Chapter Summaries

Yang Qing destroyed the Heaven and Earth Rules preventing Ye Fan from cultivating, leaving Jiang Taixu and Ye Fan stunned by his power. He returned to Undying Mountain, where he met the Azure Emperor as he approached a crucial transformation toward a third life.

• Yang Qing explained that he had used the Sky-Supporting Sword to sever the Heaven and Earth Rules so Ye Fan could cultivate.
• Jiang Taixu and Ye Fan were shocked by Yang Qing's feat, and Yang Qing told Ye Fan that he still had to walk his own path.
• The Black Emperor suggested that he, Ye Fan, and Duan De could test the identity of the mysterious expert, and the three set off together.
• Yang Qing arrived at Undying Mountain and met the Azure Emperor, who was nearing the transformation needed to live a third life.

Yang Qing prepared to leave the mortal world after clearing its remaining obstacles, while Ye Fan and his companions visited Sacred Cliff and learned more about the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor’s legendary deeds. The chapter ended with the Black Emperor revealing that the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor had remained in the world for over a hundred thousand years.

• Yang Qing told Azure Emperor that becoming immortal was only the beginning and vowed to clear every obstacle before leaving for a higher world.
• Ye Fan, Duan De, the Black Emperor, and a little girl arrived at Sacred Cliff and discussed the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor’s history there.
• The Undying Daoist appeared and begged for help, but Yang Qing’s sword qi struck him down before he could escape his imprisonment.
• Ye Fan and the others reached the summit and heard how the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor had transformed Undying Mountain from a Forbidden Zone of Life into a sacred land.
• The Black Emperor claimed that the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor had remained in the world for over a hundred thousand years, shocking Ye Fan and the others.

Yang Qing killed the Undying Daoist in Sacred Cliff while Ye Fan and his companions entered Undying Mountain and discovered visions of Great Emperor Wushi and the Ruthless Great Emperor meeting beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree. A third figure then appeared, and Ye Fan and the others recognized him as the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor.

• Yang Qing visited the Undying Daoist, who had survived more than a hundred thousand years imprisoned in Sacred Cliff.
• Yang Qing revealed himself to the Undying Daoist and reduced his body and primordial spirit to ashes.
• Ye Fan and his companions entered Undying Mountain after the Black Emperor urged them onward.
• The Black Emperor recognized the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, where visions of Great Emperor Wushi and the Ruthless Great Emperor appeared together.
• Duan De realized the two Great Emperors were discussing the Dao across the ages, and the group recognized a newly appearing figure as the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor.

Ye Fan met Yang Qing in Undying Mountain, where Yang Qing reflected on Ruthless Great Emperor’s Dao and her search for her brother’s reincarnation. Knowing Ye Fan longed to return to Earth, Yang Qing created a Five-Colored Altar and sent him on his way.

• Ye Fan and Black Emperor discussed Sky-Supporting Great Emperor’s legendary strength and concluded he was likely still alive.
• Yang Qing arrived and examined the little girl who was Ruthless Great Emperor’s Dao Fruit, considering whether Ye Fan might be her brother’s reincarnation.
• Yang Qing gave Ye Fan leaves from the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree as a gift.
• Ye Fan asked Yang Qing to help him return to Earth, and Yang Qing created a Five-Colored Altar for him.
• Ye Fan thanked Yang Qing and stepped onto the altar to return home.

Ye Fan returned to Earth through a Starry Sky Gate with Black Emperor, Duan De, and Ruthless Great Emperor's Dao Fruit. Yang Qing brought Azure Emperor to Earth to transform there, hoping its mysteries would help him discover a new path.

• Yang Qing opened a Starry Sky Gate, and Ye Fan, Black Emperor, Duan De, and Ruthless Great Emperor's Dao Fruit traveled through it to Earth.
• Azure Emperor told Yang Qing that his upcoming transformation might keep him from witnessing the battle on the Immortal Ascension Path.
• Yang Qing brought Azure Emperor to an ancient star near Earth and suggested it could help him walk an entirely different path.
• Yang Qing said Earth held old friends, and an ancient city called Hangu Pass appeared with an old Daoist, a monk, and a dignified man atop its gate.

Yang Qing and the Azure Emperor met three sentient Emperor’s Corpses on Earth, whose new identities were Li Er, Sakyamuni, and Shen Nong. Yang Qing considered whether they might recover their former selves through reincarnation or immortality, then brought the Azure Emperor to the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains for his transformation.

