Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan and Shi Hao reached the Boundary Sea battlefield and confronted World-Ending Old Man after he restored his body and joined Feather Emperor and Emperor Hong. As the battle escalated and the two dark emperors recovered with Emperor Pills, three Quasi-Immortal Emperors approached from the River of Time.

• Yan Kuan, Shi Hao, and their allies arrived at the Embankment, where the Heavenly Court and Burial Lord had helped hold back the Army of Darkness for tens of thousands of years.
• World-Ending Old Man reassembled his severed body and descended upon the Boundary Sea, where Feather Emperor and Emperor Hong hailed him as their senior.
• Yan Kuan revealed that he had deceived World-Ending Old Man in the distant past, then told Shi Hao to fight Feather Emperor and Emperor Hong while he faced the old man.
• Shi Hao attacked Feather Emperor and Emperor Hong as Yan Kuan battled World-Ending Old Man, who tried to strike the Embankment and then gave the two dark emperors Emperor Pills to restore their strength.
• Feather Emperor and Emperor Hong swallowed the pills as three Quasi-Immortal Emperors appeared from downstream in the River of Time.

Yan Kuan and Shi Hao faced six Quasi-Immortal Emperors after three experts from the Future arrived to kill them and change history. Yan Kuan revealed the encounter was a trap as Ye Fan, Beginningless Great Emperor, and the White-Clad Empress arrived to turn the fight against the time travelers.

• Three Quasi-Immortal Emperors traveled against the current and attacked Yan Kuan and Shi Hao, claiming they had come to kill Wild Heaven Emperor.
• The travelers urged Feather Emperor, Emperor Hong, and World-Ending Old Man to join them, and all six attacked Yan Kuan and Shi Hao.
• Yan Kuan evaded their strikes and called for Ye Hei, revealing that he had lured the attackers into a trap.
• Ye Fan arrived with his cauldron and struck the Silver-Haired Halberdier and the Old Man with Heavenly Measuring Ruler, while Yan Kuan greeted him as Little Blackie.
• Beginningless Great Emperor and the White-Clad Empress arrived from downstream, and the Empress struck the Battle Skirt Woman and declared that the time travelers could not change history.

Beginningless, Ye Fan, and the Empress fought the three Quasi-Immortal Emperors who had traveled upstream, while Yan Kuan revealed that their desperation to kill Shi Hao stemmed from his threat to their future. As the battle continued, Yan Kuan exposed World-Ending Old Man’s hidden scheme to consume Feather Emperor and Emperor Hong after their temporary recovery failed.

• The Golden-Gowned Woman urged her allies to kill Shi Hao, while Beginningless, Ye Fan, and the Empress battled the three invaders from the future.
• Ye Fan and Beginningless repeatedly overwhelmed their opponents with their fists, and the Empress drove back the Golden-Clad Woman.
• Yan Kuan said the invaders feared Shi Hao because he had repeatedly defeated them, and he revealed that their ability to resurrect had helped them endure.
• Yan Kuan explained that World-Ending Old Man’s Emperor Pills only restored Feather Emperor and Emperor Hong temporarily and would bring harsher backlash.
• World-Ending Old Man admitted the pills were temporary medicine, while the narration revealed he had secretly planned to devour Feather Emperor, Emperor Hong, and the other fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperors.

Yan Kuan and Shi Hao battled World-Ending Old Man as Emperor Hong and Feather Emperor devoured the Army of Darkness and joined the fight. Yan Kuan then activated a sacrificial altar through his Imperial Shadow, summoning Yu Wudi to target the Nine Nether Hound Ancestor and leaving World-Ending Old Man in pain.

