Chapter Summaries

Lei Heng challenged Sun Yuan but imposed restrictions on his battle form, weapons, and clones, and Sun Yuan agreed after requiring Lei Heng to forgo clones as well. As Lei Heng attacked with a lightning-filled technique, Sun Yuan remained motionless, leaving the spectators wondering what trump card he had.

• Lei Heng hesitated to challenge Sun Yuan until Sun Yuan agreed not to use his battle form or weapons.
• Lei Heng also demanded that Sun Yuan not use clones, and Sun Yuan agreed on the condition that Lei Heng would not use his clones either.
• Lei Heng summoned a greatsword and used Thunder Shakes the Nine Heavens to fill the sky with lightning.
• Lei Heng attacked Sun Yuan, who stayed in place with his hands behind his back instead of dodging or using Primordial Chaos World Power.

Sun Yuan withstood Lei Heng’s attacks without injury, revealing the protection of another Second-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure armor. The Evil Avatar deterred the Eight Great Imperial Clans from attacking Sun Yuan, and Lei Heng continued the duel to save face as Sun Yuan prepared to get serious.

• Lei Heng struck Sun Yuan with his greatsword, but Sun Yuan remained unharmed while Lei Heng split the web of his hand on the impact.
• Lei Heng realized Sun Yuan wore another Second-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure armor, and the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ experts eyed Sun Yuan’s treasures with hostility.
• The Evil Avatar revealed his Heavenly Firmament King Realm presence, silencing the clans’ killing intent and protecting Sun Yuan.
• Sun Yuan invited Lei Heng to continue fighting, and Lei Heng attacked again with his greatsword before drawing a hidden flexible sword from its hilt.
• Lei Heng’s flexible sword bit Sun Yuan’s neck but left only a reddened mark, and Sun Yuan grinned as he announced he would get serious.

Sun Yuan defeated Lei Heng at God-Slaying Mountain, establishing the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s strength in the Sixth Heaven. He accepted challenges from three clans for a rematch in three days, while the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ Saint Emperors began planning to defeat him.

• Sun Yuan countered Lei Heng’s relocation, broke his flexible sword, and forced him to admit defeat.
• The Sixth Heaven’s sects abandoned their challenges, and the Lei Clan, Fire Clan, and Heaven Yang Clan announced a rematch in three days.
• Sun Yuan agreed to fight again and planned to demand stakes, hoping to gain weapons and armor for the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• The Eight Great Imperial Clans reported Sun Yuan’s victory to the First Heaven, and their eight Saint Emperors devised a plan to help their fighters beat him.

While comprehending the Heavenly Estate master's inheritance, Lin Heng learned that the Primordial Chaos Universe had five layers and that his innate five-layered Primordial Chaos World could let him reach Primordial Chaos's level. He began preparing to build and stabilize his own world using the inheritance, with his time spiritual treasure to accelerate the process.

• Lin Heng learned from the Heavenly Estate master's memories that the Primordial Chaos Universe had five layers, with the Longevity Realm in the third and Primordial Chaos's world in the fifth.
• Lin Heng discovered that true immortality came from merging one's soul with a universe, and that the Heavenly Dao was simply the will of beings at that level.
• Lin Heng learned that his Primordial Chaos World had five layers innately, unlike the three-layered worlds of Dijiang and the other Nine Heavens experts, and that his path differed from theirs.
• Lin Heng began studying how to cultivate his Primordial Chaos World, including creating Primordial Spiritual Qi and stabilizing the world over time.
• Lin Heng planned to use his time spiritual treasure's hundred-millionfold acceleration to make the stabilization process possible.

Sun Yuan returned to God-Slaying Mountain to face the Eight Great Imperial Clans and demanded high stakes for the matches. He accepted Yan Kun’s wager of a First-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure, and the two prepared to fight as Yan Kun relied on his superior equipment.

