Chapter Summaries

Dawo Baba entered an independent space with Sikong Hong while the Hunt Clan secretly prepared to send more cultivators through the plane passage. Lin Heng detected the deception, and the chapter ended as Dawo Baba tore out of the space and charged toward the Nine Heavens defenders.

• Dawo Baba entered an independent space with Sikong Hong, while Lin Heng suspected his anger was a ruse.
• The Plane Consciousness warned Lin Heng that many Hunt Clan experts were approaching, and Lin Heng alerted the ascenders.
• The ascenders attacked the mountain and entrance, killing dozens of Hunt Clan cultivators attempting to emerge.
• Lin Heng taunted the Hunt Clan by claiming Dawo Baba had joined the Nine Heavens, and the voice inside the cave fell silent.
• Dawo Baba unexpectedly tore through the independent space and charged out as the Hunt Clan's plan to break through the defenders remained underway.

Dawo Baba emerged from the independent space to find the Nine Heavens experts unharmed and the Hunt Clan forces trapped in the plane passage. Lin Heng framed him as a traitor, and the accusations escalated as Dawo Baba prepared to attack while the Hunt Clan argued over how to respond.

• Dawo Baba emerged and was baffled to find Lin Heng and the other Nine Heavens experts alive while the Hunt Clan remained trapped in the cave.
• Lin Heng claimed Dawo Baba had helped the Nine Heavens from within, and Dawo Baba denied betraying his clan.
• The Hunt Clan fighters accused Dawo Baba of treachery, while he cited his friendship with Kudang Cang Lei and Lin Heng mocked the Hunt Clan’s names.
• Dawo Baba fixed a murderous gaze on Lin Heng, who urged the Nine Heavens experts to hold the Hunt Clan back until reinforcements arrived.
• Kudang Cang Lei and the others inside the cave accused Dawo Baba of planning an invasion and urged their forces to return and close the plane passage.

Lin Heng used a warning and a scheme to sow discord among the Hunt Clan, making Kudang Cang Lei and the other invaders retreat before they could attack the Nine Heavens. Dawo Baba remained behind, challenged Lin Heng’s account of events, and cut open his abdomen to swear his innocence to the Hunt Emperor.

• Dawo Baba urged Kudang Cang Lei and the Hunt Clan experts to join forces and invade, but they accused him of betrayal and withdrew through the plane passage.
• Dawo Baba raged at Kudang Cang Lei for believing Lin Heng’s warning and ruining the Hunt Clan’s chance to attack.
• Sikong Hong escaped the independent space and learned from the others that Lin Heng had stopped the invasion by warning the defenders and sowing discord.
• Sikong Hong challenged the abandoned Dawo Baba, who had lost his fighting spirit and blamed Lin Heng for thwarting the Hunt Clan.
• Dawo Baba warned that the Hunt Clan would return, then stabbed himself and cut open his abdomen to offer his soul as proof of his innocence.

After Dawo Baba died defending the Hunt Clan, Lin Heng reflected on the clan’s loyalty and the need to defeat the Hunt Emperor to end its threat. Sikong Hong confronted Yan He and the Eight Great Imperial Clans for arriving late, then warned that he would report their conduct to the ascenders’ leaders.

• Dawo Baba sacrificed his life and returned to the Hunt Clan's plane as his soul became special energy.
• Lin Heng concluded that the Hunt Clan’s solidarity would persist until the Hunt Emperor was killed.
• Sikong Hong and the ascenders confronted Yan He’s group for arriving after the battle, and Yan He claimed he had mistaken the disturbance for a minor threat.
• Sikong Hong pointed out Dawo Baba’s corpse, prompting the ascenders to mock Yan He and the Eight Great Imperial Clans for calling him a small fry.
• Sikong Hong warned Yan He that he would report the matter to the ascenders’ leaders at the Lei Clan.

Lin Heng broke the Lei Clan’s protective formation to bring an urgent warning to the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor. After Lin Heng described the Hunt Clan’s attack at the plane passage, Ao Zhantian suspected the Saint Emperor was connected to the crisis but held back without proof.