• Yan Kuan exposed World-Ending Old Man’s origins and proposed helping him pursue the Immortal Emperor Realm, making Feather Emperor and Emperor Hong wary of their ally.
• Emperor Hong and Feather Emperor retreated to the Army of Darkness while Shi Hao pursued them with three battle bodies; Yan Kuan and Shi Hao fought World-Ending Old Man together.
• World-Ending Old Man fell from his perfect state and revealed his true Nine Nether Hound form, attacking Shi Hao and Yan Kuan with his devouring maw and nine dragon-headed tails.
• Emperor Hong and Feather Emperor devoured the Army of Darkness to restore their strength, then joined World-Ending Old Man in a final assault on Yan Kuan and Shi Hao.
• Yan Kuan summoned an Imperial Shadow bearing Azure Emperor’s aura and formed an ancient altar across the Boundary Sea.
• Yu Wudi appeared on the altar and offered his power in a living sacrifice against World-Ending Old Man, causing the old man’s severed remnant leg to erupt in pain.

Yan Kuan and Shi Hao fought the World-Ending Old Man, Feather Emperor, and Emperor Hong while the Empress, Ye Fan, and the Beginningless Bell defeated the three Quasi-Immortal Emperors from the future. The World-Ending Old Man was beaten and gravely weakened, but he remained standing and raised a claw toward Yan Kuan.

• Yu Wudi sacrificed himself to curse the World-Ending Old Man, and Yan Kuan’s Imperial Shadow struck him with Emperor Fire.
• Shi Hao tore off both of the Feather Emperor’s wings and battered him, while Yan Kuan shattered Emperor Hong’s purple armor and began refining him.
• The World-Ending Old Man returned after using an Emperor Pill, but the Empress defeated the Golden-Clad Woman, Ye Fan and the Empress suppressed the Silver-Haired Man, and the Beginningless Bell captured the Old Man with Heavenly Measuring Ruler.
• Yan Kuan tore off six of the World-Ending Old Man’s tails and cracked his body, leaving him badly wounded as the Feather Emperor and Emperor Hong watched in alarm.
• The World-Ending Old Man muttered that everything would return to darkness, then raised a claw and pointed it at Yan Kuan.

Yan Kuan held back the fused World-Ending Old Man, Emperor Hong, and Feather Emperor while Shi Hao accepted sacrifices from Shi Yi, Qin Hao, and countless descendants to begin transforming. As the three enemies fused further, Yan Kuan unleashed the Immortal Execution Emperor Formation, sacrificing the realms to strike at the Dark Storm.

• The World-Ending Old Man, Feather Emperor, and Emperor Hong fused their power and attacked Yan Kuan and Shi Hao, while Yan Kuan used his ultimate form to hold them back.
• Shi Yi sacrificed his Immortal King Origin to repay his karmic debt to Shi Hao, and the Heavenly Horned Ant and others preserved his remaining primordial spirit for rebirth.
• Qin Hao sacrificed himself, then countless descendants of the Seven Frontier Kings offered their blood and souls to help Shi Hao break through.
• Shi Hao began a terrifying transformation, and the World-Ending Old Man urged the fused emperors to stop him.
• Yan Kuan summoned the Immortal Execution Emperor Formation, sacrificing the realms to form its four sword lights and attack the Dark Storm.
• Yan Kuan suffered a grievous wound in the first clash, then shattered the four sword lights to cleave open the Dark Storm.

Yan Kuan and Shi Hao defeated the fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperors, cleansed the Boundary Sea of darkness, and spent thousands of years refining their captives. After Yan Kuan reached the peak of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, he joined Shi Hao on a journey to the Ultimate Ancient Land, where they encountered ancient palaces and a Bone Stele.

• Yan Kuan shattered World-Ending Old Man's body, and Shi Hao captured and suppressed his primordial spirit in the Law Pool.
• Yan Kuan beheaded Emperor Hong and tore Feather Emperor apart, while he and Shi Hao suppressed both of their primordial spirits.
• Shi Hao purged the remaining dark creatures and Ancient Halls of Guidance across the Myriad Heavens, while Yan Kuan guarded Willow Deity and Small Pagoda and refined the captives.
• Yan Kuan refined the Quasi-Immortal Emperors for thousands of years, reached the perfection of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, and eventually turned them into Emperor Fire.
• Yan Kuan and Shi Hao crossed the Boundary Sea and the Dark Land toward the Ultimate Ancient Land, where they found ancient palaces and Yan Kuan fixed his gaze on a Bone Stele.