• Sun Yuan arrived at God-Slaying Mountain, where crowds from the Eight Great Imperial Clans had gathered to watch him fight.
• Sun Yuan demanded that challengers wager at least a million Source Stones, a Third-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure, or a fifty-million-year-old spirit herb.
• Yan Kun of the Fire Clan challenged Sun Yuan and wagered a First-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure, which Sun Yuan agreed to match with the Evil Avatar’s guarantee.
• Yan Kun entered the formation with a First-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure weapon and Second-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure armor.
• Sun Yuan transformed into his battle form and argued that Yan Kun could not impose restrictions based on their previous match.
• Yan Kun raised his flaming sword and vowed to defeat Sun Yuan, while Sun Yuan claimed his Second-Class saber would be enough to pierce Yan Kun’s armor.

Sun Yuan decisively defeated Yan Kun by dodging his attacks and breaking through his armor with a relentless assault. After Yan Kun admitted defeat, Sun Yuan demanded the flaming longsword they had wagered, leaving Yan Kun torn between handing over the weapon borrowed from his clan and risking Sun Yuan’s anger.

• Yan Kun attacked Sun Yuan with flaming sword techniques, but Sun Yuan dodged and used Yan Kun’s own pillars of flame to force him to withdraw the attack.
• Sun Yuan countered Yan Kun’s sword strikes, then dodged a thrust at close range and realized Yan Kun had no hope of hitting him.
• Sun Yuan struck Yan Kun repeatedly until his armor broke, pierced his shoulder, and prepared to finish the fight.
• Yan Kun admitted defeat, and Sun Yuan demanded the flaming longsword as the wager.
• Yan Kun hesitated because the clan had lent him the sword, while Sun Yuan’s killing intent warned him not to refuse.

Sun Yuan forced Yan Kun to surrender the First-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure he had wagered, then challenged the Eight Great Imperial Clans to send another opponent. Lei Zong stepped forward with a much larger stake, and Sun Yuan and the Evil Avatar pretended to doubt Sun Yuan’s chances as the story left their wager poised to proceed.

• Yan Kun admitted he could not pay the wager in another way, then handed Sun Yuan the flaming longsword lent to him by the Fire Clan Saint Emperor.
• Sun Yuan dismissed the Fire Clan’s objections, challenged the other imperial clans, and mocked them when no one immediately stepped forward.
• Lei Zong, the Lei Clan’s guardian and strongest expert in the Fifth Heaven, offered to fight Sun Yuan for a First-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure.
• Lei Zong added ten million Source Stones and three fifty-million-year-old spirit herbs to the stake, and Sun Yuan exchanged a glance with the Evil Avatar.
• The Evil Avatar shook his head with a troubled expression, leading Lei Zong to believe Sun Yuan lacked confidence and strengthening his resolve to accept the fight.

Sun Yuan and the Evil Avatar pretended Sun Yuan was losing confidence, prompting Lei Zong and the Lei Clan to gather the enormous stakes Sun Yuan demanded. Their duel began with Lei Zong attacking with lightning, and Sun Yuan drew the flaming longsword he had taken from Yan Kun as Lei Zong combined ranged and close-range attacks.

• Sun Yuan demanded thirty million Source Stones, two hundred-million-year-old spirit herbs, and two Second-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasures in addition to Lei Zong's original stakes.
• Lei Zong accepted after Lei Clan experts assembled the required stakes, and both sides displayed their offerings before entering the formation.
• Lei Zong attacked Sun Yuan with a lightning serpent, but Sun Yuan's Fierce Ape Phantom seized and devoured it.
• Lei Zong unleashed Ten Thousand Jun of Thunder while charging Sun Yuan with his Lightning-Piercing Spear.
• Sun Yuan took out Yan Kun's flaming longsword, unsettling the Fire Clan cultivators who recognized their clan's First-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure.

Sun Yuan defeated Lei Zong after using a water-and-fire divine ability to trap him in an illusion and seize the advantage. Lei Zong surrendered the promised stakes, while the Lei Clan experts resolved to investigate Sun Yuan’s power and prepare for their planned confrontation with Battle Heaven Pavilion in five years.