• Sikong Hong and Lin Heng went to the Thunder God Domain, where Lei Clan guardians told them to wait outside because they could not contact the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor.
• Lin Heng used all eight Powers of Origin to break the Lei Clan’s grand formation, stunning the guardians.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor confronted Lin Heng, but Ao Zhantian stepped in and the ascender powerhouses gathered to protect him.
• Lin Heng told the assembled powerhouses that the Hunt Clan had attacked the plane passage and that Dawo Baba and Kudang Cang Lei had appeared there.
• Ao Zhantian noticed the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor showed no surprise and said Lin Heng had been justified in breaking the formation to report the emergency.

Lin Heng confronted the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor over the crisis at the plane passage, while the ascenders’ leaders demanded an explanation for Yan He and the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ late arrival. The chapter ended with Ao Zhantian warning that the ascenders might fight the clans if they had used the Hunt Clan to eliminate them.

• Ao Zhantian and the ascenders’ powerhouses stood behind Lin Heng, so the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor punished Lei Yanqing and Lei Yanting by sending them to face the wall at the Heavenly Thunder Pool for a thousand years.
• Lin Heng challenged the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor to discuss the events at the plane passage, but the Saint Emperor dismissed him for being only at the Primordial Chaos Yellow Stage.
• Ao Zhantian defended Lin Heng’s role in driving a wedge between Dawo Baba and Kudang Cang Lei, while the Lei Clan mocked Lin Heng and disputed his importance.
• Lin Heng accused the Eight Great Imperial Clans of failing to appear when the Hunt Clan attacked, and Sikong Hong questioned how close their encampment was to the plane passage.
• Ao Xu and Ao Zhantian demanded an explanation for Yan He and the others’ delayed arrival, with Ao Zhantian warning that the ascenders would fight if the clans had used the Hunt Clan against them.

The Eight Great Imperial Clans brought Yan He to the Thunder God Domain, where he confessed to delaying reinforcements so the Hunt Clan might kill Lin Heng. The Fire Separation Saint Emperor killed him and declared the matter settled, but Ao Zhantian warned the clans against repeating such a scheme.

• Ao Zhantian suspected that the Fire Separation Saint Emperor had secretly contacted Yan He to arrange for him to take the blame.
• Yan He arrived at the Thunder God Domain with the experts stationed at the plane passage, and Lin Heng and Sikong Hong challenged him over the delay.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor pressured Yan He to confess, and Yan He admitted he had deliberately held back the others to use the Hunt Clan against Lin Heng.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor killed Yan He with the Fire Source Spirit Pearl and claimed his clan had punished him fairly.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor declared the matter closed, and Ao Zhantian warned the Eight Great Imperial Clans not to let it happen again.

After the Eight Great Imperial Clans failed to kill Lin Heng, their Saint Emperors argued over whether to recruit him, exposing a rift among them. The ascender leaders gathered to discuss the danger and agreed to warn the clans, while Qin Hongmian turned her attention to Lin Heng and praised his defiance.

• The Saint Emperor Shuiyu and the Saint Emperor Muchen argued that the clans should have tried to recruit Lin Heng, while the Fire Separation Saint Emperor defended targeting him.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor revealed that the Lei Clan had secretly tried to recruit Lin Heng and been refused, leaving a subtle rift among the Eight Great Imperial Clans.
• Ao Zhantian warned the ascender leaders that the clans might use the Hunt Clan against them, and Ao Xu said the Battle to Seize Heaven remained their priority.
• Qin Hongmian urged the ascender factions to warn the Eight Great Imperial Clans, and the other leaders agreed.
• Qin Hongmian asked Lin Heng whether he had killed members of the Fire Clan and attacked members of the Lei Clan; Lin Heng admitted it, and she praised his courage.

Lin Heng agreed to warn the Eight Great Imperial Clans in exchange for vast resources from the Five Ascender Factions, while promising not to provoke a full-scale war. The leaders also learned that he received warnings from the Plane Consciousness and placed their hopes in his potential to help defeat the Hunt Clan.

