Chapter Summaries

Li Changsheng gathered resources and comprehended an Emperor Script in the Ancient Domain before returning to the Martial Realm. After ten years of refining his materials and beast corpses, he brought the Myriad Furnace Body to Minor Accomplishment and transformed his physical body into an Emperor Body.

• Li Changsheng found Great Emperor-level ore and killed a powerful ancient beast, then collected resources while refining them to strengthen the Myriad Furnace Body.
• Li Changsheng killed the beast guarding an Emperor Script, claimed its nest, and comprehended the script as Quasi-Emperors continued to die in the Ancient Domain.
• Great Emperor-level figures from the Ancient World discussed a plan to fuse the worlds and use the fighting in the Ancient Domain to speed it up.
• Li Changsheng returned to the Martial Realm, warned Jiang Ying to stay out of the Ancient Domain, and learned that a Great Sun Emperor Sect Quasi-Emperor had died and Zhou Hao was severely injured.
• Ten years later, Li Changsheng reached Minor Accomplishment in the Myriad Furnace Body, refined a complete rule, and transformed his physical body into an Emperor Body.

After forming an imperial body, Li Changsheng learned that Quasi-Emperors could refine multiple laws and set out to strengthen himself by raiding an ancient beast tribe for resources. He attacked the Yanhe Tribe and killed its Quasi-Emperor defenders, including an imperial-body bearer equipped with a damaged supreme treasure.

• Li Changsheng formed an imperial body, confirmed with Zhou Hao that Quasi-Emperors could refine more than one law, and decided to refine a second law.
• After several years of training and using up most of his resources, Li Changsheng entered the Ancient Domain to hunt ancient beasts and gather more resources.
• Li Changsheng observed the Yanhe Tribe and learned that it had more than twenty Quasi-Emperors, including two with imperial bodies, but no Great Emperor.
• Li Changsheng killed a Yanhe Tribe Quasi-Emperor with one strike and seized its resources.
• When six Quasi-Emperors confronted him, Li Changsheng killed five with the Kunpeng Emperor Fist, then used an Emperor Seal to shatter the last one's body and kill it despite its supreme treasure armor.

Li Changsheng looted Ancient Beast tribes, studied their inheritances, and resolved to fuse at least five laws before becoming a Great Emperor. Alarmed by his attacks, the Ancient Beast Great Emperors sent the imperial-clan prodigy Gu Chen to kill him.

• Li Changsheng recovered his mana, examined a Quasi-Emperor Ancient Beast’s treasures, and learned that Ancient Beast bodies could theoretically fuse multiple laws; he set a goal of fusing at least five.
• The Yanhe Tribe’s Quasi-Emperors mourned Yanchi and activated their defenses, so Li Changsheng left them alone and attacked the weaker Yanyi Tribe instead.
• Li Changsheng slaughtered the Yanyi Tribe’s Quasi-Emperors, took its treasury, and comprehended Emperor Scripts in an underground space.
• Li Changsheng destroyed several more tribes, prompting Ancient Beast Great Emperors to identify him and decide that he had to be stopped.
• The Ancient Beast Great Emperors chose Gu Chen, an imperial-clan member who had fused three laws and cultivated the Immortal Ancient Body, to kill Li Changsheng.

Gu Chen confronted Li Changsheng in the Ancient Domain and nearly killed him with the Destruction Pearl. Li Changsheng used Time Reversal to recover and escaped, leaving Gu Chen furious.

• Emperor Fenghua asked Gu Chen to stop a powerful Martial Realm quasi-emperor from overrunning the Ancient Domain, and Gu Chen agreed to intervene.
• Li Changsheng raided an ancient beast tribe, but Gu Chen ambushed him and broke through the Golden Lotus’s protective barrier with a single strike.
• Li Changsheng attacked with Emperor Seal, but Gu Chen blocked it with his Ancient Beast Emperor Armor and pursued him with the Immortal Ancient Body.
• Gu Chen used the Destruction Pearl to pierce Li Changsheng’s defenses, leaving him on the verge of death.
• Li Changsheng activated Time Reversal to restore his body, then fled the Ancient Domain while Gu Chen was stunned.

After ten years of seclusion, Li Changsheng fused a second rule and advanced the Myriad Furnace Body to Great Accomplishment. When a new supreme treasure appeared on Mount Taihang, he claimed it and gravely wounded Great Emperor Mihai with one punch, leaving everyone stunned.