Shi Hao and Yan Kuan discovered that the Dark Storm originated in the Ultimate Ancient Land, where an emperor’s opportunity and Immortal Emperor scripture lay within the Darkness Source. The Rotten Wooden Box revealed itself as part of an ancient being, while Yan Kuan identified the darkness in the land as the other, corrupted part of that same entity.

• Empress, Wushi, and Ye Fan tried to enter the Ultimate Ancient Land but retreated when its karma and the river of time blocked them.
• Shi Hao and Yan Kuan studied the Final Chapter of the Primordial True Understanding and concluded that later cultivators had to transcend inherited methods rather than imitate them.
• A Dark Storm erupted from the Ultimate Ancient Land, shattered the Immortal Realm and other domains, and drained their vital essence before Yan Kuan and Shi Hao’s Imperial Shadows forced it back.
• Shi Hao placed the Rotten Wooden Box in the grandest Ancient Hall of Guidance, where it awakened and warned them to leave as black lightning struck the hall.
• Shi Hao and Yan Kuan saw Immortal Emperor runes in the Darkness Origin and studied them cautiously, avoiding the fate of the Quasi-Immortal Emperors who had been corrupted by it.
• The Rotten Wooden Box transformed into an Ancient Temple and revealed a remnant soul; Yan Kuan explained that it and the Darkness Source were two parts of one entity, with the latter corrupted by darkness.

Yan Kuan and Shi Hao discovered that the Dark Matter came from a fallen Immortal Emperor whose breathing caused the dark calamities, and they cultivated cautiously while learning more about his past. When the Corpse Immortal Emperor awakened and demanded living beings as fuel, they refused, and Yan Kuan fought off the darkness he unleashed.

• Yan Kuan gave the Rotten Wooden Box’s primordial spirit the Great Luo Sword Embryo, then joined Shi Hao in cautiously refining Dark Matter for Immortal Emperor Dao Runes.
• Yan Kuan and Shi Hao reached the deepest part of the Ultimate Ancient Land and saw the immense, decaying Corpse Immortal Emperor bound to a stone throne.
• Shi Hao and Yan Kuan traced the past and learned that the corpse’s breaths spread Dark Matter across the Boundary Sea and drew vitality from other realms, while World-Ending Old Man and the other Quasi-Immortal Emperors exploited the process for Scriptures.
• Yan Kuan and Shi Hao cultivated for years, taking only limited Dark Matter as the being in the Ancient Hall of Guidance warned them against corruption.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor awakened and demanded that Yan Kuan and Shi Hao bring living beings in exchange for Immortal Emperor Scriptures, but they refused.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor attacked Shi Hao and sent a Dark Matter storm at them, while Yan Kuan suppressed its monstrous forms and moved to stop the emperor from draining vitality beyond the Boundless Boundary Sea.

Yan Kuan and Shi Hao advanced their paths toward Immortal Emperorhood, while Yan Kuan’s scattered marks across time helped him resist the Corpse Immortal Emperor. The Corpse Immortal Emperor then trapped Yan Kuan and Shi Hao in a repeating space-time and tried to wear Yan Kuan down with the Great Luo Sword Embryo.

• Yan Kuan and Shi Hao joined forces to repel the Corpse Immortal Emperor’s attack, then spent over a hundred thousand years comprehending the Dao and undergoing further transformations.
• Shi Hao developed Body as Seed into a Great Dao seed and discovered that his completed method was He Transforms Freedom; Yan Kuan refined his path into Emperor Fire and explained that Shi Hao’s blood was the foundation of becoming Great Luo.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor awakened and tried to reunite with his other primordial spirit, but Yan Kuan arrived at the Most Ancient Temple and suppressed the spirit with Emperor Fire.
• The two portions of the Corpse Immortal Emperor revealed how darkness had corrupted him after he first entered the Immortal Emperor domain, causing him to separate and imprison part of himself.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor attacked Yan Kuan with the Great Luo Sword Embryo, repeatedly dragging him and Shi Hao back to their original positions whenever they tried to escape.

