Recaps

Mei Aoxue challenged Tianxuzi after he invoked Venerable Qingyi’s orders, while Lin Heng realized the hidden restrictions preventing Qingyi and the Lei Clan Ancestor from attacking him directly. Lin Heng summoned Eternal Ages and prepared to break the formation, ordering Kunpeng to keep the others alive as he made an example of his enemies.

• Mei Aoxue rejected Tianxuzi’s attempt to use Venerable Qingyi’s name to stop her, and the Mortal World Inn’s experts questioned Tianxuzi’s claim that Qingyi had ordered the attack.
• Mei Aoxue asked Lei Juetian whether he would blame the Lei Clan Ancestor for the attack, leaving him unable to answer.
• Lin Heng connected Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian’s actions and absence of their backers to Dijiang’s claim that Qingyi and the Lei Clan Ancestor could not attack him directly.
• Lin Heng summoned Eternal Ages, and Kunpeng appeared and recognized that the formation had been made by someone from the upper realm.
• Lin Heng told Kunpeng to protect the others and keep them alive while he broke the formation and made an example of the people who had attacked him.

Lin Heng used Heaven and Earth Fusion to absorb energy from his surroundings and the people trapped with him, then destroyed the formation flags with a giant sword. After subduing Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian, he announced that he would kill them as a warning to anyone who targeted him and the Battle Heaven Pavilion.

• Lin Heng used Eternal Ages to shield Tianxuzi, Lei Juetian, Lei Lan, Mei Aoxue and the others from the battle's destructive force.
• Lin Heng unleashed Heaven and Earth Fusion, drawing energy from within a million miles and pulling the Power of Origin from those in the formation space.
• Lin Heng formed a giant sword and used four sword lights to destroy the formation flags, breaking the formation's restraints.
• Lin Heng seized Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian by the throats after the protective barrier vanished, and they stopped resisting.
• Lin Heng told Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian that he would kill them as an example to anyone who targeted him and the Battle Heaven Pavilion.

Lin Heng gathered the Battle Heaven Pavilion army at the Heavenly Elegance Mountain Range and drew the First Heaven’s forces there after capturing Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian. The Lei Clan Ancestor and Venerable Qingyi plotted from afar, while Ao Zhantian and Firmament Hall openly sided with Lin Heng.

• Lin Heng summoned Sun Yuan, the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor, Qin Hongmian, and the Battle Heaven Pavilion army to the Heavenly Elegance Mountain Range.
• Lin Heng shouted across the First Heaven, drawing its forces toward the mountain range.
• The Lei Clan Ancestor and Venerable Qingyi watched through the Mystic Light Mirror and feared Lin Heng would publicly humiliate them, but decided to let others try to eliminate him later.
• Ao Zhantian apologized to Lin Heng for luring him into the trap, then joined the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s side to show his support.
• The Firmament Hall’s other two hall masters also joined Lin Heng’s ranks, adding three top experts to the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s side.

Lin Heng exposed Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian’s attempt to kill him and forced the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and Qin Hongmian to decide their fate. With the factions and Battle Heaven Pavilion pressing them, the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor stepped forward to kill Lei Juetian.

• Lin Heng threw Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian down and told the assembled factions that they had trapped him and tried to kill him.
• Lin Heng asked the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and Qin Hongmian to decide how to punish the two men, placing their leaders under suspicion.
• Ao Zhantian, the other Firmament Hall masters, Miao Shanrou, and Lin Miaoyin backed punishment under the Nine Heavens’ rules.
• Sun Yuan questioned whether the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and Qin Hongmian had been involved, while one hundred thousand Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples released their pressure.
• Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian begged their leaders to spare them, but the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor stepped forward and told Lei Juetian he had to give an account.

The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and Qin Hongmian killed Lei Juetian and Tianxuzi to appease Lin Heng, but the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s departure left their alliances in ruins. After Qin Hongmian advised keeping a low profile, the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor was left mourning his lost chance to obtain Mu Chen’s inheritance and turned to steadying the Lei Clan.

• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and Qin Hongmian destroyed Lei Juetian’s and Tianxuzi’s bodies and Divine Souls.
• Lin Heng warned them against repeating the incident and led the Battle Heaven Pavilion away through a spatial vortex.
• Miao Shanrou, Lin Miaoyin, Ao Zhantian, and the other forces departed, leaving the Lei Clan and Mortal World Inn experts to distance themselves from their leaders.
• Lei Lan and Mei Aoxue led their respective groups away, and Qin Hongmian advised the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor to keep a low profile before leaving herself.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor mourned losing his chance to obtain Mu Chen’s inheritance and decided to steady the Lei Clan’s people.

