Chapter Summaries

Zhu Kun and the Void Ancient Dragons fought Gu Yuan while Zhu Kun stored the Ancient Emperor Stone Statue. Meanwhile, Zhang Tian reached the Heavenly Tomb and confronted Xiao Xuan, whose shock turned to terror when he sensed Zhang Tian’s Dou Di aura.

• Zhu Kun sent Gu Yuan flying, coiled around the Ancient Emperor Stone Statue, and began storing it as the Void Ancient Dragons arrived.
• The four Dragon Kings and a white-bearded elder formed a powerful array that summoned a violet-golden ancient dragon phantom and unleashed devastating lightning across the Ancient World.
• Gu Yuan struck the phantom with the Ancient Emperor Mirror, but it recovered beneath the storm clouds while Zhu Kun accelerated the statue’s shrinking.
• Zhang Tian found the ancient road to the Heavenly Tomb and opened its stone gate after sensing Xiao Xuan’s powerful soul.
• Xiao Xuan arrived before Zhang Tian and recognized the aura of a Dou Di.

Zhang Tian resurrected Xiao Xuan with the Emperor Flame and asked him to help restore the Xiao Clan’s inheritance. Xiao Xuan agreed to return the Clan Crest to Zhang Tian’s disciple Xiao Yan, while Zhang Tian wondered what lay beyond the Dou Di realm.

• Xiao Xuan met Zhang Tian, learned that he was a Dou Di, and asked how people could reach that realm.
• Zhang Tian seized the Ancient Emperor Stone Statue from Zhu Kun and borrowed Tou She Ancient God's Emperor Flame.
• Zhang Tian used the Emperor Flame and his Dou Qi to restore Xiao Xuan’s body and power.
• Xiao Xuan pledged to follow Zhang Tian and said he wanted to find his clansmen and restore the Xiao Clan’s glory.
• Zhang Tian told Xiao Xuan that his disciple Xiao Yan belonged to the Xiao Clan and asked him to return the Clan Crest.
• Xiao Xuan agreed to restore the Xiao Clan’s inheritance, and Zhang Tian reflected on whether cultivation continued beyond the Dou Di realm.

Hun Tiandi activated the Life Devouring Extermination Array and used its stolen blood to create a copy of Zhang Tian, but Zhang Tian destroyed the attack and shattered the formation. Hun Tiandi's plan failed, leaving him and the other clan leaders beneath Zhang Tian's overwhelming power.

• Hun Tiandi ordered more people and collected souls thrown into the Soul Transformation Pool, while Yao Dan and Yan Jin discussed his plans and Yao Dan's rejection of Yao Lao.
• Zhang Tian arrived above the Ten Thousand Miles Wilderness, and his Dou Di aura forced the assembled armies and clan leaders to their knees.
• Hun Tiandi activated the Life Devouring Extermination Array, draining people across the wilderness and Central State to strengthen himself and attack Zhang Tian.
• Hun Tiandi revealed a blood-built copy of Zhang Tian, which struck him with a powerful imitation of Sun God Descends.
• Zhang Tian countered with the Dragon Yin Halberd, then broke the barrier and split the sea of blood, destroying the Soul Transformation Pool and Hun Tiandi's weapon.

Xiao Yan returned to the Ten Thousand Zhang Stone Tower and revealed that he had become a Dou Zong after a little over four years of cultivation under Zhang Tian. After discussing Xiao Xuan’s impending breakthrough and Man She’s bloodline, Xiao Yan set out to gain experience again despite Zhang Tian’s warning not to invoke Dragon Gate’s name.

• Pei En recognized the cloaked visitor as Xiao Yan and knelt to greet Dragon Gate’s Young Gate Master.
• Xiao Yan rose into the air without Dou Qi wings, revealing his Dou Zong cultivation and astonishing the gathered experts.
• Zhang Tian told Xiao Yan that Xiao Xuan was close to becoming a Dou Di and explained that the breakthrough might awaken the Xiao Clan bloodline.
• Zhang Tian told Man She that his inherited Dou Di bloodline could help him break through to Dou Zun, while Man She stood at Seven Stars Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan left to gain experience, and Zhang Tian warned him not to announce Dragon Gate’s name.