The Corpse Remnant used the Great Luo Sword Embryo to strike Shi Hao across time, seemingly destroying him, but Shi Hao scattered his blood through the River of Time and made his imprint eternal. As Shi Hao began cultivating across different eras, Yan Kuan escaped through a barrier of Eternal Dominance and returned to the future.

• The Corpse Remnant attacked Shi Hao with the Great Luo Sword Embryo, splitting him apart and revealing an ancient coffin hidden inside the sword.
• The Corpse Remnant released a sealed portion of his pure fleshly body, which struck Shi Hao and blasted him into countless drops of blood.
• Yan Kuan freed himself, rescued the primordial spirit imprint, and told the Corpse Remnant that his attack might have helped Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao used He Transforms Freedom and He Transforms Eternity to scatter his blood through the River of Time, where his drops began cultivating across different eras.
• The Corpse Remnant realized that Shi Hao could no longer be sensed, while Yan Kuan revealed a barrier of Eternal Dominance and crossed it back to the future.

Yan Kuan watched history from the River of Time and Space before observing Ye Fan’s rise to the peak of the Great Completion Sacred Body and the opening of the Path to Immortality on Ascension Star. As the immortal opportunity drew near, Ye Fan prepared to face the coming battle and investigated ancient seals linked to the Chaotic Ancient era.

• Yan Kuan traveled through the River of Time and Space, returned to the period when Ye Fan had broken through, and watched him achieve the Dao by an Alternative Path.
• Ye Fan failed to find a way beyond the limits of the Sacred Body, while Yan Kuan watched and mocked his attempts from outside time and space.
• The sealed ground on Ascension Star stirred, and Ye Fan emerged to forbid chaos as powerful figures gathered for the Path to Immortality.
• A strange tribulation struck above the Heavenly Court, and Ye Fan stopped the diviners before they could reveal more about the coming calamity.
• Ye Fan prepared to battle on Ascension Star, said farewell to Little Zi and Xiao Nannan, and joined the Supremes investigating its ancient sealing steles.

The Immortal Path opened on Ascension Star, drawing Forbidden Zone Supremes and ancient emperors into a confrontation with powerful beings emerging from an ancient seal. As the Path to Immortality appeared, the Supremes faced a mysterious obstacle and prepared to contend for their chance to become immortal.

• The final Giant Stele appeared on Ascension Star, and the Immortal Realm Great Rift opened beneath the sealed land.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Emperor, the Qilin Ancient Emperor, the Golden Ancient Emperor, and other Supremes arrived to seek the Immortal Path.
• Hua She broke free from Immortal Source, and the Supremes recognized the Kunlun Remnant Clan ancestor whom Emperor Lord had supposedly killed.
• The Silent Extinction Celestial Venerable emerged from the seal and nearly drained the essence of those nearby.
• A primordial seal bearing the Desolate Tower's imprint broke apart, releasing a seemingly insane creature with a Vermilion Bird head, a wolf's body, and a Dragon Tail.
• The Immortal Path reappeared amid falling light and white petals as the Supremes prepared to contend for immortality.

The Ancient Supremes fought over the Path to Immortality as prodigies across the universe underwent tribulations, while Yan Kuan made arrangements to guide their future paths. On Ascension Star, Emperor Lord’s ancient setup emerged, drawing in the essence of the sealed guardians and bringing them to their deaths.