After tens of thousands of experts from the Lei Clan, the Mortal World Inn, and their allied factions pledged themselves to the Battle Heaven Pavilion, Lin Heng left their screening to Situ Jiannan. He then asked Dijiang to let him attempt the Heavenly Estate's third-level trial, and Dijiang warned that its opponents would fight without restraint.

• Mei Aoxue led tens of thousands of experts in kneeling before Lin Heng and pledging their service to the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• Situ Jiannan advised Lin Heng to accept the newcomers to strengthen the Pavilion's ranks, while carefully screening them for loyalty.
• Lin Heng lifted the crowd to their feet and put Situ Jiannan in charge of assigning their duties and handling the Pavilion's affairs.
• Lin Heng visited Dijiang in the Peach Garden Heavenly Abode and asked to challenge the third level of the Heavenly Estate.
• Dijiang said Lin Heng had barely met the minimum requirements and warned that the trial's opponents would obey their master's orders without letting affection influence their fighting.

Lin Heng entered the Heavenly Estate's third level and began Gou Mang's qualification challenge: he had one day to find Gou Mang hidden in a vast forest. Near the deadline, Lin Heng realized his origin of Fire might force Gou Mang out of hiding, and prepared to act.

• Lin Heng insisted on challenging the third level, and Dijiang escorted him to the palace where its trials began.
• Dijiang directed Lin Heng to Gou Mang's residence and explained that Gou Mang controlled the origin of Wood.
• Gou Mang set Lin Heng a one-day test: find him in the vast forest or leave without qualifying to challenge him.
• Lin Heng spread his soul power across the forest but could not detect Gou Mang, whom he suspected had merged with the trees.
• With the deadline approaching, Lin Heng realized he could use his origin of Fire to burn the forest and make Gou Mang reveal himself.

Lin Heng forced Gou Mang to appear by threatening to destroy the Forest of Life, then began the trial to knock him off his green ox within the time it took an incense stick to burn. After Gou Mang repeatedly evaded his attacks through a mysterious connection to the forest, Lin Heng used the Origin of Fire to expose the roots beneath the ground.

• Lin Heng placed four formation flags and activated the Ancient Flame Dragon Great Formation, forcing Gou Mang to reveal himself.
• Gou Mang appeared riding a green ox and told Lin Heng that he had to knock him off its back while Gou Mang limited his cultivation to the Third-Grade Sovereign level.
• Lin Heng attacked, but Gou Mang vanished without any detectable energy or spatial fluctuation and reappeared above a tree.
• Lin Heng suspected Gou Mang used his Origin of Wood and the forest to move, then spread the Origin of Fire across a thousand-mile area.
• Gou Mang emerged beneath another tree, and Lin Heng overturned the ground to reveal a tangled network of tree roots.

Lin Heng defeated Gou Mang in the first trial by overwhelming him with force, then received a warning about the final trial and a hint about merging with all things. He headed toward Xuanming’s palace, planning to test the guardian’s specialized Origin of Water.

• Lin Heng deduced that Gou Mang could merge with the forest’s life energy, then agreed to fight him head-on and promised not to burn the forest again.
• Lin Heng overwhelmed Gou Mang with a powerful fist and a follow-up wave of water, prompting Gou Mang to yield.
• Gou Mang warned Lin Heng that the final trial’s guardian was waiting to kill him and told him that all things possessed spirituality.
• Dijiang praised Lin Heng for passing Gou Mang’s test quickly and recalled that his Master had once threatened Gou Mang in the same way.
• Dijiang explained that Xuanming’s Origin of Water had rain and ice properties, and Lin Heng headed to the next trial intending to study his techniques.

Lin Heng faced Xuanming’s Sovereign Sixth Grade puppet in a rain-filled trial and discovered that the rain was eroding his Power of Origin. He dispelled it with the Origin of Heaven Yang, while Xuanming acknowledged his abilities and warned that the real battle was only beginning.

• Lin Heng met Xuanming, who created a puppet with Sovereign Sixth Grade strength and ordered Lin Heng to kill it to pass the trial.
• Xuanming vanished, and his puppet attacked Lin Heng, beginning a fierce close-combat battle above the lake.
• Lin Heng noticed that the rain was interfering with his Power of Origin and realized Xuanming had infused it with the Origin of Water to weaken him.
• Lin Heng blasted the puppet back and used the Origin of Heaven Yang to scatter the clouds and stop the rain.
• Xuanming expressed surprise at Lin Heng’s quick discovery, recognized his extraordinary qualities, and warned him that the real battle was just beginning.

