Chapter Summaries

Shi Jue taunted the factions whose disciples had attacked him before using the Chaos Flame to temper his body and break through to Divine Fire. The flame began consuming him faster than the Willow Deity Method could restore him, leaving his survival uncertain.

• Shi Jue named Sword Valley, Heavenly Kingdom, Netherworld, Demon Sunflower Garden, and the Western Sect as targets and mocked each faction.
• A Deputy Lord of Heavenly Kingdom placed Shi Jue at the top of the faction’s kill list and promised the position of Deputy Lord to whoever killed him.
• Shi Jue vanished from the watchers’ view, then asked his Fifth Brother to release the Chaos Flame so he could use it to forge his foundation.
• Shi Jue broke Five Elements Mountain’s rune seal, and the Chaos Flame surged out and began melting his body.
• Shi Jue used the Willow Deity Method to regrow his flesh, but the Chaos Flame burned it away again while consuming his blood vitality and divine power.
• Five Elements Mountain’s phantom urged Shi Jue to persist, warning that failure would leave him in danger.

Shi Jue endured Chaos Flame long enough to ignite divine fire, refine his body, and develop the Devour Character Art. As he emerged from cultivation, a strange Gray Mist appeared, bringing the Weirdness he had anticipated.

• Liu Shen watched over Shi Jue as Chaos Flame repeatedly burned and regenerated his body, while Five Elements Mountain worried about his survival.
• After a year, Shi Jue revived with immense life force, remade his Divine Ring Cave Heaven, and used the Devour Character Art to absorb Chaos Flame.
• Shi Jue ignited divine fire and used the flame to witness the world's primordial evolution, resolving to kill the Primordial Immortal King.
• Liu Shen told Shi Jue she had made progress in seclusion and had come to see the Hundred Rivers Meet the Sea.
• A bloody wind and Gray Mist filled the small world, and Shi Jue, Liu Shen, and Five Elements Mountain sensed the arrival of Weirdness.

Shi Jue faced a Gray Creature summoned by the Ancient Lamp, which had taken Liu Shen’s form and fought with uncanny powers. After being wounded, he healed himself and continued battling while Liu Shen asked him to capture the creature for study.

• Liu Shen recognized that Shi Jue’s three strands of Immortal Qi had drawn the uncanny, but Shi Jue chose to face the threat himself.
• The Ancient Lamp summoned a powerful Gray Creature resembling Liu Shen, and Liu Shen told Shi Jue to attack without holding back.
• Shi Jue and the Gray Creature exchanged blows, and their clash revealed that its black blood could corrode the earth and the laws of heaven and earth.
• The Gray Creature attacked with Willow Leaves, and Shi Jue blocked them with the Slab Brick before striking its spine.
• The Gray Creature twisted unnaturally and slashed Shi Jue’s chest, but Shi Jue used Life Character Art to heal the wound.
• Liu Shen asked Shi Jue to capture the creature, and he doubted ordinary methods would work as he continued fighting it.

Shi Jue destroyed the Ancient Lamp and killed the Gray Creature with his newly created Yin-Yang Dao technique, Light Shadow Flow Shuttle. He and Liu Shen recognized the Weird Clan’s connection to their world’s Dark Source, leaving them aware that the threat would return.

• Liu Shen warned Shi Jue to destroy the Ancient Lamp, and he crushed it with his Five Elements Divine Ability.
• The Gray Creature struck Shi Jue and tried to escape with the retreating Gray Mist, but Shi Jue recovered and prepared to attack.
• Shi Jue formed the Yin-Yang Dao—Light Shadow Flow Shuttle, piercing the Gray Creature and annihilating it along with the Gray Mist.
• Liu Shen praised Shi Jue’s technique but noted that it drained him and his body could barely withstand its power.
• Shi Jue told Liu Shen that the Weird Clan was connected to their world’s Dark Source, and she recalled encountering the mysterious creatures before.

Shi Jue left the collapsing Small Thousand World and searched for Shi Hao, learning that he was in Light City. There he reunited with Cao Yusheng and, days later, the Witch, who had safely fused with a Dao flame without suffering.

• Liu Shen warned Shi Jue that the strange creature might appear again and offered to help when needed.
• Shi Jue thanked Five Elements Mountain for the Chaos Flame and left the Small Thousand World.
• Shi Jue beat and soul-searched an Immortal Hall cultivator to learn that Shi Hao was in Light City.
• In Light City, Cao Yusheng told Shi Jue that Shi Hao, Shi Yi, and Qin Hao had beaten Six Crown King Ning Chuan after he insulted their Sin Blood identities.
• Cao Yusheng told Shi Jue that the Witch was safe, and Shi Jue joined him in the Azure Spirit Realm.
• The Witch reunited with Shi Jue and explained that she had fused with a Dao flame comfortably, leaving Shi Jue and Shi Hao envious of her easy experience.

