Chapter Summaries

Chen Zhao traveled through the Immortal Domain Fragments while Emperor Lord imposed tribulations on their cultivators, then the two entered the Foreign Realm together. There, Chen Zhao revealed that its Immortal Kings had all been killed, and Emperor Lord suspected the Desolate Heavenly Emperor was responsible.

• The Forbidden Zone Supreme recognized the Human Emperor and Emperor Lord above the firmament, while Chen Zhao surveyed an Immortal Domain Fragment and saw Emperor Lord changing its laws.
• Chen Zhao spent a thousand years traveling among Immortal Domain Fragments, collecting Immortal Gold for the Human Emperor Sword and finding few signs of life beyond True Immortals.
• Emperor Lord told Chen Zhao that he had made longevity depend on Three Calamities every five hundred years, a great tribulation every thousand years, and Nine Disasters every ten thousand years.
• Chen Zhao and Emperor Lord visited the former West Heavenly Gate, crossed a ruined universe, and entered the Foreign Realm.
• Emperor Lord sensed the Foreign Realm's complete Great Dao laws and World Tree but found no Immortal Kings; Chen Zhao said they had all been killed, prompting Emperor Lord to suspect the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.

Chen Zhao explained the Quasi Immortal Emperor Realm to Emperor Lord, who restored his former honorific, Primordial Beginning, as Lingbao and Daode underwent tribulation. After Chen Zhao and Primordial Beginning found two kneeling Foreign Realm Immortal King statues and returned to the Human World Universe, a new rule requiring tribulation to attain longevity shook the Immortal Domain.

• Chen Zhao told Emperor Lord that the Quasi Immortal Emperor Realm lay beyond the Immortal King Realm and required forging one's own path.
• Lingbao and Daode began their Immortal King Tribulations, prompting Emperor Lord to restore his former honorific, Primordial Beginning.
• Chen Zhao and Primordial Beginning discovered two kneeling Foreign Realm Immortal King statues near Sin Province, which Chen Zhao identified as An Lan and Yu Tuo's fate.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes watched Lingbao and Daode's tribulations and worried as they learned that Immortal Domain longevity would now require tribulation, with failure bringing the Five Signs of Decay.
• Chen Zhao and Primordial Beginning returned to the Human World Universe as the new rule caused an uproar among the Immortal Domain's Supremes.

After Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord became Immortal Kings, Chen Zhao and Primordial Heavenly Lord discussed the fallen Immortal Domain and the dangers of the darkness. Seeing that the surrounding domains offered no worthy opponents, they considered traveling to the Sea of Realms to seek further growth.

• Chen Zhao and Primordial Heavenly Lord returned as Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord completed their tribulations and became Immortal Kings.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord returned to the Human World Universe to nourish it, then joined Chen Zhao and Primordial Heavenly Lord at Chaos Mountain.
• Chen Zhao told them that the Immortal Domain had fragmented and held no Immortal Kings, and warned that Immortal Kings were insignificant before the true darkness.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord raised the Sea of Realms as a place to grow and mentioned its reputed opportunity to Break King and Become Emperor, which Chen Zhao said was false.
• Chen Zhao, Primordial Heavenly Lord, Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, and Daoist Heavenly Lord agreed that their current surroundings offered no worthy challenges and considered seeking tempering in the Sea of Realms.

Chen Zhao and the Three Pure Ones agreed to seek harsher trials beyond the Human World Universe, while a new era of cultivation unfolded and Great Emperor Dao Yan pursued his own path. Chen Zhao became a Supreme Giant, and Dao Yan’s fate remained unknown after the Heart of Heaven trembled.

