Chapter Summaries

After several centuries of accumulating power, Yang Qing left the Big Dipper Star Domain and summoned a universe-shaking Great Emperor Tribulation. The chapter ended with the Supremes and all living beings realizing that the Great Accomplishment Saint Body was about to Prove Dao and Become Emperor.

• Yang Qing studied the immortal Dao laws in the Desolate Pagoda and spent several hundred years suppressing his cultivation and accumulating strength.
• The Supremes believed Yang Qing had settled down, unaware that he was continuing to prepare for a breakthrough.
• Yang Qing declared that his accumulation was complete and left the Big Dipper Star Domain, drawing the attention of Ji Xukong.
• Yang Qing released his aura at the edge of the universe and triggered an unprecedented Great Emperor Tribulation.
• Living beings across the universe and the Supremes in the Forbidden Zones realized that Yang Qing was undergoing tribulation to Prove Dao and Become Emperor.

Yang Qing challenged the unprecedented Great Emperor Tribulation, fighting through the Myriad Daos and toward the Heavenly Heart Seal despite the curse against Saint Bodies attaining the Dao and Void Emperor’s existing rule over the era. He reached the seal with the supreme beings watching, leaving it uncertain whether he could shatter the final barrier and become emperor.

• The supreme beings awakened to Yang Qing’s Great Emperor Tribulation and expected him to fail against the Saint Body curse and Void Emperor’s established Dao.
• Ji Xukong watched from beyond the desolate borderlands and worried that Yang Qing was still under five hundred years old and faced several barriers to attaining the Dao.
• Yang Qing fought the overwhelming tribulation head-on, including legendary calamities and Immortal Medicines bearing human faces.
• Yang Qing broke through the obstruction of the Myriad Daos of Heaven and Earth and advanced to the Heavenly Heart Seal.
• The supreme beings watched as Yang Qing’s aura gathered across the universe, wondering whether he could shatter the seal and Prove Dao and Become Emperor.

Yang Qing shattered the Heavenly Heart Seal and overcame the Great Emperor Tribulation, advancing into the Emperor Realm as his Sky-Supporting Sword became a true Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon. He declared himself the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor, while the Forbidden Zones of Life vanished to avoid him and Ji Xukong vowed to hunt the Supremes down.

• Yang Qing broke the Heavenly Heart Seal and pierced through the Myriad Daos of Heaven and Earth, leaving Ji Xukong and the Supremes stunned.
• The Supremes judged that they could not interfere with Yang Qing's tribulation and began making plans to avoid his growing power.
• The Forbidden Zones of Life in the Big Dipper Star Domain vanished, and Ji Xukong resolved to pursue the Supremes until they had nowhere left to hide.
• Yang Qing broke through the limits of Alternative Dao Attainment into the Emperor Realm, and the Sky-Supporting Sword became a true Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon.
• Yang Qing crushed the final calamity, ended his Great Emperor Tribulation, and declared himself the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor.

After becoming a Great Emperor, Yang Qing reflected on the vanished Forbidden Zones and visited the Primordial Forbidden Zone to see his master. He found his master chained between the Immortal Ascension Path and Six Paths Reincarnation Fist Stone Tablets.

• News that Yang Qing had proved Dao and become Emperor shocked the universe, and he and Ji Xukong concluded that the supreme beings might wait until their second lives to attack.
• Yang Qing returned to the Big Dipper Star Domain while Ji Xukong entered secluded cultivation under pressure from Yang Qing's breakthrough.
• Yang Qing went to the Primordial Forbidden Zone and sensed how the Ruthless Great Emperor controlled time to preserve a Great Accomplishment Saint Body.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor emerged, then left and revealed two Stone Tablets bearing the names Immortal Ascension Path and Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.
• Yang Qing found his master bound in chains between the Stone Tablets and asked whether he was all right.

Yang Qing discovered that the Underworld’s curse had afflicted his master and the Saint Body lineage, and he resolved to eradicate its source. After tending to two Great Accomplishment Saint Bodies, he openly set out for the Underworld to kill its Supremes and lift the curse.

• Yang Qing visited his master in the Ancient Forbidden Land, vowed to restore him, and used a drop of his Essence Blood to suppress the curse hidden in his master’s bloodline.
• Yang Qing left the Ancient Forbidden Land and cleansed the green hair and ominous misfortune from the Great Accomplishment Saint Body buried in the Stone Coffin on Sacred Cliff.
• Yang Qing left another drop of Essence Blood with the buried Saint Body, then departed the Big Dipper Star Domain on a golden path.
• Observers recognized Yang Qing as the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor and wondered why he had set out openly.
• Yang Qing headed for the Underworld, intending to kill its Supremes and end the curse on the Saint Body lineage.

