Chapter Summaries

Bai Ze comprehended the origin of time over many decades and condensed the Time Dao Fruit, reaching the pinnacle of the Divine Saint Realm. He left the county town unnoticed and arrived in a secluded valley to prepare for the dangerous breakthrough to the Divine Emperor Realm.

• Bai Ze spent decades aging as he witnessed people around him live and die, while the power of time's origin gathered around him.
• The Time Dao Fruit condensed and merged into Bai Ze, reversing his age and restoring his immense power.
• Bai Ze declared that he had touched the ultimate realm beneath the Divine Emperor Realm, then vanished as time resumed and everyone's memories of him disappeared.
• Bai Ze appeared in a mysterious valley and circulated the Dragon Subduing Prison Suppressing Art to increase his cultivation.
• Bai Ze reached the pinnacle of the Divine Saint Realm and prepared to face the heavenly tribulation required to break through to the Divine Emperor Realm.

Bai Ze faced the legendary Chaos Lightning Tribulation as he broke through to the Divine Emperor Realm, astonishing the watching Dao God experts with his strength. As the final tribulation formed a humanoid opponent with power comparable to the Second Layer of the Divine Emperor Realm, Bai Ze prepared to strike it down despite his wounds.

• Bai Ze unleashed his Divine Dragon Battle Body and Replace Heaven abilities to prepare for the Chaos Lightning Tribulation.
• Powerful Dao God experts gathered at a distance, recognized the tribulation’s immense might, and hoped Bai Ze would survive so they could befriend or recruit him.
• Bai Ze met the first lightning strike head-on and shattered it with his sword, then used several divine abilities to break apart successive attacks.
• After hundreds of lightning tribulations, the final bolt transformed into a humanoid figure with the aura of a Second Layer Divine Emperor and charged at Bai Ze.
• Wounded but unafraid, Bai Ze vowed to cut down the lightning figure—and even a true Divine Emperor—with a single sword.

Bai Ze fought the human-shaped Lightning Figure through a devastating final lightning tribulation, summoning a Four-Clawed Golden Dragon and battling on despite grievous injuries. After several months of combat, the Lightning Figure was gradually being shattered, but the tribulation had not yet ended.

• Bai Ze unleashed his full power and formed a massive Four-Clawed Golden Dragon around himself to fight the Lightning Figure.
• The watching Dao God Realm experts witnessed their battle devastate the illusory void and doubted Bai Ze could survive the tribulation.
• The Lightning Figure transformed into a giant Sword of Lightning and struck Bai Ze's golden dragon into the ground.
• Bai Ze endured the blow, used Divine Ability: Nine Revolutions Void-Breaking Sword to crack the giant lightning sword, and pressed his attack despite his injuries.
• Bai Ze and the Lightning Figure continued battling for several months, gradually shattering the lightning-transformed figure.

After Bai Ze completed the Divine Emperor tribulation, he spent more than a hundred years recovering in a Cave Mansion and awakened as a First Layer Divine Emperor. He explored his transformed Emperor Body and realized the worlds he had encountered were all contained within the Azure Cloud Sect, whose power surpassed even the Primordial Time-Space Tower.

• Bai Ze survived the tribulation as the lightning vanished, gained a surge of power, and left without confronting the hidden experts.
• The experts who had watched Bai Ze's tribulation exchanged glances and departed.
• More than a hundred years later, Bai Ze awoke in the Cave Mansion after recovering from his injuries and confirmed his First Layer Divine Emperor Realm.
• Bai Ze sensed that his body had transformed into an Emperor Body, granting him power to create a vast world and connect with the River of Years.
• Bai Ze concluded that the worlds he had visited existed within the Azure Cloud Sect, which contained countless worlds and surpassed the Primordial Time-Space Tower.

After reaching the Divine Emperor Realm, Bai Ze was drawn into a hidden Place of Inheritance within the Azure Cloud Sect, where a powerful being offered him a chance to claim an inheritance by passing trials. Bai Ze received a mark and three rewards, then was sent away with ten thousand years to complete the fourth trial.