• Chen Zhao and the Three Pure Ones discussed leaving for the Sea of Realms to temper themselves after the Human World Universe had stabilized.
• The Human World Universe passed through the Nüwa Emperor’s Great Dao Suppression Period, and the next era’s brutal struggle for the imperial throne ended with Great Emperor Dao Yan proving the Dao.
• Dao Yan protected the Saintly Spirit Race, unsuccessfully sought an audience with the Human Emperor, and studied the Mortal World Immortal and Saintly Spirit transformation paths.
• Twenty thousand years later, the Heart of Heaven trembled, but the world did not discover whether Dao Yan had ascended or a Saintly Spirit Stone Embryo had appeared.
• Chen Zhao entered the realm of Supreme Giants at Chaos Mountain, while Primordial Heavenly Lord remained on the verge of becoming a Giant.
• Chen Zhao explained that he no longer needed to guide Dao Yan because the cultivators of the Human World had several paths to choose from.

Chen Zhao and the Three Pure Ones prepared to leave the Human World Universe for a higher realm after establishing safeguards and strengthening the Illusory God Realm. He told the Emperors in Da Luo Heaven that they would depart, though he might return if circumstances allowed.

• Lingbao, Daoist Heavenly Lord, and Primordial Beginning described their vague glimpses of future Mortal World Immortals, three figures, and a world plunged into darkness, while Chen Zhao urged them to keep pursuing strength.
• Chen Zhao left the Undying Medicines and other gifted beings in Chaos Mountain, safeguarded the Three Realms with a Faith Incarnation, and reinforced the Illusory God Realm.
• Chen Zhao’s statues radiated Faith Power that comforted believers throughout the Human World Universe.
• Chen Zhao and Lingbao’s group traveled to Da Luo Heaven, where the Emperors gathered to greet them.
• Chen Zhao announced that they planned to leave for a higher level of heaven and earth, and told Xue Yueqing that they might return if conditions permitted.

Chen Zhao led Primordial Heavenly Lord, Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, and Daoist Heavenly Lord through the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s sword barrier and into the Sea of Realms. They arrived at its dangerous, world-filled waters, with Chen Zhao warning them to proceed carefully.

• Chen Zhao explained that the footprints on the sand belonged to a fallen Quasi Immortal Emperor and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• The group found a dam and discovered that the Chaos beyond it was sealed by a Sword Light left by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• Chen Zhao explained that the Sword Light blocked the darkness but allowed them to cross, and the group passed through while comprehending its Dao traces.
• Beyond the Sword Light, the group saw the immense Sea of Realms, whose waves contained ruined ancient worlds and whose water vapor could destroy body and spirit.
• Chen Zhao warned that Fallen Darkness Immortal Kings and other powerful beings might be lurking in the Sea of Realms.

Duan De awoke from another reincarnation and learned that the Human Emperor and his disciple had become Immortal Kings and left the Human World Universe. Meanwhile, Chen Zhao and the others crossed into the Sea of Realms, where they encountered a mindless creature.

• Duan De woke from an Ancient Coffin, absorbed its Memory Divine Crystal, and wondered where the Human Emperor and the others had gone.
• Duan De opened a second divine crystal and learned that the Human Emperor and his disciple had become Immortal Kings and left the Human World Universe.
• Chen Zhao explained to Primordial Heavenly Lord and the others that the Sea of Realms was formed from shattered worlds and that its ancient calamities were tied to the pursuit of becoming emperors.
• Chen Zhao warned the group about the Sea of Realms’ dangers, including fallen Immortal Kings and the Calamity of Being Lost.
• The group entered a region of Chaos, where a mindless serpent-like creature emerged from the water.
• The Human Emperor used the Human Emperor Banner to turn the True Immortal-level serpent into Blood Mist and absorb it.

Chen Zhao and the Heavenly Lords journeyed deeper into the Sea of Realms, where they encountered and defeated a Darkness Immortal King. The Human Emperor Banner refined the enemy’s primordial spirit, revealing that its hazy cyan light could resist Darkness Erosion, and the group continued onward.

• As the group traveled through the Sea of Realms, Chen Zhao collected several Immortal King corpses and sent them into the Human Emperor Banner.
• Chen Zhao sensed a disturbance and struck down a Darkness Immortal King who attacked from within black mist.
• When the Darkness Immortal King tried to flee, Chen Zhao destroyed his body, seized his primordial spirit, and sent it into the Human Emperor Banner.
• The Human Emperor Banner used its hazy cyan light to resist Darkness Erosion and refine the weakened primordial spirit, surprising the Heavenly Lords.
• Chen Zhao and the Heavenly Lords discussed the return of Darkness and proceeded deeper into the Sea of Realms.