Lin Heng fought Xuanming’s clone and learned a new way to wield the Origin of Water through ice dust. After understanding that the Heavenly Estate’s third level was meant to teach him how to use the Power of Origin, Lin Heng asked Xuanming’s clone to fight at full strength, and the battle continued.

• Lin Heng escaped Rain’s Bewilderment, and Xuanming’s clone turned water pillars into ice before scattering them into a sea of ice dust that wounded Lin Heng.
• Xuanming explained that the Nine Heavens’ use of the Power of Origin was childish and warned Lin Heng that he would not survive in the upper realm without greater strength.
• Lin Heng realized the Heavenly Estate’s three levels were designed to gradually teach him combat skills and ways to use the Power of Origin.
• Lin Heng thanked Xuanming and asked his clone to fight at full strength, then covered himself with the Origin of Fire.
• Xuanming’s clone formed an ice sword, turned it back into ice dust, and announced, “Dance, Ice Dust Flower Sea!”

Lin Heng endured Xuanming's clone's relentless ice-flower storm, figured out how it had trapped him, and countered with Void Fire Realm. Xuanming withdrew the ice dust but decided to push Lin Heng harder before letting him pass the trial.

• Xuanming's clone trapped Lin Heng inside an ice storm and sent countless ice flowers against his flame barrier.
• Lin Heng realized the storm had formed from hidden ice dust already surrounding him, rather than moving through space.
• As the ice flowers wore down his barrier, Lin Heng condensed the Origin of Fire and unleashed Void Fire Realm.
• Lin Heng's flames destroyed the ice flowers and melted the storm, forcing Xuanming's clone to withdraw its attack.
• Xuanming watched Lin Heng's progress and decided to increase the pressure because the next trials were difficult.

Lin Heng passed Xuanming’s trial after learning from their battle, then prepared to face Xizi, the formidable guardian of the third trial. He reached Xizi’s palace and found the Lightning Origin guardian waiting amid a devastated landscape.

• Xuanming guided Lin Heng through their fight, and Lin Heng defeated his clone even after both were restricted to Sovereign Sixth Grade.
• Xuanming declared Lin Heng had passed and advised him not to rush into the fourth trial after clearing the third.
• Lin Heng returned to Dijiang, who warned him that Xizi wielded destructive Lightning Origin and fought at Ninth Grade Sovereign.
• Lin Heng traveled the lightning-ravaged path to Xizi’s palace and found the guardian floating in the air.
• Xizi opened his eyes, and the red python on his hands transformed into a scepter.

Lin Heng faced Xizi in a trial that required him to fight using only Lightning Origin. Their battle tested speed, timing, and control, and the chapter ended with Xizi caught inside the explosion of Lin Heng’s Thunder Stars.

• Xizi demanded that Lin Heng prove his strength by defeating him and challenged him to fight using only Lightning Origin.
• Lin Heng agreed, and the two watched each other until Lin Heng used a thunderbolt as a feint to begin his Flash Step.
• Xizi unleashed thousands of lightning threads, forcing Lin Heng to dodge and slowing his movements.
• Xizi pursued Lin Heng and thrust a lightning sword at him, but Lin Heng retreated and conjured countless points of lightning around Xizi.
• The points of lightning exploded into a massive blast, and Xizi formed a protective barrier as a mushroom-shaped cloud rose into the air.

Lin Heng and Xizi clashed with lightning origin, each summoning a powerful lightning beast. Xizi tried to secretly strengthen his dragon with scattered lightning, but Lin Heng used Origin Devouring to take control of that power, leaving Xizi shocked.

• Xizi recovered from Lin Heng’s earlier attack and summoned a thousand-meter lightning dragon.
• Lin Heng summoned a lightning qilin, and the two beasts fought fiercely in the air.
• Xizi secretly began gathering scattered lightning origin to strengthen his dragon while Lin Heng watched the battle.
• Lin Heng noticed Xizi’s plan and used Origin Devouring to draw the scattered lightning origin toward the qilin.
• Xizi failed to control the gathered power and realized Lin Heng had learned the divine ability.

Lin Heng passed Xizi’s trial after surviving the lightning dragon’s self-destruction, earning the approval of the eleventh guardian. Dijiang warned him that the final guardian, Houtu, would be both powerful and hostile because Lin Heng’s inheritance meant Mu Chen could never return.

