Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng confronted the Fire Separation Saint Emperor after Makeduolang confessed to colluding with the foreign race, but the Fire Clan's leader admitted only to taking their benefits. Lin Heng proposed inspecting the planar passage, and the chapter ended with Lin Miaoyin challenging the Fire Separation Saint Emperor's claim that removing the formation would take half a month.

• Lin Heng defeated Yan Xifan, then forced Makeduolang to confess that he and the Fire Separation Saint Emperor had colluded with the foreign race.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor arrived with four Fire Clan Sovereign Realm experts, and Miao Shanrou intervened to stop him from pressuring Lin Heng.
• Makeduolang swore on his heart demon that his confession was true, and the Fire Separation Saint Emperor admitted accepting benefits from the foreign race but denied helping them.
• Lin Heng proposed that everyone enter the planar passage to verify the Fire Clan's innocence, and the gathered factions supported the inspection.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor claimed that removing the Azure Firmament Origin-Locking Formation would take half a month, and Lin Miaoyin challenged his explanation.

Lin Heng confronted the Fire Separation Saint Emperor and threatened to break the Azure Firmament Origin-Locking Formation, but an attack by outsiders forced him to hold back. As the imperial clans prepared to kill Makeduolang, he offered Lin Heng the outsiders’ weakness and secrets in exchange for his life.

• Lin Heng summoned Eternal Ages and threatened to fight the Fire Separation Saint Emperor and break the formation after the emperor refused to remove it.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and the other imperial clans stayed neutral, while Kunpeng’s presence convinced the Fire Separation Saint Emperor that Lin Heng could kill him.
• Outsiders attacked from within the formation, and the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and Ao Zhantian persuaded Lin Heng to let the Fire Clan deal with them first.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor sent Yan Xifan into the formation to eliminate the attackers, while the others turned their attention to Makeduolang.
• Makeduolang offered to reveal the outsiders’ weakness and secrets in exchange for his life, and Lin Heng stepped in front of him as the others prepared to attack.

Lin Heng persuaded the Nine Heavens experts to accept Makeduolang’s oath of loyalty and keep him hidden as a trump card against the outsiders. After returning to Battle Heaven Pavilion, Lin Heng inspected its million disciples and sent a chosen force to the Heaven-Seizing Battlefield.

• Lin Heng argued that Makeduolang’s ties to the Nine Heavens and knowledge of the outsiders could help fight them, and Makeduolang swore loyalty to the Nine Heavens.
• Lin Heng proposed keeping Makeduolang’s allegiance secret so the Nine Heavens could use him in a future counterattack, and the experts agreed.
• After the outsiders withdrew, Lin Heng declined to break the formation and supported restoring the planar passage’s defenses, while Fire Separation Saint Emperor said dismantling the Azure Firmament Origin-Locking Formation would take time.
• Lin Heng returned to Battle Heaven Pavilion with Makeduolang and reviewed its million disciples, including a hundred Primordial Chaos Yellow Stage experts and over a hundred thousand Heavenly Venerables.
• Lin Heng selected ten Primordial Chaos Yellow Stage disciples and five hundred Heavenly Venerable Realm disciples and sent them to the Heaven-Seizing Battlefield.

Makeduolang revealed that crow’s blood could expose invisible outsiders and destroy their cultivation, while crow’s blood infused with the eight great Powers of Origin could affect even Heavenly Venerable Realm outsiders. He also suggested the Fire Separation Saint Emperor’s jade slip concerned the Origin Soul Spirit, and Situ Jiannan began devising a plan to obtain it.

• Makeduolang explained that crow’s blood could break an outsider’s invisibility and destroy their cultivation, with the eight great Powers of Origin needed to affect high-level outsiders.
• Makeduolang told Lin Heng that the outsiders had given the Fire Separation Saint Emperor a jade slip containing cultivation methods and a way to break through the Nine Heavens’ restrictions.
• Makeduolang guessed that the jade slip concerned the Origin Soul Spirit, which Lin Heng already had in his possession.
• Lin Heng considered using the Origin Soul Spirit as bait to trick the Fire Separation Saint Emperor into giving up the jade slip.
• Situ Jiannan asked whether Makeduolang could still contact the outsiders, then smiled as he formed a plan.