Chen Zhao and his companions crossed the Sea of Realms, where they learned that Nether Lord had awakened and encountered a battle between Immortal Kings. Chen Zhao attacked four Darkness Immortal Kings and overwhelmingly suppressed their titan leader, while the others fought the remaining three.

• Primordial Heavenly Lord sensed that the divine crystal in the Human World Universe had activated, confirming Nether Lord had awakened.
• Chen Zhao explained Nether Lord’s slow path to immortality and revealed his close bond with the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• The group discovered the aftermath of an Immortal King battle on an island, where four Darkness Immortal Kings remained.
• Chen Zhao charged the Darkness Immortal Kings, and Primordial Heavenly Lord and the others each chose an opponent.
• Chen Zhao fought the darkness titan with the Human Emperor Sword and suppressed him, leaving the other three Darkness Immortal Kings at a disadvantage.

Chen Zhao and Ye Fan appeared across time and space during An Lan’s invasion, and Chen Zhao killed a Darkness Immortal King before the two confronted An Lan. An Lan challenged them, but the clash remained unresolved as the temporal connection threatened to end.

• The Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation trapped three Darkness Immortal Kings while Chen Zhao noticed scenes of An Lan in the past and Ye Fan in the future appearing through the River of Time.
• An Lan decided not to interfere with the visitors from other eras, while Chen Zhao overwhelmed the dark giant and split him in two with his sword.
• Chen Zhao sent the defeated Darkness Immortal King into the Human Emperor Banner, and he and Ye Fan exchanged knowing, mocking looks toward An Lan.
• An Lan ordered the two to leave and stepped out of his chariot with the Original Emperor City and Golden Ancient Spear as his mount, the Golden-Backed Python Bull, knelt beneath their presence.
• Ye Fan said he wanted to kill An Lan, and Chen Zhao claimed An Lan would be easy to defeat but that killing him would spoil future events.
• An Lan declared himself invincible even while bearing the Heavenly Abyss and holding the Original Emperor City, daring Chen Zhao and Ye Fan to attack.

Chen Zhao crossed swords with An Lan across spacetime and proved he could injure the Immortal King, while Ye Fan confronted Yu Tuo. The Foreign Realm army retreated, but Ye Fan remained puzzled that Chen Zhao's attack caused no spacetime disturbance.

• Yu Tuo warned that a battle between beings from different spacetimes could throw the years into chaos, while Ye Fan recognized An Lan's words as resembling a saying attributed to the Human Emperor.
• Chen Zhao used the Bronze Gate's power to see a corpse above the River of Time manipulating An Lan into fighting Shi Hao, and realized the Immortal Kings were pieces in a conflict across spacetime.
• Chen Zhao slashed at An Lan, cutting his hair and wounding his shoulder before asking why he had dodged.
• An Lan recognized Chen Zhao as an Immortal King Giant and ordered the Foreign Realm army to retreat.
• Ye Fan struck An Lan's Golden Battle Spear with a punch, then stopped to avoid worsening the spacetime disturbance and wondered why Chen Zhao's attack had caused no such effect.

Chen Zhao struck An Lan across the River of Time and wounded him before Shi Hao's strange drop of blood awakened, summoning multiple powerful figures who drove An Lan back. The chapter ended with Shi Hao's own phantom merging with him and sending An Lan flying with a sword strike.

• Chen Zhao struck An Lan again across the years, shattering his Golden Ancient Spear and blasting his body into Blood Mist.
• An Lan re-formed with severe injuries as Chen Zhao and Ye Fan watched from above the heavens.
• Shi Hao fused with the strange drop of blood and released an overwhelming aura that alarmed An Lan and Yu Tuo.
• A figure wielding a Great Cauldron emerged from Shi Hao's altar and charged An Lan.
• Two more figures emerged from altars and attacked An Lan, forcing him back despite his claims of invincibility.
• Shi Hao's phantom fused with him, and he struck An Lan with a sword, sending him flying.

