Chapter Summaries

After forging the Ascension Immortal Imprint, Zhang Tian felt the effects of aging and learned that his Great Emperor tribulation was near. He began gathering the Nine Secrets and obtained the Lin Secret and Number Secret, preparing to combine them with his imprint to raise his combat strength.

• Zhang Tian completed the Emperor Seal, a weapon whose power could rival a living Great Emperor, and absorbed it into his body.
• Zhang Tian noticed signs of aging from forging the seal and reflected that even a Great Emperor could not escape time.
• Ruthless Emperor remained injured and asleep in the Bronze Ancient Hall, but vowed that the newly ascended Great Emperor would fall when she acted again.
• Zhang Tian sensed that his Great Emperor tribulation was approaching and resolved to collect the Nine Secrets before ascending to become a True Immortal.
• Over the next three months, Zhang Tian obtained the Lin Secret and Number Secret, and planned to combine their powers with the Ascension Immortal Imprint.

Zhang Tian confronted Wang Teng at the Wang Family and overwhelmed the prodigy despite his famous inheritances and treasures. After Zhang Tian demanded the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor’s inheritance, Wang Teng’s aura surged as he entered a difficult new realm.

• The immortal crane assessed Wang Teng’s progress in the Luan Gu Sacred Art while his legendary upbringing and treasures were recounted.
• Zhang Tian appeared in the Wang Family courtyard and demanded the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor’s inheritance.
• Wang Teng tried to summon his treasures and attack, but his Heavenly Emperor Sacred Sword shattered and his Chaotic Ancient power passed through Zhang Tian harmlessly.
• Zhang Tian explained that an emperor’s laws suppressed ordinary techniques and criticized Wang Teng’s cultivation and arrogance.
• Zhang Tian renewed his demand, and Wang Teng, wounded and shaken, entered another difficult realm as his aura swelled.

Zhang Tian captured Wang Teng’s immortal crane and forced it to reveal the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor’s Speed Secret. After studying the scripture, Zhang Tian advanced his Time Art and attained the ability to traverse time within a small area.

• Wang Teng sent an urgent message to the divine mountain, and the immortal crane turned back to investigate.
• Zhang Tian sensed the returning crane, seized it with a golden hand, and left the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor’s mountain unresponsive to its plea for help.
• The immortal crane recognized Zhang Tian as a reigning Great Emperor and recited the original text of the Speed Secret.
• Zhang Tian studied the scripture and cultivated its method, deepening his Time Art while Wang Teng fell asleep from spiritual exhaustion.
• Zhang Tian completed the Speed Secret’s ultimate method, perceiving cracks in the world through which he could traverse time within a small area.

Zhang Tian searched the Nine Heavens Ten Earths for the missing Nine Secrets and found himself blocked from advancing beyond the Covering the Sky world. As ancient battles and scriptures pressed upon him, he broke through the barrier and began becoming a Great Emperor.

• Zhang Tian searched the River of Time and the Nine Heavens Ten Earths but could not find the missing secret or the person he sought.
• Quasi-emperor Kings witnessed a vision of the Empress fighting two Great Emperor-level enemies in the River of Time and destroying the Immortal Bell.
• Zhang Tian sensed that the Road to Immortality would open within two hundred years, though he knew it was false and chose not to interfere with the forbidden zones unless they endangered humanity.
• Zhang Tian examined eight immortal-metal blocks engraved with eight of the Nine Secrets as visions of mythological battles unfolded before him.
• The World Honored One suppressed Zhang Tian beneath Five Finger Mountain, shattering his body and crushing him through the heavens and hell.
• Zhang Tian endured the pressure, broke through the barrier, and began becoming a Great Emperor.

The Human Race Great Emperor proved the Dao as the Human King, drawing the Dark Supremes into battle before the Road to Immortality opened. He fought the Life Forbidden Zones across the Nine Heavens Ten Earths, while the battle threatened to sever the emerging road.

• The Human Race Great Emperor declared himself the Human King, stunning the Myriad Races and drawing the attention of powerful experts across the universe.
• The Dark Supremes and experts from the Immortal Tomb and Divine Ruins attacked, determined to stop the newly proven Human King before the Road to Immortality opened.
• The Queen Mother of the West wielded the West Emperor Pagoda, but the Human King sent it flying with a flick of his sleeve and damaged it.
• The Human King struck the Primordial Ancient Mine with a punch, spreading the battle across the Nine Heavens Ten Earths as the Road to Immortality grew clearer and more unstable.
• The Human King repelled the Demon Tower with a surge of chaos qi, then shattered an ancient Supreme Dao Emperor Weapon with his palm.

