Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi and Bright Emperor discussed how different Nirvana methods could broaden a cultivator’s Dao path and help them pursue longevity beyond the Great Emperor realm. They identified ten viable Longevity Methods, beginning with consuming an Immortality Elixir fruit, but concluded that uncovering the medicine’s deeper secret of immortality was extraordinarily difficult.

• Li Zhi explained that surviving through multiple Nirvana methods could broaden the Great Dao path and help complete a Longevity Dao Fruit.
• Li Zhi told Bright Emperor that breaking through Heaven’s Will Imprint was necessary to escape the Human Way Domain and cultivate a true Longevity Dao Fruit.
• Bright Emperor praised Ye Fan’s suppression of the Forbidden Zone Supreme Beings, while Li Zhi described Ye Fan as the defining force behind the era’s Golden Age.
• Li Zhi and Bright Emperor discussed longevity techniques and compiled ten viable methods, then began examining them in detail.
• Li Zhi and Bright Emperor identified consuming an Immortality Elixir fruit as the simplest method to live another lifetime, but noted that discerning its deeper longevity secrets had eluded most cultivators.

Li Zhi and Bright Emperor discussed the dangers and possibilities of ten longevity methods, including Nirvana through Imperial Blood, Immortal Embryos, Reincarnation Marks, becoming a weapon, Mortal World War Immortal, and the Power of All Beings. Li Zhi also described his Reversal of Yin Yang method, but he had not decided whether to attempt it, and its success depended on acquiring an ancient secret technique.

• Bright Emperor warned Li Zhi that the Undying Heavenly Emperor's method of bathing in Imperial Blood was dangerous, while Li Zhi said repeated use could taint one's Dao Heart.
• Bright Emperor explained that he had gestated an Immortal Embryo with help from the Female Emperor, and Li Zhi suggested his cultivation system could make the method easier.
• Bright Emperor discussed the Netherworld's True Blood and Reincarnation Mark methods, warning that the Nether Emperor might control the fate of those who cultivated the latter.
• Bright Emperor and Li Zhi considered whether Emperor Venerable had transformed into an Immortal Artifact and then become human again, and they discussed the risks of Mortal World War Immortal and longevity through the Power of All Beings.
• Li Zhi described his Reversal of Yin Yang Longevity Method, and Bright Emperor proposed that he spread it so others could test it; Li Zhi remained hesitant because it required Kunpeng Son's Primary and Secondary Body Secret Method.

Li Zhi traveled with his disciples to Beidou, explaining why he trusted Bright Emperor and considering how to study powerful cultivation physiques. After Jin Ming left to visit her clan, Li Zhi took Huo Yan as his companion and departed for the Eternal Star Domain to investigate its legacy of top-tier physiques.

• Jin Ming questioned Li Zhi's decision to take Bright Emperor into the Dao Field, and Li Zhi said he trusted him and expected to help him advance.
• Huo Yan reported that the Tower Ship had reached the Ancient Beidou Star, and Jin Ming left for the Eastern Wilderness Middle Region to visit the Ant Nest.
• Li Zhi asked Huo Yan to stay by his side and brought him into the Central State to study its cultivators with special physiques.
• Li Zhi visited old acquaintances on Beidou and discussed the Dao with cultivators who possessed special physiques.
• Li Zhi and Huo Yan left Beidou for the Eternal Star Domain to investigate the Supreme Immortal Body, Primal Demonic Body, and Brahma War Body legacies.

Li Zhi completed his survey of the universe’s special constitutions and returned to Earth with Huo Yan, where he examined the vast formations concealing most of the planet. At his old hometown, he found no trace of his family or descendants, then spotted cultivators surrounding an adult and two children in a distant valley.