Ye Fan’s blood manifested four powerful figures who overwhelmed An Lan, while Yu Tuo and An Lan recognized the He Transforms Freedom Great Method behind the attack. Chen Zhao expected An Lan’s defeat, but Ye Fan was prevented from speaking to the Human Emperor.

• Ye Fan’s blood summoned four figures, including versions of Chen Zhao and Ye Fan, who attacked An Lan together.
• The Human Emperor Banner revealed the True Spirits of Immortal Kings trapped within it, and An Lan struggled against its attacks alongside the Great Cauldron and Nine-Story Pagoda.
• An Lan raised his shield and spear, declared that no one could reincarnate before him, and urged his followers to chant his true name for eternal life.
• Yu Tuo identified the figures as manifestations of the He Transforms Freedom Great Method and predicted that An Lan would win if he held out until the blood’s power faded.
• Chen Zhao expected An Lan to lose, while Ye Fan recognized the method and tried to speak to the Human Emperor but was silenced by an invisible force.

An Lan was nearly devoured by the Human Emperor Banner after the four experts beheaded and overwhelmed him, but Yu Tuo intervened as Shi Hao’s blood power began to fade. Ye Fan returned through the Time Crack, and Chen Zhao glimpsed a future world resembling Da Luo Heaven merged with the Immortal Domain before the spacetime began rejecting him.

• An Lan leaped into the Heavenly Abyss, where the four experts attacked him with their weapons and the red chains of order threatened both sides.
• The Human Emperor Banner, Nine-Story Pagoda, cauldron, and sword embryo trapped and battered An Lan until the sword beheaded him and the banner nearly swallowed him.
• An Lan called for Yu Tuo, who ignored the Heavenly Abyss’s suppression and reached out to save him as Shi Hao’s drop of blood began losing power.
• Ye Fan left through the Time Crack, while Chen Zhao noticed that the world beyond it looked like Da Luo Heaven altered by absorbing the Immortal Domain.
• Chen Zhao sensed the spacetime rejecting him and looked toward the River of Time as the Immortal Emperors’ clash ended.

Chen Zhao returned from the Ancient Era of Chaos after striking An Lan with a sword that severed his head, then told Lingbao and Daode what he had learned. His account revealed that darkness would sweep in again, while Primordial Beginning remained missing.

• After An Lan threatened Chen Zhao, Chen Zhao struck him with a sword that cut off his head and prevented it from rejoining his body.
• Yu Tuo concluded that Chen Zhao had come from the Sea of Realms, while Lingbao and Daode continued refining two Darkness Immortal Kings.
• Chen Zhao emerged from the River of Time and found Lingbao and Daode on the island, but Primordial Beginning was still absent.
• Chen Zhao told Lingbao and Daode that he had visited the Ancient Era of Chaos and met the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• Lingbao and Daode reflected on Chen Zhao's warning that darkness would sweep in again.

Chen Zhao and the Heavenly Lords speculated that Primordial Beginning had deliberately pursued a Darkness Immortal King into the Sea of Realms to infiltrate the Dark Source. After dealing with two captured Darkness Primordial Spirits, Chen Zhao secluded himself to seek a path to Break King to Become Emperor without merely following those before him.

• Chen Zhao learned from Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord that Primordial Beginning had pursued a Darkness Immortal King into the depths of the Sea of Realms and speculated that he intended to infiltrate the Dark Source.
• Chen Zhao and Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord determined that the captured Darkness Primordial Spirits could not yet be destroyed outright, so Chen Zhao weakened them and fed them to his banner for suppression and refinement.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord chose to cultivate on the island, while Chen Zhao decided to remain and explore the path of Breaking King to Become Emperor.
• Chen Zhao studied his Sixth Secret Realm and considered whether to draw it into his body, but concluded that following Huang's path would not make him a Dao Ancestor.
• Chen Zhao resolved to find his own route to becoming an emperor because Darkness Quasi Immortal Emperors threatened the Sea of Realms and he could not rely on them staying their hand.

