Chapter Summaries

Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son met in True Sage Ancient City and began the long-awaited duel between two prodigies. Their nine-day battle ended without a victor, and both grew stronger as they fought.

• Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son grew into rival prodigies, each breaking records and becoming a King before their confrontation.
• The Black Emperor warned Ye Yishui that the Heavenly Emperor Second Son could become his lifelong rival, and Ye Yishui remembered the warning.
• The two met in a teahouse in True Sage Ancient City, discussed the Second Son’s slain elder brother, and revealed matching Undying Heavenly Blade Imitations.
• Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son left the city and unleashed a battle that shocked spectators with power beyond the King realm.
• The rivals fought for nine days and nine nights, advancing toward Great Accomplishment King before their evenly matched duel ended without a result.

Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son fought a battle that pushed them into Great Accomplishment King tribulations. Their duel was interrupted by Xiao Nannan and a group of Yan Kuan’s young children, whom Yan Kuan had unsealed to play and train in the Mortal World.

• Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son clashed with their inherited techniques, devastating the Great Wilderness and injuring each other.
• The Heavenly Emperor Second Son summoned meteors from beyond the realm, but Ye Yishui smashed them apart and counterattacked at close range.
• Ye Yishui used the Dou Character Art while the Heavenly Emperor Second Son used the Secret of Healing, and their battle tore open the heavens.
• Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son broke through into Great Accomplishment Kings as their tribulations appeared above them.
• A group of little children shouted encouragement to Ye Yishui, and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son recognized them as descendants of the Chaos Great Emperor.
• Xiao Nannan quieted Little Dragon and Little Qilin while the story revealed that Yan Kuan had unsealed his children and their mothers so the children could play and test themselves against the Heavenly Emperor Second Son.

Yan Kuan’s children and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son grew into peerless rivals alongside Ye Yishui, who defeated him in their final imperial battle. The Undying Heavenly Emperor rescued his son, and Yan Kuan suspected he had detected an early trace of the dark power behind the Weird Plateau.

• Yan Kuan praised Little Phoenix’s talent, but Little Qilin and Little True Dragon attacked him after he insulted their father, leaving the Heavenly Emperor Second Son badly wounded before he fled.
• Over the following centuries, Ye Yishui, the Heavenly Emperor Second Son, and Yan Kuan’s children advanced through fierce battles, setting cultivation records and reaching the Emperor Realm.
• The Black Emperor asked Yan Kuan to predict Ye Yishui’s victory, but Yan Kuan refused and left their decisive battle to them.
• Ye Yishui defeated the Heavenly Emperor Second Son in their final imperial battle, but Ye Fan and Yan Kuan could not stop the Undying Heavenly Emperor from rescuing his son.
• After clashing with the Undying Heavenly Emperor, Yan Kuan noticed dark power in his strength and wondered whether it was connected to the Weird Plateau.

After becoming a Mortal Immortal, Ye Fan gathered the emperors and the Heavenly Court army to begin their promised conquest of the Immortal Path. They entered a fragmented world mistaken for the Immortal Realm, where Ye Fan and Yan Kuan recognized its origins and sensed another expert on their level.

• Ye Fan completed his Nine-Life Mortal Immortal Path, forged a Nine-Colored Immortal Cauldron, and joined the awakened Empress as a Mortal Immortal while Yan Kuan's Divine Embodiment also became immortal.
• Ye Fan and Yan Kuan raised an era of emperors by guiding their tribulations and supplying them with Nine Revolutions Emperor Pills, then Ye Fan awakened the Heavenly Court's veteran soldiers from Divine Source.
• Ye Fan led the Heavenly Court army onto the Immortal Path without waiting for Duan De and punched open a passage into a strange world, explaining that they still had people and debts to face before reaching the Immortal Realm.
• The Empress defeated a hostile Imperial Dao Expert, while Yan Kuan deduced that the strange world was likely a re-evolved fragment of the Foreign Realm or Immortal Realm after the ancient wars.
• Ye Fan seized the world's Heavenly Heart imprint and warned Yan Kuan and the Empress that another expert at their level was present, provoking the local Heavenly Heart Emperor to emerge.

Ye Fan and his allies invaded the Strange World and battled the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s forces while the Beginningless Great Emperor fought a native Mortal Immortal. Yan Kuan confronted the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who transformed into a Fallen Blood Phoenix, and appeared to gain the upper hand even as the two displayed strangely similar phoenix techniques.