Situ Jiannan had Makeduolang mislead the otherworlders into believing the Fire Clan had betrayed them, and the otherworlders retaliated when the Fire Clan tried to open the plane passage. The attack devastated the Fire Clan’s forces, while the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and others grew more suspicious of the clan.

• Following Situ Jiannan’s plan, Makeduolang told the otherworlders that the Fire Clan had betrayed them and intended to seize their Origin Soul Spirit before turning against them.
• Yan Xifan and the Fire Clan loosened the seal on the plane passage, expecting to negotiate directly with the otherworlders and demand a higher price.
• When Yan Xifan called to the otherworlders through a temporary passage, they accused the Fire Clan of betrayal and fired a beam that destroyed the formation and killed eleven of the twelve experts stationed inside.
• Yan Xifan blamed the damage on an otherworlder attack and told the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor that the formation had been destroyed, but the Saint Emperor and the others remained unconvinced and took over guarding the passage.
• Yan Xifan led the surviving Fire Clan members away, while the absence of the Fire Separation Saint Emperor raised further suspicions among the gathered experts.

The Fire Separation Saint Emperor blamed Lin Heng for disrupting the Fire Clan’s deal with the outsiders, while Lin Heng rewarded Makeduolang for helping sabotage their cooperation. Makeduolang then revealed that he entered a brief period of weakness every thirty million years, possibly because of his bloodline, giving the Battle Heaven Pavilion a potential chance to strike at the outsiders.

• Yan Xifan told the Fire Separation Saint Emperor how the clash at the Azure Firmament Origin-Locking Formation had unfolded.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor suspected Lin Heng had used Makeduolang to make the outsiders believe the Fire Clan had broken their agreement, and he stopped Yan Xifan from attacking the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• At the Battle Heaven Pavilion, Sun Yuan and Lin Heng praised Jiannan’s plan for removing eleven Fire Clan Heavenly Firmament experts and disrupting the Fire Clan’s cooperation with the outsiders.
• Lin Heng gave Makeduolang a five-hundred-million-year-old spirit herb in recognition of his help.
• Makeduolang told Lin Heng that he experienced a half-day period of weakness every thirty million years, with the next one due in less than two years.
• Lin Heng and the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s upper echelons considered whether Makeduolang’s weakness could provide an opportunity to attack the outsiders.

Lin Heng told Ao Zhantian and the leaders of the Thirteen Factions that the foreigners entered a period of weakness, making an attack on their world a rare opportunity. The factions agreed to prepare an expedition, and the leaders began discussing the plan with less than two years remaining.

• Lin Heng told Ao Zhantian about the foreigners’ period of weakness and revealed he could break the plane seal using a method from Mu Chen’s inherited memories.
• Ao Zhantian invited the leaders of the Thirteen Factions, including the Fire Clan, to the Firmament Hall to discuss attacking the foreigners.
• Lin Heng explained Makeduolang’s claim, and the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and the other faction leaders confirmed that the foreigners had not attacked during the past periods of weakness.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor supported taking the risk, while the Fire Separation Saint Emperor questioned the plan and was warned that the Fire Clan could stay out of the operation.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor agreed that the Fire Clan would participate, and the leaders began discussing preparations for the expedition.

The fourteen factions agreed to send every Samsara Realm cultivator and their subordinate forces to fight the foreign races, with the Eight Great Imperial Clans and Ascenders taking separate fronts. The Fire Separation Saint Emperor chose to keep working with the foreign races and secretly began preparing a blood sacrifice to reopen a passage to their world.

• Lin Heng told Ao Zhantian that he would purge the Fire Clan if the Fire Separation Saint Emperor betrayed their campaign against the foreign races.
• Yan Xuanfeng urged the Fire Clan to cut ties with the foreign races, but Yan Xifan and others argued they needed the foreign races to find an Origin Soul Spirit.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor decided the Fire Clan would continue cooperating with the foreign races and seek a new way to contact them.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor ordered the Fire Clan to secretly gather the materials for a million-person blood sacrifice within one year.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor laid a formation in the Fire Clan's sacred land to open a passage once the sacrifice materials were ready.