• Li Changsheng returned to the Great Sun Emperor Sect with his damaged Golden Lotus supreme treasure, warned the other Quasi-Emperors about Gu Chen, and entered seclusion while Zhou Hao stayed out of the Ancient Domain.
• Gu Chen returned to the Ancient World and told its Great Emperors that Li Changsheng had survived his attack using extraordinary recovery and a time ability.
• After ten years, Li Changsheng fused a second rule, then consumed vast resources and a shattered supreme treasure to cultivate the Myriad Furnace Body to Great Accomplishment.
• A scale-shaped supreme treasure appeared on Mount Taihang, and Great Emperor Mihai blasted Great Emperor Kongshan aside before reaching for it.
• Li Changsheng seized the supreme treasure and declared it his, then shattered Great Emperor Mihai's Emperor Body and armor with one punch, leaving Mihai severely wounded.

Li Changsheng defeated Great Emperor Mihai and claimed the defensive supreme treasure True Scale, then secluded himself to strengthen his body and forge a fourth rule. After twenty years, he perfected the Myriad Furnace Body and completed the new rule, surpassing the Ancient Beast Imperial Clan.

• Li Changsheng defeated Great Emperor Mihai with one blow, took the supreme treasure, and returned to the Great Sun Emperor Sect.
• Xuan Yin Quasi-Emperor and Taixu Great Emperor learned of Li Changsheng’s power and recognized him as a potential protector of the Martial Realm.
• Li Changsheng refined True Scale, a defensive supreme treasure that covered him in scales and imposed pressure to aid his body cultivation.
• During Li Changsheng’s seclusion, reincarnated Great Emperors including Zhou Hao forged rules and sought opportunities in the Ancient Domain to strengthen their bodies.
• After twenty years, Li Changsheng exhausted his resources, refined nearly all of the Golden Lotus supreme treasure, and advanced the Myriad Furnace Body to Perfection.
• Li Changsheng forged a fourth, metal-category defensive rule and declared that he had surpassed the Ancient Beast Imperial Clan.

Li Changsheng entered an Ancient Battlefield in the Ancient Domain, where he gathered ancient weapon fragments and began studying Emperor Script. Gu Chen learned that Li Changsheng would likely enter the battlefield’s Imperial Tomb and planned to kill him there, where escape would be difficult.

• Li Changsheng perfected his Myriad Furnace Body and cultivated Kunpeng Emperor Fist and Time Reversal to Minor Accomplishment.
• Ancient Beast Clan Ancient Emperors discussed the soon-opening opportunity site and instructed others to alert Gu Chen if Li Changsheng entered.
• Li Changsheng went to the Ancient Battlefield after it appeared and killed the ancient beasts that attacked him on arrival.
• Li Changsheng collected shattered weapons and materials, then began comprehending Emperor Script to develop a body cultivation technique beyond the Myriad Furnace Body.
• An Ancient Beast Clan Great Emperor told Gu Chen that the Imperial Tomb would open within the battlefield and that Li Changsheng would be trapped there for a long time.
• Gu Chen learned that the Imperial Tomb contained an Extreme Dao Body Cultivation Technique and entered the Ancient Domain, intending to wait until Li Changsheng entered the tomb before attacking.

Li Changsheng explored the Ancient Battlefield, collecting treasures and studying Emperor Scripts before entering a newly revealed Imperial Tomb. There, Gu Chen attacked him, but Li Changsheng’s four Rules overwhelmed Gu Chen, leaving the battle in Li Changsheng’s favor.

• Li Changsheng collected battlefield materials, killed several quasi-Emperor Ancient Beasts, and found the remains of an Ancient God Clan Great Emperor.
• Li Changsheng studied more than thirty Slaughter-class Emperor Scripts and gathered further treasures, including scripts related to body cultivation.
• A tomb emerged deep in the Ancient Battlefield, and Li Changsheng deciphered its spatial formation and entered ahead of the other quasi-Emperors.
• Li Changsheng found a stellar array surrounding the tomb’s central palace, then encountered Gu Chen inside.
• Gu Chen attacked with his Immortal Ancient Body, Immortal Emperor Fist, and three Rules, but Li Changsheng blasted him back with four Rules and relentlessly wounded him.
• Gu Chen unleashed the Destruction Pearl to repeat his previous attack, but it failed to give him the advantage.