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor proposed joining forces to enter the Immortal Realm, but Ye Fan refused and revealed the Immortal Treasure Map.
• The Beginningless Great Emperor fought a Mortal Immortal of the Strange World, while the allied emperors and Supremes overwhelmed the enemy forces.
• Yan Kuan challenged the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and Ye Fan and the Empress stabilized the battlefield as the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation blocked the opposing army.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor attacked with his Immortal Blade and phoenix techniques, but Yan Kuan’s Great Dao Treasure Vase chipped the blade and his counterattacks shook the world.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor revealed that he had become a Fallen Blood Phoenix after obtaining a Phoenix ancestor’s True Blood, then attacked Yan Kuan with the Blood Phoenix Slash.
• Yan Kuan shattered the Blood Phoenix Slash and sent the Fallen Blood Phoenix flying, and the chapter ended as the enemy launched another phoenix technique that Yan Kuan mirrored.

Yan Kuan and the Empress’s allies defeated the Undying Heavenly Emperor and the Strange World’s forces, only to discover Emperor Lord had survived and planned to refine both realms into a Cauldron. Yan Kuan defeated Emperor Lord, who admitted he did not know why he had rebelled, and prepared to set out again.

• Yan Kuan defeated the Undying Heavenly Emperor as the Beginningless Great Emperor killed the Strange World’s Mortal Immortal, and the Empress broke the Undying Heavenly Blade to protect Yan Kuan.
• After Yan Kuan killed the Undying Heavenly Emperor and his son, Emperor Lord revealed himself and attempted to refine the world and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths into a Cauldron.
• The Beginningless Great Emperor used the Deification Scroll to disrupt Emperor Lord’s plan, while Duan De arrived with the Nine Reincarnation Seals and helped stabilize the Human Realm.
• Yan Kuan confronted Emperor Lord alone and challenged him over why the Lord of the Heavenly Court had rebelled.
• Yan Kuan shattered Emperor Lord’s phenomena and defeated him; Emperor Lord said he did not know why he had rebelled before turning to ashes.
• Yan Kuan collected and refined Emperor Lord’s mark, then prepared to set out again.

Yan Kuan returned to the Chaotic Ancient era as Shi Hao reassembled and became an Immortal Emperor, and together they confronted the fully restored, darkened Corpse Immortal Emperor. Yan Kuan overwhelmed him, leaving the Corpse Immortal Emperor shattered and blaming his defeat on the karma of disturbing time.

• Yan Kuan opened the Immortal Realm for Ye Fan, the Empress, Wushi, Duan De, and the others, then said goodbye to Xiao Nannan and returned upstream through the River of Time and Space.
• Shi Hao reassembled from drops of blood after perfecting Transformation Freedom and He Transforms Eternity, and appeared before Yan Kuan and the Corpse Immortal Emperor as a true Immortal Emperor.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor restored his full power, broke his self-imposed seal, and attacked Yan Kuan and Shi Hao with the Great Luo Sword Embryo.
• Shi Hao met the Corpse Immortal Emperor's sword strike with his bare palm while Yan Kuan suppressed the battle's shockwaves from spreading across the Boundary Sea.
• Yan Kuan summoned nine Imperial Shadows and struck the Corpse Immortal Emperor, then pierced and shattered him with Emperor Fire and his fists.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor admitted he could not hold on but insisted that disturbing time and space, rather than Yan Kuan's strength, had caused his defeat.

Yan Kuan and Shi Hao ended the dark calamity, sealed the source of darkness, and freed survivors from the Dark Prisons before returning toward the shattered realms. As Shi Hao accepted that some events had to remain part of history, Pan Wang fell and was blessed into Samsara, while the damaged worlds slowly stabilized.

• Yan Kuan and Shi Hao refined Corpse Immortal Emperor, discovered the portal to Above the Heavens, and sealed it against another dark calamity.
• Shi Hao cleared the Dark Land, freed imprisoned cultivators, and reunited with the Double-Pupiled Woman, who asked him about Shi Yi.
• Yan Kuan and Shi Hao returned with Willow Deity and the Small Pagoda, and Yan Kuan told Shi Hao that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths had to endure the End of Dharma calamity.
• Shi Hao agreed that causal closure required some wounded figures to undergo nirvana rather than be saved, preserving the history of Yan Kuan’s future.
• Pan Wang voluntarily Dissolved into Dao after his Dao wounds proved incurable, and the Wild Heaven Emperor blessed him into Samsara, sending his Peach Immortal Tree body into the Void Cosmos.
• The Wild Heaven Emperor treated other wounded Immortal Kings, and the damaged realms gradually stabilized over the following years.

