Chapter Summaries

The Ten Sacred Ancestors of Nine Provinces revealed their plan to trap and eliminate the emperors threatening Myriad Heavens, then began refining the Unique True World. Yan Kuan opposed the plan and confronted Xiao Chen, arguing that eradicating powerful beings would leave Myriad Heavens vulnerable to threats from Beyond the Heavens.

• The Nine-Part Stone Person fused with the Heavenly Emperor's flesh-and-blood body, becoming a near-emperor-level Stone Man who overwhelmed the besiegers.
• Eight powerful emperors broke through the Unique True World and joined the Chaotic Ancient Five Heroes, but the gate closed and trapped them as the Ten Sacred Ancestors revealed their plan spanning Myriad Ages.
• Pangu, Nüwa, and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors sacrificed themselves to refine the Unique True World, using the sealed Source of All Evil to fuel the flames.
• The trapped emperors exploited arrangements they had left behind to reopen the gate, and Xiao Chen, Chi You, Xing Tian, and the allied civilizations tried to seal it with the Heavenly Steles and Sacred Objects.
• Yan Kuan stopped the experts of Nine Provinces from continuing their effort and approached the gate, prompting Xiao Chen to block him.
• Yan Kuan told Xiao Chen that he rejected the Ten Sacred Ancestors' plan and warned that eliminating emperors would not prevent future threats, especially from Beyond the Heavens.

Yan Kuan showed Xiao Chen a future in which the Heaven-Defying Family and their friends perished, then defeated the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and confronted the freed emperors of All Heavens. As Yan Kuan fused with Emperor Fire in the Unique True World, he turned the emperors who could not cross its sea of fire into nourishment.

• Yan Kuan engulfed Xiao Chen in visions of a future where the High Priestess, Mu Zizi, Keke’s father, Ruo Shui, and many of Xiao Chen’s friends died, while the worlds were merged and ruined.
• Xiao Chen returned to the present, acknowledged that Yan Kuan might be right, and sealed away the past and future after Yan Kuan took some of his Dao fruition and Dao Source.
• Yan Kuan argued that the sacred ancestors’ plan to suppress imperial power would leave the world unable to advance or defend itself, then defeated the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• The emperors of All Heavens emerged from their seals and attacked Yan Kuan, who declared that he would remake the world and use them as nourishment.
• Yan Kuan began fusing the Emperor Fire within the Unique True World, and emperors who failed to cross the sea of fire dissolved into the Origin of Dao.

Yan Kuan survived his violent breakthrough from King to Emperor and reached the level of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor. He then forged several supreme artifacts, culminating in his life-bound Purple Gold Emperor Pagoda, which left the Unique True World shaken by its power.

• Yan Kuan gathered the power of Myriad Ages and All Heavens, endured the destructive fusion of Emperor Fire, and completed his breakthrough while the surviving powerhouses watched.
• Xiao Chen and the Ten Ancestors of Nine Provinces explained how connecting the ancient, present, and future had offered them a chance at breakthrough but scattered their power and left them unable to advance.
• Yan Kuan used materials from the Nine Primordial Emperors to forge a Treasure Fan, then refined a World Stone, a Black Gourd, and a Five Elements Banner into supreme artifacts.
• Yan Kuan forged an Immortal Furnace with World Stones, immortal gold, Chaos Immortal Marrow, Emperor Fire, and the Dao Source of Myriad Heavens Emperors.
• Yan Kuan completed his intended life-bound weapon, the Purple Gold Emperor Pagoda, whose eruption nearly destroyed the Unique True World before it settled into stillness.

Yan Kuan concealed his Quasi-Immortal Emperor power and destroyed an invading force emerging through an Ancient Hall of Guidance. He defeated a nineteen-headed Fallen monster and learned that the Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors had sent imprisoned creatures to test the worlds beyond the Embankment.

• Xiao Chen and Ruo Shui lived peacefully in Zulong Village with Keke, who missed Yan Kuan and promised to cultivate until they reunited.
• Yan Kuan sensed an invasion gathering at the Embankment and used Quasi-Immortal Emperor fire to blur spacetime and hide his actions from the dark source.
• Yan Kuan awakened the Imperial Shadow of the Nameless Footprint Emperor, which slaughtered the Fallen Immortal Kings and swallowed the Ancient Hall of Guidance.
• A powerful nineteen-headed monster emerged from the destroyed hall, but the Emperor Fire killed it and refined its remains.
• Yan Kuan inferred that the Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors had released imprisoned Fallen creatures to test him after noticing his earlier actions.