• Bai Ze realized that reaching the Divine Emperor Realm had drawn the Azure Cloud Sect’s rejection, but a mysterious force carried him to a grand palace within the sect.
• A mysterious figure revealed that Bai Ze had entered a Place of Inheritance and explained that he had left it for future generations after ascending beyond the Divine Emperor Realm.
• The figure waived Bai Ze’s first three trials because he had reached the Divine Emperor Realm within a thousand years, but required him to complete the remaining six trials.
• The figure placed a mark on Bai Ze that let him return to the Azure Cloud Sect and begin the fourth trial, which he had to complete within ten thousand years.
• Bai Ze received the rewards for the waived trials: a trace of the purest Origin of Dao, a half-immortal-grade Dragon Pattern Blood Stone, and a half-immortal-grade sword technique.
• The figure sent Bai Ze away and hoped he would pass all the trials so the karma between him and another person could be resolved.

Bai Ze arrived at the Azure Cloud Sect after sensing a mysterious mark that might lead to an immortal inheritance, then met Myriad Thunder and revealed his breakthrough to the Divine Emperor Realm. He agreed to remain in the Myriad Dao Alliance as its Supreme Guest Official, prompting Winter Cloud Saint Venerable to hurry to the Alliance Leader’s Cave Mansion.

• Bai Ze studied the mysterious mark on his arm, considered its possible connection to immortals, and vanished from outside the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Myriad Thunder sensed a Divine Emperor aura, appeared before Bai Ze, and was astonished to learn that he had reached the Divine Emperor Realm.
• Myriad Thunder invited Bai Ze to share divine tea, and the two exchanged cultivation insights.
• Bai Ze agreed to remain in the Myriad Dao Alliance, and Myriad Thunder appointed him Supreme Guest Official with the same status as the Alliance Leader.
• Myriad Thunder announced Bai Ze’s breakthrough and appointment across the Alliance, and Winter Cloud Saint Venerable rushed to his Cave Mansion.

Bai Ze met with the Myriad Dao Alliance’s vice alliance leaders after breaking through to the Divine Emperor Realm, then secluded himself in Bai Ze Palace to refine the Origin of Dao and strengthen his Time Dao Fruit. The chapter left him immersed in a vast River of Time as his Dao Fruit slowly improved.

• Winter Cloud Saint Venerable, Thunder Fire Saint Venerable, and Fierce Wind Saint Venerable arrived at Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor's Cave Mansion and confirmed Bai Ze had reached the Divine Emperor Realm.
• Bai Ze recounted his experiences in the Azure Cloud Sect and accepted the vice alliance leaders’ offer to address him as Brother Bai.
• Bai Ze shared his experience condensing a Dao Fruit, pleasing Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor with his apparent commitment to the Myriad Dao Alliance.
• After visitors flocked to congratulate him, Bai Ze delegated them to Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor and entered seclusion in Bai Ze Palace.
• Bai Ze merged the Origin of Dao into his body, forming a River of Time around himself as his Time Dao Fruit gradually improved.

Bai Ze refined a wisp of the Origin of Dao, strengthened his Time Dao Fruit, and began repairing the Primordial Time-Space Tower. Elsewhere, Lü Ruoxue struggled to form a second Dao Fruit and considered using the Phoenix Clan’s Rebirth in Fire technique, unaware that Bai Ze had already reached the Divine Emperor Realm.

• Bai Ze fused the Origin of Dao with his comprehension and improved his Time Dao Fruit.
• Bai Ze reflected on the difficulty of advancing beyond the Divine Emperor Realm and the dangers faced by Divine Emperors who sought survival in the Divine Burial Ground.
• Bai Ze summoned the Primordial Time-Space Tower and used his power to nurture and repair it, resolving to find its remaining fragments.
• Lü Ruoxue continued cultivating in a sea of flames but failed to condense a Fire Dao Fruit.
• Lü Ruoxue considered using Rebirth in Fire despite its cost, then wondered how Bai Ze was progressing and assumed he had not reached the Divine Emperor Realm.