Zhang Tian witnessed the opening of a passage to the Dou Di Continent and met a powerful figure who revealed the existence of Emperor Divine Artifacts and the Great Thousand World. The passage began to collapse as the figure invited Zhang Tian to join Lie Di, Zi Shou, and him.

• Xiao Xuan resented Gu Yuan for leaving the Xiao Clan unaided during the Soul Clan’s ambush and began trusting Zhang Tian enough to start his breakthrough.
• Zhang Tian released a pillar of Qi that opened a glowing passage through planar space.
• A golden figure emerged from the passage, and its overwhelming aura forced Man She and the surrounding experts to fall from the sky.
• Zhang Tian learned that the figure had left the Dou Qi Continent 140,000 years earlier and that it came from the Dou Di Continent.
• The figure showed Zhang Tian Emperor Divine Artifacts, including the Xuanyuan Sword and Bronze Ancient Coffin, and explained that the Dou Di Continent connected to the Great Thousand World.
• As the passage destabilized, the figure invited Zhang Tian to come meet him, Lie Di, and Zi Shou.

Xiao Xuan reached the Dou Di realm and confronted Gu Yuan, whose breakthrough he disrupted, while Zhu Kun faced heaven-and-earth chains during his own breakthrough. Zhang Tian shattered the chain holding Zhu Kun, who became a Dou Di, then revealed that he stood beyond Dou Di.

• Xiao Xuan entered the Dou Di realm, attacked Gu Yuan, and disrupted Gu Yuan's breakthrough, leaving him unable to advance further.
• Zhu Kun's breakthrough triggered a vast celestial phenomenon, and chains from heaven and earth bound his dragon form.
• Xiao Xuan tried to destroy the chains with World-Burning Flame but failed to free Zhu Kun.
• Zhang Tian understood the chains' nature and used Source Qi through the Dragon Yin Halberd to shatter the golden chain restraining Zhu Kun.
• Zhu Kun broke free, absorbed the golden clouds, and became a Dou Di as Zhang Tian sealed the damaged halberd.
• Gu Yuan asked Zhang Tian what realm he had reached, and Zhang Tian answered that he was beyond Dou Di.

Zhang Tian left the stone tower on Silver Emperor and discarded the Phoenix Cry Sword at Heavenfall Peak, where a woodcutter died after going to investigate it. In the Shi Yun Sect, a mysterious man stopped Shi Po Long from provoking Xiao Yan and revealed that even his powerful patron would not help him challenge an expert above Dou Sheng.

• Zhang Tian set out on Silver Emperor, leaving Xiao Yan to grow stronger on his own.
• Zhang Tian cast the Phoenix Cry Sword into a cave between Heavenfall Peak’s two mountains to be passed down through the ages.
• A woodcutter noticed the phoenix’s apparition and went to search Heavenfall Peak for treasure, but an unseen force split him apart.
• At the Shi Yun Sect, Shi Po Long complained that Xiao Yan had won over Shi Yun despite her marriage agreement, while a sinister man warned him against challenging Xiao Yan.
• The sinister man seized Shi Po Long by the throat and said his patron would not help him if he provoked an expert above Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan sparred with Shi Yun and overcame her weather-controlling Dou Skill with his Heavenly Flame and Mysterious Heavy Ruler. After a hidden force protected Shi Yun from his uncontrolled attack, Xiao Yan identified a mysterious young man in black and returned to his temporary residence, pondering the encounter.

• Shi Yun challenged Xiao Yan to a spar, and he followed her into the sky to fight.
• Shi Yun attacked with pink mist and her Cloud Dispelling Palm, but Xiao Yan countered with Eight Extremes Collapse and a fire dragon formed from his Heavenly Flame.
• Shi Yun summoned a cloud dragon and wind tiger with Wind-Shocking Cloud Dragon Descent, and Xiao Yan destroyed both with Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler.
• A concealed force blocked the ruler's residual impact and vanished, while Xiao Yan noticed a sinister young man in black holding his wrist.
• Xiao Yan apologized to Shi Yun, said farewell to Shi Po Tian, and returned alone to his temporary residence, lost in thought.

