Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan survived his Great Saint tribulation, completed the Heavenly Emperor Fist, and began reshaping his cultivation path around his own understanding. While he recovered, Ren Xiaoyao ambushed him, and their battle continued with neither gaining the upper hand despite Ye Fan's severe injuries.

• Ye Fan fought Great Emperor Wushang's phantom through the lightning tribulation and eventually forced it back, completing his breakthrough to the Great Saint realm.
• After the tribulation ended, Ye Fan realized the Heavenly Emperor Inheritance required him to forge his own path and refined his secret realms into a harmonious system suited to him.
• As Ye Fan recovered from his injuries, Ren Xiaoyao ambushed him and carved a deep wound across his chest.
• Ye Fan confronted Ren Xiaoyao and countered his extreme speed with the Heavenly Emperor Fist, while secretly preparing a Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill in case he needed it.
• Ren Xiaoyao revealed he had reached the third step of the Great Saint realm and roared in frustration because he still could not defeat the grievously wounded Ye Fan.

Ye Fan defeated Ren Xiaoyao in a battle on the Emperor's Path, but Ren Xiaoyao escaped after nearly killing him with a primordial spirit sword. The Undying Heavenly Emperor healed Ren Xiaoyao and revealed that emperors of past ages had returned through reincarnation, calling this their only opportunity.

• Ren Xiaoyao summoned heroic spirits with a scripture, but Ye Fan used the Heavenly Emperor Fist to destroy them and countered Ren Xiaoyao's attack with the Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill and Nine Secrets: Zhe.
• Ye Fan tore off Ren Xiaoyao's arms, then survived Ren Xiaoyao's primordial spirit Dao sword when the Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron blocked it.
• Ren Xiaoyao escaped, and witnesses declared Ye Fan's victory had established him as a rival to the other supreme heavenly geniuses.
• Ren Xiaoyao fled into the starry sky, where the Undying Heavenly Emperor confronted him, mocked his defeat, and restored his injuries.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor urged Ren Xiaoyao to kill the Emperor Venerable and the Great Demon, then revealed that emperors of past ages had returned through reincarnation.
• Ren Xiaoyao realized that the Supreme Emperor, Nine Li, and Xue Yueqing were reincarnated Great Emperors.

Ye Fan traveled the Ancient Starry Sky Path, deepening his understanding of the Dao as he approached the Quasi-Emperor realm. He encountered Duan De being beaten and extorted by the returning Chaotic Ancient, who revealed that his axe was no longer an imperial weapon.

• Ren Xiaoyao accepted Undying Heavenly Emperor's call to gather Imperial Dao figures for a final battle against the Great Demon at the end of the Path to Immortality.
• Ye Fan spent centuries traveling the Ancient Starry Sky Path, contemplating the cycles of life and death and forming his own Dao.
• Ye Fan reached a ruined ancient star and found Duan De being whipped by a streak of light as he complained about the Boundless Heavenly Venerate.
• Duan De summoned the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Pot, but the linen-clad youth pursuing him displayed the Chaotic Ancient Axe and identified himself as the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor.
• Duan De gave Chaotic Ancient a string of Sarira and several treasures to stop the beating, and Chaotic Ancient departed after warning that his axe was no longer an imperial weapon.

Ye Fan found Duan De after Ran Gu had beaten him and taken his treasures, then agreed to accompany him to the Imperial Pass. On the way, they encountered the reincarnated Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor fighting the unknown great emperor Liu Mang.

• Duan De raged over Ran Gu's beating and the loss of his treasures, then asked Ye Fan to avenge him.
• Ye Fan suspected the Heaven Swallowing Great Emperor might return, and Duan De kept the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Pot rather than hand it over.
• Ye Fan invited Duan De to the Imperial Pass, and Duan De agreed after asking for help against the reincarnated emperors pursuing him.
• News of Ye Fan's arrival spread through the Imperial Pass, drawing prodigies and great emperors toward the city.
• Ye Fan and Duan De sensed a battle in the starry sky and went to watch Blood Phoenix fight Liu Mang.
• Blood Phoenix attacked Liu Mang with his Phoenix Wing Gold Plated Trident, and Liu Mang met him with a long blade.