Yan Kuan suppressed and refined the two Ancient Artifacts of Origin, erasing the Quasi-Immortal Emperor wills inside them and learning of the Dark Source’s plans. He then sent the Imperial Shadow into the Dark Prison, where it freed several primordial spirits before a mysterious Law forced it back.

• Yan Kuan drew the sealed Ancient Artifacts of Origin from the Burial Zone and the former Foreign Realm into the lost chaotic space-time.
• The Bone Crown revived the primordial spirit of the Nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor, which fought the Imperial Shadow as Yan Kuan sealed the battlefield.
• The Foreign Realm’s bone staff attacked Yan Kuan, who suppressed it and joined the Imperial Shadow in defeating the Bone Crown Being.
• Yan Kuan refined the Bone Crown and bone staff, erased their Quasi-Immortal Emperor wills, and learned that the artifacts had spread darkness for the Azure Emperor.
• Yan Kuan sent the Imperial Shadow into the Dark Prison, where it destroyed prisons and released primordial spirits before a mysterious Law forced it back.

In the Dark Land, Azure Emperor and Emperor Hong discussed the failure of a token and suspected that a new Quasi-Immortal Emperor had appeared beyond the Embankment. They sent a dark army to probe the other side and retrieve their people, leaving a great dark storm on its way.

• Azure Emperor awakened in the ruined Dark Heavenly Court and reflected on how he had sacrificed his universe and followers to attain power.
• Azure Emperor visited the dying Nameless Footprint Emperor and questioned whether he had given up on his purpose.
• Emperor Hong arrived and asked Azure Emperor about the disturbance beyond the Embankment.
• Azure Emperor explained that a token’s Divine Soul had been erased after Darkness failed to corrupt half of a world, raising suspicion that a new Quasi-Immortal Emperor had emerged.
• Azure Emperor and Emperor Hong ordered a dark army led by Immortal Kings to cross the Boundary Sea, retrieve their people, and guide outsiders into Darkness.

Yan Kuan entered the Tongtian Grounds and used the ancient carvings to witness Shi Hao’s reverse-lived lives in the Era of Emperor’s Fall. He interfered with that past to accelerate Shi Hao’s growth, then suffered a severe backlash from the time-stealing.

• Yan Kuan entered the Tongtian Grounds and found a Stone Chamber where a drop of Ancient Blood revealed fragments of the Era of Emperor’s Fall.
• The carvings showed Shi Hao reverse-living eight lives, failing to become immortal under the era’s suppression, and eventually observing the River of Time.
• The carvings pointed toward a mysterious Burial Ground beyond the Frontier Wasteland, and the beings in the chamber recognized that the events were connected to the Ancient Blood.
• Yan Kuan appeared before the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, the Bloodshot Eye, the Golden Palm Bone, the crystal skull, and the red Little Dog Pup, then used his power to restore the carvings.
• Yan Kuan sent an influence through time to make Shi Hao struggle toward immortality and kingship sooner, explaining that the Future End of Dharma era would leave him too little time.
• Yan Kuan spat blood and weakened after using Time-Stealing, accepting the risk because he wanted Shi Hao to mature before greater disasters struck.

Yan Kuan watched the Quasi-Immortal Emperor battle in the Era of Emperor's Fall while recovering from the backlash of changing the past, then detected future experts traveling upstream to alter history. After he planted Time-Space Anchors to aid Ye Fan and the others, a sleeping Mutilated Corpse awakened and sensed that someone might not belong to those years.

• Yan Kuan arrived in the Era of Emperor's Fall and observed several Quasi-Immortal Emperors fighting across the River of Time.
• Yan Kuan noticed future visitors, including figures with a great Cauldron and a Great Bell, probing the Era of Emperor's Fall before moving on.
• Yan Kuan saw three future Quasi-Immortal Emperors—a silver-haired man, a woman in golden armor, and a red-haired old man—traveling upstream to change history.
• Yan Kuan scattered Time-Space Anchors so Ye Fan and the others could prepare to ambush the three visitors, but he spat blood and fled after sensing danger.
• The Mutilated Corpse awakened in a silent universe, watched the Nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor's battle, and wondered whether someone from the future had entered those years.

Yan Kuan concealed himself through the Era of Emperor's Fall while plotting against the World-Ending Old Man, then watched Shi Hao risk everything to break the immortal shackles. Shi Hao became immortal amid the End of Dharma and began enduring a catastrophic tribulation as his Five Great Secret Realms transformed.

