heaven Pavilion.

• The eight Saint Emperors spent a day and night digging up eight hundred earthworms while Lin Heng and the Ascenders watched.
• Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor swallowed an earthworm and secretly destroyed it with Lightning Power of Origin, then vomited; the other Saint Emperors followed his example until all eight hundred worms were swallowed.
• Lin Heng reminded Fire Separation Saint Emperor to release Mei Chu’s grandmother, and Fire Separation Saint Emperor said the Battle Heaven Pavilion could collect her from the Heavenly Origin Fire Prison in three days.
• Lin Heng warned Fire Separation Saint Emperor not to let anything happen to Mei Chu’s grandmother, then watched the eight Saint Emperors and the Eight Great Imperial Clans depart.
• Lin Heng invited Ao Zhantian and the Ascenders to the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s Fourth Heaven grounds, where they celebrated the victory together.

At a celebration, Lin Heng rejected the idea of ruling the Nine Heavens and urged the Ascender leaders to consider what would follow their struggle against the Eight Great Imperial Clans. He revealed that the clans’ bloodlines could never be eradicated, since the Origin Spirit Pearls would choose new Saint Emperors, leaving the Ascenders facing a costly, seemingly endless conflict.

• Ao Zhantian asked Lin Heng about the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s plans, and Lin Heng said he might deal with the foreign races.
• Qin Hongmian proposed that Lin Heng replace the Eight Great Saint Emperors, but Lin Heng questioned what the Ascenders would strive for afterward and warned that he might leave the Nine Heavens.
• Ao Zhantian and the others accepted that their struggle would lose its purpose if they defeated the Eight Great Imperial Clans, and Lin Heng explained that the clans’ bloodlines could not be destroyed.
• Lin Heng revealed that the Origin Spirit Pearls would select new Saint Emperors after the current ones died, and the Ascenders realized that fighting the clans could exhaust their forces without ending the conflict.

Lin Heng explained why the Eight Great Imperial Clans could not be destroyed and revealed that he might leave the Nine Heavens after defeating the foreign races. When Mei Chu and Situ Jiannan returned with Mei Chu’s grandmother grievously abused by the Fire Clan, Lin Heng prepared to retaliate and show the Eight Great Imperial Clans the might of the Battle Heaven Pavilion.

• Lin Heng told Ao Zhantian and the others that the Eight Great Imperial Clans would remain as part of the universe’s balance and said he might leave the Nine Heavens after driving out the foreign races.
• Lin Heng said a senior’s inheritance might let him break through the Nine Heavens’ limits, and the gathered leaders drank together for a day and night.
• Three days after the battle in the Third Heaven, Mei Chu and Situ Jiannan brought Mei Chu’s grandmother back from the Heavenly Origin Fire Prison, where the Fire Clan had crippled her cultivation and she had been abused by prisoners.
• Situ Jiannan asked Lin Heng to seek justice after a Fire Clan expert drove them away and injured him, and Lin Heng handed pavilion affairs to Situ Jiannan while he and Sun Yuan withdrew from public view.
• Lin Heng told Sun Yuan that the Battle Heaven Pavilion would answer the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ provocation with its full might.

Situ Jiannan mobilized the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s forces to attack the Fire Clan after the Fire Separation Saint Emperor mistreated Mei Chu’s grandmother and injured him. As the Fire Clan’s leaders struggled to prepare for the looming conflict, they learned that more than twenty affiliated sects had defected to the Battle Heaven Pavilion.

• Situ Jiannan declared war on the Fire Clan and organized the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s million disciples across the Nine Heavens.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor gathered the Fire Clan’s leaders, who blamed him for provoking the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• Yan Jianxin warned that the Fire Clan’s lower-level sects could not withstand the Pavilion’s forces and that intervention might trigger a final battle.
• Fire Clan leaders concluded that Lin Heng’s seclusion with Sun Yuan signaled there would be no negotiations.
• A messenger reported that more than twenty Fire Clan-affiliated sects had defected to the Battle Heaven Pavilion.