On Gathering Dragon Mountain, Houston struggled under the suppression on the stone steps while Jiang Tao carried him toward Dragon Gate. Houston gave Jiang Tao a deadly Mystic Rank Dou Skill and continued probing him as they climbed.

• Jiang Tao introduced himself to Houston on the crowded bluestone steps and learned that Houston was traveling with a pale child he called his nephew.
• Houston asked Jiang Tao to carry him, and Jiang Tao agreed despite the added weight.
• Jiang Tao said he hoped to join Dragon Gate, which he believed would soon replace the Pill Tower as the continent's foremost power.
• Houston teased Jiang Tao into turning back down the mountain, then quickly stopped him and imparted the Mystic Rank Dou Skill Blood Blade Slash.
• Jiang Tao learned that Blood Blade Slash required killing up to a thousand people to reach completion, shuddered at its cruelty, and carried Houston onward more carefully.

Houston was badly injured after trying to refine the Heaven Gate, while Jiang Tao killed Han Yili under Houston’s influence and received the Heaven Gate’s golden inheritance. The Han Family elders then moved against Jiang Tao, but Zhu Mo intervened, and Houston revealed that he belonged to the feared Blood Luo Gate.

• Houston touched the Heaven Gate and tried to refine it, but its violent reaction left him near death.
• Han Yili attacked Jiang Tao, who killed him after Houston secretly guided his movements.
• A Han Family elder struck at Jiang Tao, but Houston blasted half the elder’s body apart before Zhu Mo arrived and stopped the confrontation.
• Houston urged Jiang Tao to touch the Heaven Gate, which accepted him and granted him the golden Qingxu Dao Decree inheritance.
• Houston named Han Qi and the Han Family elders, then revealed enough knowledge of their family to make them suspect that he belonged to Blood Luo Gate.

Houston forced Han Dingsheng and Han Dingtian to pay for offending a Saint, while Zhang Tian sent Xiao Xin to travel the continent with Xiao Yan. Xiao Xin left Dragon Gate under a large escort, drawing the attention of those gathered at the mountain’s entrance.

• Houston ordered Han Dingsheng and Han Dingtian to cripple their cultivation, and Han Dingsheng died after striking his Dantian.
• Zhang Tian watched the punishment on a light screen and reflected on Xiao Xin’s strength and her connection to his bloodline.
• Zhang Tian told Xiao Xin to travel with Xiao Yan and deliver a message that Xiao Yan had to reach Dou Zun within three years.
• Xiao Xin left Dragon Gate with a bundle of treasures, while Zhang Tian warned her not to bother Yao Chen and told her to pass on his message to Xiao Yan.
• Houston, Han Qi, Zhu Mo, and the apprenticeship seekers watched Xiao Xin descend the mountain, and Zhu Mo feared the trouble she might cause across the continent.

Xiao Yan recovered from a fight and met Xiao Xin, who had snuck out of Dragon Gate and insisted on traveling with him. After Xiao Xin passed along Zhang Tian’s rough message and threatened him over his teasing, she knocked Xiao Yan into a crater, leaving him groaning but alive.

• Xiao Yan burned an attacker with a Heavenly Flame and used the Flame of Life to heal his wounds.
• Xiao Xin found Xiao Yan after sneaking out of Dragon Gate, and he reluctantly agreed to take her along.
• Xiao Xin suggested visiting the Nine Nether Earth Python territory, but Xiao Yan tried to redirect her to Dragon Island to see Zi Yan.
• Xiao Xin threatened to tell Xun Er and Nalan Yanran that Xiao Yan had been fooling around, then admitted she had been teasing him.
• Xiao Xin relayed Zhang Tian’s warning that Xiao Yan must reach Dou Zun within three years or become a eunuch.
• Xiao Yan rubbed Xiao Xin’s hair, prompting her to strike him into a crater; she said his Flame of Life would keep him alive.