• Lei Zong pressed Sun Yuan with spear attacks and repeated lightning strikes, but Sun Yuan continued to conceal his strength.
• Sun Yuan revealed flame and ice in his eyes, making Lei Zong experience a tormenting world of fire and ice where a fire qilin and an ice crystal phoenix attacked him.
• As the vision vanished, Lei Zong found Sun Yuan’s flaming sword had wounded his abdomen and was at his neck, forcing him to admit defeat.
• The Lei Clan experts suspected Sun Yuan had used an undetectable divine ability and planned to ask Lei Zong what had happened and report their findings to the Saint Emperors.
• Lei Zong handed Sun Yuan a storage ring containing the promised stakes, and Sun Yuan accepted it while mocking the Fire Clan.

Sun Yuan defeated the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ challengers and helped the Battle Heaven Pavilion expand into the Sixth and Fifth Heavens, while the clans’ unexplained restraint raised suspicions. As Sun Yuan prepared to move into the Fourth Heaven, Lin Heng’s Good Avatar urged him to wait because the campaign had gone too smoothly.

• Sun Yuan admitted that he had deliberately lured Lei Zong into raising the stakes, and Lei Zong left without challenging him again.
• The ascenders celebrated their victories at God-Slaying Mountain, and Situ Jiannan and his wife began recruiting sects in the Sixth Heaven.
• Over the next year, sixteen sects joined the Battle Heaven Pavilion while the Eight Great Imperial Clans did not respond, prompting Situ Jiannan to suspect they were planning something.
• Sun Yuan defeated challengers in the Fifth Heaven, including four Primordial Chaos Earth Stage experts, while Situ Jiannan and his wife established the pavilion there and recruited openly.
• At a meeting in the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s Seventh Heaven hall, Lin Heng’s Good Avatar advised delaying Sun Yuan’s campaign in the Fourth Heaven because the clans’ silence and the easy victories seemed suspicious.

The Good Avatar and Evil Avatar debated the risk of the Eight Great Imperial Clans resisting the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s advance into the Fourth Heaven, then agreed to proceed with a forceful expedition. The Evil Avatar and Sun Yuan arrived at the Fourth Heaven, where Lei Bin laid out a three-battle contest whose final two rounds would pit them against multiple opponents.

• The Good Avatar warned that the Eight Great Imperial Clans might target Sun Yuan in the Fourth Heaven, while the Evil Avatar argued that the expedition should proceed despite any plots.
• The Good Avatar agreed to the expedition and told the others that, if they acted, they had to make the campaign earth-shaking.
• The Evil Avatar and Sun Yuan set out for the Fourth Heaven without Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples to conceal their strength and avoid hindering their plans.
• More than fifty thousand cultivators gathered in the Duonuke Mountain Range to witness the challenge, and the Evil Avatar and Sun Yuan arrived through a spatial black hole.
• Lei Bin introduced himself and the representatives of the Fourth Heaven’s Eight Great Imperial Clans, while the Evil Avatar dismissed them and watched from a nearby mountaintop.
• Lei Bin proposed a contest of three battles: the clans would send one fighter in the first, two in the second, and five in the third.

Sun Yuan weighed the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ lopsided challenge against its generous rewards, then agreed to fight after learning all their combatants were in the Primordial Realm. He added that if the Battle Heaven Pavilion won all three matches, the Eight Great Imperial Clans must build its sect in the Fourth Heaven, and Lei Bin accepted.

• Lei Bin offered escalating rewards for Sun Yuan to face one, then two, then five opponents, while requiring no payment if Sun Yuan lost.
• Sun Yuan suspected the Eight Great Imperial Clans were using the challenge to halt the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s rise, but learned he could choose another Primordial Realm representative.
• Lei Bin confirmed that the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ fighters would be in the Primordial Realm, easing Sun Yuan’s concern about facing opponents above his level.
• Sun Yuan agreed to the matches and demanded that the Eight Great Imperial Clans build the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s sect in the Fourth Heaven if it won all three.
• After consulting an unseen voice, Lei Bin accepted Sun Yuan’s condition, and both men remained confident of victory.

