Chapter Summaries

Lu Zhou and his companions explored the sun, discovered Duan De transforming inside a protected array, and then saw Ye Fan and Dao One off as they set out for Qi Shi Mansion. Afterward, Lu Zhou took Qi Meng and Fan Xian on a leisurely journey across Emperor Burial Star, leaving them to travel together without a fixed destination.

• The Battle Saint Buddha entered the Primordial Ancient Mine with Duan De, who died beneath a restricted zone supreme being's strike, while the Fighting Saint Emperor obtained Primal Fate Stones and gave them to the Holy Prince.
• Lu Zhou brought Ye Fan, Tongtong, Black Emperor, Dragon Horse, and the others to the sun, where Tongtong found the Fusang leaves and the group studied the Sun Human Emperor's Dao-creation relics.
• The group discovered Duan De sleeping inside a Celestial Venerable great array in the sun, and Lu Zhou signed in at Cao Yusheng's Nirvana Ground to obtain a grain of Longevity Substance.
• Ye Fan agreed to deliver letters and gifts from Zi Yan, Fan Xian, and Qi Meng to their families, then departed for Qi Shi Mansion with Dao One and Dao One's Guardian of the Dao.
• After seeing them off, Lu Zhou left Heavenly Village with Qi Meng and Fan Xian to travel across Emperor Burial Star before he attempted to break through to become a Saint.

Yang Yi emerged from seclusion as a Saint King and mourned Zhang Lin at Purple Mountain, where Lu Zhou revealed their tragic original futures. After confronting the missed chances between her and Zhang Lin, Yang Yi left Purple Mountain with Lu Zhou, accepting that their past would return to dust.

• Yang Yi emerged from seclusion, passed her heavenly tribulation, and entered the Saint King realm.
• Yang Yi traveled to Purple Mountain to mourn Zhang Lin, and Lu Zhou joined her, worried by her calmness.
• Yang Yi asked Lu Zhou about the futures he had known, and he described Zhang Lin’s death and her own eventual disappearance as a Walking Corpse.
• Yang Yi recalled how she had defied her master to seek one final meeting with Zhang Lin, despite their many missed chances.
• Yang Yi and Lu Zhou walked away from Purple Mountain as dawn broke, leaving two jars of sacrificial wine behind.

Lu Zhou and Yang Yi caught up on the years they had spent apart as they traveled through the Northern Region, and Lu Zhou reflected on how the altered timeline had changed plans for the Ancient Starry Road. Yang Yi asked where he would break through to sainthood, and Lu Zhou said he would return to his hometown.

• Lu Zhou told Yang Yi about events on Big Dipper and his experiences in Eternal, while Yang Yi reflected on the changes sweeping the world.
• Lu Zhou considered how Ye Fan, Kane, and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King planned to set out for the Ancient Starry Road earlier than expected.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King delayed his departure to guide Long Yuxuan, who became the Old Peng King's grandson and the Little Peng King's younger brother.
• Yang Yi asked Lu Zhou when he would travel to the Human Trial Road and where he planned to break through to sainthood.
• Lu Zhou told Yang Yi that he would return to his hometown to break through.

Lu Zhou prepared to return to Earth to break through, bringing Yang Yi, Zhang Wenchang, Li Xiaoman, and Hua Yunfei with him. Just as the group was about to depart, an unexpected situation forced Lu Zhou to pause and enter his Wuji Dojo with Shi Yao and Yang Yi.

• Yang Yi agreed to accompany Lu Zhou to Earth, and their familiar closeness stirred unsettled feelings between them.
• Lu Zhou invited Zhang Wenchang, Li Xiaoman, and Hua Yunfei to return to Earth; Hua Yunfei revealed that Li Xiaoman was pregnant.
• Lu Zhou reassured Zhang Wenchang that Lin Jia, Pang Bo, Wang Ziwen, Zhou Yi, and Kaide were likely doing well and that they would meet again.
• Lu Zhou and the others gathered at Jade Pool to depart, but an unexpected situation arose before he could use the Tianxuan Sword.
• Lu Zhou entered the Wuji Dojo inside his Qiankun Pearl with Shi Yao and Yang Yi while the others waited.