• The World-Ending Old Man watched the Three Fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperors kill the Nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor while Yan Kuan hid nearby and learned of the old man's role in spreading darkness.
• Yan Kuan planned schemes against the World-Ending Old Man and the Fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperors, then stayed concealed as they retreated to recover and the Era of Emperor's Fall began.
• Yan Kuan survived the long passage of time and a dangerous backlash from interfering with time as Shi Hao began his ninth life.
• Shi Hao fought the immortal Dao shackles for countless years, using medicine to survive repeated brushes with death until he nearly broke through them.
• Shi Hao emerged from the Heavenly Court imprint as an immortal, astonishing the beings of the End of Dharma and drawing a universe-spanning tribulation.
• Shi Hao faced the immense tribulation as his Five Great Secret Realms resonated into a new cultivation system, and Yan Kuan's own Secret Realms transformed as he watched.

Shi Hao endured the endless tribulation of the Era of Emperor's Fall, became immortal, created his own cultivation method, and opened the Sixth Secret Realm, becoming a Divine Being and an Immortal King. After Yan Kuan warned him that the Dark Land’s invading army was coming, Shi Hao hurried back through time while Yan Kuan disappeared into the River of Time, exhausted.

• Shi Hao became a True Immortal during his tribulation and fought off the immortal and king imprints sent against him.
• Using the Transcendence Chapter, Shi Hao created and perfected his own method, naming its stages from Wheel Sea through Immortal Platform while Yan Kuan obscured its meaning from the era.
• Shi Hao endured increasingly fierce tribulations while seeking a Sixth Secret Realm, and his Ten Reincarnation Seals formed from his transformations through life and death.
• As the End of Dharma ended and Heaven and Earth recovered, Shi Hao combined the Five Great Secret Realms with his Ten Reincarnation Seals and opened the Sixth Secret Realm, Divine Being.
• Yan Kuan urged Shi Hao to return because the Dark Land’s invading army was coming, and Shi Hao rushed downstream through time as Yan Kuan vanished into the River of Time.

Shi Hao returned from seclusion as an Immortal King, nourished the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, and passed down the Secret Realm Method. When he sensed the Dark Land’s army approaching through the Ancient Hall of Guidance, he intercepted it at the Boundary Sea and began battling the invaders as reinforcements arrived.

• Shi Hao returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, where his power transformed the world and his teachings awakened living beings across it.
• Shi Hao created and formally passed down the Secret Realm Method, sharing its true inheritance with Cao Yusheng, Crimson Dragon Ge Gu, Heavenly Horned Ant, and Qin Hao.
• Shi Hao sensed the Dark Land’s army approaching and warned the experts that they had to stop it before it passed the Embankment.
• Shi Hao opened a path to the Boundary Sea and intercepted the Army of Darkness as it emerged from the Ancient Hall of Guidance.
• Shi Hao fought alone, killing Fallen True Immortals and battling a fused Fallen Immortal King, while Kings and forces from the Immortal Realm arrived to aid him.

Shi Hao fought the Army of Darkness at the Boundary Sea Embankment, then spent an age battling and seeking a way to become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor. With no breakthrough in sight, he returned alone to the Lower Realm Eight Regions to revisit his old lands and sever his attachments before one final gamble in the Boundary Sea.

• Shi Hao fought through the Army of Darkness, joined the Kings in defeating a giant Fallen Monster, and suppressed the primordial spirits of several Fallen Kings.
• The Immortal Realm reactivated the formation from the Era of Emperor's Fall, halting the dark army's assault and turning the conflict into a prolonged war.
• Shi Hao became a renowned defender of the Myriad Heavens, repeatedly battling Fallen Monsters while seeking to break through from King to Emperor.
• Shi Hao spent thousands of years discussing the Dao and exchanging secret methods with Immortal Kings, gaining deeper insight into the gap between an Emperor Light Immortal King and a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Shi Hao traveled alone through the Immortal Realm, the Nine Heavens, and the Three Thousand Dao Provinces before returning to the Lower Realm Eight Regions.
• Shi Hao revisited the ancient lands of the Desolate Domain, offered worship to what remained of his past, and prepared to sever his attachments before his final gamble in the Boundary Sea.

Shi Hao fought through the Army of Darkness on the Embankment of the Boundary Sea as he attempted to Breakthrough King to Emperor. With the arrival of three Emperor Light Immortal Kings to hold back the attackers, he fused his primordial spirit with his body and began establishing the Heavenly Court.