Ye Fan and Duan De reached the Imperial Pass after Liu Mang’s fight with Blood Phoenix was interrupted by Yuan Emperor. There, Fairy Qingshi warned Ye Fan that several ancient emperors were hostile toward him, and he declared that he would kill any who came for him.

• Liu Mang fought Blood Phoenix until Yuan Emperor arrived, forcing Liu Mang to withdraw.
• Ye Fan and Duan De entered the Imperial City and were invited by Fairy Qingshi to meet her.
• Fairy Qingshi discussed the rivalries among the ancient emperors and warned Ye Fan that Qilin Ancient Emperor, Stone Emperor, and Spirit Emperor were especially hostile toward him.
• Ye Fan suspected Ren Xiaoyao was involved and said he would kill anyone who came after him.

Ye Fan left Fairy Qingshi and encountered Nine Li, who praised his prospects while accusing Duan De of robbing his tomb. Duan De’s stolen Emperor weapon fragments revealed the Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing’s arrival, and Xue Yueqing reclaimed the fragments as the chapter ended with him facing Duan De.

• Ye Fan rejected Fairy Qingshi’s implied recruitment, while Di Tian watched and vowed to defeat every Great Emperor and Imperial Sovereign on the Emperor’s Path.
• Ye Fan and Duan De entered the Imperial Pass, where Nine Li arrived and praised Ye Fan’s talent.
• Nine Li recognized Duan De as the tomb robber he had beaten before, and the crowd was stunned when he called Duan De an Emperor returned through reincarnation.
• Five fragments of the Demon Emperor Ruler burst from Duan De’s Sea of Suffering, drawing the Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing to the Imperial Pass.
• Xue Yueqing reassembled and reclaimed the fragments, stored the damaged Demon Emperor Ruler, and looked calmly at Duan De.

After learning that Ren Xiaoyao had opened his parents’ empty mausoleums and spread a claim that killing Ye Fan and Great Emperor Wushang would allow immortality, Ye Fan rose to Quasi-Emperor and searched the Emperor’s Path for him. At the ninth pass, Ye Fan sat with his back to the assembled ancient emperors and sovereigns and carved a vast ravine before the gate, declaring that anyone who crossed would die.

• Jiuli told Ye Fan that Ren Xiaoyao had claimed Ye Fan and Great Emperor Wushang were a great evil and that killing them would grant immortality.
• Xue Yueqing revealed that Ren Xiaoyao and two ancient sovereigns had opened Ye Fan’s parents’ mausoleums and found them empty, provoking Ye Fan to swear he would kill Ren Xiaoyao.
• Ye Fan triggered a Quasi-Emperor tribulation, killed two attacking ancient sovereigns, and spent more than two centuries searching the Emperor’s Path for Ren Xiaoyao.
• Ye Fan reached the ninth pass, where dozens of reincarnated ancient emperors and sovereigns gathered to watch him approach.
• Ye Fan turned his back on the assembled figures and used his Xuanhuang cauldron to carve a vast ravine before the Emperor Pass, warning that anyone who crossed would die.

Ye Fan held the Imperial Pass against the reincarnated emperors while tempering his nearly complete Sacred Body. In the Eastern Wasteland, Gu Shaoshang killed Ren Xiaoyao, placed the White Tiger in his body, and sent him to find hidden forbidden-zone survivors to challenge Ye Fan.