The Human King used a purple seal to annihilate the Demon Tower’s assault and then killed two Great Completion Holy Bodies who attacked him. As the Light Dark Supreme and the Stone Emperor joined the battle with Emperor Weapons, the other Life Forbidden Zones held back, leaving the Human King to face three Supremes.

• The Human King faced Dark Quasi-Emperors and the Demon Tower, then unleashed the purple seal and reduced the attackers to ashes, leaving the damaged tower behind.
• The Human King summoned a golden giant hand and killed two ninth-level Quasi-Emperor Great Completion Holy Bodies when their divine phenomena failed to stop it.
• The Light Dark Supreme and the Stone Emperor joined the owner of the Demon Tower, bringing three Emperor Weapons against the Human King.
• A Dark Supreme urged the Life Forbidden Zones to stop, but the Reincarnation Sea and Netherworld rejected the appeal while most forbidden zones stayed out of the battle.
• The chapter ended with the three Dark Supremes poised to fight the Human King, as the forces of the forbidden zones weighed the risks of joining in.

The Human King completed his transformation into a perfected Sacred Body and overwhelmed the Dark Supremes who attacked him. After seven days of battle, he had killed three Supremes, but seven remained and his strength was beginning to flag.

• The Wild Lord revived the cocoon, and the previous generation’s Sacred Body emerged reborn at the peak of his power.
• The Human King rejected Light Dark Supreme’s invitation to join the Divine Ruins and resumed fighting Stone Emperor and the other Supremes.
• Ten Thousand Dragons Emperor ambushed the Human King, but the Human King tore apart his claw and forced him into the battle.
• Over seven days, the Human King killed three Dark Supremes who had undergone ultimate sublimation, while seven others continued to attack him.
• Longevity Heavenly Lord urged the remaining Supremes to fight at full strength and promised to help them recover after ultimate sublimation.
• Light Dark Supreme fled after the Human King grievously wounded another Supreme, while the Human King continued fighting despite his exhaustion.

The Light Dark Supreme fled Zhang Tian, then launched a Darkness Turmoil across the stars to restore his strength while twelve Supremes attacked the Human King. As the massacre reached the Ziwei Starfield, the Void Mirror trembled in the Ji Family’s First Elder’s arms, recalling the Void Great Emperor’s promise that it would signal his reincarnated return if humanity faced destruction.

• The Light Dark Supreme escaped Zhang Tian and drained the inhabitants of an azure Ancient Life Star to recover his strength.
• The Light Dark Supreme continued killing across the stars while twelve Dark Supremes, led by the Nether Phoenix, surrounded and attacked the Human King.
• The Light Dark Supreme entered the Ziwei Starfield, killed its guardian deity, and destroyed the Lunar and Solar Ancient Star inheritances.
• The Ji Family’s First Elder noticed the Void Mirror trembling, but it showed no abnormalities when he examined it.
• The First Elder recalled the Void Great Emperor’s promise that the mirror would tremble and his reincarnated body would return if humanity faced destruction.

The Light Dark Supreme spread his black mist across the Ziwei Starfield, devouring stars and leaving countless beings helpless. The Golden Crow Clan raised its greatest formation to defend the Sun Ancient Star, but the Light Dark Supreme destroyed it in an instant and annihilated the clan.

• The Light Dark Supreme unleashed black mist across more than a dozen ancient stars, while Amitabha Buddha protected the Far West Land but could not save the other starfields.
• The Light Dark Supreme turned toward the Sun Ancient Star and the Lunar Ancient Star, where the Golden Crow princes prepared the Golden Crow Grand Formation.
• The Golden Crow princes summoned their formation using the Sun Fire Essence and their ten primordial banners, hoping to stop the Light Dark Supreme.
• The Light Dark Supreme fired divine light from his eyes, severed the formation banners, and killed the ten Golden Crows in an instant.
• The Sun Ancient Star and surrounding regions were left in devastation, with corpses and fresh bones scattered across the starry sky.

The Human King continued fighting eleven Supremes as the Elderly Great Completion Holy Body joined the battle and injured one of them. The Supremes remained in the fight despite being pressured, hoping the Light Dark Supreme would return from harvesting lives.