After a year of cultivation, Lin Heng reached the Ninth Grade Sovereign realm and worried that the Fire Clan was secretly plotting to seize the Origin Soul Spirit. He arranged protection for the Battle Heaven Pavilion and learned that challenging the Heavenly Estate’s third level would require far greater strength than he possessed.

• Lin Heng emerged from the time spiritual treasure and learned from Situ Jiannan that the Fire Clan had kept to itself throughout the year.
• Lin Heng warned Situ Jiannan that the Fire Clan might use the coming battle against the outsiders to search the Nine Heavens for the Origin Soul Spirit.
• Lin Heng went to the first level of the Heavenly Estate World, where Dijiang agreed to protect his family while he was away.
• Dijiang told Lin Heng that he would need to fight the Eight Great Saint Emperors alone and break through their strongest attack just to qualify for the third-level trial.
• Dijiang added that Lin Heng would still need him to plead with the others before attempting the challenge.

Lin Heng questioned whether the Heavenly Estate’s third-floor trials were beyond his abilities, so Dijiang arranged for Zhu Rong to test him at Sovereign Sixth Grade. After Zhu Rong shattered Lin Heng’s spiritual attack and left him gravely injured, Lin Heng accepted that he needed much more of Mu Chen’s inheritance before challenging the trials.

• Dijiang explained that the third-floor gatekeepers’ strength ranged from Third-Grade to Twelfth-Grade Sovereign and warned Lin Heng that he could barely pass the first trial.
• Zhu Rong confirmed that the trials were life-or-death battles and warned Lin Heng that the gatekeepers would show him no mercy.
• Dijiang had Zhu Rong suppress his cultivation to Sovereign Sixth Grade and fight Lin Heng in Battle Heaven Hall.
• Lin Heng trapped Zhu Rong in a spiritual illusion of a giant white tiger, but Zhu Rong shattered it with a humph, severely injuring Lin Heng.
• Dijiang told Lin Heng that a real gatekeeper would have killed him, and Lin Heng concluded he likely needed to comprehend six or seven tenths of Mu Chen’s inheritance to clear the trials.

After thirty million years of sparring with Zhu Rong, Lin Heng reached Sovereign Tenth Grade and prepared with the Thirteen Factions to attack the Otherworlders during Makeduolang’s coming weak period. Suspecting the Fire Clan was still cooperating with the Otherworlders, Lin Heng learned that hundreds of thousands of people had mysteriously disappeared, and feared the Fire Clan was using a method to cross between planes.

• Lin Heng trained with Zhu Rong for thirty million years, broke through to Sovereign Tenth Grade, and defeated Zhu Rong in a direct fight.
• Dijiang warned Lin Heng that saving people did not necessarily earn merit and killing people did not necessarily cost it.
• After Makeduolang explained his weak period, Lin Heng and the other factions agreed to attack the Otherworlders in eight days, each sending a force of elite cultivators.
• Situ Jiannan told Lin Heng that the Fire Separation Saint Emperor had attended the meeting through a clone, and Lin Heng suspected the Fire Clan was still cooperating with the Otherworlders.
• Situ Jiannan reported that at least two or three hundred thousand people had disappeared from the Ten Regions and the lower realm, leading Lin Heng to suspect the Fire Clan had found a way to cross between planes.

Lin Heng led the Nine Heavens expedition into the foreign race’s world after breaking open the planar passage, where he discovered the world was a brutal wasteland and suspected the apparent absence of defenders was a trap. He left the others facing an unseen grand formation and noticed the Fire Separation Saint Emperor react to his warning.

• Lin Heng rejected Situ Jiannan’s suggestion to investigate the Fire Clan directly, instead bringing an additional 200,000 Heavenly Venerable Realm disciples and 5,000 Primordial Realm disciples and ordering Battle Heaven Pavilion to prepare for battle.
• Situ Jiannan carried out Lin Heng’s orders as the Nine Heavens mobilized for the expedition.
• Lin Heng summoned Eternal Ages and used its Sword Qi and a Kunpeng’s claws to tear open the planar passage’s barrier, allowing the gathered experts to enter the foreign race’s world.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor explored the dark, blood-soaked world and described its constant struggles over food, resources, and cultivation arts.
• Ao Zhantian questioned why the foreign race had not attacked, and Lin Heng said they first had to break through a grand formation.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor briefly reacted to Lin Heng’s mention of the formation, and Lin Heng noticed his expression.