Lü Ruoxue used the Phoenix Clan’s Rebirth in Fire ability to face the volcano’s eruption and try to condense a Fire Dao Fruit. Meanwhile, Bai Ze restored the Primordial Time-Space Tower, broke through to the Divine Emperor Realm, and learned that its true master had left an inheritance for him.

• Lü Ruoxue realized the volcano’s eruption could rival a Divine Saint’s full-force strike and decided she might need Rebirth in Fire to condense her Fire Dao Fruit.
• After more than a decade without success, Lü Ruoxue transformed into a Nine Nether Phoenix and plunged into the erupting volcano using Rebirth in Fire.
• Lü Ruoxue endured the flames and gathered the Fire Law inside her body as she attempted to shape her Dao Fruit.
• Bai Ze restored the Primordial Time-Space Tower and entered it, where the Tower Elder congratulated him on reaching the Divine Emperor Realm.
• The Tower Elder told Bai Ze he could claim the inheritance of the tower’s old master, who was not Tongyuan Divine Venerable.

Bai Ze entered the fifth floor of the Primordial Time-Space Tower and discovered the Time-Space Dao Fruit left by its former master. After more than a hundred years of refining it, he transformed his own Time Dao Fruit and vowed to kill the Chaos Divine Emperor if he grew strong enough.

• Tower Elder told Bai Ze that the tower’s former master had left a rare inheritance for a successor who reached the Divine Emperor Realm.
• Bai Ze found the former master’s nearly perfected Time-Space Dao Fruit and realized that refining it required comprehension of the Time Law.
• Bai Ze began merging the Time-Space Dao Fruit into his own, entering a mysterious domain where he saw the River of Years.
• After more than a hundred years, Bai Ze’s Time Dao Fruit transformed into a Time-Space Dao Fruit, reaching twenty or thirty percent refinement.
• Bai Ze gained the former master’s memories and vowed to kill the Chaos Divine Emperor if his strength became sufficient.

After absorbing the Time-Space Divine Emperor’s memories, Bai Ze learned of ancient Divine Emperors who had surpassed the ninth level and were behind countless world-ending sacrifices. He spent several years comprehending the Half-Immortal sword art Immortal Points the Way, then emerged from the Primordial Time-Space Tower when the Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor arrived.

• Bai Ze uncovered the secrets of ancient powerhouses, including the Life-Death Divine Emperor’s control of the Reincarnation Palace and the ten-million-year catastrophes used to sustain himself.
• Bai Ze took the Half-Immortal sword art Immortal Points the Way and spent several years learning its single move.
• Bai Ze gained an initial grasp of the sword art, strengthening himself without improving his cultivation.
• Bai Ze sensed the Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor’s arrival, put away the Primordial Time-Space Tower, and went out to meet him.
• The Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor praised Bai Ze’s remarkable progress since their meeting a little over a hundred years earlier.

The Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor invited Bai Ze to attend the ten-thousand-year gathering at the Imperial City of the Domain, and Bai Ze agreed. They reached the ancient city, where Divine Emperors from across the Divine Might Realm assembled, as the imminent Divine Burial Cataclysm and the approaching Qiankun Realm loomed over the gathering.

• The Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor invited Bai Ze to travel with him to the Imperial City of the Domain, and Bai Ze accepted.
• The Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor told Bai Ze about the Divine Might Realm and the Divine Emperor experts they might encounter on the journey.
• Bai Ze and the Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor arrived at the immense, rune-covered Imperial City of the Domain, which the Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor said no one had managed to move or refine.
• Bai Ze saw dozens of Divine Emperor Realm experts gathered in the city, most of them at the First or Second Layer.
• The Azure Cloud Divine Emperor and other rulers of the Nine Great Divine Domains appeared, their gathering tied to the approaching Divine Burial Cataclysm and Qiankun Realm.

Bai Ze recognized the Arrogant World Divine Emperor, his old enemy, at a gathering of Divine Emperors. The Star God Emperor announced that they would sacrifice dozens to a hundred Lesser Worlds to the God Burial Ground to help the Divine Might Realm survive the approaching Divine Burial Cataclysm.