Lu Zhou revived Di Lisi, who had undergone Dao Transformation eighty thousand years earlier, and told her that Great Emperor Wushi was still alive. He brought her to Purple Mountain, where the Wushi Bell recognized her and manifested its spirit before the group.

• Di Lisi awoke in Wuji Dojo and learned that Lu Zhou had revived her after her Dao Transformation.
• Di Lisi grieved when Shi Yao told her that eighty thousand years had passed, but Lu Zhou stopped her from destroying her Immortal Platform by saying Wushi was alive and that he knew where to find him.
• Lu Zhou told Di Lisi about Wushi's connection to Jade Pool Holy Land and brought her with Yang Yi and Shi Yao through a Domain Gate to Purple Mountain.
• The Wushi Bell rang across the Big Dipper, alarming the forbidden zones and drawing Black Emperor toward Purple Mountain.
• The Wushi Bell recognized Di Lisi, teleported Lu Zhou and the others inside Purple Mountain, and manifested its spirit before them.

Di Lisi recounted how she became trapped in an energyless starfield and died, then explained that Lu Zhou had revived her. The spirit of the Wushi Bell thanked Lu Zhou on Wushi’s behalf, and the Undying Divine Phoenix Medicine chose to follow him.

• Di Lisi told the spirit of the Wushi Bell that she had searched for Wushi, become lost in an energyless starfield, and undergone Dao Transformation aboard an exiled warship.
• The spirit of the Wushi Bell asked how Di Lisi had returned, and she credited Lu Zhou with saving her.
• Lu Zhou explained how he recovered Di Lisi’s skull and pendant, found her remaining primordial spirit, and revived her using medicines and secret techniques.
• Di Lisi promised that Lu Zhou’s affairs would be her own, and the spirit of the Wushi Bell bowed to thank him on Wushi’s behalf.
• The Undying Divine Phoenix Medicine flew to Lu Zhou and chose to follow him.

Lu Zhou returned to Earth with Yang Yi, Zhang Wenchang, Li Xiaoman, Liu Yiyi, and Hua Yunfei, where they reunited with Xuan Chi at Hangu Pass before going their separate ways. Lu Zhou showed Yang Yi his hometown and shared his memories, ending their trip with a cherished beach photograph that captured her happiness.

• Lu Zhou accepted the Undying Divine Phoenix Medicine into his Wuji Dojo, and the Wushi Bell offered to let him read the Wushi Scripture before learning he had already read it.
• Lu Zhou and Shi Yao left Purple Mountain for Jade Pool, where he learned Liu Yiyi had been cultivating there and invited her to return to Earth with the others.
• Lu Zhou brought the group through the Solar System on the Tianxuan Sword, and Xuan Chi welcomed them into Hangu Pass after recognizing him.
• Lu Zhou and the others left Hangu Pass and parted ways in HN, while Lu Zhou stayed with Yang Yi to show her around Earth.
• Lu Zhou took Yang Yi to his childhood orphanage and former home in City R, told her he had failed to discover his parents' identities, and toured Earth with her.
• Lu Zhou photographed Yang Yi at the beach in a three-piece bikini, and she treasured the picture of herself smiling happily.

Lu Zhou and Yang Yi grew closer during their journey across Earth, which ended when Lu Zhou’s breakthrough tribulation began. He survived the trials, transformed his Qiankun Pearl into a Chaos Pearl, and became a Saint, though the final tribulation left a cauldron-shaped mark on it.

• Yang Yi embraced Lu Zhou, and the two shared an intimate moment in the Wuji Dojo before continuing their journey across Earth.
• Lu Zhou’s breakthrough forced their journey to end, and he began enduring a devastating heavenly tribulation beyond Earth.
• Lu Zhou repeatedly rebuilt his body, nascent soul, and Qiankun Pearl through the tribulation, transforming the pearl into the Chaos Pearl and giving it a divine spirit.
• Lu Zhou fought versions of himself and nine Young Great Emperors manifested by the tribulation, then broke through successive Heaven and Earth Anomalies in the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• An Immortal Ascension Cauldron attacked Lu Zhou and left a cauldron-shaped mark on his Chaos Pearl before the tribulation faded and he became a Saint.