• Shi Hao returned to the Embankment and began deducing his Emperor Road while the Heavenly Horned Ant, the Willow Deity, and other allies fought the Army of Darkness.
• Ge Gu and the Son of Kun Peng arrived to reinforce the defenders, while the Immortal King Qi Yu led the fight against the Fallen Fusion Monsters.
• Shi Hao began his breakthrough under the pressure of the battle, but an onslaught of Fallen Kings from the Boundary Sea broke through the defenses and wounded an Immortal King.
• Fake Medicine Seller, Chicken Keeper, and the Butcher arrived and joined the battle, with the three Emperor Light Immortal Kings forcing the dark offensive back.
• Shi Hao told the Butcher that he would Breakthrough King to Emperor and establish the Heavenly Court, then fused the primordial spirit above his head with his body.

After crushing the invading Army of Darkness, Shi Hao established the Heavenly Court and guarded the Boundary Sea for tens of thousands of years. He then entered the Boundary Sea alone to face the Dark Land, while a mysterious third row of footprints appeared on the Embankment and the Heavenly Court prepared for the coming battle.

• Shi Hao and the allied kings annihilated the Army of Darkness, and Shi Hao recovered while stabilizing the Boundary Sea Embankment.
• Shi Hao established the Heavenly Court, organized the realms under its command, and exiled the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin to preserve it from future dangers.
• After tens of thousands of peaceful years, Shi Hao received a Dao Fire and prepared to confront the Dark Land, leaving Butcher, Chicken Keeper, and Fake Medicine Seller to defend the Heavenly Court.
• Shi Hao stepped into the Boundary Sea and left a second row of footprints on the Embankment, prompting the kings to realize that the ancient footprints had been left by a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• The Female Burial King noticed a third row of footprints, and Butcher stopped the others from discussing it; the Emperor Light Immortal Kings guarded the Embankment and gained insights from the traces.
• Several thousand years later, the Heavenly Court flourished as new Immortal Kings emerged and the Boundary Sea remained quiet.

Shi Hao crossed the Boundary Sea, reached the Dark Land, and challenged the Azure Emperor after destroying the Dark Heavenly Court. He defeated the Azure Emperor, then a second Quasi-Immortal Emperor appeared and helped pin him down.

• Shi Hao followed the Path of Guidance to the far end of the Boundary Sea and warned the ancient Kings to return to the Immortal Realm.
• Shi Hao crossed the Gray Embankment, entered the Dark Land, and found the corrupted remains of countless beings and medicines.
• Shi Hao attacked the Dark Heavenly Court and shattered its central palace, awakening the Azure Emperor.
• Shi Hao and the Azure Emperor fought with their Quasi-Immortal Emperor weapons and arts, and Shi Hao pierced the Azure Emperor's brow.
• As Shi Hao moved to finish the defeated Azure Emperor, another Quasi-Immortal Emperor appeared in a sea of fire and struck him down.

Yan Kuan and Shi Hao trapped Azure Emperor, then left Willow Deity and Small Pagoda to suppress him while they confronted Emperor Hong and Feather Emperor. As Shi Hao fought the two emperors and they threatened the imprisoned spirits and the Immortal Realm, Yan Kuan invoked sacrificial karma against Emperor Hong.

• Yan Kuan and Shi Hao overwhelmed Azure Emperor, and Yan Kuan sealed him beneath Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao Fire.
• Willow Deity and Small Pagoda joined with the Nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor's remnant power to suppress Azure Emperor inside the twelve-story White Jade Bone Tower.
• Shi Hao fought Emperor Hong and Feather Emperor alone, suffering grave injuries as Emperor Hong threatened the beings imprisoned in the Dark Prisons.
• Feather Emperor summoned an Army of Darkness and ordered it to attack the Immortal Realm while Shi Hao struggled against both emperors.
• Yan Kuan confronted Emperor Hong and used an ancient Altar to unleash sacrificial karma against him.

Yan Kuan and Shi Hao fought Emperor Hong and Feather Emperor, turning the battle against the two Fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperors. The chapter left Shi Hao facing Emperor Hong with a second Quasi-Immortal Emperor-strength version of himself summoned by the He Transforms Freedom Great Method.