• Bai Ze spotted the Arrogant World Divine Emperor and recalled their past conflict and his hatred toward Lü Ruoxue.
• The Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor warned Bai Ze that the Arrogant World Divine Emperor had reached the Fifth Layer of Divine Emperor Realm, and Bai Ze concealed that they had met before.
• The rulers of the Nine Great Divine Domains gathered in the Imperial City of the Domain as Divine Emperor experts arrived.
• The Star God Emperor announced that the ten-million-year deadline was approaching and that the Divine Might Realm would abandon other worlds to withstand the coming catastrophe.
• The Divine Emperors agreed that sacrificing dozens to a hundred Lesser Worlds for the God Burial Ground to devour was worthwhile.

The Star God Emperor assigned the Divine Emperors and the nine Divine Domain rulers to move worlds for the Divine Burial Cataclysm, then hosted a century-long gathering on cultivation. Afterward, Bai Ze reunited with the Longevity Divine Emperor, who marveled at Bai Ze’s unprecedented rise to the Divine Emperor Realm.

• The Star God Emperor ordered each Divine Emperor to relocate a world and tasked the nine Divine Domain rulers with moving the rest for the sacrificial grounds.
• The Divine Domain experts shared their insights into the Divine Emperor Realm at the gathering, which concluded after a hundred years.
• The Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor said the gathering had deepened his understanding, while Bai Ze found its teachings unhelpful compared with the Time-Space Divine Emperor’s memories.
• After the rulers departed, Divine Emperors began trading treasures, and the Longevity Divine Emperor appeared beside Bai Ze.
• Bai Ze explained how he had met the Longevity Divine Emperor at the Longevity Pavilion, and the Longevity Divine Emperor praised Bai Ze’s astonishing breakthrough after only a few centuries.

Bai Ze traded a Top-grade Divine Artifact for the Sky-Shattering Sword Stone before departing for the Azure Cloud Divine Domain with the Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor and the Longevity Divine Emperor. Meanwhile, Lü Ruoxue emerged from a volcano after condensing the Fire Dao Fruit, though the rebirth ritual had reduced her cultivation by a major realm.

• Bai Ze offered the Flying Sky Divine Grinder in exchange for the Sky-Shattering Sword Stone, and the Divine Emperor accepted.
• Bai Ze returned to his companions, and the three set off for the Azure Cloud Divine Domain.
• Lü Ruoxue emerged from the volcano amid surging flames and the awe of the divine beasts.
• Lü Ruoxue confirmed that Rebirth in Fire had helped her condense the Fire Dao Fruit, but lowered her cultivation from the peak of the Divine Saint Realm to the peak of the Divine Venerable Realm.

Lü Ruoxue left the Azure Cloud Sect before she became trapped in its world, while Li Lüer and Mo Tiangang returned to the Myriad Dao Alliance and learned that Bai Ze had reached the Divine Emperor Realm. The chapter ended with Li Lüer marveling at how quickly Bai Ze had attained a realm most people could only dream of.

• Lü Ruoxue sensed that the world was beginning to reject her and decided to leave the Azure Cloud Sect before she lost the chance to return to the Divine Might Realm.
• Lü Ruoxue teleported outside the Azure Cloud Sect, tore open a spatial rift, and departed as the sect disappeared into the void.
• Li Lüer, Mo Tiangang, and the Treasure Seeking Mouse returned to the Myriad Dao Alliance after making major cultivation breakthroughs during their time in the sect.
• Li Lüer and Mo Tiangang learned that Bai Ze had become a Divine Emperor and a Supreme Guest Official, then hurried to Bai Ze Palace to see him.
• Bai Ze confirmed his breakthrough and briefly described his experience, while Li Lüer reacted with disbelief to his casual claim that reaching the Divine Emperor Realm had been inevitable.

Bai Ze forged the Sky-Shattering Sword by merging the Sky-Shattering Sword Stone with his Sword Dao, then joined the Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor to prepare for the approaching Divine Burial Cataclysm. They found a suitable world to move as a sacrifice, leaving its unsuspecting inhabitants unaware of the destruction ahead.