• As the Human King battled the Supremes, the Wild Lord fell into mental chaos and could not help defend humanity.
• The Elderly Great Completion Holy Body struck a Dark Supreme with a powerful fist and sent him flying while coughing blood.
• The Elderly Great Completion Holy Body revealed his full aura, and the Supremes recognized him as a reborn Great Completion Holy Body.
• The Supremes considered retreating but stayed to fight, counting on the Light Dark Supreme to return with added strength.
• The Supremes resumed battle cautiously while the Elderly Great Completion Holy Body pressed them, and they could not assist the distant Light Dark Supreme.

The Sun Holy Emperor returned as a remnant of True Spirit to protect humanity and fought the Light Dark Supreme during the Darkness Turmoil. After the Holy Emperor’s final attack destroyed his True Spirit and badly wounded the Supreme, Ji Clan Xuanyuan arrived to challenge him.

• The Sun Holy Emperor emerged from the exploding Stone Coffin as the Light Dark Supreme was about to destroy the ancient star.
• The Sun Holy Emperor drove the Light Dark Supreme away from the battlefield and battled him with his imperial power and stone tower.
• The Light Dark Supreme brought out the Light Staff and Dark Shield, while the Sun Holy Emperor continued attacking despite his failing body.
• The Sun Holy Emperor used the Fleeting Life Severing Strike, damaging the Light Dark Supreme’s divine soul but exhausting his own final trace of True Spirit.
• As the Light Dark Supreme prepared to destroy the Holy Emperor’s remains, Ji Clan Xuanyuan stepped out from the imperial clan’s forbidden ground and challenged him.

The Sun Holy Emperor spent his last strength driving back the Light Dark Supreme, then died guarding the Ziwei Star Region, prompting the Ji Family Quasi-emperor to join the battle. Meanwhile, the Human King continued fighting ten Dark Supremes with the Ascension Immortal Imprint, and the clash left the assembled Emperor Weapons cracked.

• The Sun Holy Emperor returned to the Ziwei Star Region with the Holy Emperor Stone Tower and repelled the Light Dark Supreme, then collapsed and died as the tower remained to guard him.
• The Ji Family Quasi-emperor bowed to the Sun Holy Emperor, sent the Void Mirror ahead, and entered the battlefield resolved to fight to the death.
• The Stone Emperor cursed the Light Dark Supreme's retreat while the elderly Holy Body continued suppressing him, and the other Supremes faced the Human King's attacks.
• The Human King killed an Ancient Lifeform Supreme with one punch, shattering its bronze-green cauldron and piercing its Immortal Platform.
• The Human King wielded the Ascension Immortal Imprint against the remaining Supremes and their Emperor Weapons, sending the weapons flying and leaving them covered in cracks.

The Human King rejected the Supremes’ offer of a truce and, despite a lethal curse and his own grievous injuries, killed them with a single sword strike. He ended the Darkness Turmoil, but collapsed after the battle, leaving the Nine Heavens Ten Earths devastated.

• Longevity Heavenly Lord proposed a truce, but the Human King refused and declared that the Life Forbidden Zones and the Supremes’ hopes of reaching the Road to Immortality would end.
• The Ascension Immortal Imprint suppressed the Supremes as their Emperor Weapons shattered, while the aged Sacred Body tried to heal the Human King’s curse.
• The Human King advanced through the chaotic currents with the Evil Emperor’s sword, resisting the curse and overpowering the Evil Emperor’s attempt to reclaim it.
• The Human King struck once, killing more than a dozen Supremes before they could react.
• The Human King spat out blood as the battle’s devastation left corpses scattered across the Nine Heavens Ten Earths.

After the battle, Zhang Tian’s forbidden wounds threatened his life, so he took portions of several Undying God Medicines’ origins to heal. He left the Elderly Holy Body to sweep away the remaining restricted zones and warned him not to provoke the Wild Lord.

• The Elderly Holy Body examined Zhang Tian’s badly damaged body and warned that even an Undying Medicine might not save him.
• Zhang Tian opened his medicine garden and took out the True Dragon Undying Medicine and the Black Tortoise Undying Medicine.
• The Elderly Holy Body recognized the Black Tortoise Undying Medicine, while several other Undying God Medicines gathered around Zhang Tian.
• Zhang Tian asked the medicines for one-fifth of their origins, and the White Tiger Undying Medicine came forward first.
• Zhang Tian took five portions of origin, said he had an eighty percent chance of recovery in three to five years, and assigned the remaining restricted zones to the Elderly Holy Body.
• Zhang Tian warned the Elderly Holy Body not to provoke the Wild Lord, and the Elderly Holy Body resolved that the King of Men must survive to open a path for those who came after.

