Chapter Summaries

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.

Ao Zhantian urged the Fire Separation Saint Emperor to keep the Fire Clan’s leaders in the First Heaven and let the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s campaign run its course. A report from the Ninefold Heaven revealed the Fire Clan’s devastating losses, and the Fire Separation Saint Emperor vomited blood as his clan’s experts watched coldly.

• Ao Zhantian arrived at the Fire Clan’s great hall with seven Sovereign Realm experts and told the Fire Separation Saint Emperor not to leave the First Heaven or interfere with the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• Ao Zhantian explained that the other seven Saint Emperors had agreed to the Ascenders’ proposal, leaving the Fire Clan isolated if it chose to fight.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor asked whether the Fire Clan could only watch its disciples be slaughtered, and Ao Zhantian said the clan had to pay for its wrongdoing and could still offer an explanation to end the campaign.
• A disciple reported that the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s forces had routed the Fire Clan in the Ninefold Heaven, leaving only five survivors while other sects looted its treasure pavilion.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor spat blood in rage, while the Fire Clan’s experts watched him coldly.

The Battle Heaven Pavilion advanced on the Fire Clan’s Heavenly Origin Fire Prison in the Third Heaven, where Yan Juantian failed to deter Situ Jiannan. After listing the Fire Clan’s crimes against the Battle Heaven Pavilion, Situ Jiannan ordered the prison and the clan’s Third Heaven sects destroyed, leaving the opposing forces on the brink of battle.

• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor restrained himself in the First Heaven after Ao Zhantian warned that the Ascenders would respond if the Fire Clan left the grand hall.
• Yan Juantian gathered the Fire Clan’s experts at the Heavenly Origin Fire Prison and activated its protective formation as Situ Jiannan led the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s army there.
• Yan Juantian accused the Battle Heaven Pavilion of disturbing the peace, but Situ Jiannan openly declared that his army had come to fight.
• Situ Jiannan charged the Fire Clan with torturing the former patriarch of the Fire Ghost Clan and injuring him, then announced the Battle Heaven Pavilion would destroy its sects from the Ninefold Heaven through the Third Heaven.
• Situ Jiannan ordered his forces to surround the Heavenly Origin Fire Prison and prepare to destroy it and the Fire Clan’s Third Heaven sects.

Situ Jiannan led Battle Heaven Pavilion’s five contingents in a series of attacks that shattered the Fire Clan’s formation, forcing Yan Juantian and his people to face an assault they could not safely surrender from. The chapter left Situ Jiannan and Yan Juantian confronting each other as the battle’s next stage loomed.

• Situ Jiannan ordered the first contingent to rain eleven thousand flying swords on the Fire Clan’s formation, weakening its flames.
• Situ Jiannan sent the second contingent’s tiger-shaped array attack into the formation, dimming its light further.
• Yan Juantian rejected a suggestion to surrender because he feared the Fire Separation Saint Emperor would punish him, and he told the Fire Clan experts to prepare for battle.
• Situ Jiannan commanded the third contingent to unleash a colossal sword that cracked and shattered the Fire Clan’s formation.
• Yan Juantian countered the falling sword with a flaming dragon, while Lin Heng’s good and evil clones shielded against the explosion’s aftershock.
• After the clash, Yan Juantian worried about the strength of Battle Heaven Pavilion and Lin Heng’s two clones, while Situ Jiannan remained confident.

Yan Juantian confronted the Battle Heaven Pavilion's overwhelming forces as its disciples offered the Fire Clan experts a choice between surrender and death. When Yan Juantian killed a clan member who tried to defect, Yan Jiuyin challenged him and blamed the Saint Emperor for the crisis, leaving the Fire Clan divided on the brink of a fight.

• Yan Juantian realized he might not withstand the Battle Heaven Pavilion's full force, and Situ Jiannan offered the Fire Clan experts survival in exchange for loyalty.
• The Evil Avatar's soul pressure pushed a Fire Clan Heavenly Venerable to try to defect, but Yan Juantian killed him and threatened anyone else who considered surrendering.
• Yan Jiuyin accused Yan Juantian of forcing the clan to die to protect himself from the Saint Emperor's blame, and other Fire Clan experts joined the accusations.
• Yan Juantian prepared to attack Yan Jiuyin, who confronted him and blamed the Saint Emperor's decision to provoke the Battle Heaven Pavilion for the Fire Clan's predicament.
• Yan Juantian silenced Yan Jiuyin and declared that anyone who betrayed the clan would have to step over his corpse.

Yan Juantian and Yan Jiuyin’s confrontation pushed the Fire Clan toward civil war as Situ Jiannan’s scheme divided them. Yan Juantian rejected the chance to join the Battle Heaven Pavilion and challenged Lin Heng’s Evil Avatar, discovering the gap between their strength.