• Ye Fan blocked the Imperial Pass as the ancient emperors waited for its gates to open, and he continued cultivating under the pressure of their looming challenge.
• Gu Shaoshang captured Ren Xiaoyao, mocked his failure, and erased his primordial spirit after learning about his past lives.
• Gu Shaoshang summoned the White Tiger from the Yang Shen World and placed its will in Ren Xiaoyao's body.
• The White Tiger reported that Hong Yi would remain in the Yang Shen World for several eras and would likely emerge as an Innate Divine Demon.
• Gu Shaoshang ordered the White Tiger to absorb Ren Xiaoyao's remaining memories and find hidden forbidden-zone survivors to challenge Ye Fan on the Emperor's Path.

The White Tiger, disguised as Ren Xiaoyao, recruited Heavenly Abandonment Supreme into a plan to kill Ye Fan by promising to extend his peak Imperial lifespan. As Ye Fan meditated before the Imperial Pass, he glimpsed a future battle on the path to the Immortal Domain and a mysterious figure watching from a throne.

• The White Tiger landed in Heavenly Abandonment Supreme’s forbidden zone and mocked him for being driven from the Big Dipper by Wushang and Wushi.
• The White Tiger offered Heavenly Abandonment Supreme an alliance backed by the Undying Heavenly Emperor and the promise of extended peak Imperial lifespan.
• Heavenly Abandonment Supreme agreed to hear the target, and the White Tiger named Sacred Body Ye Fan.
• Ye Fan spent decades cultivating before the Imperial Pass, then entered deep meditation after realizing he was too impatient to reach the Emperor’s Path.
• Ye Fan glimpsed a future in which Great Emperors fought on the immortal path, while a powerful figure sat on a throne and watched them battle.

Ye Fan blocked the newly opened Imperial Pass, then defeated Di Tian with a single punch from his Dao body. The Imperial Lord arrived to challenge him, and Ye Fan asked where Di Kun was.

• Ye Fan awoke from a vision of a mysterious figure and watched the Ninth Imperial Pass open amid a cosmic upheaval.
• Di Tian urged Ye Fan to stop blocking the path, then attacked him when Ye Fan stayed silent.
• Ye Fan’s Dao body shattered Di Tian’s attack and armor with one punch, sending him flying a million miles away.
• Fairy Qingshi pursued the wounded Di Tian as the other contenders recoiled from Ye Fan’s strength.
• The Imperial Lord of the Divine Court arrived in a blue-gold tower, declared his intent to kill Ye Fan, and said Di Kun had delayed him for over two hundred years.
• Ye Fan asked the Imperial Lord where Di Kun was.

Ye Fan’s Dao body defeated the Imperial Lord and shattered his Quasi-Emperor tower, proving its overwhelming strength. Three supreme beings and an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon then ambushed Ye Fan, who split into three selves to face them.

• Ye Fan’s Dao body stepped forward and fought the Imperial Lord while Ye Fan watched.
• Ye Fan’s Dao body overwhelmed the Imperial Lord, shattered his blue-gold tower, broke his armor, and sent him flying.
• Ye Fan declared that the Imperial Lord was no match for Di Kun and challenged the others to emerge.
• A supreme being attacked Ye Fan, followed by two more supreme beings and a flawless Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
• Ye Fan split into his Dao body, Shattered Self, and True Self, and all three struck back at the attackers.

Ye Fan fought three Supremes and used their combined pressure to approach great accomplishment of his Sacred Body. As the Supremes tried to kill him before he broke through, Ye Fan struck back with a golden fist and sent the Myriad Dragon Bell flying.

• Ye Fan split into three forms and battled the Heavenly Abandonment Supreme, Light-Dark Supreme, and Black Tortoise Sovereign, while his Dao Body and Shattered Self repeatedly shattered.
• Ye Fan met the Myriad Dragon Bell with his bare fist and sent the Imperial Weapon flying, stunning the assembled emperors and experts.
• Nine Li moved to help Ye Fan, but Ren Xiaoyao confronted him, and the two began a fierce battle.
• The Fighting Saint Emperor stopped Sage Prince from intervening, saying Ye Fan had to walk the Emperor's Path alone.
• The three Supremes shattered Ye Fan's two other forms and struck his true body, but Ye Fan used the pressure to approach great accomplishment of the Sacred Body.
• The Supremes sensed Ye Fan's imminent breakthrough and attacked with everything they had, but Ye Fan's golden fist sent the Myriad Dragon Bell flying and blew apart one Supreme.