Shi Jue reunited with Shi Hao and the others, joked around after revealing he had ignited Chaos Flame, and joined them in preparing a feast in a peach blossom grove. The gathering ended with Little Rabbit objecting to the gray rabbit Shi Jue had brought to cook.

• Shi Jue told the group that he had used Chaos Flame to ignite his Divine Fire and nearly burned to ash.
• Cao Yusheng teased Shi Jue, who retaliated by burning off Cao Yusheng’s hair and making him stay bald for seven days.
• Shi Hao and Shi Jue agreed to combine their stores of ferocious beast meat and medicines for a great stew.
• Shi Jue and the others found a peaceful Spirit Peach grove, where they talked about someday settling down as neighbors.
• Shi Hao brought out the ferocious beasts he had hunted, and Shi Jue added Half-Saint Medicines, Sacred Medicines, and more beasts to the feast.
• Little Rabbit saw a gray rabbit among the cooking ingredients and protested to Shi Hao and Shi Jue.

Shi Hao and his companions feasted on powerful beasts he had cooked, while Little Rabbit struggled to maintain her claim that she would not eat meat. She ended up drinking wine and devouring the food, and the group continued their meal together.

• Little Rabbit recoiled at the rabbit corpse, while Shi Jue and Shi Hao teased her about eating rabbit meat.
• Shi Hao cooked the hunted creatures, and the feast’s aroma drew attention from the inn’s cultivators.
• Little Rabbit insisted she would not eat meat, but accepted Cao Yusheng’s wine and began drinking.
• Little Rabbit ate Golden Winged Great Peng meat and spicy rabbit heads while pretending the wine had made her do it.
• Cao Yusheng mocked Little Rabbit, and she kicked him soaring into the sky.
• Shi Jue encouraged Qingyi and the others to eat, and Witch and the others joined the feast.

Shi Jue investigated the mysterious Chat Group and gained insight that clarified the direction of his Dao, though its true nature remained unknown. After returning to reality and embarrassing himself with the Witch, he discussed a possible fight with Shi Hao, but they decided not to battle after comparing their Immortal Qi.

• Little Rabbit and the others enjoyed Shi Hao and Shi Jue's meal as the sun set.
• Shi Jue asked Ye Nan and Wushi about the Chat Group, and they admitted they could not understand its power or purpose.
• The Chat Group's light inspired Shi Jue and helped him see the direction of his Dao.
• Shi Jue returned to reality to find that he had bitten the Witch's clothing and been slapped; he apologized, and she dried the fabric with black fire.
• Shi Hao proposed a fight, but after revealing his two strands of Immortal Qi and Shi Jue's three, they agreed not to battle for now.
• Shi Yi accepted the gap between his progress and Shi Hao's without letting it become an obsession.

Shi Jue and his companions discussed the coming threat from the Other Domain before splitting up to seek opportunities in Immortal Ancient. Shi Jue and the Witch later discovered an ancient Immortal Body, which he urged Qing Xuan to study so she could cultivate Immortal Qi.

• Qingyi resolved to merge with her Main Body, while Shi Jue warned the group that the Other Domain’s Immortal Kings threatened Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Shi Hao and Shi Yi boasted about defeating Immortal Kings, and Shi Jue teased Shi Yi about his claim that his Double-Pupil could kill one with a glare.
• Qin Hao, Shi Yi, Shi Jue and the Witch, and Cao Yusheng each left Shi Hao’s group to pursue their own growth, while Little Rabbit stayed with Shi Hao.
• Shi Jue and the Witch followed Little White to a hidden cave in a remote Small Thousand World and found the remains of an Immortal Body.
• Shi Jue told Qing Xuan to study the Immortal Body’s aura so she could cultivate Immortal Qi.

Shi Jue and the Witch studied the Immortal Body, but its aura nearly overwhelmed the Witch until Shi Jue drew the excess Immortal Qi from her. Hua Yun then began transforming into a Flood Dragon, drawing down the rare Five Thunders Strike the Top Heavenly Tribulation as she prepared to face it.

• The Witch was drawn toward the Immortal Body, but Shi Jue stopped her and guarded her while she cultivated.
• Shi Jue removed a forearm bone and saw a vision revealing that a True Immortal had been killed by a sword-wielding Immortal.
• Shi Jue absorbed the Immortal Dao Aura, strengthening his Immortal Qi, while the aura dangerously swelled the Witch's meridians.
• Shi Jue drew the excess Immortal Qi from the Witch, who later said she had seen a distant, happy life with him.
• Hua Yun's aura surged, and Shi Jue identified her imminent transformation into a Flood Dragon.
• Shi Jue led the Witch and Hua Yun outside, where a Five Thunders Strike the Top Heavenly Tribulation formed, and Hua Yun prepared to charge into its clouds.