• Lin Heng used Origin Devouring to strengthen his lightning qilin, but Xizi’s lightning dragon severed its connection to him and self-destructed, destroying the qilin and injuring Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng realized Xizi had concentrated his power to trigger the explosion, then told Xizi that the attack had not used up his full strength.
• Xizi acknowledged Lin Heng’s advantage and approved him to proceed to the next trial.
• Lin Heng returned to the palace hall, where Dijiang told him Houtu was the final guardian and could use both the Origin of Earth and the Netherworld Origin.
• Dijiang explained that Houtu’s devotion to Mu Chen made her resent Lin Heng, whose inheritance of the Heavenly Estate meant Mu Chen could not return.

Lin Heng entered Dijiang's temporal spirit treasure to develop a technique for fusing the eight great Powers of Origin, hoping to gain an edge against Houtu. His first attempt nearly failed, so he considered practicing with only two Origins at a time.

• Dijiang estimated that Lin Heng had only a ten percent chance of defeating Houtu, but Lin Heng claimed she was the one with that chance.
• Lin Heng demonstrated that his eight great Powers of Origin could begin to fuse and mutate, impressing Dijiang despite the strain on his mental power.
• Dijiang gave Lin Heng a temporal spirit treasure with a time flow a hundred million times faster so he could cultivate for the fourth trial.
• Lin Heng meditated for three days, then began studying the fusion of the eight Origins while Dijiang secretly watched over him.
• Lin Heng's first attempt stalled when the Origins resisted each other and nearly went out of control, prompting him to consider fusing only two at a time.

Lin Heng worked to fuse the Powers of Origin while Situ Jiannan expanded the Battle Heaven Pavilion and planned new sect grounds across the Nine Heavens. As Mei Aoxue searched the Third Heaven for a site, Qin Hongmian confronted her and pleaded for her to return to the Mortal World Inn.

• Lin Heng began fusing the Powers of Origin of Water and Wood inside the time spirit treasure and sensed they might merge.
• Situ Jiannan recruited tens of thousands of screened powerhouses and planned Battle Heaven Pavilion sect grounds in the Third, Second, and First Heavens.
• Situ Jiannan assigned Mei Aoxue to find sites for the new grounds, and she selected a mountain range in the Third Heaven.
• Qin Hongmian caught up with Mei Aoxue and asked her to return to the Mortal World Inn, but Mei Aoxue kept her distance.

Mei Aoxue rejected Qin Hongmian’s attempt to bring her back to the Mortal World Inn and declared her loyalty to Battle Heaven Pavilion. When Qin Hongmian considered killing her, Lin Heng’s Good and Evil Doppelgangers arrived to confront Qin Hongmian.

• Qin Hongmian tried to persuade Mei Aoxue to return, but Mei Aoxue said she had joined Battle Heaven Pavilion willingly and would not betray it.
• Qin Hongmian offered to have Venerable Qingyi remove Mei Aoxue’s binding oath, but Mei Aoxue refused and said she belonged to Battle Heaven Pavilion in life and death.
• Mei Aoxue sensed Qin Hongmian’s killing intent and prepared to fight rather than surrender.
• Lin Heng’s Good and Evil Doppelgangers arrived and positioned themselves beside Mei Aoxue.
• The Good Avatar politely asked whether Mei Aoxue had offended Qin Hongmian, while the Evil Avatar challenged Qin Hongmian to fight him.

Mei Aoxue defused a confrontation between the Battle Heaven Pavilion and Qin Hongmian, while Lin Heng mastered a fusion of three Origins before entering Houtu’s fourth trial. Houtu mistook Lin Heng for Mu Chen at first, then greeted him with open hostility when she realized who he was.

• The Good and Evil Doppelgangers confronted Qin Hongmian for trying to recruit Mei Aoxue, but Mei Aoxue explained the misunderstanding and the Good Avatar let Qin Hongmian leave.
• The Evil Avatar warned onlookers that no one in the Nine Heavens could bully a member of the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• Inside Dijiang’s time spirit treasure, Lin Heng fused the Origins of Water and Wood, then spent hundreds of thousands of years learning to fuse the Origins of Water, Wood, and Earth.
• Dijiang told Lin Heng to display overwhelming power to earn Houtu’s acknowledgment, then took him to the fourth trial.
• Lin Heng entered Houtu’s realm and greeted her, but Houtu became hostile after realizing he was not Mu Chen.

Lin Heng faced Houtu’s trial by fighting her Twelfth Grade Sovereign clone without using Eternal Ages. He trapped and injured the clone with attacks combining several origins, but Houtu’s clone declared that his strongest strike had fallen short.