Zhang Tian convened the leaders of Dragon Gate and allied factions to announce that he would open a passage to the Dou Di Continent, where he, Zhu Kun, and Xiao Xuan would depart to avoid consuming the Dou Qi Continent’s Source Qi. He opened a passage that would remain for thousands of years, and the three entered it, promising to await those who followed.

• Zhang Tian’s projection told the gathered leaders that he would open a passage to the Dou Di Continent in seven days and named Zhu Kun, Xiao Xuan, and Gu Yuan as those who would go with him.
• Zhang Tian explained that Dou Di consumed scarce Source Qi and that leaving the Dou Qi Continent would protect its future; Gu Yuan and Zi Yan reacted with worry about the departure.
• Zhang Tian returned to his true body, tore open a passage between the continents, and confirmed that it would remain open for several thousand years.
• Zhang Tian, Zhu Kun, and Xiao Xuan entered the passage and promised to wait for those who came after them on the Dou Di Continent.

Zhang Tian, Xiao Xuan, and Zhu Kun reached the ruined Dou Di Continent after crossing a passage between worlds, where Zhang Tian discovered that life remained and used his power to glimpse the universe’s destruction. The vision ended when a devastating arrow shattered time, and a mysterious voice acknowledged Zhang Tian’s realm.

• Xiao Xuan and Zhu Kun traveled with Zhang Tian through the blue passage, collecting its precious radiance as it began to collapse.
• Zhang Tian led the group out of the passage into a vast, ruined universe and said that Dou Dis might not be true powerhouses there.
• Zhang Tian sensed surviving life and a divine presence within a Heavenly Palace, while Xiao Xuan and Zhu Kun wondered what had devastated the world.
• Zhang Tian reversed time and witnessed a world-destroying war in which countless powerful beings died and a brilliant arrow ravaged the universe.
• The arrow shattered Zhang Tian’s vision of the past, and a mysterious voice said that Zhang Tian had reached a realm it had not expected.

Zhang Tian, Zhu Kun, and Xiao Xuan followed a guiding feather through a cosmic passage and met Yang Zhou, an ancient ruler who revealed the universe’s vastness and Zhang Tian’s newly established power. Yang Zhou identified himself as the Lord of the Immortal Court and left them questioning whether their destination was the Dou Qi Continent or a Great Thousand World.

• Zhang Tian sent a golden guiding feather through the universe, and he, Zhu Kun, and Xiao Xuan followed it into a passage filled with purple mist.
• Zhu Kun spotted Yang Zhou standing in the passage, and Zhang Tian and Xiao Xuan sensed that his power could suppress them.
• Yang Zhou showed them a ruined half of the universe and a thriving half, then explained that five Emperor Gods once governed its four regions.
• Yang Zhou named himself the Joint Ruler of Humans and Gods, the First Dou Di of All Time, and the Lord of the Immortal Court.
• A clash in a separate universe left Zhang Tian bleeding golden blood, while Yang Zhou concluded that Zhang Tian had firmly reached his current realm.
• Yang Zhou said the world was neither the Dou Di Continent nor a Great Thousand World, then asked whether the Dou Qi Continent had originally been the Dou Di Continent.

Zhang Tian met Yang Zhou in the Immortal Court Palace and learned about the powerful Emperor Gods, the ruined Origin Continent, and the threat of the Evil Clan. Yang Zhou gave him an Emperor Divine Artifact and sent him toward the Boundary Sea to board the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin for a journey to the Origin Continent.

• Yang Zhou explained that the universe was nearing its limit and described the Emperor Gods, including the feared Emperor Evolution and the powerful Lie Di.
• Xiao Xuan asked whether Dou Di cultivators were the universe’s weakest beings, then chose to travel with Zhu Kun after Yang Zhou reassured them that Dou Di cultivators could command regions of the universe.
• After Xiao Xuan and Zhu Kun left, Yang Zhou told Zhang Tian that he had killed one of the fourteen Emperor Gods, revealed that Zi Shou was Emperor Evolution’s real name, and explained how the Evil Clan had joined the slain Emperor God.
• Yang Zhou gave Zhang Tian an Ancient Bronze Small Coffin containing the slain Emperor God’s corpse and told him to go to the Boundary Sea to board the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin for the Origin Continent.
• Zhang Tian trembled at the mention of the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin, recognizing its significance.