• Bai Ze gave precious resources to Mo Tiangang and the Treasure Seeking Mouse after they learned he had reached the Divine Emperor Realm.
• Bai Ze spent more than ten years tempering his divine sword with the Sky-Shattering Sword Stone and named the transformed weapon the Sky-Shattering Sword.
• Bai Ze reassured the Snow Dragon that he would find it a fine sword in the future, then took it outside the palace on his shoulder.
• Bai Ze met the Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor, and they discussed the Divine Burial Cataclysm before departing the Myriad Dao Alliance together.
• After months of searching, Bai Ze and the Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor found a suitable world, and Bai Ze surveyed its inhabitants, who remained unaware that it had been chosen for sacrifice.

Bai Ze erased the world's Heavenly Dao and carried the destabilized world to the sacrificial ground, where many worlds had gathered ahead of the Divine Burial Cataclysm. Back at Bai Ze Palace, Lü Ruoxue explained her plans to regain the Divine Emperor Realm and asked Bai Ze to help conceal her future tribulation.

• Bai Ze erased the Heavenly Dao and carried the world through chaos, leaving its inhabitants helpless amid disasters and unstable space.
• Several years later, Bai Ze reached the sacrificial ground and found dozens of worlds gathered there to be devoured by the God Burial Ground.
• The Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor told Bai Ze that the gathered worlds would shield the Divine Might Realm from the God Burial Ground, while Bai Ze remained wary of its true power.
• Bai Ze returned to Bai Ze Palace and reunited with Lü Ruoxue, who had learned of his breakthrough from Li Lüer.
• Lü Ruoxue told Bai Ze she had condensed two Dao Fruits using Rebirth in Fire and planned to regain her former realm before secretly attempting another Divine Emperor Realm tribulation; Bai Ze agreed to help conceal it.

After a hundred years of seclusion, Bai Ze fully integrated the Time-Space Divine Emperor's Dao Fruit, raised his Time-Space Dao Fruit to the sixth layer, and broke through to the Second Layer of Divine Emperor Realm. He left seclusion after finding he could not advance further soon, ordered Mo Tiangang to protect Lü Ruoxue, and disappeared to meet Winter Cloud Saint Venerable.

• Bai Ze spent a hundred years refining the Time-Space Dao Fruit after moving an entire world to the place of sacrifice.
• Bai Ze integrated the Time-Space Divine Emperor's Dao Fruit, raised his own Time-Space Dao Fruit to the sixth layer, and entered the Second Layer of Divine Emperor Realm.
• Bai Ze sensed that Lü Ruoxue remained in seclusion while Li Lüer and the Treasure Seeking Mouse were away from the Myriad Dao Alliance.
• Mo Tiangang told Bai Ze that Winter Cloud Saint Venerable had visited several years earlier to discuss an important matter.
• Bai Ze ordered Mo Tiangang to guard Bai Ze Palace and keep anyone from disturbing Lü Ruoxue, then vanished.
• Mo Tiangang sensed that Bai Ze had grown stronger, wondered if it was an illusion, and returned to guarding the palace.

Winter Cloud Saint Venerable warned Bai Ze that the Divine Demon Sect planned to attack while the Myriad Thunder Divine Emperor was away. After revealing his Second Layer Divine Emperor Realm cultivation, Bai Ze proposed using the threat as an opportunity to destroy the Divine Demon Sect.

• Winter Cloud Saint Venerable told Bai Ze that the Alliance Leader had entered a mysterious chaos space and had not returned.
• Winter Cloud Saint Venerable said the Divine Demon Sect had learned of the Alliance Leader’s absence and might join forces with other Divine Emperors to kill Bai Ze.
• Winter Cloud Saint Venerable urged Bai Ze to leave the Myriad Dao Alliance temporarily, but Bai Ze asked about the Heavenly Demon Divine Emperor’s strength.
• Bai Ze revealed that he had reached the Second Layer of Divine Emperor Realm and said he could survive even a fight against a Fourth Layer expert.
• Bai Ze concluded that the Divine Demon Sect could not defeat him and proposed destroying it while the opportunity remained.