Chapter Summaries

After Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin crashed onto Mount Tai, Zhang Tian confronted a crimson serpent guarding the mountain’s secrets. Zhang Tian subdued the serpent with the power of a star, revealing his strength as an Ancient Sage.

• Zhang Tian escaped the Bronze Ancient Coffin’s suppression and decided not to travel with it to other forbidden lands.
• Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin descended onto Mount Tai, wrecking Jade Emperor Peak and sending tourists fleeing amid falling rocks and devastation.
• Pang Bo noticed Zhang Tian flying out of the coffin and tried to investigate, but Ye Fan held him back.
• Zhang Tian met a crimson serpent monster that guarded Mount Tai and asked what relics lay beneath the mountain.
• The serpent attacked when Zhang Tian pressed for Mount Tai’s secrets, but Zhang Tian suppressed it with the power of a star, prompting it to identify him as an Ancient Sage.

Zhang Tian boarded the Bronze Ancient Coffin after collecting the ancient artifacts beneath Mount Tai, where he encountered Pang Bo’s demonic transformation and recognized Ye Fan’s Wild Ancient Holy Body. After protecting a girl from a lecherous man aboard the coffin, he announced that they had reached Ying Huo Ancient Star.

• Zhang Tian collected the magical artifacts beneath Jade Emperor Peak and entered the Bronze Ancient Coffin as the nine dragon corpses lifted it into the air.
• Pang Bo attacked Zhang Tian but was repelled, and Zhang Tian identified Pang Bo’s human-demon blood and Ye Fan’s Wild Ancient Holy Body.
• Pang Bo discovered a black wing growing from his back, while Ye Fan asked Zhang Tian to transform him as well and Pang Bo shielded him.
• Pang Bo and Mou Ping tried to intervene when a lecherous man harassed Liu Qi, and Mou Ping struck the man after Zhang Tian urged him forward.
• Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin landed on the Five-Colored Altar, and Zhang Tian told Ye Fan and Mou Ping that they had arrived at Ying Huo Ancient Star.

Trapped inside the Bronze Giant Coffin, Zhang Tian kept the others near him as it carried them to an unknown world. They emerged onto a desolate, blood-brown wasteland, where Ye Fan suspected they were no longer on Earth and the group discovered the name Yinghuo carved into a boulder.

• Ying Qiu Zu found an ancient coffin inside the Bronze Giant Coffin, and Zhang Tian told the frightened students to stay close to him.
• Zhang Tian’s presence calmed the group, and after the coffin shook, he led Mou Ping, Ying Qiu Zu, and Liu Qi out when its lid opened.
• The group emerged from the coffin onto a cold, lifeless wasteland, and Zhang Tian noticed the Five-Colored Altar beneath the coffin and dragon corpses.
• Ye Fan told Pang Bo that they had likely arrived in an unknown world outside their spacetime, while Pang Bo asked whether that was why Ye Fan watched Zhang Tian.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo found two huge characters, “Yinghuo,” carved into a boulder, and Kade followed them to see the inscription.

Ye Fan and Pang Bo discovered a ruined temple on Mars that Ye Fan identified as the Great Thunderclap Temple, and the classmates found Buddhist artifacts inside. After Pang Bo removed the temple’s plaque and its Buddha shattered amid a powerful Buddhist chant, Zhang Tian headed back toward the Five-Colored Altar, leaving Ye Fan uneasy about what the temple’s destruction meant.

• Ye Fan and Pang Bo scouted ahead, found a roof tile, and followed it to a vast complex of ruined palaces.
• The classmates reached a small ancient temple, where Ye Fan read its plaque as Great Thunderclap Temple.
• The group entered the temple and collected damaged Buddhist artifacts, while Zhang Tian remained outside with Mou Ping and Liu Qi.
• Pang Bo removed the bronze plaque, causing the stone Buddha to crack and a Buddhist chant to illuminate the area and their artifacts.
• Zhang Tian returned toward the Five-Colored Altar, and Ye Fan followed him, suspecting Zhang Tian had avoided the temple because he had no interest in its artifacts.