Li Changsheng killed Gu Chen in the Imperial Tomb, took his treasures, and continued studying the stellar formation. After the Ancient Beast Clan’s Great Emperors learned of Gu Chen’s death, Li Changsheng entered the tomb palace and discovered it belonged to Ancient Emperor Canghe.

• Gu Chen used the Destruction Pearl and a Great Emperor attack treasure against Li Changsheng, but Li Changsheng recovered from his injuries and continued overpowering him.
• After a prolonged battle, Li Changsheng killed Gu Chen and then killed the Ancient Beast Clan Quasi-Emperors who had remained nearby.
• Li Changsheng claimed Gu Chen’s treasures, refined the Destruction Pearl, and found hundreds of destruction Emperor Scripts, abundant resources, and a stone slab inscribed with physical-body Emperor Scripts.
• The Ancient Beast Clan’s Great Emperors learned that Gu Chen had fallen and discussed whether the imperial clan might send Sequence Level Highnesses to kill Li Changsheng.
• Li Changsheng entered the Imperial Tomb palace and read the plaque identifying its master as Ancient Emperor Canghe.

Li Changsheng passed the Imperial Tomb trial and received the Extreme Dao Body Cultivation Technique Ancient Armor, which he planned to cultivate after fusing a fifth rule. As the Ancient World dispatched three powerful Sequence Level Quasi-Emperors to assassinate him, he fled back to the Martial Realm and resolved to stay out of the Ancient Domain for now.

• Li Changsheng passed the Star Ancient Flame and Rule Projection trials, then comprehended all 360 Emperor Scripts within a few years.
• The Imperial Tomb’s inheritance gave Li Changsheng Ancient Armor, an Extreme Dao body technique that greatly increased defense, strength, and speed when activated.
• Li Changsheng decided to wait until he had fused five rules before cultivating Ancient Armor, then left the Imperial Tomb and scavenged materials across the Ancient Battlefield.
• The Ancient Beast, Ancient Demon, and Ancient God clans dispatched their sixth, seventh, and eighth Sequence Level Highnesses to assassinate Li Changsheng, with the Ancient Beast Clan bringing the Ancient True Bell.
• Li Changsheng sensed the three pursuers as he withdrew from the Ancient Domain and escaped across the boundary into the Martial Realm before they could catch him.

Li Changsheng upgraded his Time Dao Fruit and used Thought Acceleration to create the Myriad Things Forging Dao Body, then cultivated it until he fused a fifth rule. He began training the Extreme Dao body cultivation technique Ancient Armor, preparing to grow stronger before returning to the Ancient Domain.

• Li Changsheng perfected Golden Lotus Will and later comprehended all of Gu Chen’s Emperor Scripts while cultivating his supreme divine arts.
• The Martial Realm welcomed several reincarnated Great Emperors, including Great Emperor Xuanwu, while Li Changsheng remained its strongest figure in the eyes of many.
• Li Changsheng upgraded his Time Dao Fruit to Top-grade and gained Thought Acceleration, which he used to create the Myriad Things Forging Dao Body.
• After recovering from the strain of Thought Acceleration, Li Changsheng cultivated the new body method and fused a fifth rule.
• Li Changsheng began cultivating the Extreme Dao body technique Ancient Armor, using Thought Acceleration briefly to aid his comprehension.

Li Changsheng mastered the Extreme Dao Body Cultivation Technique Ancient Armor and challenged the Emperor Tablet, defeating its Rule Projections through the ninth and final trial. He reached the Tablet’s origin, where it seemed he could refine the Emperor Tablet.

• Li Changsheng continued cultivating his body techniques and perfected Time Reversal and Kunpeng Emperor Fist.
• After using Thought Acceleration and further training, Li Changsheng gained entry into Ancient Armor and tested its power in Shallow Layer Space.
• Li Changsheng returned to the Emperor Tablet and passed the sixth trial by defeating a projection that had fused two rules.
• Li Changsheng passed the seventh and eighth trials, defeating projections that had fused three and four rules.
• Li Changsheng fought through severe injuries, used Time Reversal to recover, and defeated the five-rule projection to pass the ninth and final trial.
• Li Changsheng reached the Emperor Tablet’s origin, where he seemed able to refine the Tablet.