• The Azure Emperor introduced himself as Wan Qing to Li Er, Sakyamuni, and Shen Nong, and Yang Qing explained that they were the newly awakened consciousnesses of past emperors.
• Yang Qing reasoned that the three might regain their former memories through reincarnation or by becoming immortals, and considered giving them a chance to ascend.
• Yang Qing and the Azure Emperor left the three and entered Earth, while Li Er, Sakyamuni, and Shen Nong reflected on the changes in the world and the coming Immortal Ascension Path.
• Yang Qing arrived with the Azure Emperor at the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, the place he had chosen for the Azure Emperor’s transformation.

Yang Qing transformed the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains into a Chaos seed containing limitless creation and offered it to Azure Emperor as the foundation for his cultivation. Azure Emperor entered the seed to evolve a world, while Yang Qing left his future path to his own fortune.

• Yang Qing and Azure Emperor discussed the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains and the Ruthless Great Emperor's destruction of their dragon treasures.
• Yang Qing restored the dragon treasures, uprooted the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, and refined them into a seed infused with Chaos.
• Azure Emperor recognized the seed's resemblance to his own origins as a Chaos Green Lotus and grasped the possibilities of evolving a world.
• Yang Qing explained that Azure Emperor should follow the path suited to him and had created Chaos Immortal Soil for him to cultivate within.
• Azure Emperor thanked Yang Qing, entered the Chaos seed, and rooted himself there as a Chaos Green Lotus to evolve a world.

Yang Qing found Wang Bo, the Chaos Body, near the end of his life with his Dao Heart almost broken after failing to keep pace with Wushi on the path of Mortal World Immortal transformation. Wang Bo admitted his self-doubt had overwhelmed him, and he believed he had no time left to continue transforming.

• Yang Qing let Azure Emperor choose his own path of transformation within the chaos immortal seed.
• Yang Qing returned to the Big Dipper Star Domain and reflected on Ji Xukong, Lingbao Tianzun, and Wushi's progress toward becoming perfected Mortal World Immortals.
• Yang Qing found Wang Bo aged and lifeless, with his Dao Heart nearly collapsed and his transformation stalled.
• Wang Bo recounted how his pride in his Chaos Body gave way to self-doubt after he lost to Wushi and struggled on the path of transformation.
• Yang Qing told Wang Bo that a powerful physique was part of his own ability, but Wang Bo said he had no time left and accepted that death might be a release.

Wang Bo refused Yang Qing’s offer of a safer path and chose to attempt another transformation, while Ye Fan eventually began cultivating and traveled to the Ziwei Star Domain with his companions. There, Ye Fan and Yang Qing discovered the descendants of the Great Yin Human Emperor under attack, leaving Yang Qing to confront the return of an old tragedy.

• Yang Qing offered Wang Bo a chance to enter the Exotic World or be sealed away, but Wang Bo refused and resolved to make one final attempt on his own.
• Wang Bo entered secluded cultivation to begin his transformation, declaring that he would either succeed or die trying.
• After serving his parents until their deaths, Ye Fan began cultivating and reached the Ziwei Star Domain with his companions because the Black Emperor’s formation went wrong.
• Ye Fan saw experts besieging the elderly, women, and children among the Great Yin Human Emperor’s descendants and prepared to intervene.
• Yang Qing appeared before Ye Fan, who recognized him as the senior who had helped him break his curse and return to Earth.
• Yang Qing recalled building the Great Yin Temple and helping its people, then looked on as the Human Emperor’s descendants faced another catastrophe.

Yang Qing rescued the Great Yin Human Emperor's descendants and punished the human experts who had pursued them, while leaving the remaining witnesses to Ye Fan. He then awakened the Sun Human Emperor's legacy by raising a Sun Temple and a faith statue, preparing for the Human Emperor to protect all living beings again when the Great Dark Upheaval came.

• Yang Qing grew enraged that human experts were hunting the Great Yin Human Emperor's descendants while the Human Emperor's faith body remained silent to uphold its duty to all living beings.
• Yang Qing summoned lightning that annihilated the pursuers, then wounded the distant watchers with a cold snort and warned them not to insult the Human Emperor.
• Yang Qing left the remaining experts to Ye Fan and vanished from the Great Yin Temple.
• Yang Qing opened the Sun Human Emperor's coffin in the Northern Sea and found the Human Skin that could allow the Human Emperor to revive.
• Yang Qing restored Tanggu Valley, raised the Sun Temple, gathered faith into a statue containing the Sun Human Emperor's Human Skin, and bowed in salute.

After helping the Sun and Great Yin Human Emperors’ descendants, Ye Fan returned to the Big Dipper Star Domain and faced the awakened Myriad Ancient Races at the Assembly of All Races. Seven Ancient Sages challenged the idea that Human Great Emperors still lived, just as a world-shaking sword light appeared.