As demon crocodiles swarmed Mars, Ye Fan and Pang Bo tried to rescue their classmates and lead them back to the Bronze Ancient Coffin. They became surrounded, and though Liu Kai revealed another intact Buddhist Artifact, Ye Fan worried that the humans around them posed the greater danger.

• Zhang Tian reached the Five-Colored Altar as a blood-red wind carrying demon qi swept across Mars.
• Pang Bo stopped a demon crocodile from striking Ye Fan, and Ye Fan used the Bronze Everlasting Lamp to save classmates from the creatures.
• Pang Bo carried the injured Liu Kai while Liu Kai urged the panicked classmates to return to the Bronze Ancient Coffin.
• Ye Fan saw a female classmate dragged underground after her fleeing friend had tripped and abandoned her.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Liu Kai were surrounded by demon crocodiles, but the lamp's barrier repelled their attacks.
• Liu Kai revealed an intact Bronze Wooden Fish, giving the three another Buddhist Artifact as they slowly advanced toward safety.

Zhang Tian protected the survivors while Ying Qiu Zu was consumed by Buddhist Thought, and Ye Fan’s group fought through a growing swarm of Demon Crocodiles as the Crocodile Ancestor neared freedom. A transparent giant serpent intervened to kill the enormous crocodile attacking them, leaving their escape unresolved.

• Ying Qiu Zu accused Zhang Tian of abandoning the group, but Zhang Tian shattered the Buddhist Shrine’s Buddha phantom and transformed Ying Qiu Zu with Buddhist Thought.
• Ying Qiu Zu walked into the Demon Crocodiles and cut flesh from his body to feed them as the survivors watched in horror.
• Zhang Tian warned that Ye Fan and Pang Bo would be in danger if they did not return soon, and he told the others to stay on the Five-Colored Altar.
• Ye Fan merged the lights of the Bronze Everlasting Lamp and Bronze Wooden Fish to destroy the surrounding Demon Crocodiles, then joined Pang Bo and Liu Kai in flight.
• A giant Demon Crocodile lunged at Ye Fan’s group, but a colossal transparent serpent struck it repeatedly and killed it before dissipating.

The Crocodile Ancestor broke free and targeted Zhang Tian, while Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Liu Kai fought their way through the Demon Crocodiles to reach the Five-Colored Altar. As Zhang Tian left to face the awakened evil beneath the Great Thunderclap Temple, Ye Fan sensed a peerless terror stirring.

• A creature burst from a corpse and attacked Zhang Tian, but he burned it away and realized the Crocodile Ancestor had escaped and wanted his Innate Dao Body.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Liu Kai flew above the pursuing Demon Crocodiles, then descended so Ye Fan could burn more than twenty with the Bronze Everlasting Lamp.
• Pang Bo told Ye Fan to strike the wooden fish, whose Buddhist light restored their strength and reinforced their protection.
• The three reached the Five-Colored Altar, where Liu Kai and Ye Fan felt renewed trust in Pang Bo.
• Ye Fan sensed a peerless demon awakening beneath the Great Thunderclap Temple as Zhang Tian left the altar, declaring that he was going to subdue demons and vanquish devils.

Zhang Tian spoke with Zi Shou, who explained the Origin Continent’s ancient origins and Yi’s rise to the Source God realm. Zhang Tian then defeated the Nine Wilderness Savage Ancient God Crocodile and sent its blood to Zi Shou for study.

• Zi Shou sealed the surrounding space-time, revealed that he had reached the Source God realm, and promised to send Zhang Tian his perfected Starry Sky Numerology.
• Zi Shou recounted how Fu Xi, Nüwa, and Xuan Xi arose from the primordial being’s spirit and created the races that came to rule heaven, earth, and the netherworld.
• Zi Shou explained that Yi’s mixed human and god blood had helped him advance to the Source God realm and that his weapon had become the People Creation Whip.
• Zi Shou asked Zhang Tian to capture or kill the Nine Wilderness Savage Ancient God Crocodile for study.
• Zhang Tian struck down the Crocodile Ancestor with an aurora of Immortal Fire and gathered its golden essence blood.
• Zhang Tian sent the Crocodile Ancestor’s blood into the Dou Di Space, where Zi Shou’s perfected Emperor Scripture awaited.