Zhang Tian and the Emperor Gods worked to undo the ancient seal in the Inner Universe, awakening the phantom of the demon god who had sacrificed himself to protect them. As the seal opened faster, they prepared to return and confront the enemies blocking their way.

• Star Ancestor and the other ancestors prepared to wipe out the Evil Clan, while Zhang Tian waited with Zi Shou, Yang Zhou, and the others for Lie Di.
• Yang Zhou continued undoing the seal on the Emerald Ancient Star, and Zhang Tian learned that Zi Shou had injured Nine Nether Human Devil.
• The seal revealed the demon god ancestor’s sacrifice, and Divine Hachi knelt before his phantom in reverence.
• The demon god asked whether they were prepared, and the assembled experts vowed to return through the starry sky and face their enemies.
• Zhang Tian declared that an enemy was blocking their path and sent a beam of destruction into the seal, accelerating its unsealing.

The Ancient Demon God dissipated after passing his power to the living beings of the Shadow Universe, just as the seal on Emerald Ancient Star broke and the Evil Clan invaded. Zi Shou battered the Qilin Primordial Ancestor King near death, but Lie Di killed him with a shot, leaving Zi Shou stunned.

• Divine Hachi and the others bowed as the Ancient Demon God dissolved into purple energy that the gathered beings absorbed.
• Yang Zhou warned that the seal was breaking and unleashed a vast nebula against the aliens pouring through the passage.
• Zi Shou struck the Qilin Primordial Ancestor King and attacked him with a barrage of star power and illusory planets.
• Zhang Tian joined the fighting as the Qilin king weakened under Zi Shou's relentless assault.
• Lie Di fired a beam that pierced the Qilin king's head, and Zi Shou recognized him.

After the Evil Clan and Ancient Race were defeated, Zhang Tian parted from Yang Zhou and the others and entered the purplish-red vortex. He arrived at the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin, climbed into the Bronze Ancient Coffin, and vanished with it and the dragon corpses.

• Zi Shou and the others defeated the Ancient Race members, while Zhang Tian killed the Qilin attacking him with his withered yellow bronze ancient coffin.
• Lie Di arrived with his Emperor Divine Artifact bow and greeted Zi Shou, while Yang Zhou and the others finished their battles against the remaining enemies.
• Zhang Tian chose the purplish-red vortex after learning that the blue one led to another Great Thousand World, then bade farewell to Yang Zhou and the others.
• Zhang Tian entered the purplish-red vortex, and the inheritances left by the Immortal Court experts transformed into streams of light that he absorbed.
• Zhang Tian found the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin in a desolate universe, climbed into the Bronze Ancient Coffin, and disappeared with it and the nine dragon corpses.

Zhang Tian comprehended the Bronze Ancient Coffin’s scripture, perfected Zi Shou’s Starry Sky Numerology into an Emperor Scripture, and discovered that Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin was approaching Earth. He concealed the coffin from view until Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Li Xiaoman, and the other Mount Tai tourists saw the dragons descend.

• Zhang Tian memorized the ancient scripture inside the Bronze Ancient Coffin and used it to help the Flame Emperor Mantra evolve.
• Zhang Tian cultivated Zi Shou’s Starry Sky Numerology with the scripture and perfected it into an Emperor Scripture.
• Zhang Tian sensed the coffin nearing Earth, recognized the Moon and Earth, and assessed his strength against the Sun Holy Emperor’s skin.
• Zhang Tian found Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Li Xiaoman, and the others climbing Mount Tai, then concealed Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin from people on the ground.
• Pang Bo, Ye Fan, Li Xiaoman, and the Mount Tai tourists saw nine enormous black dragons descending from the sky as alarms sent the Astronomical Observatory into chaos.