• Yang Qing created a body of faith for the Sun Human Emperor and left to eradicate darkness before the Immortal Ascension Path opened.
• Ye Fan rescued the descendants of the Great Yin and Sun Human Emperors and took two talented youths as disciples.
• Ye Fan and his companions returned to the Big Dipper Star Domain and learned that the Myriad Ancient Races had awakened ahead of the Immortal Ascension Path’s opening.
• At the Assembly of All Races, the Black Emperor insulted the Myriad Ancient Races, and Ye Fan blocked an expert’s attack against him.
• Seven Ancient Sages appeared, prompting the Myriad Ancient Races to proclaim their strength and question whether any Human Great Emperors remained alive.
• A dazzling sword light appeared after an Ancient Sage challenged the Black Emperor’s claim that living Human Great Emperors still existed.

The Sky-Supporting Sword and three other human Emperor Artifacts appeared, killing seven Ancient Sages and forcing the Myriad Ancient Races to retreat. As heaven and earth began recovering into a Golden Age, Yang Qing sensed Emperor Venerate had started acting and hoped he would prove a worthy opponent.

• The Sky-Supporting Sword descended and reduced seven Ancient Sages of the Myriad Ancient Races to ashes.
• The human race recognized the Sky-Supporting Sword and speculated that the Sky-Supporting Great Emperor might still be alive.
• The Void Mirror, Wushi Bell, and Four Immortal Slaying Swords appeared alongside the Sky-Supporting Sword, overwhelming the Myriad Ancient Races.
• The grand gathering of the myriad races ended, and the Myriad Ancient Races concealed themselves or returned to their ancestral planets.
• Yang Qing sensed heaven and earth recovering and detected a space node left behind by Emperor Venerate, whose actions he awaited.

More than a century after Ye Fan began his trial, Yang Qing sensed that the Immortal Ascension Path would soon open in the Big Dipper Star Domain. He attended Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue’s wedding, then declared that he would destroy the Supremes whether or not they emerged.

• Yang Qing sensed that the Immortal Ascension Path was about to open in the Big Dipper Star Domain.
• Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue held their wedding at the Ji family, where Ji Xukong watched from afar and spoke with Yang Qing.
• Yang Qing congratulated Ye Fan and gave him the White Tiger Immortal Medicine as a wedding gift.
• The Immortal Ascension Path opened, shaking the Big Dipper Star Domain and stirring hopes that someone might attain immortality.
• Ji Xukong anticipated the Supremes’ return, while Yang Qing vowed that none of them would escape.

Yang Qing explained the origins of the Immortal Ascension Paths as the rift to the Immortal Realm opened over the Ancient Forbidden Land. The path emerged and began to open, but the Supremes stayed away as Yang Qing sensed the power of faith stirring in the Western Desert.

• Yang Qing told Ji Xukong that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had created many false Immortal Ascension Paths before opening the true one, and that sufficiently powerful beings could forge their own path.
• As the rift widened, the Ruthless Great Emperor reforged the Nine Marvelous Immortal Medicine, and the Immortal Ascension Path and its stone tablets appeared beneath the Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Ten days later, the rift tore open and the Immortal Ascension Path began to open, while Ji Xukong used spatial formation patterns to protect the Big Dipper Star Domain.
• Ji Xukong noted that no Supremes had appeared, and Yang Qing said others would still fight on the path as he sensed faith power boiling in the Western Desert.

As the Immortal Ascension Path opened, Amitabha Great Emperor used the power of faith to return and fight his way into it, seeking immortality and the Ascension of the Entire Sect. Yang Qing judged that Amitabha Great Emperor’s plan would only sacrifice countless Buddhist disciples, and resolved not to let that happen.

• Yang Qing and Ji Xukong watched the Western Desert’s power of faith gather toward Mount Sumeru and discussed Amitabha Great Emperor’s path to longevity.
• A colossal Buddha statue formed from faith and charged onto the Immortal Ascension Path, revealing Amitabha Great Emperor’s reappearance.
• Ji Xukong recognized the statue as Amitabha Great Emperor’s dharma body, which began to falter under the path’s tribulations.
• Amitabha Great Emperor manifested a second Great Buddha at the Great Thunder Sound Temple, using accumulated faith to create a being equivalent to himself at his peak.
• Yang Qing warned that Amitabha Great Emperor’s attempt at the Ascension of the Entire Sect would kill hundreds of millions of Buddhist disciples and said he could not allow it.

The Amitabha Great Emperor gathered the faith of Buddhist believers and tried to lead them through the Immortal Ascension Path, but Yang Qing’s Sky-Supporting Sword blocked him. Yang Qing suppressed the Amitabha Great Emperor and summoned several Immortal Artifacts to extinguish his hope of ascending.