After killing Crocodile Ancestor, Zhang Tian explained Pang Bo’s half-demon bloodline and Ye Fan’s Wild Ancient Holy Body to the group. He ended by revealing a drop of golden blood that could help Ye Fan awaken his Holy Body.

• Zhang Tian collected Crocodile Ancestor’s corpse and called Ye Fan over to discuss awakening his Wild Ancient Holy Body.
• Zhang Tian asked about Pang Bo’s half-demon condition and explained that one of Pang Bo’s ancestors had carried Demon Race blood.
• Zi Shou gave Zhang Tian Crocodile Ancestor’s essence blood and promised him an art that could restore life to dying stars.
• Zhang Tian explained the Half-Demon Body and the difficulty of cultivating the Wild Ancient Holy Body, while Pang Bo threatened Wang Ziwen for mocking Ye Fan.
• Zhang Tian produced a radiant drop of golden blood as the group considered Ye Fan’s cursed Holy Body.

Zhang Tian offered Crocodile Ancestor essence blood to Ye Fan and Pang Bo in exchange for their future help, and Ye Fan accepted to strengthen their chances of surviving the Starry Sky Ancient Road. After both absorbed the blood and awakened their powers, a swarm of Demon Crocodiles surrounded the Five-Colored Altar.

• Zhang Tian offered Ye Fan Crocodile Ancestor essence blood in exchange for a request, and Ye Fan agreed despite being unable to negotiate the terms.
• Wang Ziwen asked whether anyone had a special constitution, and Zhang Tian said the others lacked useful talent without extraordinary opportunities.
• A young woman died from a festering wound, and Zhang Tian identified demonic energy as the cause while Li Xiaoman found part of a dead Demon Crocodile nearby.
• Ye Fan requested two portions of essence blood, agreeing to repay Zhang Tian with two treasures, and Zhang Tian divided one drop between Ye Fan and Pang Bo while giving Pang Bo another whole drop.
• Ye Fan swallowed his portion and awakened the Wild Ancient Holy Body, opening his Bitter Sea and suppressing the surrounding Demon Crocodiles with his bloodline.
• Pang Bo absorbed his drop, strengthened his purple crystal-like wings, and manifested a golden divine crocodile phantom as Zi Shou announced he would enter seclusion to forge a new Emperor Divine Artifact.

Ye Fan awakened the Wild Ancient Holy Body and struggled to control his immense strength as Zhang Tian explained the dangers of cultivation and demonstrated his power. Zhang Tian gave Ancient Magical Artifacts to Mou Ping and Liu Qi, and the group was pulled into the Bronze Giant Coffin as it departed Mars.

• Ye Fan awakened the Wild Ancient Holy Body, and Zhang Tian suppressed his power so he could learn to control it.
• Zhang Tian sensed the Ruthless Great Emperor's probing consciousness and drove it away.
• Zhang Tian split a distant planet with a strand of hair and told the group the Crocodile Ancestor had threatened the universe.
• Zhang Tian declared himself humanity's hidden foundation and gave Mou Ping a purple short blade and life-protecting pearl, while Liu Qi received a three-pronged spear.
• The Five-Colored Altar activated, pulled Ye Fan and Zhang Tian into the Bronze Giant Coffin, and sent it into the starry sky.

Ye Fan and the others emerged from the Bronze Giant Coffin into the Wild Ancient Forbidden Land, where Zhang Tian discovered divine fruit trees. When an aged, fully developed Wild Ancient Holy Body attacked him, Zhang Tian defeated him and warned him not to strike again.

• Ye Fan used his golden radiance to light the coffin, while Lin Jia tried and failed to photograph Zhang Tian.
• The group talked together, and Mou Ping warned Ye Fan that Zhang Tian had said danger lay ahead.
• The Bronze Giant Coffin reached its destination, and Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and the others emerged into a bright, lush landscape.
• Zhang Tian recognized the Wild Ancient Forbidden Land and found two trees bearing Undying God Medicine fruits.
• An aged, fully developed Wild Ancient Holy Body attacked Zhang Tian as he approached the trees.
• Zhang Tian struck the Holy Body, forced him to spit golden blood, and warned him that another attack would bring suppression.