After Ye Fan reached Great Accomplishment and defeated the invading supreme beings, Gu Shaoshang took Nannan to the Primordial Forbidden Land and urged the Empress to confront her longing for her brother. Two thousand years later, Ye Fan attained the Dao and ushered in the Heavenly Emperor Era.

• Ye Fan reached Great Accomplishment, blasted apart a nameless supreme being, and attacked Heavenly Abandonment Supreme and another supreme being before they could undergo ultimate sublimation.
• Gu Shaoshang took Nannan to the Primordial Forbidden Land and gave the Empress a scripture containing his insights into higher realms, telling her that he was not her brother.
• The Empress quietly accepted the scripture and called out to her brother after Gu Shaoshang left.
• Over two thousand years, Fighting Saint Emperor and Nine Li Great Emperor attained the Dao, many other emperors followed, and a Black Dog became the Golden Age's final imperial being.
• Ye Fan attained the Dao, surpassed all Great Emperors, and began the Heavenly Emperor Era.

Ye Fan traced the Heavenly Emperor Inheritance mirror to its source and discovered that Gu Shaoshang was his father, the Emperor Lord, and Great Emperor Wushang. Gu Shaoshang explained his plan to remake heaven and earth and told Ye Fan that the final struggle would begin in three days, leaving him only that long to prepare to hold back the Great Emperors.

• Duan De left the Heavenly Court to seek his own path, while Black Dog dragged Sage Prince and the others away.
• Ye Fan entered the bronze mirror and followed its manifestation of will to the Immortal Domain.
• Gu Shaoshang appeared and revealed that he had been the Emperor Lord and Great Emperor Wushang, then explained his history and the existence of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
• Gu Shaoshang told Ye Fan that the ancient emperors who attacked him in lightning tribulations had been part of his plans, and that killing him could let them become immortal.
• Gu Shaoshang said heaven and earth's final struggle would arrive in three days and asked Ye Fan to hold off the Great Emperors for seven days.

Gu Shaoshang told Ye Fan that the Path to Immortality was about to open, while a worried reincarnation squad sought help from Emperor Qitian. Ye Fan prepared to face the opening and glimpsed a sphere of light inside the Path to Immortality.

• Gu Shaoshang told Ye Fan to find Wushi after the Path to Immortality opened and revealed that he had left the Undying Heavenly Emperor a few descendants.
• Nan Tianba, Xuan Zhenzong, Dongfang Bai, and Kuayue debated their growing danger and agreed to request support from the Myriad Heavens Travelers.
• The injured Emperor Qitian accepted the squad’s request, sent an illusory figure to descend into another world, and appeared there as the World-Destroying Demon.
• Ye Fan gathered his friends, traveled through the stars with Ji Ziyue for three days, then went to the Imperial Pass to inspect the Path to Immortality.
• Ye Fan glimpsed a sphere of light, ninety percent covered in black radiance, releasing its final sliver of white light.

The Emperor’s Path opened into a nine-level immortal path, drawing Ye Fan and the era’s Great Emperors into its first world. There they found Emperor Wushi besieged by the Undying Heavenly Emperor and another powerful foe; Wushi killed his opponent, while the Undying Heavenly Emperor fled from the Fighting Saint Emperor.

• Ye Fan watched the Emperor’s Path awaken, and Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors gathered as the path revealed nine strange worlds leading toward the Immortal Domain.
• The gathered figures entered the first world, where the Fighting Saint Emperor struck down a ninth-level Quasi-Emperor and found Wushi fighting the Undying Heavenly Emperor and a native immortal-level expert.
• The Black Dog charged at the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and the Fighting Saint Emperor attacked him while Wushi confronted the other opponent.
• Wushi overpowered the native expert, crushed him with one hand, and turned his remains into a pill of blood essence before reuniting with the tearful Black Dog.
• The Fighting Saint Emperor battled the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who deflected his strike and then transformed into a streak of rainbow light to flee.

