Chapter Summaries

The Unfeeling Immortal Emperor trapped Fang Chen in a prison of silver chains, but his Return to Ruin Sword Intent devoured their power and replenished him. She escalated with the Eternal Ice Seal and Extinction Finger, and Fang Chen met her killing strike with his eleven-layer sword attack, leaving them locked in a deadlock.

• The Unfeeling Immortal Emperor bound Fang Chen in chains formed from Unfeeling Law and extreme cold.
• Fang Chen compressed his Sword Intent into Return to Ruin Sword Threads that devoured the chains and absorbed their energy.
• The Unfeeling Immortal Emperor unleashed the Eternal Ice Seal and aimed her Extinction Finger at Fang Chen's True Spirit Mark.
• Fang Chen stacked his Sword Momentum to eleven layers and struck the Extinction Finger with the Floating Immortal Sword.
• Fang Chen's Chaos-colored sword light and the silver finger ray collided and remained locked against each other.

Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword’s hidden devouring power to absorb part of Unfeeling Immortal Emperor’s attack and wound her with a counterstrike. Enraged, she unleashed her full Fourth-Turn power and summoned a devastating blade as the Heavenly Slaves approached.

• Fang Chen unleashed Floating Immortal Transformation, and the Floating Immortal Sword devoured much of Unfeeling Immortal Emperor’s finger strike.
• Fang Chen turned the absorbed power into a sword rainbow that shattered Unfeeling Immortal Emperor’s ice shield and wounded her.
• Unfeeling Immortal Emperor erupted with her full Fourth-Turn strength, fracturing the surrounding star region.
• The Five Clans feared her unleashed aura would attract the Heavenly Slaves, and distant roars confirmed that predators were approaching.
• Unfeeling Immortal Emperor summoned the Unfeeling Heaven Blade with Unfeeling Heavenly Dao: All Things Return to the Ruins, while Fang Chen stood ready to fight.

Fang Chen and the Unfeeling Immortal Emperor’s Fourth-Turn clash drew three powerful Heavenly Slaves into the battlefield. Fang Chen charged the newcomers, assigning the last enemy to the Unfeeling Immortal Emperor.

• Fang Chen activated the Floating Immortal Battle Array and met the Unfeeling Immortal Emperor’s Heaven Blade with a full-force attack.
• Their collision devastated the surrounding Sea of Stars and left both fighters weakened as the Five Clans watched in alarm.
• Three Fourth-Turn Heavenly Slaves emerged from Space Rifts: the Starcore World-Devouring Beast, the Myriad Resentment Soul-Eroding Tide, and a Law Aberration.
• The Unfeeling Immortal Emperor realized the three creatures had arrived while she and Fang Chen were too depleted to face them easily.
• Fang Chen broke away from the clash, charged the Heavenly Slaves, and told the Unfeeling Immortal Emperor to handle the remaining enemy.

Fang Chen fought the Starcore World-Devouring Beast and the Myriad Resentment Soul-Eroding Tide alone, while the Unfeeling Immortal Emperor faced the Law Aberration. The two Heavenly Slaves unleashed their ultimate attacks, leaving Fang Chen to confront an escalating threat.

• Fang Chen opened his Return to Ruin Sword Domain and battled the Starcore World-Devouring Beast and the Myriad Resentment Soul-Eroding Tide, weakening both with his sword intent.
• The New Alliance watched Fang Chen hold off two Fourth-Turn Heavenly Slaves, while the Unfeeling Immortal Emperor renewed her attack against the Law Aberration.
• The Starcore World-Devouring Beast gathered its energy for a Stellar Annihilation Blast, and the Myriad Resentment Soul-Eroding Tide transformed into soul-piercing black threads.
• Fang Chen recognized the danger of both Heavenly Slaves' ultimate attacks as they converged on him.

Fang Chen fought the Starcore World-Devouring Beast and the Myriad Resentment Soul-Eroding Tide, but the beast’s Stellar Annihilation Blast overwhelmed him with cascading explosions and chaotic laws. As Ye Qingci and the others watched in horror, Fang Chen was left gravely injured and struggling to resist being pulled into the beast’s maw.