After the Dark Rebellion ended, Shi Hao explored the world beyond the Dark Portal, prepared the Immortal Realm for his departure, and eventually achieved Eternal Dominance to protect it. Yan Kuan then traveled through time to rejoin Ye Fan, Empress, and the others on a battlefield, where he returned as an Immortal Emperor.

• Shi Hao mourned the fallen in the Heavenly Court cemetery, then joined Yan Kuan to forge Immortal Emperor weapons from the spoils of the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• Shi Hao and Yan Kuan entered the Dark Portal, and Shi Hao traveled across the Crimson Bloodwater before returning with knowledge and a Key to another world.
• Shi Hao reunited with old friends, extended the lives of people from Stone Village, and departed again with Huo Ling'er to save those lost in the distant world.
• After a great roar reached the Immortal Realm, Shi Hao appeared and used Eternal Dominance to sever his homeland from the wars beyond the Heavens.
• Yan Kuan left Willow Deity and traveled through time toward the Future, where he returned to the battlefield and reunited with Xiao Nannan, Empress, Ye Fan, and Wushi.

Yan Kuan discovered that the darkness invading the Myriad Heavens had returned in a more insidious form, and he reinforced Shi Hao’s fading barrier of Eternal Dominance while fighting threats beyond it. He traced the invasion to the Soul River and witnessed how it consumed the souls of the Myriad Heavens.

• Yan Kuan examined the new Dark Matter and found that it could hide within Longevity Substance and gradually darken living beings.
• Yan Kuan reinforced the barrier of Eternal Dominance as darkness erupted across the Myriad Heavens and transformed contaminated beings into enemies of their own worlds.
• Yan Kuan erased many dark forces beyond the barrier and identified the invading army as coming from the Soul River.
• Yan Kuan saw a crystalline Path of Samsara form and watched countless walking corpses turn to ash as their soul lights were drawn toward the Soul River.
• Yan Kuan witnessed soul lights disintegrate into grains of dust along the Soul River’s shore, one of four places where the Weird Plateau Sacrificed beings from the Myriad Heavens.

Yan Kuan probed the Soul River End, uncovered Shi Hao’s words on an ancient monument, and fought back the souls and forces awakening within the river. As the Soul River threatened All Heavens, a bony hand emerged from a Strange Land and crushed Yan Kuan’s attack, revealing the arrival of Gray, a Chief Priest of The Strange Lineage.

• Yan Kuan’s strike cleared the fog around the Soul River End and revealed Shi Hao’s monument, including his promise to return.
• A powerful creature crawled from the river, but Yan Kuan killed it with Immortal Light and severed the Soul River, provoking countless soul lights to resist him.
• The Soul River awakened, and Ancient Gates began to emerge as Yan Kuan suppressed its surging waves and challenged the hidden forces to come out.
• A Strange Land appeared, threatening to make All Heavens collapse, and a bony hand reached through torn time and space to crush Yan Kuan’s Immortal Light and Dao Sound.
• Yan Kuan identified the arriving figure as Gray, a Chief Priest of The Strange Lineage, as the bony hand continued descending.

Yan Kuan shattered the Soul River’s Bony guardian and forced the Main Sacrificial Ground to reveal itself, drawing the Chief Sacrificer into battle. As the Chief Sacrificer’s descent brought Gray Mist and the threat of a Grand Sacrifice, Yan Kuan intercepted him beyond All Heavens and trapped him in Emperor Fire.

• Yan Kuan destroyed the Bony Great Hand and attacked the Main Sacrificial Ground, killing its Bony Creature and causing the Soul River world to be swallowed.
• The Main Sacrificial Ground drew in Soul River Creatures as Gray Mist, black blood, and white miasma poured through a hole in the heavens.
• The Chief Sacrificer began descending toward the Myriad Heavens, while Yan Kuan unleashed Empyrean Flame to burn away the invading substances.
• Yan Kuan crossed beyond All Heavens to intercept the Chief Sacrificer before he arrived and exchanged blows with him across the Void.
• The Chief Sacrificer recognized Wild Heaven Emperor in Yan Kuan’s encirclement, and Yan Kuan’s Emperor Fire drowned the Gray Mist and began refining the Ominous Substance.