• Qin Hongmian hinted that Lin Heng should confront the Eight Great Imperial Clans, and Lin Heng agreed after making clear that Battle Heaven Pavilion needed support.
• Qin Hongmian, Ao Zhantian, and the leaders of the other factions promised matching caches of resources to Lin Heng.
• Qin Hongmian told Lin Heng to warn the Eight Great Imperial Clans without driving them into war, and Lin Heng promised to exercise restraint.
• Ao Zhantian asked whether Lin Heng could communicate with the Plane Consciousness, and Lin Heng explained that he only received warnings from it.
• Qin Hongmian and the others said Lin Heng might eventually connect more deeply with the Plane Consciousness and help eliminate the Hunt Clan.
• Ao Zhantian urged Lin Heng to protect himself because the Nine Heavens depended on him, but Lin Heng gave no answer.

After signing in at Firmament Hall for several days, Lin Heng decided to return to the Eighth Heaven but learned that both the ascenders and the Eight Great Imperial Clans were preparing to compete for an ancient ruin in the Seventh Heaven. He proposed sending lower-level cultivators instead of risking the Nine Heavens’ top experts, and Ao Zhantian began consulting the other ascender factions.

• Lin Heng signed in throughout Firmament Hall and collected rare spirit herbs and Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasures before deciding to leave.
• Lin Heng found Ao Zhantian worried about an ancient ruin in the Seventh Heaven that might have belonged to an expert above the Nine Heavens.
• Ao Zhantian explained that the Eight Great Imperial Clans were sending twelve Saint Emperor-level experts, while the ascender factions were also preparing an expedition.
• Lin Heng suggested that both sides agree to send equal numbers of lower-level cultivators rather than expose their strongest experts to the ruin.
• Ao Zhantian took out a communication spirit pearl and began discussing Lin Heng’s proposal with the other ascender faction leaders.

The five ascender factions agreed to Lin Heng’s proposal for the ancient ruins, and Ao Zhantian offered him a Firmament Hall entry slot in exchange for protecting its people. Firmament Hall’s peak experts set out to force the Eight Great Imperial Clans to accept their terms, even if they had to fight.

• Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng that the other four factions had agreed to the proposal, and Lin Heng warned that the Eight Great Imperial Clans might restrict who could enter the ancient ruins.
• Lin Heng predicted that the Eight Great Imperial Clans would agree if the entrants’ cultivation was capped, and Ao Zhantian offered him a Firmament Hall slot in exchange for protecting Firmament Hall’s people.
• Lin Heng accepted Ao Zhantian’s request, partly because he believed the ancient ruins might be the Peach Garden Heavenly Abode he sought.
• Ao Zhantian appeared beside Lin Heng with startling speed, and more than a dozen Firmament Hall experts arrived in the hall.
• Blood Venerable Butcher's Blade Zhao Guang warned that winning the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ agreement would be difficult, and Ao Zhantian declared that Firmament Hall would beat them until they agreed.

Ao Zhantian negotiated with the Eight Great Imperial Clans over who would enter the ancient ruins beneath the lava, forcing the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor to accept that their juniors would go. The sides agreed on entry numbers and cultivation levels, but Ao Zhantian questioned which level the clans would assign to their extra entrant.

• Lin Heng and the Firmament Hall arrived above the lava, where the ascenders and Eight Great Imperial Clans had gathered.
• Ao Zhantian rejected the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor’s proposal for sixteen experts from each side and argued that their subordinates should enter the ruins.
• When the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor refused Ao Zhantian’s proposal, Ao Zhantian prepared to fight, and the ascenders took combat positions.
• Saint Emperor Shuiyu warned that the ascenders had brought more experts, and the Fire Separation Saint Emperor reported that Ao Zhantian had blocked their communication spirit pearl.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor yielded and agreed to send sixteen clan members against fifteen ascenders, then set their cultivation levels at five Heavenly Firmament and ten Primordial Chaos.
• Ao Zhantian asked what cultivation level the Eight Great Imperial Clans would choose for their extra entrant.