Lin Heng exposed the Fire Clan’s betrayal as its experts launched a surprise attack alongside the foreign race, trapping the Nine Heavens experts inside a grand formation. The Fire Separation Saint Emperor left to seek the Origin Soul Spirit while the trapped group faced the prospect of a foreign-race invasion.

• Lin Heng and his companions thwarted the Fire Clan’s attack on the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor, while the Fire Clan’s four Sovereign Realm experts escaped and its remaining members were killed.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor revealed that the Fire Clan had joined the foreign race, and Lin Heng deduced that their formation was meant to trap the Nine Heavens experts before an invasion.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor charged the Fire Separation Saint Emperor but hit the formation’s invisible barrier, which the Fire Separation Saint Emperor said had been created by sacrificing a million souls.
• Sasaki told the Fire Separation Saint Emperor that the foreign race needed three days to recover, but promised to send someone with him to search the Nine Heavens for the Origin Soul Spirit.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor left with Fire Clan experts and a foreign-race escort, vowing to surpass the Lei Clan Ancestor and prove the Fire Clan was strongest.

After the Fire Clan betrayed the Nine Heavens, Lin Heng deduced that Sasaki was concealing the foreigners’ weakness and arranged for the trapped experts to keep up appearances. Meanwhile, Gangji Dalang stalled the Fire Separation Saint Emperor while setting up an array to search for the Origin Soul Spirit, leaving the Fire Clan occupied for the crucial three days.

• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor apologized to the Ascenders for the Fire Clan’s betrayal, and Qin Hongmian urged everyone to focus on breaking the great array.
• Sasaki revealed that the Fire Clan had sacrificed more than a million people to open a passage through the foreign realm’s barrier.
• Lin Heng suspected Sasaki had lied about the foreigners’ weakness and, aware that a powerful soul was watching, told the Nine Heavens experts to pretend they could only attack the array.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor, Ao Zhantian, and the others attacked the great array to reassure the foreigners.
• Gangji Dalang delayed setting up an array to search for the Origin Soul Spirit until the Fire Separation Saint Emperor grew impatient and he finally activated it.

The Fire Separation Saint Emperor learned that the Origin Soul Spirit was at Battle Heaven Pavilion and sent Yan Xixin there alone to seize it without alerting the other sects. At the pavilion, Situ Jiannan suspected Yan Xixin had hidden motives and refused to open the grand array, leaving their meeting at an impasse.

• Gangji Dalang revealed that the Origin Soul Spirit was at Battle Heaven Pavilion, and the Fire Separation Saint Emperor prepared to attack.
• Yan Xifan warned that a large-scale attack could alert the Nine Heavens sects, so the Fire Separation Saint Emperor sent Yan Xixin alone to retrieve the Origin Soul Spirit.
• Situ Jiannan felt uneasy while inspecting Battle Heaven Pavilion, and a disciple reported that Yan Xixin had arrived requesting an audience.
• Mei Chu agreed that Yan Xixin’s visit was suspicious, so Situ Jiannan ordered her to reinforce the grand array and went to meet him outside.
• Yan Xixin complained that Situ Jiannan would not receive him somewhere private, but Situ Jiannan said the pavilion master had ordered the grand array to remain closed.

Yan Xixin left the Fourth Heaven after realizing he could not break its formation and went to the Ninefold Heaven to threaten Liu Ling'er. Dijiang confronted him, warned him to leave or die, and left Yan Xixin facing an opponent whose strength he could not fathom.