Yan Kuan overwhelmed the Chief Sacrificer and forced his way into the Main Sacrificial Ground, where he attacked the memorial tablets despite the danger. The tablets toppled and cracked, stirring the Ancient Coffins and causing upheaval, as Yan Kuan tested the power of the Weird Progenitors and the Weird Plateau.

• The Chief Sacrificer revived after Yan Kuan refined Gray Mist, but Yan Kuan struck him down repeatedly and damaged the Sacrificial Ground.
• The Chief Sacrificer unleashed countless arts, including attacks through time, fate, and Karma, but Yan Kuan resisted them and inflicted Backlash.
• Yan Kuan broke through the Sacrificial Ground’s defenses and entered it, while the Chief Sacrificer warned that the place could condemn him to eternal silence.
• Yan Kuan attacked the memorial tablets, provoking ghostly sobs and visions of Ancient Coffins as the Chief Sacrificer struggled to protect them.
• Yan Kuan toppled a memorial tablet and cracked the Sacrificial Ground, triggering a vast upheaval before the power’s effects were contained within the forbidden ground.
• The Chief Sacrificer fell vomiting blood as iron chains appeared beneath the tablets, and Yan Kuan continued testing the power behind the Weirdness.

Yan Kuan’s near-equal clone defeated the Gray Chief Priest, carried him and the Sacrificial Ground to the Bridge of Life and Death, and disappeared into its depths, making the battle seem like ancient history. The true Yan Kuan then revealed himself to Ye Fan, Wushi, and the Empress, weakened by the clone’s loss and planning a new journey of Samsara.

• Yan Kuan shattered the Chief Sacrificer and used his power to restrain the Sacrificial Ground while refining the Gray Chief Priest.
• Yan Kuan opened a passage through the Sacrificial Sea and took the Gray Chief Priest to the Bridge of Life and Death, intending to sacrifice him there.
• Yan Kuan led the Sacrificial Ground and the Gray Chief Priest into the depths of the bridge, after which the battle appeared as ancient history to observers across the Myriad Heavens.
• Wushi speculated that beings who traveled upstream along the River of Time could turn the present into history, and another Yan Kuan appeared to confirm part of his reasoning.
• Yan Kuan explained that the vanished warrior was his near-equal clone, told the Empress he wanted Xiao Nannan back, and asked them to warn Little Stone not to attack the Plateau directly.

Shi Hao attacked Calamity Earth alone, battling the Weird Immortal Emperors while Yan Kuan returned after killing the Gray Chief Priest and joined the fight. Yan Kuan warned Shi Hao that the Weird Plateau could not be breached by force, and Shi Hao began considering another way inside.

• Shi Hao’s blood vitality and sword strikes shook Calamity Earth and destroyed dark universes as he fought through the Weird Immortal Emperors.
• Yan Kuan showed Ye Fan, the Beginningless Great Emperor, and the Empress a vision of Shi Hao’s battle and explained the danger posed by the Weird Plateau and its Ancestors.
• Shi Hao fought off the siege, smashed a Weird Immortal Emperor apart, and challenged the enemy’s claims of invincibility.
• Yan Kuan appeared in Calamity Earth and threw the Gray Chief Priest’s head before the Weird Immortal Emperors, revealing that he had killed him and returned from their territory.
• Yan Kuan told Shi Hao that entering the Weird Plateau required embracing ominousness or being escorted inside by a Weird Ancestor, and Shi Hao considered the latter possibility.

Yan Kuan shared a plan with Shi Hao and the others before departing with Xiao Nannan, while a mysterious cycle continued on Aqua Blue Star. In the Post-Civilization Era, Chu Feng discovered three seeds inside a Stone Box from Kunlun, and a voice in a Colorful Flame asked whether he wanted to become a Heavenly Emperor.