• Fang Chen unleashed torrents of light swords to clash with the Stellar Annihilation Blast and the Myriad Resentment Soul-Eroding Tide, but he was wounded and shadow threads invaded his Sea of Consciousness.
• Fang Chen purified the shadow threads within his Sea of Consciousness, giving the Starcore World-Devouring Beast an opening to detonate its Stellar Annihilation Blast and engulf him.
• The blast’s first detonation destroyed Fang Chen’s sword-intent shield and vaporized his left arm.
• Fang Chen drove the Floating Immortal Sword into the web of Space Law and used Return to Ruin Sword Intent to resist the singularity’s pull, enduring extreme Law Turbulence.
• The blast’s law-collapse detonation aged Fang Chen’s right leg, cut open his flank, and began erasing his left arm conceptually, while Ye Qingci and the others watched through the mirror in the Swallowing Heaven Tower.

Fang Chen endured the Stellar Annihilation Blast and the Myriad Resentment Soul-Eroding Tide’s assault on his mind, then used the Floating Immortal Sword to devour his pain and the destructive forces around him. After his body began adapting to multiple Laws, he struck at the tormented face at the center of the tide.

• Ai Wen sensed Fang Chen’s Life Origin surging violently, while Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang felt the Law-level pain of the battle.
• The Myriad Resentment Soul-Eroding Tide slipped its shadowy threads into Fang Chen’s Sea of Consciousness and drowned him in memories and pain.
• Fang Chen held onto his resolve as the Floating Immortal Sword awakened and sent Devouring Power through his body and Sea of Consciousness.
• Fang Chen let the sword consume the tide’s painful emotions and the Stellar Annihilation Blast’s aftershock, while the energies and Law Fragments transformed his body.
• Fang Chen gathered his strength into the Floating Immortal Sword and thrust its Chaos-gray light into the brow of the tide’s tormented ghostly face.

Fang Chen killed the Myriad Resentment Soul-Eroding Tide and the Starcore World-Devouring Beast, but seven powerful Ancient Divine Senses arrived as he recovered. The Unfeeling Immortal Emperor unleashed her ultimate technique against the Law Aberration, freezing it in an eternal state.

• Fang Chen destroyed Ghost Face and the Myriad Resentment Soul-Eroding Tide, then absorbed the Starcore World-Devouring Beast's remains with the Floating Immortal Sword.
• Fang Chen knelt, exhausted and badly wounded, as seven powerful Ancient Divine Senses locked onto the battlefield.
• The Unfeeling Immortal Emperor continued fighting the Law Aberration, whose shifting body and chaotic Laws resisted her attacks.
• The Unfeeling Immortal Emperor decided to end the battle quickly and invoked Unfeeling Forbidden Zone: Eternal Ice Burial.
• The Eternal Ice Burial domain froze the Law Aberration's chaotic Laws and sealed its changing form in an eerie gray-white sculpture.

After the Unfeeling Immortal Emperor sealed the Law Aberration, seven ancient patriarchs emerged in their true bodies across the starfield. Fang Chen confronted their arrival, while the New Alliance faced the sudden threat of seven emperors.

• The Unfeeling Immortal Emperor used the Eternal Ice Seal to trap the Law Aberration, spending nearly thirty percent of her remaining Origin.
• The Unfeeling Immortal Emperor noticed Fang Chen had slain two Fourth-Turn Heavenly Slaves and sensed seven immense divine pressures approaching.
• Fang Chen taunted the hidden arrivals, and seven rifts opened across the stars.
• The Blood Sea Patriarch, Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor, Yellow Springs Patriarch, Judgment Ancient Emperor, Life Ancient Emperor, Golden Roc Patriarch, and Fire Phoenix Patriarch appeared in their true bodies.
• The New Alliance Cultivators, including Lin Xiao and Master Evan, were shaken by the seven patriarchs, while the Five Clans rejoiced in their Ancestral Lands.