Sun Yuan fought Lei Bin, the Eight Great Imperial Clans’ chosen first fighter, and discovered that Lei Bin’s lightning talismans had likely been made by Heavenly Firmament Realm experts. The battle continued as Lei Bin unleashed more talismans and Sun Yuan charged to break through his attacks.

• Sun Yuan and Lei Bin entered a formation space and revealed their cultivation pressures, with Lei Bin’s strength reaching the peak of the Primordial Chaos Heaven Stage.
• Sun Yuan suspected Lei Bin and the other seven fighters had been prepared to conceal their true strength.
• Lei Bin attacked Sun Yuan with a Hundred Lightning Talisman Seal, whose falling thunderbolts dimmed Sun Yuan’s five-colored armor.
• Sun Yuan charged Lei Bin and struck an incoming lightning bolt with Five Spirits Impact, gradually overpowering it.
• Lei Bin activated two more Hundred Lightning Talisman Seals, sending torrents of lightning down as the Evil Avatar realized Heavenly Firmament Realm experts were secretly aiding the Eight Great Imperial Clans.

Sun Yuan defeated Lei Bin after revealing First-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure armor and the soul-shaking Dark Moon Soul-Shaking Sword. The Eight Great Imperial Clans sent Yang Chaoyi and Yin Juechen to fight him together, hoping to prevent another killing blow.

• Lei Bin used the Hundred Lightning Talisman Seal to overwhelm Sun Yuan and shatter his armor.
• The Evil Avatar signaled Sun Yuan to reveal his hidden trump cards, and Sun Yuan equipped First-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure armor and drew the Dark Moon Soul-Shaking Sword.
• Sun Yuan charged through Lei Bin's lightning, stunned him with the sword's soul-shaking effect, and killed him with a strike to the head.
• The Eight Great Imperial Clans realized Sun Yuan could briefly immobilize opponents, and Yang Chaoyi and Yin Juechen agreed to cover each other in their battle against him.
• Yang Chaoyi and Yin Juechen entered the formation space and formally challenged Sun Yuan together.

Sun Yuan fought Yang Chaoyi and Yin Juechen, whose combined Yin and Yang origins temporarily pushed their power into the Heavenly Firmament King Realm. The battle continued as Sun Yuan tested their Yin-Yang World Power with an invisible sword strike that shook their defense but did not break through.

• Yang Chaoyi and Yin Juechen joined forces, combining their origins and raising their cultivation to the peak of the Primordial Chaos Heaven Stage.
• Sun Yuan struck with the Dark Moon Soul-Shaking Sword, and his half-strength attack matched their combined strike at eighty percent strength.
• Yang Chaoyi and Yin Juechen fused their presences and temporarily broke through to the Heavenly Firmament King Realm, forming two-colored Yin-Yang World Power.
• Sun Yuan used Heaven-Shocking Sword Strike to attack their World Power without moving, shaking their barrier and unbalancing them.
• Yang Chaoyi said Sun Yuan's attack had failed to break through their Yin-Yang World Power.

Sun Yuan shattered Yang Chaoyi and Yin Juechen’s Yin-Yang World Power, forcing them to concede their battle. With the Eight Great Imperial Clans facing a third and final round against him, they discussed how to stop the Battle Heaven Pavilion from winning.

• Sun Yuan broke the Yin-Yang World Power barrier with his sword, shocking Yang Chaoyi and Yin Juechen.
• Sun Yuan explained that their World Power was weak compared with Lin Heng’s, while his training under Lin Heng had made him far stronger than he realized.
• Yang Chaoyi conceded, and he and Yin Juechen left the formation space, giving Sun Yuan the victory.
• Sun Yuan faced the five remaining experts, whose combined Power of Origin of the Five Elements would make the final round especially difficult.
• The Eight Great Imperial Clans discussed Sun Yuan’s strength and worried that another loss would establish the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s prestige in the Fourth Heaven.