Lin Heng returned to the Battle Heaven Pavilion and learned how much it had grown during his absence, along with troubling news about Sun Yuan and his Evil Avatar. The Evil Avatar’s violence had already caused serious disputes with Asura Island and the Lei Clan.

• Ao Zhantian and the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor agreed that the extra entrant from the Eight Great Imperial Clans could be no stronger than Primordial Chaos Heaven Stage Perfection, and set the ancient ruins expedition for three days later.
• Ao Zhantian sent Lin Heng back to the Battle Heaven Pavilion and went with the other ascender experts to the Firmament Hall.
• Lin Heng met Situ Jiannan and learned that Ao Lie had reached the Heavenly Venerable Realm and that Liu Ling'er and the other women had recruited fifty thousand talented disciples.
• Situ Jiannan told Lin Heng that Sun Yuan’s failed breakthrough to the Primordial Realm had left him injured and reduced to Eighth-Grade Heavenly Venerable, though Lin Heng’s Good Avatar had saved him.
• Situ Jiannan reported that Lin Heng’s Evil Avatar had destroyed a sect aligned with Asura Island after a dispute and killed a Lei Clan Heavenly Venerable, forcing the Good Avatar and the ascender factions to intervene.

After learning that his evil body had slaughtered sects and endangered the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s reputation, Lin Heng summoned him to the main hall and confronted him about his conduct. The evil body defended his latest scheme involving a Fire Clan Heavenly Venerable’s concubine, leaving Lin Heng to face a dispute over whether the wager had been fair.

• Situ Jiannan told Lin Heng that his evil body had killed over a thousand people and destroyed three sects, and Lin Heng summoned the evil body to the main hall.
• Mei Chu worried that the evil body might target her and Situ Jiannan, but Situ Jiannan stood by his decision to report the danger to Lin Heng.
• The evil body arrived with a woman and said he had won her from a Sixth-Grade Heavenly Venerable of the Fire Clan in a wager.
• Lin Heng scolded the evil body and questioned the woman, who explained that he had concealed his strength during a contest over a treasure.
• The woman accused the evil body of tricking her husband, while the evil body argued that the Fire Clan Heavenly Venerable had freely accepted the second wager and lost.

Lin Heng confronted the Fire Clan after they came to Battle Heaven Pavilion demanding that his clone answer for taking Yan Xiang’s concubine. The truth emerged that Yan Xiang had lost her in a bet, leaving Yan Lan exposed before the watching crowd.

• Lin Heng learned the Fire Clan had arrived in force and went to meet them with his evil body and the concubine.
• Yan Lan accused Lin Heng’s man of injuring a Fire Clan Heavenly Venerable and stealing his concubine, then identified the evil body as the culprit.
• Lin Heng revealed that the evil body was his clone, making Yan Lan realize he had accused Lin Heng without knowing the facts.
• The evil body asked Yan Xiang whether he had lost the concubine in a bet, and Yan Xiang stammered instead of answering.
• Lin Heng stated that Yan Xiang had willingly wagered and lost the concubine, prompting the hidden onlookers to gossip about the Fire Clan.

Yan Lan apologized to Lin Heng for the Fire Clan’s disruption at the Battle Heaven Pavilion and punished Yan Xiang to regain Lin Heng’s favor. After Lin Heng demanded a resolution for Yan Xiang’s concubine, Yan Lan paid fifty thousand Source Stones to take her away, while Lin Heng’s pointed wording angered a hidden Fire Clan expert.

• Yan Lan bowed to Lin Heng and apologized for bringing the Fire Clan to cause trouble at the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• At Yan Lan’s order, two Seventh-Grade Heavenly Venerables crippled Yan Xiang’s cultivation and broke both his legs.
• Lin Heng stopped Yan Lan from leaving and asked whether the Fire Clan would leave Yan Xiang’s concubine behind.
• Yan Lan offered fifty thousand Source Stones to redeem the concubine, and Lin Heng accepted the payment.
• Lin Heng told Yan Lan to take the Fire Clan’s concubine away and not lose her again, then returned inside the Battle Heaven Pavilion with his evil body.