• Hua She, Silent Extinction Celestial Venerable, and other guardians blocked the Ancient Supremes from advancing along the Path to Immortality, and a battle erupted.
• The Ancestor of Blood Phoenix Mountain arrived as the Phoenix Wing Gilded Halberd and revealed that Huang Xudao was undergoing a Chaos Great Tribulation; prodigies throughout the universe also began their tribulations.
• Yan Kuan watched the rising Dao-About-to-Achieves and Alternative Dao Achievers, resolved to preserve them, and used temporal power to make new arrangements in Undying Mountain.
• A vast sealing array appeared on Ascension Star and revealed Emperor Lord’s aura, while Hua She and the Prehistoric Creature recovered memories of their ancient pasts.
• The Ancient Supremes attacked Emperor Lord’s phantom image, but the array absorbed their strikes and drew power from the sealed guardians.
• The Immortal Iron Chains melted into a forbidden Law, and Hua She, the Prehistoric Creature, and Silent Extinction Celestial Venerable began disintegrating as their essence flowed into the ruins.

The Supremes used the essence of Hua She, Silent Extinction Celestial Venerable, and the Prehistoric Creature to reignite Emperor Lord’s resurrection plan, reforging the Immortality Cauldron with the Divine Child as its Deity. They forced a way through the Path to Immortality, where an inscription revealed that Imperial Dao Experts had to be sacrificed to open the final gate, leaving the Supremes poised to turn on one another.

• The Supremes attacked Emperor Lord’s indestructible phantom, but their Divine Fire instead fueled his plan as Hua She, Silent Extinction Celestial Venerable, and the Prehistoric Creature exploded and supplied their essence.
• Fragments of Emperor Lord’s Immortality Cauldron gathered and reformed, while the Divine Child was drawn away from Heavenly Court and Ye Fan let him merge with the cauldron to become its independent Deity.
• The Ancient Supremes and other experts used the completed Immortality Cauldron to break through the Path to Immortality, where they read an inscription stating that only two or three could become immortal in one lifetime.
• Yan Kuan’s Divine Embodiment appeared to protect the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, warning that those who entered the Path to Immortality could not leave.
• The Supremes fought through the immortal pass and reached an ancient stele bearing the name of the Wild Heaven Emperor, then entered a world formed from Laws and found a Heavenly Gate that required Imperial Dao Experts as a sacrifice.

The Ancient Supremes and present-day powerhouses opened the Immortal Gate with Imperial Dao blood and imperial descendants’ blood, but entering it began a dangerous transformation that sparked a battle. Yan Kuan’s Divine Embodiment arrived to stop the fighting and declared that those seeking transcendence must repay their karma with Imperial Blood Dao Fruits.

• The Qilin Ancient Emperor proposed that the Ancient Supremes donate blood essence to open the Immortal Gate, and the gathered powerhouses followed suit when the first offerings widened its crack.
• Huang Xudao and the other imperial descendants sacrificed their blood after the Immortal Gate remained shut, and it finally opened to reveal a mist-shrouded world.
• The Immortality Cauldron tried to enter the gate and began undergoing transformation, but the Supremes attacked it; the Ten Thousand Dragons Emperor then entered and suffered as Immortal Dao runes clashed with his Imperial Dao.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Emperor accused Supremes who had launched Dark Turmoils of being unworthy of immortality, and the accusation triggered a fierce battle among the gathered powerhouses.
• Yan Kuan’s Divine Embodiment entered the Path to Immortality and stopped the battle, then declared that those seeking transcendence had to repay their karma with Imperial Blood Dao Fruits.

Yan Kuan explained how Supremes could sacrifice their Imperial Dao Origins to repair heaven and earth and enter the Immortal Realm, then opened a path for them to ascend. After many succeeded and others failed, the Immortal Gate collapsed, and Yan Kuan invited those seeking Mortal Becoming Immortal to a future Dao forum at Undying Mountain.

• Yan Kuan explained the Immortal Realm’s decline and proposed that Supremes sever their karma and use their Imperial Dao Origins to stabilize the ascension passage; the experts agreed to his plan.
• Yan Kuan formed an immortal Dao Formation, and the Qilin Ancient Emperor sacrificed his Origin, freed Huo Liner from her restraints, and entered the Immortal Realm as a young qilin spirit.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Emperor and the Golden Ancient Emperor followed, each leaving behind a transformed young body to enter the Immortal Realm.
• Shakyamuni and Laozi succeeded in entering the Immortal Realm, prompting other powerful figures to attempt the passage; some qualified and ascended, while others failed and were rejected.
• The Immortal Gate destabilized and the immortal path exploded, after which Yan Kuan invited those seeking Mortal Becoming Immortal to a Dao forum at Undying Mountain and restored the Ascension Star.