• Li Zhi studied the bloodlines and constitutions of descendants across the Eternal Star Domain and Human King Ancient Star Domain, then visited other major star domains over several hundred years.
• Li Zhi and Huo Yan arrived at Earth, and Li Zhi revealed the immense formations that concealed most of the planet from Huo Yan’s sight.
• Li Zhi left Huo Yan to explore on his own and returned to his hometown, where he found the village and ancestral graveyard gone.
• Li Zhi searched for descendants of Li Jizu but found no trace of them and wondered whether the Ji Zu bloodline had died out.
• Li Zhi heard cultivators fighting in a distant valley and saw them surrounding one adult and two children.

Li Zhi intervened when Li Hun opened the Nether Realm Gate to save his niece and nephew from their pursuers, then entered the corrupted Small World to investigate its source. Beneath a tomb, he found a mutated corpse with a face identical to his own and began burning it.

• Li Hun summoned the Nether Dragon and secretly sent Qiang'er and Ling'er away as the Nether Realm Gate opened.
• Li Hun transformed under the Nether curse and was burned to ashes by an Immortal Two cultivator, while the pursuers entered the gate and encountered the deadly Nether Realm.
• Li Zhi sealed the portal, destroyed the monsters and Nether aura within the Small World, and discovered a Great Tomb beneath its central hill.
• Li Zhi opened a Purple Jade Divine Coffin and found a mutated, hairy corpse whose face matched his own.
• Li Zhi burned the corpse with Great Dao True Fire and heard cries of vengeful spirits within the flames.

Li Zhi uncovered the past of the Black Dragon Supreme Being, rescued two Li Clan siblings, and found Li Jizu barely alive in Kunlun. After restoring him, Li Zhi learned that Li Jizu blamed him for his suffering and began recounting how he had become a tomb raider in pursuit of cultivation.

• Li Zhi traced the corpse's history and learned that the Black Dragon Supreme Being had consumed mysterious black True Blood before sealing himself in the Purple Jade Divine Coffin; a strange mist then blocked Li Zhi from seeing more.
• Li Zhi destroyed the contaminated Small World, found the surviving siblings, and discovered that their Li Clan descended from Li Dapeng and possessed the Primordial Longevity Art.
• Li Zhi learned that Li Jizu had left the siblings' inheritance artifact and message, then entrusted the children to Huo Yan before entering Kunlun alone.
• Li Zhi found Li Jizu's primordial spirit and True Blood being nourished in a Dragon Cave, and used the Ancestral Vein's Fortune to restore his body and save his life.
• After Li Jizu awoke, he told Li Zhi that Li Zhi had caused his suffering and described how he began cultivating, found Li Daqiang's Dragon Seeking and Cave Probing Secret Art, and started excavating ancient cultivators' tombs.

Li Jizu told Li Zhi how Black True Blood had driven his cultivation forward and nearly taken control of his body, before Li Zhi revived him. Li Jizu reunited with Li Xian'er but chose to remain on Earth, leaving Li Zhi to reflect on the costs of longevity and the uncertain changes in his children’s bloodlines.

• Li Jizu recounted his rise to the Quasi-Emperor Realm, his struggle against the Black True Blood, and how his reserve vital blood saved him after he escaped the Great Tomb.
• Li Zhi explained that the corpse in the Purple Jade Divine Coffin had undergone Super Evolution and promised to answer Li Jizu’s questions once he recovered.
• Li Jizu said he wanted to see Li Xian'er, and Li Zhi left Kunlun with him to wait for her return.
• Li Xian'er returned, reunited with Li Jizu, and learned that he planned to stay on Earth with Xiaoqiang and Xiaoling rather than return to Ziwei Ancient Star.
• Li Xian'er grieved over the loss of Li Jizu’s descendants, while Li Zhi accepted his son’s distance and worried about the unknown mutations in his children’s inherited bloodlines.

Li Zhi studied the sealed flesh body and discovered that it could be animated into a Flawless Great Emperor, while worrying that its connection to Darkness might threaten the universe. The Bright Emperor emerged from seclusion and recognized the body as an almost perfectly preserved Great Emperor flesh shell.