Hua Yun underwent a deadly tribulation as she transformed from a Hui Snake into a Flood Dragon, while Shi Jue and the Witch watched and prepared for the threat from those waiting outside. When the fused Five Elements Lightning Sword nearly destroyed Hua Yun, Shi Jue intervened and began pulling it from her body, taking its destructive lightning himself.

• Divine Fire cultivators gathered beyond the tribulation and waited for Hua Yun to weaken so they could seize the opportunity.
• Hua Yun endured the first waves of five-colored lightning, which struck her scales and were absorbed as nourishment.
• Shi Jue warned the Witch that the tribulation would intensify and that onlookers outside were waiting to prey on Hua Yun.
• The tribulation clouds condensed into a Five Elements Lightning Sword that pierced Hua Yun and tore through her body and soul.
• Shi Jue seized the sword, endured its lightning, and pulled it from Hua Yun after she had weakened it, but the sword redirected its attack onto him.

Shi Jue survived Hua Yun’s lightning tribulation, then joined the Witch in defeating intruding Divine Fire cultivators and began cultivating in Immortal Ancient. After three months, he reached Half-Step Heavenly God and prepared to seek the Heavenly God Tree once Hua Yun awoke.

• Liu Shen’s willow branch shattered the Sword of Lightning, and Hua Yun absorbed the remaining Thunder Runes as she recovered from her tribulation.
• Shi Jue crushed dozens of invading First Generations with the Slab Brick, while the Witch trapped and burned members of the Demon Dragon Dao Sect with Black Flame.
• The Witch explained that she had condensed an Immortal Qi Seed and urged Shi Jue to pursue the Heavenly God Tree after they advanced.
• Shi Jue set up an array over one hundred thousand li and used the Immortal Body’s Dao aura to cultivate while Hua Yun slept.
• After three months of rapid cultivation, Shi Jue opened his eyes and reached Half-Step Heavenly God.

After reaching Half-Step Heavenly God, Shi Jue traveled with Qing Xuan through a dangerous wasteland to find the Heavenly God Tree. They reached the mountaintop and discovered the radiant ancient tree, leaving its fate undecided.

• Shi Jue rapidly advanced to Half-Step Heavenly God but chose to delay his breakthrough to Heavenly Deity until he could face the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Qing Xuan told Shi Jue that his breakthrough had helped her cultivate her first strand of Immortal Qi, while Hua Yun showed signs of growing stronger.
• Shi Jue and Qing Xuan set out to find the Heavenly God Tree before someone else could claim it.
• The pair crossed a barren Ancient Land filled with Black Holes, astral winds, and other deadly hazards, with Shi Jue shielding Qing Xuan.
• Shi Jue and Qing Xuan reached a mountaintop and found the golden-leaved Heavenly God Tree.

Shi Jue and Witch traveled deeper into the Ancient Land, where Shi Jue obtained a Heavenly God Fruit and endured the lightning tribulations. Beneath the Myriad Things Soil, they uncovered two mysterious drops of blood, one of which Shi Jue recognized as Shi Hao’s.

• The Heavenly God Tree refused to leave with Shi Jue, gave him its only mature Heavenly God Fruit, and explained its limited benefits.
• Shi Jue refused to eat the fruit and took it for medicinal use before leaving the tree’s territory with Witch.
• Shi Jue endured the lightning tribulations while protecting Witch as they traveled through the Ancient Land.
• Shi Jue and Witch reached the Myriad Things Soil, and Shi Jue began digging beneath it after sensing something buried below.
• Shi Jue uncovered cracked battle armor and then two powerful drops of blood, one belonging to Shi Hao and the other to an unknown person.

Shi Jue merged his blood with a mysterious Emperor Blood drop that appeared to come from his future, then prepared to leave Immortal Ancient by tempering his body with lightning. After half a year, his body reached the Void Dao level, and he judged that he had achieved his goal in Immortal Ancient.

• Shi Jue merged a drop of his blood with the multicolored Emperor Blood and saw a sorrowful vision of a future version of himself.
• The Emperor Blood entered Shi Jue's brow and vanished, leaving him unable to detect it within his body.
• Shi Jue covered the Witch with Myriad Things Soil so she could enter seclusion, then left to prepare for the lightning tribulation required to leave Immortal Ancient.
• Shi Jue used the Thunder Emperor Method to draw lightning and the Willow Deity Method to heal his body as he cultivated under the thunderbolts.
• After half a year of lightning tempering, Shi Jue reached the peak of the Heavenly God Realm and brought his physical body to the Void Dao level.