• Yan Xixin unleashed his Sovereign Realm pressure against Situ Jiannan, then deduced that the Fourth Heaven's formation was too strong to break and departed for the Ninefold Heaven, where Liu Ling'er was staying.
• Situ Jiannan watched Yan Xixin leave without sending anyone after him and predicted that the Fire Clan would lose a Sovereign Realm expert.
• In the Ninefold Heaven, Yan Xixin attacked the Battle Heaven Pavilion's formation while Liu Ling'er and Dijiang were talking in the garden.
• Yan Xixin recognized Liu Ling'er and threatened to take her to force Situ Jiannan to open the Fourth Heaven's formation.
• Dijiang stood up and warned Yan Xixin that he would live if he left and die if he stayed.

Dijiang effortlessly reflected Yan Xixin’s attack, seized him, and destroyed him when the Fire Clan tried to intervene. In the Fire Clan’s hall, the Fire Separation Saint Emperor weighed whether he could defeat Dijiang, whose true strength remained uncertain.

• Yan Xixin ignored Dijiang’s warning, attacked him with distorted space, and had his attack reflected back, leaving him injured.
• Yan Xixin tried to flee, but Dijiang caught him in a giant hand and held him captive.
• A flaming hand reached through a black vortex to save Yan Xixin, but Dijiang destroyed his giant hand and engulfed Yan Xixin and the rescue attempt in an explosion.
• Yan Xifan was hurt by the spatial clash’s aftershock, and the Fire Clan experts realized Dijiang had killed Yan Xixin with a wave.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor assessed Dijiang’s power and wondered whether he could defeat him.

The Fire Separation Saint Emperor took the Fire Soul Sword and led the Fire Clan to the Battle Heaven Pavilion, intending to kill Dijiang and seize Liu Ling'er to force Situ Jiannan to give up the Origin Soul Spirit. Dijiang challenged the Fire Separation Saint Emperor’s belief that the Saint Emperors could never fall, explaining that only the eight Origins endured forever.

• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor ordered the Fire Soul Sword retrieved and planned to capture Liu Ling'er and obtain the Origin Soul Spirit after dealing with Dijiang.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor and the Fire Clan experts used the sword to open a spatial gate and traveled to the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• The Fire Clan arrived before the sect-protecting formation was repaired, and the Fire Separation Saint Emperor demanded that Liu Ling'er go with him or face a massacre.
• Dijiang accepted the challenge, but the Fire Separation Saint Emperor claimed that no Saint Emperor could ever be killed.
• Dijiang told the Fire Separation Saint Emperor that the Origin Pearls endured, but their bearers did not, recalling Primordial Chaos’s explanation that new Saint Emperors could arise if the current ones fell.

Dijiang challenged the Fire Separation Saint Emperor and killed him with a single punch of pure strength. Yan Xifan and the others survived unharmed and realized Dijiang had barely used his power.

• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor attacked Dijiang with the Fire Soul Sword, summoning a flaming skull.
• Dijiang's punch halted the surrounding space and destroyed the flaming skull without using the power of laws.
• Dijiang's fist silhouette struck the Fire Separation Saint Emperor, draining his life and dispersing his soul.
• The Fire Separation Saint Emperor's body fell to the ground, and those present recognized that he had been killed by one punch.
• Yan Xifan and the others remained unharmed and understood that Dijiang had controlled his strength precisely without exerting much of it.

Lin Heng sensed that the foreign race's watcher had withdrawn and led the Nine Heavens forces in breaking out of the ancient formation. He and his allies reached Gourd Valley to confront the Three Umekawa Brothers, and the chapter ended as the three emerged to face them.

• Lin Heng told the Nine Heavens experts that the foreign race's strongest fighters were weakening and planned the attack, assigning the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and Ao Zhantian to hold two of the three near-Cosmic Spirit experts while he handled the third.
• Lin Heng released the Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples from his time spirit treasure and used Eternal Ages to tear open the ancient formation.
• Lin Heng led the Nine Heavens forces out of the formation, and they split into groups to encircle the foreign race while Lin Heng, Ao Zhantian, and the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor headed for its three peak experts.
• Lin Heng identified the foreign race's progenitors as the brothers Meichuan Naizhao, Meichuan Siwa, and Meichuan Qiuku, who were gathered at Gourd Valley.
• The Three Umekawa Brothers burst out of the ground and stood before Lin Heng's group.