• Li Zhi offered Li Xian'er a Divine Gold Book containing the Great Dao Longevity Scripture and cultivation resources for Li Jizu, then entrusted her with protecting her brother.
• Li Xian'er returned to Earth and went to Penglai Immortal Island before deciding how to deliver Li Zhi's gifts to Li Jizu.
• Li Zhi examined the sealed flesh body and considered its resemblance to himself, its missing primordial spirit, and the danger of its Dark Origin Aura.
• After a century of study, Li Zhi merged a strand of divine sense into the flesh body, awakening an aura of a Flawless Great Emperor.
• The Bright Emperor emerged from seclusion, watched Li Zhi spar with the body, and identified it as an almost perfect Great Emperor flesh shell.

Li Zhi’s research into a super-evolved Great Emperor body yielded a method to strengthen his own body, while Ye Fan began a tribulation to break through the Ten Thousand Daos and help others become Emperors. As Ye Fan fought the Great Universe’s strongest Heavenly Punishment, Li Zhi explained that the greater challenge would be taking the complete Heaven’s Will Imprint from Golden Crow Great Emperor.

• After several hundred years studying the super-evolved body, Li Zhi developed a method to advance his already Great Emperor-level physique, though he could not explain why the body had formed no new consciousness.
• Ye Fan began a vast tribulation in the Cosmic Wilderness, intending to break through the Ten Thousand Daos so others could undergo tribulations and become Emperors.
• Bright Emperor and Li Zhi emerged from seclusion to observe Ye Fan, and Bright Emperor was astonished by Ye Fan’s plan to protect a group of people as they became Emperors.
• Ye Fan battled the Thunder Sea’s laws and Immortality Elixirs while charging at Heaven and Earth with the Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron.
• Li Zhi told Bright Emperor that breaking through the Ten Thousand Daos and surviving the tribulation were not the hardest parts; the real challenge was seizing Golden Crow Great Emperor’s complete Heaven’s Will Imprint.
• As legendary tribulations descended together, Li Zhi watched Ye Fan closely and explained that this Heavenly Punishment marked the end of the Great Universe’s trials for cultivators.

Ye Fan shattered the Heaven's Will Imprint and the Heaven and Earth Myriad Daos, then survived his Heavenly Emperor Tribulation and reached a realm beyond the Great Emperor. As Ye Fan returned to the Heavenly Court, Li Zhi began his own tribulation, summoning his Dao Carrying Artifacts to face the Immortality Elixirs’ attacks.

• Ye Fan repeatedly broke through the Heaven's Will Imprint and scattered the Heaven and Earth Myriad Daos, allowing cultivators with sufficient preparation to undergo tribulations.
• Bright Emperor repaired the final flaw in his Dao Fruit during the opening, while Li Zhi warned the other cultivators to withdraw when the Heaven's Will Imprint began to recondense.
• Li Zhi used Ten Thousand Daos Annihilation to open a passage through the Myriad Daos and watched Ye Fan undergo his Heavenly Emperor Tribulation.
• Ye Fan defeated the tribulation and reached a level beyond the Supreme Being of the Extreme Dao and Golden Crow Great Emperor, then was carried back to the Heavenly Court.
• Li Zhi decided to become an Emperor before Ye Fan's Heavenly Emperor Imprint grew stronger and began his own tribulation atop the Myriad Daos.
• Immortality Elixirs in humanoid forms attacked Li Zhi, who deployed his five Dao Carrying Artifacts, led by the Dao Ancestor Divine Stele.

Li Zhi used the True Great Formation of Stars to seal the Heaven and Earth Myriad Daos and steal their Great Dao Origin, forging a Heaven’s Will Imprint while enduring a catastrophic tribulation. After surviving a burst of dark power and becoming an Emperor, he emerged from behind the Myriad Daos as they reformed, and a mysterious cauldron radiating Myriad Mother Qi descended.