Li Changsheng refined the Emperor Tablet and placed it in the Great Sun Emperor Sect, sharing its resources with Jiang Ying and the Jiang Family. He later created the Taiyin Furnace Body for Jiang Ying, while news of ageless medicines in the Ancient Domain stirred the Martial Realm’s aging Quasi-Emperors.

• Li Changsheng refined the Emperor Tablet, took it from the trial space, and placed it in the Great Sun Emperor Sect for its Quasi-Emperors to use.
• Li Changsheng gave Emperor Liquid to the Jiang Family, Jiang Ying, Xu He, and Xu Zixi, and Xu Zixi joined the Great Sun Emperor Sect.
• More than ten years passed as Li Changsheng continued cultivating, while the Martial Realm’s growing number of Great Emperors pushed the Calamity Era into its early-middle stage.
• Jiang Ying fused her first rule, and Li Changsheng advised her to fuse a second before becoming a Great Emperor.
• Li Changsheng created the Taiyin Furnace Body for Jiang Ying, who began cultivating it with yin-attributed and darkness-attributed materials.
• News arrived that ageless medicines had appeared in the Ancient Domain, driving aging Quasi-Emperors across the Martial Realm to seek them.

Li Changsheng entered the Ancient Domain to seize immortality herbs and confronted three Sequence Level Highnesses who pursued him with the Ancient True Bell. He survived their assault and forced them to retreat, while the wider conflict over the Ancient Domain remained unresolved.

• Li Changsheng traveled to the Ancient Domain and seized an immortality herb after killing several Great Emperor-level Ancient Beasts.
• Gu Chi, Chi Xin, and Feng He entered the Ancient Domain and used a secret treasure to locate Li Changsheng.
• Li Changsheng countered the Ancient True Bell with the Emperor Tablet and fought the three Sequence Level Highnesses with five rules and his body cultivation techniques.
• Li Changsheng's injuries healed quickly with the Immortal Dao Fruit, while the three Highnesses grew wary as the battle continued.
• Gu Chi, Chi Xin, and Feng He retreated inside the Ancient True Bell after realizing they could not kill Li Changsheng.

After Li Changsheng collected ageless medicines, the Ancient World’s Supremes sent him to the Land of Returning Ruins, where rules and mana were difficult to use and his lifespan would drain rapidly. He arrived uninjured, found an ancient city inhabited by mixed-blood descendants, and asked an Ancient Beast Quasi-Emperor where he was.

• Li Changsheng gathered six ageless medicines in the Great Wilderness Forest while other Quasi-Emperors withdrew or died.
• The Ancient World’s Supremes decided to trap Li Changsheng in the Land of Returning Ruins, and Supreme Gu Yu created a statue to send him there.
• Gu Chi used the statue to transport Li Changsheng to an unknown place, then fled as the statue shattered and his mana was nearly exhausted.
• The Great Sun Emperor Sect could not reach Li Changsheng, while Jiang Ying worried about him and resolved to cultivate harder; the Martial Realm’s position in the Ancient Domain weakened without him.
• Li Changsheng discovered that he could not use rules or mana in the Land of Returning Ruins, then reached an ancient city and met an Ancient Beast Quasi-Emperor who asked where he came from.

Li Changsheng learned that the Land of Returning Ruins was a prison where his lifespan drained rapidly and escape was said to be possible only by reaching Returning Ruins Mountain’s summit. After failing to climb the mountain, he gathered Emperor Scripts and created a powerful new Ultimate Skill of will, Emperor Pagoda.

• The Ancient Beast Quasi-Emperor elder told Li Changsheng that the Land of Returning Ruins imprisoned criminals, accelerated time, drained lifespans, and offered a chance to escape by reaching Returning Ruins Mountain’s summit.
• Li Changsheng traveled through the ruined land, met several aged Quasi-Emperors, and found that only a handful remained alive.
• Li Changsheng attempted to climb Returning Ruins Mountain, but its aura of desolation attacked his will and forced him to retreat.
• Li Changsheng traded Emperor Medicine with the Quasi-Emperors and collected more than six thousand Emperor Scripts, bringing his total to over ten thousand.
• Li Changsheng comprehended all his Emperor Scripts and, after twenty years, created a new Ultimate Skill of will called Emperor Pagoda.

Li Changsheng used the power of Returning Ruins Mountain to cultivate Emperor Pagoda, strengthening his will while years passed both inside and outside the Land of Returning Ruins. After reaching Emperor Pagoda’s Perfection Realm, he climbed to the summit and learned how to leave.