After becoming a Saint, Lu Zhou returned to Earth, celebrated with its cultivators, and prepared to bring several people back to the Big Dipper. He found Huahua, whose extraordinary consciousness amazed the gathered cultivators, and arranged to take the child away while Huahua’s parents stayed behind.

• Lu Zhou completed his tribulation, became a Fourth Stage Saint, and returned to Earth with Yang Yi.
• Earth’s cultivators celebrated Lu Zhou at the Zhu Huang Lineage’s ancestral grounds, where he gave them generous return gifts and reassured them that the Phoenix Heavenly Maiden and Yan Xiaoyu were safe in the Big Dipper.
• Liu Yiyi, Zhang Wenchang, Hua Yunfei, and Li Xiaoman said they wanted to return to the Big Dipper with Lu Zhou; Zhang Wenchang struggled with the reunion he had briefly had with his family.
• After Buddhist masters told him about Huahua’s Consciousness Store Phenomenon, Lu Zhou led the group to the child and traced karma to find the underground palace containing Buddha’s Crown Bone.
• Lu Zhou offered to take Huahua to the Big Dipper and find him a master, while Huahua’s parents agreed to let him go but chose to remain at home.

Lu Zhou returned from Earth to Big Dipper with Huahua, reunited with Heavenly Court, and entrusted the boy to Qi Luo until Ye Fan returned. As Lu Zhou prepared to leave for the Human Trial Road, he spent his remaining time with his Dao Companions.

• Lu Zhou visited Emperor Yan in Shennongjia, learned that Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan was recuperating in a coffin, and discussed Xu Qiong and Old Gai with him.
• Lu Zhou, Yang Yi, Huahua, and their companions traveled from Mount Tai back to Big Dipper, where Yang Yi took Liu Yiyi and her family toward Jade Pool.
• Lu Zhou arrived at Heavenly Village and surprised Qi Luo and the others by revealing that he had become a Saint.
• Lu Zhou introduced Huahua to Heavenly Court and left him with Qi Luo to be cared for until Ye Fan returned from the Eternity Star Domain.
• Lu Zhou left Heavenly Village for Jade Pool, then spent time accompanying his Dao Companions before his planned journey to the Human Trial Road.

Lu Zhou bid farewell to his companions and entered Qi Shi Mansion to begin the Human Race Ancient Road trial. He rode a dragon-shaped Saint Spirit through the star gate, leaving the Big Dipper behind as Ye Fan and others later prepared to follow the road.

• Lu Zhou arrived at Qi Shi Mansion with his Dao Companions and friends, where the old Mansion Lord and a crowd of cultivators gathered to see him off.
• The old Mansion Lord led Lu Zhou through Qi Shi Mansion and explained what he knew about the Human Race Ancient Road.
• The old Mansion Lord deactivated the forbidden ground’s Chaos formation and activated the Five-Colored Altar, opening a star gate.
• Lu Zhou summoned a dragon-shaped Saint Spirit, rode it into the star gate, and vanished toward the Ancient Road.
• A few months after Lu Zhou left, Ye Fan returned from Eternal, and Ye Fan, Ji Zi, Monkey, and others set out for the Ancient Road over the following years.

Nearly five years after leaving Big Dipper, Lu Zhou traveled the Ancient Road with the Golden-Winged Little Peng King and Divine Knight Kane, fighting their way across star domains and searching for the Five-Colored Altars. Following stone monuments through a converging stretch of starry sky, they finally reached the First Gate of the Human Race Ancient Road.

• Lu Zhou and his companions paused at the grave of God King Jiang Yue before continuing across an unnamed ancient planet.
• Lu Zhou caught up with the Golden-Winged Little Peng King as he fought a Saint Beast, and the Saint Spirit Dragon killed the beast with a single tail swing.
• Lu Zhou and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King later caught up with Divine Knight Kane, and the three men and their mounts fought together while crossing the Ancient Road.
• Lu Zhou's group found Five-Colored Altars and followed traces left by old acquaintances, but did not catch up with them.
• Lu Zhou and his companions reached a stretch of starry sky marked by guiding monuments, where they briefly encountered a veiled woman riding a luan bird.
• Following the monuments alongside other cultivators, Lu Zhou's group saw the First Gate of the Human Race Ancient Road in the distance.