• Li Zhi activated the True Great Formation of Stars, imprisoning the Heaven and Earth Myriad Daos and halting the universe’s laws.
• Li Zhi summoned three incarnations to face his thunder tribulation while his body became a Dao Seed and stole Great Dao Origin to forge a Heaven’s Will Imprint.
• The laws and visions of ancient Emperors attacked Li Zhi as his Dao Seed cracked under the tribulation; the Female Emperor, Green Emperor, and others watched in alarm.
• A dark, undying aura briefly surged from Li Zhi, devouring the sea of order and the tribulation blades before giving way to a sacred aura.
• Heaven and Earth acknowledged Li Zhi’s ascension, the Golden Crow Great Emperor’s Mark vanished and reformed, and Li Zhi emerged with his five Dao-Carrying Artifacts.
• A great cauldron radiating Myriad Mother Qi descended from behind the Heaven and Earth Myriad Daos.

Li Zhi survived his tribulation and became an Emperor despite the suppression of the current Emperor, then vanished after resisting the Bloodstained Cauldron. His breakthrough inspired future Heavenly Prides and terrified the Forbidden Zone Supreme Beings, while the Golden Crow Great Emperor realized how close Li Zhi had come to taking his position.

• The Bloodstained Cauldron tried to pull Li Zhi inside, but Li Zhi summoned the Great Heavenly Fiend Array and struck it with a Supreme Sword Qi before detonating the array to escape.
• The universe learned that Li Zhi had become an Emperor after Ye Fan, and many Heavenly Prides abandoned plans to seal themselves away and returned to cultivation.
• Ye Fan healed his wounds in Heavenly Court, prompting the Forbidden Zone Supreme Beings who had planned to ambush him to retreat.
• The Forbidden Zone Supreme Beings feared that successive challengers would undermine the Emperor’s uniqueness and eventually make them targets for later generations.
• The Golden Crow Great Emperor recalled that Li Zhi had suppressed his Great Emperor’s Mark while refining a Heaven’s Will Imprint, then released the mark instead of replacing him as Emperor.

After Li Zhi survived his tribulation and became Emperor, the Forbidden Zone Supremes debated seeking his protection, while Ye Fan and Emperor Venerable considered the power and consequences of Li Zhi’s rise. Li Zhi later finished studying the Heaven's Will Imprint and returned it to the universe, restoring Golden Crow Great Emperor’s connection to the Great Dao.

• The Forbidden Zone Supremes discussed whether to seek Li Zhi’s Longevity Method, but balked at paying the price Bright Emperor had paid to gain his protection.
• Ye Fan told Xiao Song that his Great Dao imprint had formed a powerful Bloodstained Cauldron during Li Zhi’s tribulation and wondered about Li Zhi’s formations and Darkness Power.
• Bright Emperor and Emperor Venerable reflected on Li Zhi’s survival, while Emperor Venerable realized his attempt to kill Li Zhi with the strengthened cauldron had failed.
• Li Zhi’s ascension caused miraculous bloodline changes in Li Xian'er and Li Jizu, and a new aura appeared within the Dragon Egg in Chaos Dragon Nest.
• After a hundred years of seclusion, Li Zhi finished comprehending and crushed the Heaven's Will Imprint, returning it to the Great Universe.
• Golden Crow Great Emperor’s connection to the Heaven and Earth Myriad Daos recovered fully, and he silently accepted the cost of his earlier path to the throne.

Li Zhi withdrew his Great Dao imprint from the Heaven and Earth Myriad Daos, prompting the universe to speculate about his fate and the possibility of future emperors. At the Heavenly Court, Duan De gathered the era’s powerful figures and warned that a true Dark Turmoil was approaching.