• Yan Kuan warned Shi Hao and the others to prepare for their plan to be discovered, then left as Xiao Nannan clung to him.
• Blue mist and blue Other Shore Flowers appeared across the desert near Kunlun, bloomed briefly, and crumbled into powder as Chu Feng watched from the ancient Yellow River channel.
• Chu Feng traveled to Kunlun, explored its strange sights, and later sensed a warm current inside his body.
• Chu Feng opened a Stone Box he had taken from Kunlun and found three shriveled seeds inside.
• A Colorful Flame appeared in Chu Feng's tent and a voice asked, "Young boy, do you want to become a Heavenly Emperor?!"

After Yan Kuan made Chu Feng his Flame Bearer, he guided him back up Kunlun Mountain to cultivate. Chu Feng joined three Exotic Beasts in breathing beneath a Strange Fruit and began a physical transformation.

• Yan Kuan placed a flame mark on Chu Feng and declared him the Flame Bearer tasked with spreading the Fire Seed Path.
• Chu Feng returned to Kunlun Mountain at Yan Kuan’s urging, passing the ancient Bronze Stele and three Bronze Houses on his way to the summit.
• Chu Feng found a Strange Fruit on a little tree, guarded by a Dragon Mastiff, a Golden Eagle, and a yak after they had defeated the other Exotic Beasts.
• Chu Feng watched the three beasts’ breathing rhythms and, with Yan Kuan’s guidance, sat beneath the morning glow to imitate them.
• Chu Feng absorbed essence energy and the tree’s fragrance as his body began to strengthen and undergo an evolutionary transformation.

After awakening as an evolver, Chu Feng stole the Strange Fruit and fought the Golden Eagle, Dragon Mastiff, and Great Black Yak, defeating the yak and keeping the fruit. Yan Kuan warned him not to eat it directly and explained that he intended to use Chu Feng to develop the Fire Seed Path.

• Chu Feng discovered his greatly enhanced strength and senses after his first cultivation session, then fled when the three Exotic Beasts noticed him.
• Chu Feng stole the Strange Fruit from the bronze cliff, prompting the Golden Eagle, Dragon Mastiff, and Great Black Yak to chase him.
• The Dragon Mastiff attacked Chu Feng, who struck it back and smashed through a boulder with his enhanced strength.
• Chu Feng fought the three Exotic Beasts and defeated the Great Black Yak while the others left him behind.
• Chu Feng asked the yak how to consume the Strange Fruit, but Yan Kuan warned him against eating it directly and explained his plans for the Fire Seed Path.

Chu Feng and Zhou Quan witnessed the Taihang Mountain Range transform into a vast realm of towering peaks, where fierce beasts could not cross its boundary alive. A Golden Calf emerged unharmed and survived a burst of golden flames, while Chu Feng suspected it might hold an inheritance.

• Chu Feng and Zhou Quan walked around a newly appeared lake and saw the Taihang Mountain Range rise into countless immense, radiant mountains.
• Chu Feng and Zhou Quan watched several enormous beasts and birds explode into ash when they tried to leave the mountains.
• A Golden Calf cautiously walked through the mountain pass and crossed into the outside world unharmed.
• Chu Feng watched the Golden Calf test pollen from mountain flowers and considered learning from its possible inheritance.
• The Golden Calf erupted in golden flames but survived, while six or seven beasts that followed it were burned to ash at the mountain boundary.

Chu Feng refined the flames left by the burned beasts using his Fire Seed Method, then brought the Little Yellow Ox home and learned a new breathing method from it. After seeing reports of people gaining supernatural abilities, he examined his collected treasures, and Yan Kuan suddenly spoke up about the seeds in the Stone Box.

• The Little Yellow Ox tried to steal Zhou Quan's Strange Fruit, but Zhou Quan swallowed it before the calf could; the calf then ate half the transformed grass.
• Chu Feng learned from the Little Yellow Ox that the world was changing and that beasts and other forces sought to enter it and become kings or saints.
• Chu Feng refined the Dao Fire from the burned beasts at the Taihang Mountain entrance, then left with Zhou Quan and the Little Yellow Ox.
• Chu Feng parted from Zhou Quan in Shunping County, took the Little Yellow Ox to Qingyang Town, and warned his parents not to return from Shuntian.
• Chu Feng read reports about three newly discovered people with supernatural abilities, then obtained a new breathing method from the Little Yellow Ox and inspected his collected treasures.
• Chu Feng opened the Stone Box and joked about planting its three seeds, but Yan Kuan suddenly spoke in his mind and challenged his claims.