Yang Qing attacked the Underworld, but its Supremes used the Heaven-Piercing Nether Treasure to hide the Forbidden Zone and escape. He destroyed the Underworld’s scattered forces across the universe before a young Saint Body asked him to avenge an ancestor.

• Yang Qing arrived at the Underworld and faced the Heaven-Piercing Nether Treasure as it tried to conceal the Forbidden Zone.
• Yang Qing attacked with the Desolate Pagoda and Sky-Supporting Sword, clashing with the treasure as the Underworld vanished.
• Yang Qing explained that the Underworld’s Supremes had burned Essence Blood to flee and sent his killing intents to destroy its forces and arrangements across the universe.
• Yang Qing returned toward the Big Dipper Star Domain and encountered a young Saint Body who begged him to avenge his ancestor.

A descendant of a Great Accomplishment Saint Body asked Yang Qing to avenge his ancestor, whose body had been refined into a weapon by a Great Accomplishment Overlord Body. Yang Qing went to the Overlord Body Ancestral Star and began destroying it, awakening its dormant Supremes.

• Yang Qing recognized the young man's Saint Body bloodline and learned that his ancestor had fallen to a Great Accomplishment Overlord Body, who refined his body into a weapon.
• The young man asked Yang Qing to avenge his ancestor, and Yang Qing vowed to destroy the Overlord Body lineage for its crimes.
• Yang Qing crossed the universe on a golden path toward the Overlord Body Ancestral Star, drawing the attention of the surrounding universe.
• Yang Qing advanced on the ancestral star, shattered its protective arrays, and caused its sacred cultivation grounds to collapse.
• The Overlord Body Ancestral Star descended into chaos as Yang Qing's power killed many of its people and awakened a Great Accomplishment Overlord Body.

Yang Qing attacked the Overlord Body Ancestral Star and fought four Great Accomplishment Overlord Bodies after discovering one wielded a wheel forged from a slain Great Accomplishment Saint Body. He overwhelmed their combined assault, leaving all four badly wounded and stunned by his power.

• Yang Qing expanded to colossal size and devastated the Overlord Body Ancestral Star, killing countless members of the clan.
• Three Great Accomplishment Overlord Bodies confronted Yang Qing, and he attacked after sensing that one held a treasure wheel made from a Great Accomplishment Saint Body.
• Yang Qing's sword strike destroyed two Overlord Body attacks and forced the wielder of the treasure wheel to release it; Yang Qing learned its former owner had died after reaching old age.
• A fourth Great Accomplishment Overlord Body launched a sneak attack while the other three renewed their assault.
• Yang Qing joined the treasure wheel's Saint Body phantom in unleashing the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist, blasting all four Overlord Bodies and leaving them severely injured and shocked.

Yang Qing annihilated the four Great Accomplishment Overlord Bodies and destroyed the Overlord Body Ancestral Star, proving his overwhelming strength as Sky-Supporting Great Emperor. He then told the young man that the Great Accomplishment Saint Body would be buried in the Big Dipper Star Domain and invited the young man’s lineage to join his sect.

• Yang Qing defeated the four Great Accomplishment Overlord Bodies, killing them with the Sky-Supporting Sword after they tried to flee.
• Yang Qing destroyed the Overlord Body Ancestral Star, and people across the universe marveled at his strength.
• Ji Xukong recognized that Yang Qing had surpassed him, then entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Yang Qing told the young man he would bury the Great Accomplishment Saint Body in the Big Dipper Star Domain and invited the young man’s lineage to enter his sect.

Yang Qing restored a Great Accomplishment Saint Body, made Yang Chen his disciple, and purified his bloodline into that of a true Saint Body. After several hundred years of peace and cultivation, Yang Qing sensed that the Great Yin Human Emperor’s faith body was ready and went to the Great Yin Temple to help form it.

• Yang Qing returned the treasure wheel to the corpse of a Great Accomplishment Saint Body and placed it beside another stone coffin at Sacred Cliff.
• Yang Qing took Yang Chen, a descendant of the Saint Body lineage, as his disciple and used his Essence Blood to transform Yang Chen’s blood into pure golden Saint Body blood.
• The universe enjoyed centuries of peace after the Forbidden Zones of Life vanished, while prodigies sealed themselves away because the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor and the Void Emperor suppressed the Myriad Daos.
• Yang Chen became a Saint at over a hundred years old, then left Sacred Cliff to travel and temper himself.
• Yang Qing sensed that the Great Yin Human Emperor’s faith body was nearly complete and crossed to the Great Yin Temple.
• Yang Qing told the leader of the Great Yin Divine Cult that he had come to help the Human Emperor condense his faith body.

Yang Qing gathered the universe’s power of faith to forge a body for the Great Yin Human Emperor, restoring him to the world as an undying faith body. The chapter ended with the Human Emperor sharing his insights on the path to immortality with Yang Qing.