• Li Zhi crushed his Heaven's Will Imprint and withdrew his Great Dao imprint, ending the three-way balance of imperial auras and leaving only Ye Fan and the Golden Crow Great Emperor’s imprints.
• Experts across the universe debated whether Li Zhi had died or imprisoned his Great Dao, and some considered how his withdrawal might create a chance for others to become emperors.
• Ye Fan’s disciples and Black Emperor questioned him about Li Zhi, but Duan De arrived and announced that distinguished guests had gathered at the Heavenly Court.
• Ye Fan received the gathered supreme experts at an Immortal Banquet, where Dao Yi explained that they had come to ask about Li Zhi.
• Duan De revealed that he had summoned them because the Great Universe might soon face a true Dark Turmoil, and explained that past Forbidden Zone slaughters were not turmoil in the strict sense.

Duan De feared Li Zhi had become a Dark Living Being and urged Ye Fan to prepare to destroy him, while Li Zhi emerged from seclusion and quietly improved the Human Ancient Road. The chapter left Ye Fan’s group still uncertain about Li Zhi’s condition as he continued traveling in disguise.

• Duan De warned that Li Zhi might have fallen into darkness and asked Ye Fan to kill him completely if that proved true.
• Li Zhi refined his understanding of the Heaven’s Will Imprint, awakened the dark potential in his True Blood, and strengthened his cultivation foundation.
• Li Zhi reforged the Ninety-Ninth City into a Gods and Demons Trial Ground with a wall bearing 108 carvings, then left the city to its current City Lord.
• Li Zhi traveled in reverse along the Human Ancient Road, explored its Trial Grounds, and left cultivation insights and patterns that nurtured treasures.
• Ye Fan and his companions arrived at the Ninety-Ninth City and saw the new wall, but Duan De remained afraid that Li Zhi’s mind had changed.
• Duan De explained that darkness could replace a person’s soul and turn all living beings into descendants of darkness.

Li Zhi tested a drop of Dark True Blood, prompting Duan De and Ye Fan to surround him with the Lingbao Killing Array. After Li Zhi proved he was untainted, he challenged the formation and broke it in moments, leaving the gathered experts stunned.

• Li Zhi captured several criminals and tested his refined True Blood on them, then purified the drop of Dark True Blood with Great Dao True Fire.
• Duan De sensed the darkness and led Ye Fan and Heavenly Court’s experts in sealing Li Zhi inside the Lingbao Killing Array.
• Li Zhi finished erasing the darkness before Ye Fan and Duan De entered the formation and confirmed he was unharmed.
• Li Zhi showed the group the evolved body in the Purple Jade Divine Coffin and refused to destroy it, choosing instead to test himself against the formation.
• Ye Fan, Huo Lin’er, Ye Tong, Yang Xi, and the other experts activated the Lingbao Killing Array against Li Zhi.
• Li Zhi broke through the formation with four golden lights that became enormous Golden Cudgels, suppressing the formation diagram and stopping the array.

Li Zhi broke Lingbao Heavenly Lord's Killing Formation, then preached his Human Body Secret Realm method to the gathered Heavenly Prides. After fighting Ye Fan in secret, Li Zhi spent three thousand years in seclusion before Bright Emperor sought his guidance, troubled by the limits of the path beyond the Extreme Dao.

• Li Zhi emerged unharmed from the Killing Formation and invited the gathered Heavenly Prides to his Dao Field.
• Li Zhi taught the Heavenly Prides the Dao Seed Nurturing Chapter, giving them a path from Alternative Dao Attainment toward Flawless Great Emperor level.
• Li Zhi and Ye Fan fought in the Mythological Battlefield, leaving it nearly erased, but kept the outcome secret.
• Three thousand years passed as Li Zhi remained in seclusion on Longevity Immortal Mountain while the Golden Age faded.
• Bright Emperor Bai Shitong asked Li Zhi for guidance and described how he could not find a path beyond the Peak of the Extreme Dao.

Bright Emperor attempted to surpass the Great Emperor realm through Nirvana and the Ultimate Thunder Tribulation, but failed and died three years later. His death led Li Zhi to reconsider the difficulty of reaching Above the Extreme Dao, and he summoned Li Xian'er and Jin Ming to discuss their self-sealing.