After the Path to Immortality ended, Yan Kuan lectured at Undying Mountain and revealed a Sacred Spirit Stone Womb method that could let powerful cultivators live another life. He promised to stay with Xiao Nannan after waking, then confronted Ye Fan over the worship of his Divine Embodiment and decided to punish the Black Emperor.

• The cosmos was shaken by the destruction of the Immortality Cauldron and the Supremes' battle, and cultivators flocked to Big Dipper to hear Yan Kuan lecture.
• Yan Kuan showed how an ancient expert became a Stone Womb after dissolving into Dao, and Zhang Bai Ren and Spirit God Primordial recognized the method's potential for a second life.
• Yan Kuan offered Undying Divine Medicines in exchange for the Dao Fruit Enlightenment of those who had undergone a second-life transformation.
• Xiao Nannan asked Yan Kuan not to enter seclusion again, and he promised to remain by her side.
• Yan Kuan accused Ye Fan of arranging worship for his sleeping Divine Embodiment; Ye Fan blamed the Black Emperor, and Yan Kuan imposed a minor punishment on him while reserving the main punishment for the dog.

Yan Kuan showed Ye Fan and the others the Feathered Great Emperor’s successful Stone Womb transformation, then the story followed a flourishing age in which Crazy Old Man risked everything to realize the Dao and Ye Fan endured the Ten Thousand Daos’ backlash for him. A century later, Ye Fan’s aura heralded an imminent breakthrough, and Yan Kuan urged the other experts to prepare to seize the chance it could create.

• Yan Kuan took Ye Fan and the others to Feathered Ancient Star, where he revealed the Feathered Great Emperor in his Stone Womb and explained the Emperor’s transformation and tragic fate.
• Ye Fan studied the Feathered Great Emperor’s method, gained insight into transformation and rebirth, and declared that he would realize the Dao despite the Sacred Body’s history.
• The Heavenly Court and Mystic Gate flourished through a golden age, while Crazy Old Man attempted to break through to the Ultimate Dao at the end of his life.
• Ye Fan took Crazy Old Man’s Heavenly Tribulation upon himself, and Yan Kuan persuaded the old man to retreat and seek a Second Life instead of giving up.
• A century later, Ye Fan’s aura shook the universe, prompting Yan Kuan to tell Xia Jiuyou, Ji Zi, Jiang Taixu, and the others to prepare for their own Emperor Tribulations.

Ye Fan shattered the Myriad Daos and endured an unprecedented Emperor Tribulation, allowing dozens of peerless experts to attempt their own tribulations. He ultimately transcended the Heavenly Heart and attained a Heavenly Emperor Level Dao Fruit, and Yan Kuan declared the tribulation over.

• Ye Fan challenged the Myriad Daos with his Emperor Tribulation and ordered everyone to summon their own tribulations while he suppressed the Great Dao.
• Yan Kuan suppressed the Heavenly Heart Imprint’s backlash so it would not descend on Ye Fan and kill him.
• Ye Fan shattered the Myriad Daos, allowing Tong Tong, Jiang Tingting, Crazy Old Man, Monkey, Victorious Fighting Buddha, and many other experts to undergo Emperor Tribulations.
• As the strain pushed Ye Fan to his limit, Yan Kuan told him to stop, and Ye Fan warned the tribulation-crossers to withdraw before releasing his hold on the Myriad Daos.
• Ye Fan pierced through the Myriad Daos, rose above the Heavenly Heart, and achieved a Heavenly Emperor Level Dao Fruit as his tribulation grew more violent.
• After the Immortal Medicines transformed into figures and attacked Ye Fan, the heavens fell quiet, and Yan Kuan said the tribulation was over.