Lu Zhou and his companions arrived at the First Gate of the Human Race Ancient Road, where the Guide opened the gates early and personally welcomed Lu Zhou as the Tyrant Immortal. They entered the city together, while Lu Zhou wondered whether Guan Cheng had not yet become the gate captain.

• Lu Zhou, Kane, and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King reached the First Gate of the Human Race Ancient Road and learned its rules from the gathered travelers.
• The Guide appeared and announced that the newcomers would soon face a trial to determine who could continue onward.
• The Guide recognized Lu Zhou as the Tyrant Immortal, welcomed him personally, and revealed that the early opening was connected to his arrival.
• Lu Zhou entered the city with Kane and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, drawing wary and resentful attention from the other arrivals.
• Lu Zhou noticed that the guard captain was not Guan Cheng and speculated that Guan Cheng might take the position after the captain died.

Lu Zhou arrived at the First Gate of the Human Race Ancient Road, signed in to obtain a Divine Light Platform, and explored the city with Kane and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King. When the trial began at Fallen Saint Island, Lu Zhou chose to start in the first region, provoking several trial-takers who set out to confront his companions in the regions they chose.

• The Guide personally welcomed Lu Zhou into the city, and news of the title Tyrant Immortal spread along the Ancient Road, drawing comparisons with Fairy Qing Shi, Emperor Tian, and Overlord.
• Lu Zhou signed in at the First Gate and obtained a Divine Light Platform, then toured the city and sampled its food with Kane and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King.
• The Guide led 138 trial participants to Fallen Saint Island, where Lu Zhou said he would begin in the first of its fifty regions and hoped to cross them all.
• A group of Saints and Half-Saints mocked Lu Zhou and challenged him, but he ignored them and told Kane and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King to choose their own regions.
• Kane entered the forty-ninth region and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King entered the thirty-sixth; angry challengers followed them into both regions, intent on intercepting them.

After the trial ended, survivors described how Kane and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King had slaughtered their challengers, leaving many trial-takers shaken and convinced that Lu Zhou’s followers were extraordinarily powerful. Reports also spread of Lu Zhou crossing multiple zones in heavy shackles and generously rewarding a woman who helped him; the chapter ends with Lu Zhou and his companions emerging safely from Zone Forty-Nine.

• The trial-takers who left the Forty-Ninth Zone recounted how Kane and his Qilin Beast swiftly killed the provocateurs who attacked them, while survivors from the Thirty-Sixth Zone described the Golden-Winged Little Peng King defeating his own challengers.
• Survivors from nearby zones reported seeing Kane and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King cross into their areas, and many people outside concluded that Lu Zhou’s followers alone were enough to defeat those who hoped to challenge him.
• A woman who met Lu Zhou in Zone Forty-Five said he had treated her courteously and given her a powerful protective Sacred Artifact after she shared information about a secret location.
• The waiting crowd discussed Lu Zhou’s strength and speculated about his fate, while the woman rebuked someone who hoped he would fail to leave the trial.
• Lu Zhou and his companions rode their mounts out of Zone Forty-Nine, prompting relief from some onlookers and resentment from others.

Lu Zhou and his companions left Fallen Saint Island after their trial, and the surviving participants spread news of their overwhelming strength across the First Pass. On the way to continue the journey, Lu Zhou encountered Guan Cheng, a broken trial-taker whose old trauma resurfaced before he finally announced his name.

• Lu Zhou signed in at Fallen Saint Island and obtained a Blood Battle Platform that could let cultivators fight copies of themselves once a month.
• Lu Zhou, Kane, Little Peng King, and the others emerged from the Ten-Zhang Blood Pool and learned that fifty-seven of the 138 trial participants had died.
• News of Lu Zhou's group's strength spread through the First Pass, while defeated trial-takers mourned their shattered hopes in a tavern.
• As Lu Zhou's group prepared to depart, Guan Cheng relived the trauma of being speared years earlier and struck down a rider who threatened him.
• Lu Zhou asked the dazed man his name, and Guan Cheng finally roared that he was Guan Cheng.

Lu Zhou tracked down and imprisoned a complete Origin of Dao in the Bloody Trial Ground, where it revealed that he could not become a Great Emperor because he had defied the Dao. When heavenly punishment struck, Lu Zhou swallowed the tribulation into his palm and refined it into a lightning pearl.