A century after the forbidden zones were destroyed, Ye Fan and the other prodigies had risen to prominence, but Pang Bo reflected on the Supremes’ fall from glory and the terrible Darkness Turmoil. Ye Fan explained how fear of death had driven the Supremes to ruin, while Pang Bo still bore a Dao wound from their assault years earlier.

• Decades passed, and Ye Fan became strong enough to battle Great Saints as prodigies gathered at Yaochi’s gatherings.
• Pang Bo questioned how the Supremes had become so different from the ancient figures who once protected their people.
• Ye Fan explained that imperial loneliness and fear of death had driven the Supremes to seek immortality through Darkness Turmoils.
• Pang Bo recalled being gravely wounded when the Supremes emerged after the Road to Immortality opened and launched another massacre.
• The Empress, the Human King, the perfected Holy Body, and Quasi-Emperors wielding Emperor Weapons fought the Supremes in a battle that scattered corpses and Emperor Blood across the universe.

The Human King fought Emperor Lord, an ancient Great Venerate who had sought to seize his blood and refine the world with the World Cauldron. Ruthless Emperor joined the battle, and the battered Emperor Lord fled as she pierced him with an immortal sword.

• Emperor Lord appeared above the Nine Heavens Ten Earths, and the Human King met him in battle as Ye Fan and Pang Bo watched.
• The Azure Emperor awakened within the Desolate Tower and sensed that both combatants surpassed his peak power.
• The Human King overwhelmed Emperor Lord, shattered his manifested arm, and struck him with the Ascension Immortal Imprint, drawing blood and breaking his golden mask.
• Emperor Lord brought out the World Cauldron and tried to flee after the Human King struck him again.
• Ruthless Emperor appeared and delivered a palm strike that nearly shattered Emperor Lord's body and divine consciousness.
• Emperor Lord fled toward the edge of the universe, but Ruthless Emperor pierced him with an immortal sword.

The Human King and Ruthless Emperor killed Emperor Lord, whose death left a devastating pressure over the surrounding starfields. The Ruthless Emperor asked Zhang Tian to help resurrect her brother, and the chapter ended as grief from an unknown source spread through the universe and struck Ye Fan.

• Emperor Lord died after the Bronze Immortal Sword pierced him, and his corpse's pressure suppressed the surrounding starfields.
• The Ruthless Emperor told Zhang Tian she would forgive their past conflict if he helped her resurrect her brother.
• Zhang Tian warned that her brother's True Spirit had likely already been erased, and the Ruthless Emperor fell silent.
• The Heavenly Heart Imprint in Zhang Tian's palm trembled, and heavy snow began falling across countless starfields.
• Ye Fan felt overwhelming sorrow in the snow, nearly suffered cultivation deviation, and used the Black Yellow Mother Qi Cauldron to protect his Immortal Platform before receiving special memories.

Ye Fan witnessed the Ruthless Great Emperor’s memories, learning that she had been a Holy Body boy who was tortured by the Feathered God Dynasty and obsessed with protecting his younger sister, Nannan. After the memories ended, the Ruthless Great Emperor’s defiance inspired Ye Fan to break through the bottleneck and achieve minor accomplishment in his Wild Ancient Holy Body.

• Ye Fan saw the boy’s childhood separation from his sister and learned that the Feathered God Dynasty imprisoned him to cultivate a Holy Body and use him in its hope of immortality.
• The boy escaped gravely wounded, but the Feathered God Dynasty pursued him, and he died still worrying about his sister.
• Years later, the boy’s sister became a formidable cultivator, discovered the truth about her brother, and endured the Emperor Tribulation while battling ancient Great Emperor phantoms.
• The woman destroyed the Feathered God Dynasty, killed the Feathered Transformation Great Emperor, and gathered the last remnants of her brother’s spirit before becoming known as the Ruthless Great Emperor.
• After the memory ended, Ye Fan drew strength from the Ruthless Great Emperor’s will and achieved minor accomplishment in his Wild Ancient Holy Body.