• Li Changsheng entered Returning Ruins Mountain and repeatedly used its suppressive power to cultivate Emperor Pagoda, eventually reaching Minor Accomplishment Realm.
• Quasi-Emperor-level High-Dimensional Beings entered the Martial Realm, while factions pledged allegiance to them and the Great Sun Emperor Sect fell into difficulty.
• Zhou Hao fused a second rule and intimidated the factions around the Great Sun Emperor Sect.
• After a hundred years in the Land of Returning Ruins, Li Changsheng reached Great Accomplishment Realm in Emperor Pagoda but remained short of the summit.
• Li Changsheng continued cultivating for three hundred more years as his lifespan diminished, while Ancient Armor made only slight progress.
• Li Changsheng cultivated Emperor Pagoda to the Perfection Realm, climbed to the summit of Returning Ruins Mountain, and learned the method of leaving.

Li Changsheng cultivated in the Land of Returning Ruins, upgraded his Vajra Dao Fruit into a Supreme Dao Fruit, and developed a Vajra Immortal Body before escaping back to the Martial Realm. His return renewed the Great Sun Emperor Sect’s hopes, but Supreme Gu Yu remained confident that the Ancient World’s plan would succeed.

• Li Changsheng cultivated Ancient Armor to Minor Accomplishment and waited until the black vortex stopped.
• Li Changsheng upgraded his Top-grade Vajra Dao Fruit into a Level 1 Supreme Vajra Dao Fruit, transforming his Vajra Emperor Body into a Vajra Immortal Body.
• Li Changsheng cultivated Myriad Things Forging Dao Body to Minor Accomplishment, then escaped through the stabilized vortex and returned to the Martial Realm.
• Jiang Ying welcomed Li Changsheng at the Yin Que Imperial Palace, and he returned with her to the Great Sun Emperor Sect.
• Li Changsheng told Zhou Hao and the sect’s upper echelons about the Land of Returning Ruins, while news of his return spread through the Martial Realm and reached the Ancient World.
• Supreme Gu Yu suspected Li Changsheng had mastered a powerful Ultimate Skill of the will, but dismissed him as unable to stop the Ancient World’s plan.

Li Changsheng refined his sixth and seventh rules while the Martial Realm’s border with the Ancient Domain weakened, and he raided Ancient Beast tribes for resources. As the Martial Realm faced invasion within four hundred years, Hanging Mountain Great Emperor Ming Jiu visited the Great Sun Emperor Sect and warned Li Changsheng that the strongest Great Emperors had refined over thirty rules.

• Li Changsheng refined his sixth rule, then entered the Ancient Domain and slaughtered Quasi-Emperor-level Ancient Beasts for resources before returning to cultivate.
• The entrance between the Martial Realm and the Ancient Domain collapsed, allowing Ancient World rules to seep into the Martial Realm.
• Li Changsheng refined his seventh rule but chose to keep cultivating rather than become a Great Emperor.
• Ming Jiu arrived at the Great Sun Emperor Sect in an avatar, and Li Changsheng subdued him with the Emperor Tablet.
• Ming Jiu warned Li Changsheng that the Martial Realm could hold out for only four hundred years and that the strongest Ancient World Great Emperors had refined more than thirty rules.

Li Changsheng rejected Suspended Mountain and studied his Vajra Immortal Body, seeking more Emperor Scripts to develop a cultivation method. After creating Body Stealing, he used it to take over a Quasi-Emperor ancient beast and sent the resulting clone into the Ancient World.

• Li Changsheng rejected Ming Jiu's offer to join Suspended Mountain and destroyed his incarnation, prompting its Great Emperors to vow to kill him if they reached the Martial Realm.
• Li Changsheng studied his immortal body with Thought Acceleration and realized Emperor Scripts could combine into Immortal Scripts, so he arranged trades with the Martial Realm's Quasi-Emperors and Great Emperors.
• Li Changsheng mastered 21,321 Emperor Scripts but decided he needed to enter the Ancient World to obtain many more.
• Li Changsheng spent ten years creating Body Stealing, a method that let a clone evade a world's rules at the cost of heavy resource use and potential damage to his will.
• Li Changsheng captured a Quasi-Emperor ancient beast sent from the Ancient World, took over its body to form a clone, and controlled it into the Ancient World.