• The Amitabha Great Emperor gathered the universe’s Buddhist faith and raised Mount Sumeru toward the Immortal Ascension Path.
• Yang Qing’s Sky-Supporting Sword blocked the path, and Yang Qing refused to let the Amitabha Great Emperor pass.
• The Amitabha Great Emperor attacked with an enormous Buddha body, but Yang Qing’s sword intent suppressed him and reduced him to Mount Sumeru.
• The Amitabha Great Emperor’s faith body continued to struggle as Dao Fire and Buddhist chants failed to break the suppression.
• Yang Qing summoned the Desolate Pagoda, the Void Mirror, the Four Immortal Slaying Swords, and the Wushi Bell to suppress the Immortal Ascension Path.

Yang Qing used four Emperor Artifacts to seal the Immortal Ascension Path, enraging Buddhism and causing Amitabha Great Emperor's faith-born body to fall into demonic obsession. After Yang Qing calmed him and explained the danger posed by the Supremes, Amitabha Great Emperor withdrew to the Western Desert, while Yang Qing considered the threat posed by Buddhism's ambition for the Ascension of the Entire Sect.

• The Desolate Pagoda, Void Mirror, Four Immortal Slaying Swords, and Wushi Bell sealed the Immortal Ascension Path, shocking those who had hoped to become immortal.
• Amitabha Great Emperor's body of faith raged over the ruined chance for Buddhism's Ascension of the Entire Sect and sent a sea of fire toward the nine heavens.
• Yang Qing used the Sky-Supporting Sword to cut off the power of faith and knock Mount Sumeru's Buddhist disciples unconscious, calming Amitabha Great Emperor.
• Yang Qing warned Amitabha Great Emperor that the Supremes had not been pacified and could threaten Buddhism if it pursued the Immortal Ascension Path.
• Amitabha Great Emperor accepted Yang Qing's warning and returned Mount Sumeru to the Western Desert.
• Ji Xukong warned that faith could make Buddhism a source of calamity, and Yang Qing reflected on the dangers of Amitabha Great Emperor's body of faith.

After the Immortal Ascension Path abruptly closed, Yang Qing and Ji Xukong prepared for the greater battle they expected when the true path opened centuries later. As a Golden Age unfolded and the Sole True Path brought prodigies together, Yang Qing met Zhang Bairen, who had once encountered the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.

• Yang Qing reflected on the safeguards Amitabha Great Emperor had left to pursue immortality as the Immortal Ascension Path closed under the four Emperor Artifacts.
• Experts questioned why no legendary figures had appeared and why the Immortal Ascension Path had collapsed so quickly.
• Yang Qing and Ji Xukong anticipated a future Golden Age battle, with Ji Xukong resolving to defeat the supreme beings and end the Forbidden Zones of Life.
• Several hundred years later, prodigies from throughout history emerged, and the Sole True Path pushed the Emperor's Road competition to its peak.
• Yang Qing met Zhang Bairen and asked whether he had once encountered the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.

Yang Qing met Zhang Bairen, a survivor of the Chaotic Ancient Era, and learned that his old cultivation system had kept him from attaining the Dao. Yang Qing severed Zhang Bairen’s ties to that system, leaving him free to cultivate anew.

• Yang Qing appeared before Zhang Bairen and revealed that he knew of Zhang Bairen’s life since the Chaotic Ancient Era.
• Yang Qing took Zhang Bairen with him, and Zhang Bairen asked why Yang Qing had no interest in the Emperor’s Road.
• Zhang Bairen explained that he had missed his chance to attain the Dao and showed Yang Qing the cultivation system he had inherited from the old era.
• Yang Qing told Zhang Bairen that clinging to the old system was holding him back and severed its traces from Zhang Bairen’s body.
• Zhang Bairen felt his long-standing shackles disappear and realized Yang Qing had given him a chance to begin anew.

Yang Qing and Zhang Bairen reached the ancient Heavenly Court ruins, where Yang Qing explained the court’s history and the immense providence tied to rebuilding it. At the central palace, Yang Qing pierced the River of Time and found the figure he had been searching for.

• Zhang Bairen felt free of the old era’s Dao and laws and revealed what he knew as he traveled with Yang Qing through the nine Emperor Passes.
• Yang Qing explained that the Emperor’s Road brought no guaranteed fortune and that the nine passes led to the ancient Heavenly Court ruins.
• Yang Qing and Zhang Bairen entered the ruins and discussed how the Desolate Heavenly Emperor broke the Heavenly Court’s curse, while Emperor Venerate later failed to rebuild it.
• Yang Qing tore through the void at the central palace and used peerless power to span the ages through the River of Time.
• Yang Qing pushed past the resistance of appearing Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors, then smiled when he found a towering figure.