The Eight Great Imperial Clans secretly strengthened their five fighters by transferring their Power of Origin, but Sun Yuan stepped aside so Lin Heng could fight the third battle. Lin Heng accepted the challenge and offered to concede if the five opponents could withstand one move from him.

• A Lei Clan expert proposed transferring the five clans’ Power of Origin into their fighters, and the Eight Great Imperial Clans carried out the plan behind restrictions.
• The five empowered contestants entered the array, and Sun Yuan asked whether they were the opponents for the battle before leaving the array space.
• Sun Yuan said he had not agreed to fight the third battle and reminded the clans that fighters could be switched.
• Lin Heng emerged from a spatial door and claimed the right to fight because he remained in the Primordial Realm.
• Five Heavenly Firmament Emperor Realm cultivators volunteered to replace the five contestants, but Lin Heng insisted on the agreed rules and offered to concede if his opponents took one move from him.

Lin Heng entered the formation space as a Primordial Chaos split spirit and challenged five experts of the Eight Great Imperial Clans to withstand one move. He halted their five-element qilin with a gesture, then opened a spatial black hole, but their strengthened formation resisted its suction.

• Sun Yuan warned Lin Heng about the five experts’ combined power, and Lin Heng revealed that he had sent only a Primordial Chaos split spirit rather than his true body.
• Lin Heng entered the formation space, where the five fighters of the Eight Great Imperial Clans followed and taunted him.
• The five fighters fused their origins of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth into a formation that summoned a powerful five-colored qilin.
• Lin Heng pointed at the qilin and said, “Still!”, restoring the distorted space and stopping its momentum.
• Lin Heng opened a spinning spatial black hole above the formation, but the five fighters poured more origin power into the qilin and resisted its suction.

Lin Heng defeated five experts of the Eight Great Imperial Clans with a sword condensed from the Power of Origin of the eight Origins. After he left, Sun Yuan demanded that the clans fulfill their promises and hand over the rewards for the three battles.

• The five combatants used stored Power of Origin to repel Lin Heng's spatial black hole and mocked him, while the Eight Great Imperial Clans celebrated.
• Lin Heng summoned an eight-colored sword from the black hole, and its pressure made the five combatants and their five-colored qilin tremble.
• Lin Heng's sword destroyed the qilin and swept away the five combatants in an eight-colored tornado, leaving him alone in the formation space.
• The experts of the Eight Great Imperial Clans lowered their heads when Lin Heng glanced at them, and he then vanished from the formation space.
• The Evil Avatar resolved to cultivate in seclusion so he could keep pace with Lin Heng.
• Sun Yuan asked the Eight Great Imperial Clans to fulfill their promises and provide the rewards for the three battles, including building a sect for Battle Heaven Pavilion.

After the Battle Heaven Pavilion won its campaign in the Fourth Heaven, the Eight Great Imperial Clans debated whether to attack Lin Heng but chose to wait for their agreement’s deadline. Back at the pavilion, Lin Heng told his allies he was confident they would prevail when they entered the Third Heaven.

• The Eight Great Imperial Clans paid their losses and were forced to build the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s sect grounds in the Fourth Heaven.
• The eight Saint Emperors watched Sun Yuan depart and argued over whether to launch a surprise attack on Lin Heng and the pavilion.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor warned that an attack could provoke the Ascenders and spark an all-out war, so the Saint Emperors agreed to wait two years and challenge Lin Heng head-on.
• Sun Yuan returned to the Battle Heaven Pavilion with the spoils and gave the resources to Situ Jiannan.
• Lin Heng addressed the pavilion’s leaders through a wisp of divided consciousness and declared that he was confident they would sweep all before them when they entered the Third Heaven.