Seven ancient emperors confronted Fang Chen and demanded his death, the Time Bell, and control of the New Alliance. Fang Chen challenged them, then absorbed the Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor’s opening attack with the Floating Immortal Sword’s Return-to-the-Ruins Vortex, though the sword and Fang Chen were strained by the impact.

• The Seven Emperors awakened and declared Fang Chen must die and the New Alliance must be taken over.
• The Blood Sea Patriarch, Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor, Yellow Springs Patriarch, Judgment Ancient Emperor, Life Ancient Emperor, Golden Roc Patriarch, and Fire Phoenix Patriarch each threatened or condemned Fang Chen and demanded what they wanted.
• Fang Chen called the Seven Emperors old monsters and vowed to make them pay with their lives.
• The Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor attacked Fang Chen with the Light of Holy Judgment while the other emperors sealed off escape routes.
• Fang Chen met the beam with the Floating Immortal Sword’s Return-to-the-Ruins Vortex, which swallowed the attack as the sword’s rust peeled away and Fang Chen shook from the strain.

Fang Chen endured the Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor’s judgment attack and grew stronger by absorbing its power, but the Seven Emperors joined forces to trap and overwhelm him. As their attacks converged, Fang Chen summoned his Sword Domain to face them.

• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to absorb the Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor’s attack, enduring immense pain as his body adapted to the Laws of light and judgment.
• The Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor recognized Fang Chen’s growing strength, and the Blood Sea Patriarch urged the others to attack together.
• The Judgment Ancient Emperor, Yellow Springs Patriarch, Life Ancient Emperor, Golden Roc Patriarch, and Fire Phoenix Patriarch launched their attacks while the Blood Sea Patriarch sealed the battlefield.
• Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, and the others watched helplessly as the Seven Emperors’ attacks overwhelmed the battlefield, while the remnants of the Five Clans celebrated.
• Fang Chen welcomed the assault and formed his Sword Domain from the Darkness Devouring God Domain and the Floating Immortal Sword.

Fang Chen fused the Darkness Devouring God Domain with the Return to Ruin Sword Intent, forming a vast Return-to-Ruin Vortex that devoured the Seven Ancient Emperors’ combined attacks. As he endured the backlash and absorbed their Laws, the emperors realized he was using them to grow stronger and prepared a new assault.

• Fang Chen combined the Darkness Devouring God Domain and the Return to Ruin Sword Intent to create the Return-to-Ruin Vortex.
• The Seven Ancient Emperors struck the vortex with six powerful attacks, and it broke down and devoured much of their power.
• Fang Chen suffered severe damage as the attacks’ Law energies flooded his body and soul, but he used the Floating Immortal Art to refine them.
• The Floating Immortal Sword shed more Dark Red Rust as Fang Chen’s Soul Perception rose and the two powers fused more rapidly.
• The Seven Ancient Emperors recognized that Fang Chen was absorbing their Laws and using them as a whetstone.
• The Blood Sea Patriarch sent countless Blood-Shadow Demons charging at the vortex to overwhelm its Devouring Power.

Fang Chen endured the Seven Emperors’ assault until the Floating Immortal Sword transformed and he turned the fight against them. He wounded the Yellow Springs Patriarch and checked the Golden Roc Patriarch, but the Judgment Ancient Emperor then unleashed chains to bind him.

• The Seven Emperors battered Fang Chen while the Floating Immortal Sword repeatedly restored his strength, tempering his Chaos Dao Body and Return to Ruin Sword Intent.
• Fang Chen straightened, absorbed his domain into the Floating Immortal Sword, and declared that it was his turn to fight back.
• Fang Chen moved beside the Yellow Springs Patriarch and struck him with a Darkness-laced sword attack that disrupted his Nether River Laws.
• The Golden Roc Patriarch attacked Fang Chen from behind, but Fang Chen blocked his talons and chipped them with a counterstroke.
• The Judgment Ancient Emperor ordered the emperors to surround Fang Chen and sent a net of Divine Shackles down to bind him.