• Lu Zhou entered the Bloody Trial Ground, searched for the Origin of Dao, and rescued Hong Luan from imprisoned beings hunting trialists.
• Lu Zhou and the Saint Spirit Dragon joined Kane and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King in battle, helping kill the Spirit Race and Demon Kingdom crown princes and later defeating a Saint King from the Spirit Race.
• Lu Zhou traced the Origin of Dao to a valley and imprisoned the complete origin before the arriving trialists could claim it.
• The Origin of Dao declared that Lu Zhou could not attain the Great Emperor Realm because he opposed the Dao, and Lu Zhou said he had already defied and slain the Great Dao.
• Heavenly punishment descended on Lu Zhou, but he repelled the divine chains and lightning, then refined the lightning tribulation into a pearl in his palm.

Lu Zhou and his companions fought off the beings who attacked them for the Origin of Dao, killing six Saint Kings and dozens of Saints before the Bloody Trial Ground’s trial period ended. As they left for the Second City of the Human Race Ancient Road, Lu Zhou received another portion of Origin of Dao from checking in at the Bloody Trial Ground.

• Lu Zhou stored the Origin of Dao in his Chaos Pearl, prompting a Divine Kingdom Saint King and other contenders to attack him and his companions.
• Lu Zhou crushed the attacking forces with his six-universe fist and the Soldier Character Secret while Hong Luan watched; Kane and Golden-Winged Little Peng King slaughtered enemies on the Saint-level battlefield.
• Lu Zhou tore the Divine Race Saint King apart and pursued the fleeing survivors, while he and the Saint Spirit Dragon killed the remaining Saint Kings and Saints.
• The trial period ended, and Lu Zhou led Kane and the others onto a transmission platform bound for the Second City of the Human Race Ancient Road.
• Lu Zhou checked in at the Bloody Trial Ground and received one portion of Origin of Dao, then his group vanished from the platform.

Lu Zhou’s arrival in the Second City and his possession of a complete Origin of Dao stirred the city’s factions, who learned that the Dao had rejected him and declared he could not become an Emperor. As Yan Yu’s clan and other powers moved to claim the Origin of Dao, Qing Shi heard the news and considered returning to meet Lu Zhou.

• The Second City’s guide personally welcomed Lu Zhou’s group, and news of Lu Zhou’s complete Origin of Dao spread through the city and along the Human Race Ancient Road.
• Trial-takers spread the story that the Origin of Dao had rejected Lu Zhou, condemned him as defying the Dao, and declared that he could not become an Emperor.
• Yan Chifeng urged the Yan Clan to obtain Lu Zhou’s Origin of Dao, and Yan Yu decided to invite him first and consider force if a trade failed.
• Yan Yu and Yan Chifeng went to invite Lu Zhou while other major Second City factions also began moving to seize the Origin of Dao.
• Ling’er told Qing Shi that Lu Zhou had reached the Second City and obtained a complete Origin of Dao, then explained that it had rejected him.
• Qing Shi regretted lacking the Divine Light Platform needed to return to the Second City, while Ling’er suggested that they hide their identities and go back secretly.

Qing Shi learned that people called Emperor Tian her kept pretty boy and began to doubt his character and their alliance. She and Ling'er set out secretly for Second City to seek the Origin of Dao for Qing Shi and assess whether Tyrant Immortal Lu Zhou might make a better ally, unaware that Emperor Tian had also sent people to claim it for himself.

• Ling'er angrily urged Qing Shi not to give Emperor Tian the Origin of Dao and asked whether Qing Shi had fallen for him.
• Ling'er revealed that people had long mocked Emperor Tian as Qing Shi's kept pretty boy, and Qing Shi became furious before questioning Emperor Tian's character and their alliance.
• Qing Shi told Ling'er she had no romantic feelings for Emperor Tian and asked her to report any rumors or concerns in the future.
• Qing Shi decided to seek the Origin of Dao for herself and consider whether Lu Zhou could be a suitable ally.
• Qing Shi and Ling'er quietly left their secluded recovery spot to return to Second City, while Emperor Tian secretly dispatched people there to secure the Origin of Dao for himself.