Zhang Tian collected Undying God Medicines in the Wild Ancient Forbidden Land and encountered Shi Qiexing, a transmigrator who tried to flee with one. Zhang Tian killed him, erased a Great Emperor’s remnant soul, and took the damaged Emperor Tower and other items.

• Zhang Tian seized two Undying God Medicines after rejecting one’s plea and then sensed the Empress’s will beginning to awaken.
• Zhang Tian found Shi Qiexing beside another Undying God Medicine and the Fountain of Youth, while Shi Qiexing used his system to collect rewards from an Undying God Fruit.
• Shi Qiexing tried to escape with the medicine using a Fleeing Void Talisman, but Zhang Tian froze space and destroyed the talisman.
• Shi Qiexing claimed he could cure Zhang Tian’s Dao injuries by combining four Undying God Medicines, but Zhang Tian killed him with a small stone.
• A Great Emperor’s remnant soul emerged from Shi Qiexing’s body, and Zhang Tian wiped it out before collecting the items, including a damaged Emperor Tower.

Zhang Tian tried to take the final Undying Medicine from the Wild Ancient Forbidden Land, prompting the Ruthless Great Emperor to strike at him across the River of Time. Their battle left the Empress’s incarnation injured and Zhang Tian’s arm restored, while neither gave way.

• The Ruthless Great Emperor foresaw Zhang Tian reaching for the final Undying Medicine and struck him from above the River of Time.
• The Dark Supremes awakened and trembled beneath the Empress’s imperial laws, wondering who she intended to attack.
• Zhang Tian summoned Heaven’s Heart and unleashed his Emperor Scripture to resist the Empress’s killing art without destroying the forbidden land.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor formed an incarnation and demanded that Zhang Tian hand over the Undying God Medicine.
• Zhang Tian used Fish Dragon Listens to Brahma's Sound to freeze time and break the Empress’s A Thought Blooms, A Monarch Descends.
• The Empress struck Zhang Tian with her jade palm; her incarnation spat crystalline blood, while his shattered arm regenerated.

Zhang Tian fought the Ruthless Emperor’s time-traveling incarnation, and Zi Shou arrived to help with the Immortal Bell as the battle threatened the Big Dipper Starfield. Zhang Tian and Zi Shou finally wounded and drove the Empress back, while Zhang Tian taunted her as she vanished.

• Zhang Tian and the Ruthless Emperor clashed with their Great Emperor techniques, sending shockwaves across the Big Dipper Starfield and awakening imperial weapons throughout the universe.
• The Empress’s battle drew the attention of ancient experts, while Ye Fan’s Wild Ancient Holy Body transformed under the pressure of imperial might.
• Zi Shou entered the fight, separated Zhang Tian and the Empress, and used his mastery of the Emperor Scripture and the Immortal Bell to attack her.
• The Empress’s true body began descending against the flow of time and struck Zhang Tian, shattering his body and the Heart of Heaven before Zi Shou intervened with the Primordial Three Secrets and Immortal Bell.
• Zhang Tian and Zi Shou joined forces with the Eastern Emperor Bell, and Zhang Tian pierced the Empress with her own sword as time’s backlash weakened her.
• The Empress became untouchable and vanished, while Zhang Tian mocked her and told her to renew her subscription.

After the battle, Zhang Tian found the Ruthless Great Emperor and the elderly Holy Body asleep from the backlash of their struggle across time. He collected the Undying God Tree and immortal gold, while the Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor and other Supremes hunted the surviving ancient experts.

• The Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor revealed himself and slaughtered fleeing experts, while the Ji Family First Elder escaped using the Void Mirror.
• Zhang Tian drove back the Empress but was badly injured, and he examined the fused Undying God Tree bearing eighteen fruits.
• Zhang Tian found the Ruthless Great Emperor sleeping in the Bronze Immortal Palace, wounded by the backlash from crossing the River of Time.
• Zhang Tian saw that the elderly Holy Body had cocooned himself after suffering severe backlash, then closed the palace doors before leaving.
• Zhang Tian gathered the shattered immortal-gold chains, intending to forge his own supreme Emperor Weapon or an immortal artifact embryo.