• Yan Kuan used the cursed altar and the fallen beings’ karmic remnants to attack Emperor Hong, but the altar and Emperor Hong’s Death Realm both shattered.
• Shi Hao battled Feather Emperor with the Great Luo Sword Embryo while Yan Kuan fought Emperor Hong, and Yan Kuan sent fire to support his disciple.
• Yan Kuan created Emperor Fire Dao Bodies and used One Qi Transforms Three Purities before joining Shi Hao to attack Feather Emperor, whose chariot, mounts, and defenses were destroyed.
• Shi Hao wounded Feather Emperor with the Great Luo Sword Embryo, and Yan Kuan used Shi Hao’s Dragon-Phoenix Scissors to badly injure Emperor Hong as he arrived to help.
• Yan Kuan fought Feather Emperor with the Rotten Wooden Box while Shi Hao used the He Transforms Freedom Great Method to summon a second Shi Hao with Quasi-Immortal Emperor combat strength against Emperor Hong.

Shi Hao and his Transformation Freedom body overwhelmed Emperor Hong while Yan Kuan held off Feather Emperor, turning the battle against the three dark emperors. Feather Emperor was lured away from Azure Emperor, leaving him trapped with Willow Deity and Small Pagoda as Yan Kuan declared his end had come.

• Shi Hao and his Transformation Freedom body fought Emperor Hong while Yan Kuan kept Feather Emperor occupied, and the five Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level fighters unleashed their full strength.
• Shi Hao broke Emperor Hong’s Death Realm curse with the Great Luo Sword Embryo, then repeatedly split apart his body and primordial spirit.
• Shi Hao’s attacks left Emperor Hong close to death, while Yan Kuan and Feather Emperor battled in the Dark Land and Yan Kuan rejected Feather Emperor’s offer to join forces.
• Yan Kuan told Feather Emperor that Emperor Hong was about to die, prompting Feather Emperor to rush toward the cries for help before realizing Yan Kuan had tricked him.
• Feather Emperor chose to keep going toward Emperor Hong, leaving Azure Emperor to face Willow Deity and Small Pagoda in the twelve-story White Jade Bone Tower as Yan Kuan announced Azure Emperor’s end.

Yan Kuan entered the battlefield inside Small Pagoda and joined Willow Deity against Azure Emperor, whose sacrificial Emperor Method nearly overwhelmed her. Yan Kuan helped her defeat and refine Azure Emperor, gaining strange Dao Fire that would aid in destroying the Dark Land, while Willow Deity began her breakthrough from King to Emperor.

• Yan Kuan suppressed the White Jade Bone Tower with the Purple Gold Emperor Pagoda and entered the battlefield where Willow Deity and Small Pagoda fought Azure Emperor.
• Willow Deity fought Azure Emperor with the Nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s Dao Fire and Emperor methods, but Azure Emperor unleashed Sacrifice and Extinguish All Things and nearly pulled her onto his Altar.
• Yan Kuan arrived, gave Willow Deity an Emperor Pill, and joined her in destroying Azure Emperor’s Altar with a sea of fire.
• Yan Kuan and Willow Deity trapped Azure Emperor in the Nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s Dao Fire, and Yan Kuan beheaded him before the fire began refining his body and Divine Soul.
• Willow Deity began transforming toward Emperor, while Yan Kuan obtained strange Dao Fire from refining Azure Emperor as a foundation for destroying the Dark Land.

Yan Kuan and Shi Hao drove Emperor Hong and Feather Emperor into a prolonged retreat after Shi Hao’s Transformation Freedom body sacrificed itself to injure them. After more than ten thousand years of fighting, World-Ending Old Man finally awakened and began restoring his body.

• Yan Kuan took Azure Emperor’s Dao Fire from the Twilight Domain and hurried back to join Shi Hao’s battle against Emperor Hong and Feather Emperor.
• Shi Hao’s two bodies overwhelmed Emperor Hong, but he could not kill a Quasi-Immortal Emperor outright; he then used the Bone Crown and bone staff to devastate Emperor Hong’s Divine Soul.
• Shi Hao sacrificed his Transformation Freedom body in an explosion that injured both Emperor Hong and Feather Emperor, while Yan Kuan revealed that Azure Emperor had been reduced to Dao Fire.
• Yan Kuan and Shi Hao pursued and fought Feather Emperor and Emperor Hong for more than ten thousand years, steadily wearing down their bodies and souls.
• Feather Emperor and Emperor Hong led the battle toward the Boundary Sea, hoping World-Ending Old Man could change the outcome.
• World-Ending Old Man awakened, summoned his severed arm from the Dark Land, and began restoring his body.