Shi Hao collected the Myriad Things Soil and gained the Heavenly God Tree as the Immortal Ancient world neared collapse. Shi Jue and the other surviving geniuses gathered as they prepared for the dangers ahead.

• Shi Jue found that the Witch had cultivated three strands of Immortal Qi after resting in the Myriad Things Soil for half a year.
• Shi Hao arrived seeking the Myriad Things Soil, and Shi Jue and the Witch teased him about his awkward situation with Yue Chan, Huo Ling'er, and Yun Xi.
• Shi Hao collected the Myriad Things Soil, and the Heavenly God Tree shrank into a sapling and entered his cauldron.
• As Immortal Ancient became unstable, Shi Jue confronted Ning Chuan, while Shi Hao warned him to stop provoking them.
• The Ten Crown King appeared and acknowledged Shi Jue as a formidable opponent, then the Banished Immortal, Shi Yi, and Qin Hao arrived among the surviving geniuses.

Shi Hao reunited with Yue Chan, Huo Ling'er, Yun Xi, and the Witch, while Yue Chan and Qingyi struggled with their shared feelings about him. Their conversation was interrupted when seven Supreme Beings shattered Immortal Ancient's barrier and arrived to kill Shi Hao and confront Liu Shen.

• Shi Hao tried to greet Yue Chan and the others, but they ignored him and went to talk with the Witch.
• The Witch teased Yue Chan about her marriage to Shi Hao, while Yue Chan and Qingyi discussed their shared body and feelings about what had happened.
• Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi said they wanted Shi Hao to rest, and Shi Hao reminded Qingyi of their agreement after his victory.
• A rift opened in the sky, and enormous hands shattered Immortal Ancient's barrier as seven Supreme Beings appeared with several Sect Masters.
• Ning Chuan mocked Shi Hao, while the Supreme Beings prepared to kill him and deal with Liu Shen; Liu Shen remained untroubled by their arrival.

Shi Jue confronted Supreme Beings who targeted the descendants of the Seven Kings, while the Double Pupils Woman arrived to support him. Using Shi Hao’s blood and an Incomplete Immortal Talisman, Shi Jue began a secret art to summon or reveal the Seven Kings, leaving everyone beneath a crushing pressure.

• Shi Jue challenged the Supreme Beings over their slander of the descendants of the Seven Kings, and an Ancient Mirror revealed Sin Blood manifestations in four youths, especially Shi Hao.
• A Supreme Being threatened Shi Jue and the others, but Shi Jue remained confident in Liu Shen’s power.
• The Double Pupils Woman appeared, greeted Shi Jue and Shi Yi, and revealed her Double-Pupil to the Supreme Beings of the Heavenly Kingdom.
• Shi Jue asked Shi Hao for blood, fused it into the Incomplete Immortal Talisman, and began a secret art to reflect the past and present.
• The talisman released a supreme pressure that forced the True Ones to kneel and left the Sect Masters struggling to stand.

Shi Jue summoned the phantoms of the Seven Kings, who learned that their descendants had been branded Sin Blood and persecuted. Enraged by the injustice, the Kings unleashed their power against those present.

• Shi Jue used the River of Time to summon seven phantoms of the Kings, while the last surviving King answered the call.
• The Seven Kings recognized the Double Pupils Woman, Shi Jue, Shi Hao, and Liu Shen, and reunited with the surviving King.
• Shi Jue told the Kings that their descendants were called Sin Blood, killed, enslaved, and used for bloodline research.
• The Seven Kings realized their descendants had been punished for the people they killed and grew furious.
• The Kings released their auras, forcing the Sect Masters to the ground and shaking the Immortal Ancient World.

Shi Jue summoned the Seven Kings, who defeated the Supreme Beings attacking their descendants. As the Kings faded, they entrusted their hopes to Shi Hao and the others, and the Fire King and Vermilion Bird King left Huo Ling'er a magnificent feather.

• The Seven Kings recognized Shi Hao, Huo Ling'er, and the others as their descendants and turned their attention to the Supreme Beings who had come to attack them.
• The Vermilion Bird King, Human King, Stone King, and Fire King struck the Supreme Beings, while the Stone King sealed the area to stop them fleeing.
• The Seven Kings killed all seven Supreme Beings, and Shi Hao and the others promised to clear Sin Blood's false accusation.
• The fading Seven Kings praised the younger generation, and the surviving King asked Shi Hao to visit him and take the children from his city.
• The Fire King and Vermilion Bird King vanished, leaving Huo Ling'er a magnificent feather.