Emperor Pan completed his Wither-Flourish Transformation and awakened in Chaos Mountain, where he learned that Master and the two Heavenly Lords had become immortal and gone to the Sea of Realms. As he resolved to become an Immortal King and uncover his past life, he sensed an old acquaintance undergoing the Dao Proving Tribulation beyond the Cosmic Frontier.

• After years steeped in Death Qi, Emperor Pan's Peach Ancient Tree regained vitality, bloomed, and completed its Wither-Flourish Transformation.
• During the transformation, Emperor Pan heard the words, “If there is karma, let it all fall upon me. Protect Pan Wang,” and wondered whether Pan Wang had been his former self.
• Emperor Pan discovered that Chaos Mountain had changed and learned that Master, Lingbao, and Daode had become immortal, while Master had gone to the Sea of Realms.
• After finding Master's message, Emperor Pan resolved to become an Immortal King so he could uncover the secrets of the Previous Era and his past life.
• Emperor Pan sensed someone undergoing the Dao Proving Tribulation beyond the Cosmic Frontier and recognized the person as an old acquaintance.

Di Que triggered the Great Emperor Tribulation and Proved the Dao, ending the hopes of the era’s other contenders. After becoming a Great Emperor, he visited Chaos Mountain, where he reunited with Emperor Pan and met Fu Xi, and learned that the Human Emperor had gone beyond this realm.

• Di Que endured the Great Emperor Tribulation and Proved the Dao, shocking the Prodigies who had been competing for the Imperial road.
• Cultivators recognized Di Que as an ancient rival of Emperor Pan and the Fighting Saint Emperor, and he used the Heart of Heaven to refine his Great Dao.
• Di Que went to Chaos Mountain to visit the Human Emperor and entered after a Golden Path appeared before him.
• Di Que found Emperor Pan and Fu Xi discussing the Dao, and Emperor Pan told him that the Human Emperor had gone beyond this realm.
• Di Que and Emperor Pan reminisced about their old rivalry, and Di Que greeted Fu Xi, whom he recognized as the first Great Emperor of this era.

Di Que visited Chaos Mountain, where he reunited with Emperor Pan and learned that Emperor Pan had transformed from the Peach of Immortality Undying Elixir and was walking the Mortal World Immortal path. After losing their spar, Di Que left to attempt his own transformation as Emperor Pan and Fu Xi worried that darkness would return before the Human World Universe was strong enough to resist it.

• Di Que discussed the Mortal World Immortal path with Fu Xi and learned that Fu Xi had received guidance from the Human Emperor, Lingbao, and Daode.
• Di Que reunited with Emperor Pan and challenged him to a spar, but Emperor Pan effortlessly dissolved his attack.
• Di Que guessed that Emperor Pan had transformed from an Undying Medicine, and Emperor Pan admitted he had come from the Peach of Immortality Undying Elixir.
• Di Que left Chaos Mountain intending to attempt a Mortal World Immortal transformation, with Da Luo Heaven as his alternative if he failed.
• Emperor Pan and Fu Xi feared darkness could return soon and resolved to transform quickly so they could better defend the Human World Universe.
• Di Que secluded himself after leaving and struggled to understand how to begin another transformation after his unexplained Second Life before proving the Dao.

Chen Zhao struggled to break through to the Quasi Immortal Emperor Realm as Darkness threatened the Sea of Realms. The Bronze Gate suddenly transported him away, leaving the two Lingbao Heavenly Lords surrounded by Darkness Immortal Kings, including Primordial Heavenly Lord.

• Chen Zhao admitted that he had not reached the threshold of the Quasi Immortal Emperor Realm and warned the two Lingbao Heavenly Lords that dark Quasi Immortal Emperors might appear.
• Chen Zhao sensed the Bronze Gate opening and vanished beneath its azure light.
• The two Lingbao Heavenly Lords found Chen Zhao gone and suspected the terrifying aura had taken him away.
• Darkness Immortal Kings surrounded the two Lingbao Heavenly Lords, who recognized Primordial Heavenly Lord among them and asked whether he had submitted to Darkness.