• Bright Emperor asked Li Zhi to help him undergo Nirvana, and Li Zhi supplied Great Dao True Fire as he refined divine-beast blood essence and universal Origin Power in the Nirvana Pool.
• After nine days in a Dao Cocoon, Bright Emperor emerged restored to youth, triggered the Great Emperor Tribulation, and attempted the Ultimate Thunder Tribulation Above the Myriad Daos.
• Bright Emperor fell from Above the Myriad Daos with shattered laws and a ruined Dao seed; Li Zhi suppressed his injuries, but Bright Emperor died through Dao Dissolution three years later.
• Bright Emperor's failure made Li Zhi doubt that more cultivators could reach Above the Extreme Dao, while Ye Fan began sealing Heavenly Court's members as they aged.
• Li Zhi summoned Li Xian'er and Jin Ming, who had reached the pinnacle of Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven, and told them he wanted to discuss their self-sealing.
• Li Xian'er and Jin Ming objected, saying they wanted to seek the Longevity Dao Fruit rather than seal themselves, and Li Zhi warned against relying on an Immortality Elixir to live another lifetime except as a last resort.

After millennia of isolation, Li Zhi reunited with the dying Duan De, who was reassured that Li Zhi remained free of Dark Matter before burying himself. Li Zhi then began preparing for his first Primordial Spirit Nirvana transformation on an Ancient Immortal Path, starting by forging a weapon to strengthen his body.

• Li Zhi sealed Li Xian'er, Jin Ming, Li Jizu, and the Dragon Lady away, then visited Beidou and learned that the Jade Pool Saintess had become a Quasi-Emperor while Yu Chen remained a Great Sage struggling to extend her life.
• Over the following eight thousand years, Li Zhi withdrew into an isolated part of his Dao Field, while the Golden Crow Great Emperor died and the disciples grew up without seeing their Grandmaster.
• Huo Yuer told Li Zhi that Duan De had come to visit, and Li Zhi left the Immortal Sect to meet him on Guest-Greeting Peak.
• Duan De saw that Li Zhi remained youthful and free of Dark Matter, then traveled to Gouchen Ancient Star and buried himself in a coffin.
• Li Zhi disappeared from the Dao Field and went to an Ancient Immortal Path to prepare his Primordial Spirits for Nirvana, deciding to strengthen his body by achieving unity with a weapon.
• Li Zhi began forging the weapon by placing the Mysterious Black Stone and fusing Eternal Blue Gold, Phoenix Blood Scarlet Gold, Divine Mark Purple Gold, and Yuhua Immortal Gold into it.

Li Zhi forged a Humanoid Weapon, fused it with his body, and underwent successive transformations that carried him into a third lifetime after cultivating thirty-six Extreme Dao Incarnations. A hundred thousand years later, the Great Dao had revived across the universe, and Li Zhi decided to see how his Dao Field and the wider world had changed.

• Li Zhi refined five Dao-Carrying Artifacts into a Humanoid Weapon, fused it with his flesh and blood, and completed Primordial Spirit Nirvana, creating a pool of Longevity Immortal Fluid that was blasted away from the Immortal Path.
• Li Zhi spent tens of thousands of years cultivating thirty-six Supreme Incarnations and consumed an Immortality Elixir to extend his life into a second lifetime.
• Li Zhi used the flesh, blood, and Great Dao Laws of the thirty-six Extreme Dao Supreme Beings to complete a super Nirvana transformation, begin his third lifetime, and refine his old body into a Humanoid Weapon.
• After a hundred thousand years, Heaven and Earth Essence increased and the Great Dao stopped suppressing the universe, while the Supreme Being's Dao Field had flourished on Ziwei Ancient Star.
• Li Zhi left the Nameless Daoist Temple to observe the outside world as the Supreme Challenge Tournament had grown into a major event held every thousand years.