Fang Chen concealed his strength while deducing a fusion of his sword intent and divine domain, then evaded Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor’s killing blow. Unfeeling Immortal Emperor tried to save him, but Fang Chen kicked her out of the way, and his Floating Immortal Sword awakened as the fusion advanced.

• Life Ancient Emperor and the other emperors intensified their coordinated assault, leaving Fang Chen apparently near defeat.
• Fang Chen secretly used the attacks to strengthen the Floating Immortal Sword while continuing his deduction of the Darkness Devouring God Domain and Return to Ruin Sword Intent fusion.
• Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor launched a charged Spear of Judgment at Fang Chen, and Unfeeling Immortal Emperor intercepted it with a Heartless Ice Shield.
• The spear shattered the shield and grievously wounded Unfeeling Immortal Emperor, but her intervention disrupted its force.
• Fang Chen kicked Unfeeling Immortal Emperor away, dodged the spear with a slight turn, and advanced his fusion as the Floating Immortal Sword rang out.

Fang Chen unleashed a Fusion Sword Domain that suppressed the Seven Emperors and killed Golden Roc Patriarch. He then attacked Fire Phoenix Patriarch, whose Nirvana Phoenix Flame began to be devoured as she tried to flee.

• Fang Chen formed a domain interweaving Return to Ruin Sword Intent with Chaos darkness, weakening the Seven Emperors and eroding their divine arts.
• Fang Chen appeared before Golden Roc Patriarch and cut through his defenses with the Floating Immortal Sword.
• Golden Roc Patriarch died as his body and Origin crumbled and were absorbed by Fang Chen's sword.
• Fang Chen moved behind Fire Phoenix Patriarch and thrust at her as she retreated, devouring the Nirvana Phoenix Flame surrounding her.

Fang Chen killed the Fire Phoenix Patriarch after the Golden Roc, leaving five Ancient Emperors to face him inside his Fusion Sword Domain. The survivors launched their strongest combined attacks, and the chapter ended as Judgment Ancient Emperor's power to erase Fang Chen's existence descended.

• Fang Chen's Return to Ruin Sword Intent destroyed the Fire Phoenix Patriarch's Nirvana Origin, and the Floating Immortal Sword sealed her Essence.
• The remaining five Ancient Emperors—Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor, Judgment Ancient Emperor, Yellow Springs Patriarch, Life Ancient Emperor, and Blood Sea Patriarch—prepared to fight Fang Chen.
• Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor, Judgment Ancient Emperor, Yellow Springs Patriarch, Life Ancient Emperor, and Blood Sea Patriarch unleashed their strongest attacks together.
• Fang Chen accelerated the Fusion Sword Domain's rotation, dispersing and weakening Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor's Holy Radiance Heavenly Punishment.
• Judgment Ancient Emperor's power to strip Fang Chen of his existence descended through the Sword Domain.

Fang Chen resisted the Judgment Ancient Emperor’s power and the Yellow Springs Patriarch’s corruption, then killed the Blood Sea Patriarch with a concentrated strike of the Floating Immortal Sword. With three Emperors dead, he faced the four survivors and declared the real battle was beginning.

• Fang Chen anchored his existence with his will, resisting the Judgment Ancient Emperor’s attack and neutralizing the Yellow Springs Patriarch’s taint, though the Life Ancient Emperor’s mist disrupted his power.
• The Blood Sea Patriarch exploited the flaw in Fang Chen’s Sword Domain and attacked with his Blood Demon God form.
• Fang Chen revealed that he had baited the ambush, then thrust the Floating Immortal Sword into the Blood Sea Patriarch’s brow and erased him and the Blood Sea.
• The Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor, the Judgment Ancient Emperor, the Yellow Springs Patriarch, and the Life Ancient Emperor watched in fear as the Blood Sea Patriarch’s essence was sealed at Fang Chen’s sword tip.
• Fang Chen told the four remaining Emperors that the warm-up was over and prepared to continue fighting.