• Yang Qing used his influence and the Great Yin Temple to draw vast power of faith from across the universe.
• Yang Qing summoned the Great Yin Human Emperor, whose towering form appeared and moved countless humans to kneel.
• Yang Qing shaped the gathered faith with runes and condensed it into the Great Yin Human Emperor’s body.
• Yang Qing decided not to give the faith body a true living soul, but considered using Amitabha Great Emperor’s method to preserve some of its will.
• The Great Yin Human Emperor’s gaze enveloped Yang Qing and sent him insights into the path to immortality.

Yang Qing received the Great Yin Human Emperor’s insights into immortality and learned that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had betrayed him on the Immortal Ascension Path. As he considered how to become a Mortal World Immortal, Yang Qing resolved to pursue continuous transformation in a single life, beginning with the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

• Yang Qing thanked the Great Yin Human Emperor’s faith body for passing on its insights, and the body merged into the Human Emperor’s golden statue as the Human Emperor Seal began to heal.
• The Great Yin Human Emperor’s final cry warned Yang Qing to beware the Undying Heavenly Emperor, confirming that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had attacked him on the Immortal Ascension Path.
• Yang Qing returned to Sacred Cliff and studied the Great Yin Human Emperor’s scattered reflections on immortality and his failed attempt to live a fourth life.
• Yang Qing reasoned that repeated transformations through nine lives might be replaced by continuous transformation in a single life, given his cultivation speed.
• Yang Qing decided to start his new path by confronting the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

Yang Qing entered Purple Mountain, the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s tomb, and waited for its master while seeking a way to draw him out. He awakened the Undying Heavenly Empress and forced her to cooperate, leaving her wary of his intentions.

• Yang Qing reflected on the Great Yin Human Emperor’s studies of immortality and Immortal Medicine as he arrived at Purple Mountain, a rare terrain known as Nine Dragons Guarding a Pearl.
• Yang Qing reached Purple Mountain’s empty central hall and concluded that the Undying Heavenly Emperor was still alive and undergoing a transformation after orchestrating the Divine War on Mars Ancient Star.
• Yang Qing decided to occupy Purple Mountain and provoke the Undying Heavenly Emperor into appearing, then took the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine for his research.
• Yang Qing shattered the Immortal Source sealing the Undying Heavenly Empress and awakened her ahead of schedule.
• Yang Qing suppressed the Undying Heavenly Empress when she invoked the Undying Heavenly Emperor, then demanded her cooperation and promised to spare her.

Yang Qing studied the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine and considered how its fragments of Immortal Dao Rules might explain its immortality and power to extend a Great Emperor’s life. Undying Heavenly Empress learned that he was the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor, while Ning Fei arrived at Purple Mountain.

• Yang Qing ignored Undying Heavenly Empress and examined the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine, theorizing that its incomplete Immortal Dao Rules let it resist time and extend a Great Emperor’s peak lifespan.
• Yang Qing recalled Azure Emperor’s transformation from the Chaos Green Lotus and considered visiting the Immortal Transformation Pool to learn more.
• Undying Heavenly Empress’s subordinate reported the state of the era, and she recognized Yang Qing as the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor, a figure on par with Emperor Venerate and Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Yang Qing sensed a vision of an Immortal Phoenix and wondered whether the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine was connected to the True Phoenix Clan among the Ten Fiends.
• Ning Fei, the first Divine General beneath Undying Heavenly Emperor, arrived at Purple Mountain on a lame horse.

Yang Qing confronted Ning Fei over his wasted potential and argued that his failure stemmed from a lack of strength, not his love for the Undying Heavenly Empress. Chuan Ying arrived and recognized the same excuse in his own regrets, while Yang Qing decided to bring Ning Fei and the Undying Heavenly Empress together.

• Ning Fei admitted he could not change the past and only wanted to protect the Undying Heavenly Empress in his final days.
• Yang Qing told Ning Fei that he had been wrong to accept his weakness rather than strive for strength.
• Chuan Ying arrived in Purple Mountain, and Yang Qing pointed out that he and Ning Fei had both been peerless heroes constrained by their eras.
• Chuan Ying realized that his regret over the Ancient Heavenly Court's collapse was an excuse for not being strong enough to rebuild it.
• Chuan Ying offered to kill the Undying Heavenly Empress, but Ning Fei stepped in front of her to protect her.
• Yang Qing said he would bring Ning Fei and the Undying Heavenly Empress together because they loved each other.

Yang Qing offered Ning Fei and the Undying Heavenly Empress the choice to be together, then left the matter to Chuan Ying while he resumed studying the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine. He met Ji Xukong in the Eastern Wasteland and, impressed by his progress, invited him to meet the Azure Emperor.