• Lin Heng’s Good Avatar recognized that Situ Jiannan had stirred discord within the Fire Clan to reduce the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s losses.
• Yan Juantian urged Yan Jiuyin to return to the Fire Clan, while Yan Jiuyin revealed that Fire Separation Saint Emperor had warned him and offered Yan Juantian a chance to defect.
• Yan Juantian wavered over why the Saint Emperor had not punished the betrayal, but Yan Jiuyin mistook his silence for stalling and challenged him.
• Humiliated by Yan Jiuyin’s assumption, Yan Juantian abandoned the idea of joining the Battle Heaven Pavilion and unleashed his power.
• Yan Juantian confronted Situ Jiannan, then tried to counter Lin Heng’s Evil Avatar and was forced back by the avatar’s hidden force.

The Evil Avatar defeated Yan Juantian and forced the Fire Clan experts in the Third Heaven to swear allegiance to Lin Heng and the Battle Heaven Pavilion. The onlookers recognized that the surrender was part of a strategy to undermine the unity of the Eight Great Imperial Clans.

• Yan Juantian regretted that the Eight Great Imperial Clans had failed to unite against Lin Heng before he grew powerful.
• Yan Juantian renewed his battle intent, and the Evil Avatar drew a Nirvana Spirit Treasure to honor him with a decisive fight.
• The Evil Avatar killed Yan Juantian with one strike, leaving him smiling in death.
• Yan Jiuyin swore allegiance to Lin Heng and the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and the other Fire Clan experts followed.
• Watching sect members discussed how the Fire Clan's surrender would damage the unity of the Eight Great Imperial Clans.

After the Battle Heaven Pavilion destroyed the Fire Clan’s sects across the Third through Ninth Heavens, the Fire Separation Saint Emperor’s call to punish defectors alienated his own people. Yan Yan helped him recognize the damage his actions had caused, and the chapter ended with the brothers preparing to negotiate for the captured disciples.

• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor found Yan Juantian’s body at the ruined Heavenly Origin Fire Prison and ordered the defectors hunted down.
• The Fire Clan experts ignored the Fire Separation Saint Emperor, honored Yan Juantian, and carried his body away for burial.
• Yan Yan warned his elder brother that the Fire Clan’s clansmen might abandon the clan if he failed to reassure them.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor reflected on his mistakes and thanked Yan Yan for his advice.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor asked Yan Yan to accompany him to the Battle Heaven Pavilion to exchange for the captured disciples, and Yan Yan agreed.

After the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s victory over the Fire Clan, Lin Heng warned that the Fire Clan’s First Heaven forces still posed a threat and rejected Sun Yuan’s call to attack them. The Fire Separation Saint Emperor arrived to reclaim the Fire Clan soldiers who had defected, and Lin Heng examined the generous compensation he offered.

• Lin Heng reminded the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s leaders that the Fire Clan’s First Heaven elites remained intact and might retaliate.
• Sun Yuan urged an attack on the Fire Clan’s First Heaven sect, but Lin Heng refused because it could draw the other imperial clans into a wider war.
• A disciple announced that the Fire Separation Saint Emperor had come to request an audience, and Lin Heng decided to use the meeting to obtain compensation.
• The Good Avatar brought the Fire Separation Saint Emperor and Yan Yan into the hall, where the Saint Emperor asked Lin Heng to return the Fire Clan’s surrendered soldiers.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor sent Lin Heng a storage ring as compensation, and Lin Heng inspected its contents with surprise at its generosity.

The Fire Separation Saint Emperor brought vast resources to ransom the surrendered Fire Clan members, and Lin Heng let them decide whether to return. The Saint Emperor apologized, offered to step down, and won back their affection, but Yan Jiuyin reminded him that their lifelong oaths to the Battle Heaven Pavilion prevented them from leaving.

• Lin Heng accepted the Fire Separation Saint Emperor’s offer and agreed not to stop any Fire Clan members who chose to return, while noting he could not undo their oaths.
• Lin Heng brought the Fire Separation Saint Emperor to the rear hall, where more than ten thousand surrendered Fire Clan members faced him with hostility.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor bowed and apologized, admitting that his decisions had brought the clan great losses.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor praised the clan’s members, offered to surrender his title and the Fire Source Spirit Pearl, and asked them to rebuild the Fire Clan with him.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor knelt, prompting Yan Jiuyin and the other Fire Clan members to kneel, but Yan Jiuyin said their oaths bound them to serve the Battle Heaven Pavilion for life.

The Fire Separation Saint Emperor reconciled with Yan Jiuyin and the others, then broke through in his realm and took them back to the Fire Clan. Afterward, Lin Heng ordered Sun Yuan to continue cultivating in seclusion until he reached the Fire Separation Saint Emperor’s realm.

• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor admitted his mistake and persuaded Yan Jiuyin and the others to return to the Fire Clan with him.
• Lin Heng realized the Fire Separation Saint Emperor had transformed his state of mind and hoped he would break through.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor broke through, and Lin Heng congratulated him while recognizing that his own realm remained higher.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor and Yan Yan led Yan Jiuyin and the others out of the Battle Heaven Pavilion and departed for the Fire Clan.
• The Good Avatar speculated that the other Saint Emperors might receive similar opportunities, while Sun Yuan vowed to kill them.
• Lin Heng told Sun Yuan to remain in the time spirit treasure until he reached the Fire Separation Saint Emperor’s realm.

Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng that the Fire Separation Saint Emperor’s breakthrough had shifted the balance of power, then revealed a forbidden ground in the Third Heaven connected to the master of the Heavenly Estate. Lin Heng prepared to explore it alone while Ao Zhantian and the others dealt with the foreign tribes’ renewed threat and the eight Saint Emperors’ interference.

• Ao Zhantian praised the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s assault on the Fire Clan, and Lin Heng told him that the Fire Separation Saint Emperor had broken through.
• Ao Zhantian explained that the breakthrough had strengthened the Eight Great Imperial Clans and recalled a mysterious expert whose Origin Assimilation resembled Lin Heng’s.
• Lin Heng realized the mysterious expert was likely the master of the Heavenly Estate, and Ao Zhantian revealed that a powerful formation guarded the expert’s former dwelling in the Third Heaven.
• Ao Zhantian urged Lin Heng to prepare to enter the forbidden ground alone, since the eight Saint Emperors would try to stop him from gaining anything inside.
• Ao Zhantian revealed that the foreign tribes were preparing to return and that he and the others believed Lin Heng might be able to eliminate them for good.

Lin Heng decided to eliminate the foreign-race threat before leaving the Nine Heavens and planned to enter seclusion to reach the Sovereign Realm. He visited Dijiang to ask about the Third Heaven’s forbidden ground and learned that it held the Thought Avatar of his master’s seven emotions and six desires.

• Lin Heng told Sun Yuan and his good and evil avatars that they would prepare to wipe out the foreign races, beginning with seclusion to break through to the Sovereign Realm.
• Lin Heng planned to set out for the forbidden ground in half a month and went to consult Dijiang first.
• Lin Heng told Dijiang that he regarded the Nine Heavens as a place he was passing through, not a realm he wished to rule.
• Dijiang explained that his master had practiced the Supreme Emotionless Record, which required severing the seven emotions and six desires.
• Dijiang revealed that the forbidden ground contained the Thought Avatar of his master's seven emotions and six desires.

Lin Heng learned from Dijiang that the forbidden land held the master of the Heavenly Estate’s Thought Avatars and prepared to destroy them before their weakening seal let them escape. At the forbidden land, the Eight Great Imperial Clans confronted Lin Heng and the Ascenders, insisting on entering with him to claim treasures.

• Dijiang explained that the master of the Heavenly Estate’s Thought Avatars were powerful spiritual entities that could possess cultivators, and advised Lin Heng to enter alone and use Eternal Ages against them.
• Lin Heng returned to the Battle Heaven Pavilion, arranged to enter the forbidden land with Ao Zhantian, and spent three days absorbing Dijiang’s guidance.
• Lin Heng set out with Sun Yuan and his Good and Evil Doppelgangers, while Ao Zhantian and the Ascenders and the eight Saint Emperors arrived at the forbidden land.
• Ao Zhantian invoked an old agreement allowing anyone who opened the forbidden land to enter, but the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor argued that the agreement did not apply to Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng warned the Eight Great Imperial Clans that the forbidden land held terrifying sealed beings rather than treasures, but the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor accused him of lying to keep the treasures for himself.

Lin Heng tried to keep the Eight Great Imperial Clans out of the forbidden land because dangerous thought bodies within could possess even Sovereign Realm experts. The Fire Separation Saint Emperor broke open a temporary passage and led the clans inside, leaving Lin Heng to warn Ao Zhantian and the others of the danger.

• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor threatened a fight to the death if Lin Heng entered the forbidden land without the eight Saint Emperors, while Lin Heng told Ao Zhantian that the Fire Separation Saint Emperor had grown stronger.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor tried to break the whole seal, failed, then concentrated his power on one spot and opened a temporary passage.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and the other experts of the Eight Great Imperial Clans entered the forbidden land before the passage closed, and the Fire Separation Saint Emperor followed.
• Lin Heng explained to Ao Zhantian, Qin Hongmian, and the others that thought bodies inside the forbidden land could possess cultivators and control Sovereign Realm experts.
• Ao Zhantian urged Lin Heng to break the seal and hurry after the eight Saint Emperors.

Lin Heng entered the forbidden land alone to investigate the Thought Avatars, despite the risk that they might have taken control of the eight Saint Emperors. He arrived in a silent, sinister paradise and began searching for them.

• Lin Heng warned Ao Zhantian, Qin Hongmian, and the others that they knew too little about the Thought Avatars to enter safely, then proposed going in alone because his inheritance gave him protection from possession.
• Ao Zhantian and Qin Hongmian objected, fearing the Thought Avatars might control the eight Saint Emperors and turn them against Lin Heng, but Lin Heng argued that the Nine Heavens needed the Saint Emperors against the outsiders.
• Lin Heng reassured the group that he was confident, used the eight Powers of Origin to open a narrow passage through the seal, and told everyone outside to ignore any sounds from within.
• Lin Heng entered the forbidden land and found a beautiful landscape tainted by evil presences, with mountains all around and no sign of energy fluctuations.