Zhang Tian went to Earth to remove its concealment array, freeing the planet and its people from restrictions while the Holy Body’s curse was lifted. Ye Fan remained with the Ten Great Grotto-heavens as his cultivation advanced, and Zhang Tian left with plans to forge a Supreme Dao Weapon.

• Zi Shou told Zhang Tian that the Ruthless Emperor had been gravely wounded after acting against the River of Time, then prepared to leave his mark in the Star Origin Sea.
• Zhang Tian decided to forge a Supreme Dao Weapon, accepted divine materials from Yang Zhou, and traveled to Hangu Pass to reach Earth.
• Zhang Tian destroyed Earth’s Emperor Array despite Yi Xi’s presence, declaring that later generations should choose for themselves whether to fight.
• Earth’s concealment lifted, its land expanded, and spiritual energy awakened powerful beings and ancient places across the planet.
• The Empress’s interference lifted the Holy Body’s curse, allowing Ye Fan’s cultivation to progress as the Grotto-heavens competed to support him.

The Pope discussed the Holy See’s concerns about the East, werewolves, and Dracula II, while Zhang Tian discovered Lingbao Heavenly Venerate’s reincarnated body at the Vatican. The youth attacked the Vatican and destroyed its holy formation, leaving the sacred site in ruins.

• A Cardinal told the Pope that mountains and ancient treasures had appeared in the East, and the Pope sent Archbishop Ge Bayi to Hua Xia.
• The Pope recalled how an Eastern swordsman had driven off Holy See envoys at Mount Everest centuries earlier.
• Archbishop Ba Qiao Yi reported that werewolves were active again and Dracula II had gone to the Dark Silent Forest.
• Zhang Tian sensed the young swordsman outside the Vatican and recognized him as Lingbao Heavenly Venerate’s reincarnated body.
• The youth drew his purple sword and shattered the Vatican’s formation, reducing the site to ruins.

Tuo She attacked the Holy See and killed the Divine Knight, but Zhang Tian confronted him and revealed the damaged Heart of Heaven. After learning that the Empress had shattered it, Tuo She fled, only for Zhang Tian to destroy his incarnation and reclaim the Four Swords of Zhuxian.

• Tuo She slew the Knight Commander and suppressed the Cardinals’ Saint Weapon as he attacked the Holy See.
• The Divine Knight emerged from Pope Mountain, fought Tuo She, and died after asking him to spare the believers.
• Zhang Tian appeared before Tuo She, shattered the Purple-Green Twin Swords, and revealed that the Heart of Heaven had been damaged in a battle with the Empress.
• Tuo She learned the Heart of Heaven’s history and fled toward the universe’s forbidden zones.
• Zhang Tian silenced the Emperor Weapon with his Time Art, pierced Tuo She’s body, and discovered he had destroyed only an incarnation.

On Neptune, Zhang Tian recovered the complete Secret of Weapon from the Four Swords of Zhuxian and began forging a new Supreme Dao Weapon from rare treasures. He finished refining the materials and shaped them into an indistinct mass of white light that was still taking form.

• Zhang Tian tested the Immortal Slaughtering Sword on Neptune, then found and restored the incomplete Secret of Weapon engraved across the Four Swords of Zhuxian.
• Lingbao Heavenly Venerate sensed that he had lost his connection to the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.
• Zhang Tian gathered the Ruthless Emperor's white robes and bellyband, the Four Swords of Zhuxian, a quasi-Emperor's corpse, Eternal Blue Gold, and the Desolate Tower as potential weapon-forging materials.
• Zhang Tian melted the Four Swords of Zhuxian and the Ruthless Emperor's garments with his flames, using the Secret of Weapon to control and shape the divine liquid.
• Zhang Tian completed the refining process and formed the materials into a mass of white light that was still taking shape.