The Great Emperors pursued the Undying Heavenly Emperor through the immortal road, but his battle with Fighting Saint Emperor helped him become a Mortal Immortal. As the Great Emperors prepared to attack him, a mysterious voice and colossal hand appeared to challenge him.

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor fled Ye Fan and the Great Emperors, but they pursued him through the immortal road while Fighting Saint Emperor intercepted him.
• Fighting Saint Emperor fought the Undying Heavenly Emperor and was badly wounded, but their clash helped the Undying Heavenly Emperor begin his transformation into an immortal.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor endured the combined attacks of Wushi and the Great Emperors, emerged as a Mortal Immortal, and vowed to kill them all.
• Jiuli charged the Undying Heavenly Emperor as the Great Emperors prepared to attack, but a calm voice called him a little chick and a massive hand descended upon him.

Gu Shaoshang appeared at the end of the Immortal Path and effortlessly suppressed the Undying Heavenly Emperor, then revealed his identity to the returned Great Emperors. As they prepared to fight him for entry into the immortal domain, Gu Shaoshang demanded to know where his son was.

• Gu Shaoshang struck the Undying Heavenly Emperor with a palm, overwhelming his immortal blade and crushing him beneath the cosmic void.
• Gu Shaoshang sealed the struggling Undying Heavenly Emperor inside the Primordial World rather than killing him.
• An Ancient Emperor asked whether Gu Shaoshang was the Emperor Lord, and Gu Shaoshang revealed his name.
• Amitabha Buddha and the other returned Great Emperors confronted Gu Shaoshang and demanded that he clear the way to the immortal domain.
• Gu Shaoshang faced the assembled Great Emperors and asked, "Where is my son!"

Gu Shaoshang offered the Great Emperors one final chance to enter the Immortal Domain: they had to defeat him before the path closed in seven days. As Ye Fan, Wushi, and their allies fought off the emperors, Gu Shaoshang became a Mortal Immortal, leaving every emperor subdued beneath his supreme Dao.

• Gu Shaoshang revealed that Ye Fan and Wushi were his sons and challenged the Great Emperors to defeat him before the Path to Immortality closed.
• Ye Fan, Wushi, and Black Dog blocked the emperors from reaching Gu Shaoshang, but dozens of opponents overwhelmed them in battle.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor arrived and fought alongside them, followed by Gu Shaoshang's Great Emperor Wushang avatar and the Qing Emperor.
• A hidden young Daoist appeared with a formation of four Great Emperors wielding immortal swords, while the battle continued for several days.
• Gu Shaoshang opened his eyes and completed his breakthrough to Mortal Immortal, causing the fighting emperors to stop and lower their eyes before him.

Gu Shaoshang defeated the world’s former will, became a Mortal Immortal, and persuaded the surviving emperors to join him in returning to the Chaotic Ancient Era to confront the darkness. After holding Ye Fan’s wedding on Beidou, he gathered the emperors beyond the Eternal Ancient Star to meet visitors from the Main God Hall.

• Gu Shaoshang revealed that the Immortal Domain held no true immortals and urged the emperors to seek the immortal path through cultivation in the mortal world.
• Gu Shaoshang explained that the Desolate Heaven Emperor had separated their world from the Chaotic Ancient Era, and challenged the emperors to face the darkness there.
• The emperors agreed to return with Gu Shaoshang, who planned to use the Shrouding the Heavens World as a boat to cross time and space.
• Gu Shaoshang held Ye Fan’s wedding on Beidou, where both Ji Ziyue and An Miaoyi attended and beings above the Saint realm gathered from across the universe.
• Gu Shaoshang summoned the emperors and ancient emperors beyond the Eternal Ancient Star to meet visitors from the Main God Hall.