Lin Heng confronted his evil avatar over his resentment and dangerous actions, then heard from his good avatar that he cultivated the Dao of Freedom and was restraining himself. Lin Heng agreed to let the evil avatar go ahead to the heavens above the Eighth Heaven to stir up trouble, while warning him not to provoke a war with the Eight Great Imperial Clans.

• Lin Heng asked his evil avatar about his resentment and killing intent, and the avatar said they followed different Daos and that he had done nothing wrong.
• Lin Heng's good avatar arrived and explained that the evil avatar cultivated the Dao of Freedom and was already restraining his nature.
• Lin Heng considered whether to punish or release the evil avatar, and his good avatar suggested letting him go above the Eighth Heaven while the good avatar watched over the pavilion.
• Lin Heng told the evil avatar that Qin Hongmian had encouraged him to provoke the Eight Great Imperial Clans, and the avatar showed eager interest.
• Lin Heng warned the evil avatar not to destroy the clans' sects, and the avatar said he wanted fun, not death.

Lin Heng prepared to take his good and evil avatars into an ancient ruin, where they could absorb powerful cultivators and use their energy and memories to grow stronger. Before departing, he assigned Sun Yuan to oversee the Battle Heaven Pavilion and told Situ Jiannan to prepare for their advance to the Seventh Heaven.

• Lin Heng told his avatars they would join experts from the ascender factions and the Eight Great Imperial Clans in exploring an ancient ruin in three days.
• The evil avatar eagerly proposed killing everyone for their treasures, while the good avatar advised avoiding attacks on the ascenders; the avatars could absorb cultivators' energy and memories to advance.
• Lin Heng told Situ Jiannan that the evil avatar would enter the Seventh Heaven ahead of the group to prepare for their arrival.
• Lin Heng said Sun Yuan would manage the Battle Heaven Pavilion during the expedition and instructed Situ Jiannan to prepare for the move to the Seventh Heaven.
• Situ Jiannan assured Lin Heng that the pavilion had enough resources to support its more than one hundred thousand disciples for a hundred years.

Lin Heng trained with his evil clone inside the time spirit treasure while his clones planned to help him comprehend the hidden power of his five-layered Primordial Chaos World. Outside, the Fire Separation Saint Emperor and Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor plotted against Lin Heng’s trip to the ancient ruins, but Duan Wuya’s presence made arranging his assassination difficult.

• Lin Heng entered the time spirit treasure with his two clones to consolidate his Primordial Realm fighting methods before visiting the ancient ruins.
• The good clone left Lin Heng to spar with the evil clone, hoping a bitter fight would lead Lin Heng to comprehend the power of his five-layered Primordial Chaos World.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor told the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor that Lin Heng had secured one of the Firmament Hall’s slots for the ancient ruins.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor revealed that Duan Wuya, the Three Dusts Sword, would take another slot, making it dangerous to target Lin Heng.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor agreed the Lei Clan would take primary responsibility, but the two Saint Emperors struggled to find a Heavenly Firmament Realm cultivator willing to risk fighting Duan Wuya without a tempting reward.

The Fire Separation Saint Emperor and Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor debated how to recruit someone to kill Lin Heng, until the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor agreed to have the Lei Clan act. At Firmament Hall, Qin Hongmian and Ao Zhantian revealed their plan to mislead the Fire Clan, while worrying about Lin Heng’s safety in the ancient ruins.

• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor pleaded poverty and tried to make the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor cover the cost of hiring a Heavenly Firmament Realm cultivator to target Lin Heng.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor recalled that Lin Heng had supplied Situ Jiannan with many treasures and guessed that Lin Heng possessed a rich hidden collection.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor agreed that the Lei Clan would take action and said he already had someone in mind.
• Qin Hongmian told Ao Zhantian that his subordinates had deliberately leaked information to the Fire Clan, leading it to expect Duan Wuya to enter the ancient ruins.
• Ao Zhantian and Qin Hongmian worried that sending Lin Heng into the ancient ruins was risky, then concluded that the person who ordered it likely had a way to ensure his safety.