• Yang Qing told Ning Fei and the Undying Heavenly Empress they could be together, and Chuan Ying eagerly accepted responsibility for the matter.
• The Undying Heavenly Empress warned that the Undying Heavenly Emperor would be enraged, but Yang Qing said he was willing to settle his score with him.
• Yang Qing returned to studying the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine and considered how to combine fragments of Immortal Dao Rules from multiple Immortal Medicines.
• Yang Qing traveled to the Eastern Wasteland and found that Ji Xukong had made substantial progress since they last met.
• Yang Qing invited Ji Xukong to meet the Azure Emperor, who remained the Chaos Green Lotus at the Immortal Transformation Pool.

Yang Qing brought Ji Xukong to the Immortal Transformation Pool and shared his insights into the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine. The Azure Emperor emerged as a Chaos Green Lotus rooted in a Green Copper Block, demonstrated the mysteries of Immortal Medicine, and left Ji Xukong wondering what else Yang Qing had planned.

• Yang Qing and Ji Xukong reached the Immortal Transformation Pool, where Yang Qing began explaining his research into the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine.
• As Yang Qing spoke, the Azure Emperor appeared from the pool as a green lotus rooted in a Green Copper Block and listened to his discourse.
• After Yang Qing finished, the Azure Emperor demonstrated the mysteries of Immortal Medicine, including the secret of Immortal Medicine transforming into living beings.
• Yang Qing explained that the Azure Emperor was developing intelligence and might emerge as a true living being ahead of time.
• Ji Xukong prepared to return to cultivation, but Yang Qing told him their journey had only just begun.

Yang Qing and Ji Xukong explored Central Province, discussing how Immortal Medicines might be formed from fallen Immortal Dao experts and visiting the ruins of the Feathered God Dynasty. In its hidden world, Yang Qing found a Nine Heavens Divine Coffin containing the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor and dripped his blood onto it.

• Yang Qing said the Azure Emperor confirmed that Immortal Medicines arose from fallen Immortal Dao experts, and Ji Xukong realized they could reveal a path to immortality.
• Yang Qing and Ji Xukong discussed Central Province’s imperial dynasties and Great Emperor Hengyu’s legacy in the Ancient Hua Dynasty.
• Yang Qing explained that the Ruthless Great Emperor had destroyed the Feathered God Dynasty to avenge her brother, whom the dynasty had killed.
• Yang Qing opened a small world left by the Feathered God Dynasty, and he and Ji Xukong reached its thirty-third layer.
• Yang Qing took a Nine Heavens Divine Coffin from an altar holding Immortal Tear Green Gold and identified its occupant as the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor.
• Yang Qing dripped his blood onto the Nine Heavens Divine Coffin.

Yang Qing opened the Nine Heavens Divine Coffin and saw that the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor was alive, undergoing a transformation toward immortality. After gaining insights from the Emperor’s path and showing Ji Xukong that immortality remained possible, Yang Qing led him onward to meet another expert in transformation.

• Yang Qing opened the Nine Heavens Divine Coffin with his blood while Ji Xukong watched.
• Yang Qing explained that the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor’s transformations could be a path to immortality, and Ji Xukong considered the possibility that the Emperor had taken that step.
• Yang Qing and Ji Xukong saw a trace of life in the Emperor’s Corpse and gained insights into the Divine Silkworm Eleven Transformations.
• Yang Qing closed the coffin, bowed to the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor, and sent the Nine Heavens Divine Coffin into the starry expanse.
• Yang Qing encouraged Ji Xukong to believe immortality was achievable and led him toward another expert undergoing transformation.

Yang Qing and Ji Xukong discovered that the Feathered Great Emperor had transformed himself into a gestating Saint Spirit to pursue longevity. Yang Qing then led Ji Xukong from the Primordial Forbidden Zone aboard the Nine Dragon Pulling Coffin toward an unknown destination.

• Yang Qing and Ji Xukong entered the final layer of the minor world and found the Feathered Great Emperor’s consciousness within a Saint Spirit embryo.
• Yang Qing explained that the Feathered Great Emperor had attempted to achieve immortality by replacing a gestating Saint Spirit and would eventually return in its completed body.
• Yang Qing revealed that the Feathered God Dynasty’s destruction by the Ruthless Great Emperor had left the returning Feathered Great Emperor facing a terrible predicament.
• Yang Qing entered a Five-Colored Altar and brought Ji Xukong to the Primordial Forbidden Zone, where they saw the Nine Dragon Pulling Coffin.
• Yang Qing and Ji Xukong boarded the Bronze Coffin as the Nine Dragon Pulling Coffin entered a Starry Sky Gate and traveled into the universe.