Fang Chen drove the Four Emperors into a desperate fight by unleashing a devastating Sword Qi Tidal Wave. As they launched four life-risking attacks, he chose not to evade and gambled on fusing his Darkness Devouring God Domain with his Return to Ruin Sword Intent under the pressure of death.

• The Yellow Springs Patriarch, the Life Ancient Emperor, and the Judgment Ancient Emperor recoiled from Fang Chen, while the Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor urged the others to wear him down.
• Fang Chen expanded his Fusion Domain into a Sword Qi Tidal Wave that disrupted the Four Emperors' powers and weakened their connection to the Laws.
• The Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor burned his Light Origin to form the Holy War Spear of Light's Judgment, and the Judgment Ancient Emperor fused with his codex to unleash the Eye of Law's Heavenly Punishment.
• The Yellow Springs Patriarch formed a Yellow Springs Arrow aimed at Fang Chen's soul, while the Life Ancient Emperor prepared the Seed of Life's End to destroy his Life Cycle.
• The Four Emperors launched their killing moves together, but Fang Chen stood his ground and began fusing his Darkness Devouring God Domain with his Return to Ruin Sword Intent.

Fang Chen survived the Four Emperors’ combined attacks when the Floating Immortal Sword helped him fuse the Darkness Devouring God Domain with the Return to Ruin Sword Intent. His new Fusion Sword Domain overwhelmed the Emperors, and Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor began sacrificing himself to unleash a devastating blast.

• The Four Emperors poured their attacks into Fang Chen, leaving his body and soul on the verge of destruction.
• The Floating Immortal Sword formed a new pattern, and the Return-to-Ruin Power regenerated Fang Chen and helped his powers merge.
• Fang Chen grasped the Floating Immortal Sword and revealed that his Fusion Sword Domain had fully formed.
• The Fusion Sword Domain absorbed or weakened the Four Emperors’ powers and disrupted their connection to their Origins.
• Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor burned his Origin, sacred will, and life force to detonate himself as light and break the domain.

Fang Chen absorbed the Four Emperors’ final combined attack and their Origins with the Floating Immortal Sword, completing his victory over all seven Ancient Emperors. He realized he had opened a new path by fusing domains, then turned his attention to the surviving Remnants of the Five Clans and Unfeeling Immortal Emperor.

• Judgment Ancient Emperor, Yellow Springs Patriarch, and Life Ancient Emperor joined their powers to Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor’s sacrificial strike in a desperate attack on Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen fused himself with the Fusion Sword Domain and struck the Four Emperors’ attacks with the Floating Immortal Sword’s Gray Sword Light.
• The Gray Sword Light dissolved and absorbed the combined attack, killing Radiant Sun Ancient Emperor, Judgment Ancient Emperor, Yellow Springs Patriarch, and Life Ancient Emperor.
• Fang Chen absorbed the Four Emperors’ Origins and Dao, while the Floating Immortal Sword grew more profound and the Fusion Sword Domain settled.
• Fang Chen recognized that he had fused the Darkness Devouring God Domain and the Return to the Ruins Domain, opening a new path of Fusion Dao.
• Fang Chen looked toward the terrified Remnants of the Five Clans and the shaken Unfeeling Immortal Emperor.

After defeating the Seven Emperors, Fang Chen spared the Unfeeling Immortal Emperor but ordered the Five Elements Sect to submit to the New Alliance. He then erased the surviving Remnants of the Five Clans, leaving his demand for reform as the story’s next point of conflict.

• Fang Chen confronted the Unfeeling Immortal Emperor over her attempt to intervene in his battle and acknowledged that she had meant to help.
• Fang Chen spared the Unfeeling Immortal Emperor because she was an Ancient Emperor of the Human Race and had not colluded with the Seven Emperors.
• Fang Chen demanded that the New Alliance take control of the Five Elements Sect’s Forbidden Grounds and review its slumbering Ancient Emperors and pillars.
• Fang Chen told the Unfeeling Immortal Emperor that the Five Elements Sect must accept reform or its old pillars would be replaced.
• Fang Chen killed the surviving Remnants of the Five Clans and erased their souls and True Spirit Marks with his Sword Intent.