• Houtu demanded that Lin Heng kill her conscious clone or be killed by it, and forbade him from using Eternal Ages.
• Lin Heng and Houtu’s clone tested their Origin of Earth against each other, and Lin Heng gained a slight advantage.
• Lin Heng collapsed the ground beneath the clone, flooded the pit, and bound her with vines before freezing her in ice.
• Lin Heng fused the Origins of Water and Wood and hurled the combined energy into the pit, where it exploded as the clone broke free.
• Houtu’s clone emerged badly wounded and told Lin Heng that his attack was his limit and that he would get no further chance.

Lin Heng overcame Houtu’s clone by fusing the Origins of Wood, Water, and Earth, forcing Houtu to intervene and concede defeat. After Lin Heng claimed victory under the Heavenly Estate’s rules, Houtu accepted him as her master.

• Houtu’s clone trapped Lin Heng between shifting mountains and a crushing barrier of the Origin of Earth, while Lin Heng realized he could not afford a battle of endurance.
• Lin Heng revealed the Origins of Wood, Water, and Earth and fused them into a three-colored sphere despite Houtu’s doubts.
• Lin Heng’s three-Origin attack broke through the barrier and shattered the thousand-zhang mountain, forcing Houtu to shield her clone with a vortex of the Origin of Earth.
• Lin Heng accused Houtu of intervening with power beyond the Twelfth Grade Sovereign, and Houtu admitted she had broken the rules and declared him the winner.
• Lin Heng invoked Mu Chen’s rules for the Heavenly Estate, and Houtu knelt and greeted him as her master.

After Lin Heng passed the Heavenly Estate guardians’ trials, Mu Chen’s remnant soul revealed the truth about his conflict with Primordial Chaos and warned him to beware of fate. Mu Chen asked Lin Heng to deliver a sachet to Yue Yao when he reached the upper realm.

• Lin Heng gained the approval of all twelve guardians, and Dijiang directed him to Mu Chen’s Starry Universe Palace.
• Mu Chen’s remnant soul appeared and shared memories showing that he had delayed completing his universe to question whether becoming a Life Sovereign was truly the end of cultivation.
• Mu Chen revealed that he and Primordial Chaos debated their different Daos through a contest of souls, which ended with Mu Chen’s soul destroyed.
• Mu Chen told Lin Heng that each person must follow their own Dao and warned him that Primordial Chaos would not hinder him, but that he must beware of fate.
• Mu Chen gave Lin Heng a sachet for Yue Yao and asked him to tell her that he had failed her in this life.

Lin Heng asked Dijiang about the upper realm and learned that ascenders had to endure a million years of ordinary labor before settling there, while talented cultivators faced danger from jealous rivals. Dijiang warned that Lin Heng would be hunted for possessing Mu Chen’s inheritance and explained that Lin Heng’s developing universe could become a Heaven-Grade Universe, making him a target.

• Lin Heng asked Dijiang about the upper realm, and Dijiang described its harsh laws, where newly ascended cultivators could only walk and had to spend a million years chopping trees and hunting in the Archaic Land.
• Dijiang explained that cultivators who showed threatening talent could be murdered by rivals who had abandoned efforts to improve themselves.
• Dijiang warned Lin Heng that Venerable Qingyi and the Lei Clan Ancestor might spread news of his inheritance from Mu Chen, putting him in danger throughout the upper realm.
• Lin Heng asked where the upper realm’s other inhabitants came from, and Dijiang connected them to parallel planes such as the foreign race’s world.
• Dijiang explained the four grades of universes and said Lin Heng’s universe could become Heaven-Grade because he possessed the eight great Powers of Origin, making upper-realm cultivators eager to eliminate him.

Dijiang explained why Primordial Chaos favored Hongjun and warned Lin Heng that the upper realm would be hostile to him. Back at the Battle Heaven Pavilion, Lin Heng arranged its leadership and rules for after his ascension, then entered seclusion to prepare for the Cosmic Spirit Realm.

• Dijiang told Lin Heng that Hongjun had once been capable of reaching Primordial Chaos's level but had fallen short after becoming entangled in worldly affairs.
• Dijiang warned Lin Heng that he would need ruthless methods to survive in the upper realm, where many powerful figures wanted him dead.
• After returning to the Battle Heaven Pavilion, Lin Heng told its leaders that he was nearing a breakthrough to the Cosmic Spirit Realm and named Sun Yuan as his successor, with Mei Aoxue and Situ Jiannan taking supporting roles.
• Lin Heng established eight rules for the Battle Heaven Pavilion to prevent its disciples from causing trouble and to maintain peace in the Nine Heavens.
• Lin Heng agreed to attend the pavilion opening in the First Heaven and gave Situ Jiannan most of his stored possessions before entering seclusion the next day.