Chapter Summaries

Primordial Beginning returned to the Sea of Realms with Darkness Immortal Kings and attacked Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord, claiming to have refined a Darkness Immortal King into a cauldron. Meanwhile, three Quasi Immortal Emperors traveling upstream in the River of Time encountered a mysterious azure light that began melting one of them and threatened the other two.

• Primordial Beginning arrived with several Darkness Immortal Kings and urged Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord to join the darkness, while secretly preserving his fundamental spirituality beneath his Darkness Primordial Spirit.
• Primordial Beginning revealed a black cauldron made from a Darkness Immortal King and attacked the two Heavenly Lords alongside the other Darkness Immortal Kings.
• A fierce battle erupted across the Sea of Realms, shaking the River of Time as hazy azure light traveled upstream.
• A Silver-Haired Man, a Red-Haired Old Man, and a woman encountered the azure light while traveling upstream, and the Silver-Haired Man reached out to seize it despite the Red-Haired Old Man's warning.
• The azure light melted the Silver-Haired Man's hand and began consuming his body, prompting him to beg his companions for help.
• The Red-Haired Old Man and the woman moved to destroy the azure light, but it spread toward them with power that threatened to erase them.

A Strange Green Light ground the Silver-Haired Man down to a drop of black blood as Quasi Immortal Emperors watched in horror. Three observers traced the blood into the Human World Universe and discovered how it led to the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Devil and Emperor Lord’s corruption in the Mythological Era.

• The Red-Haired Old Man and the Golden Long Skirt Woman tried to save the Silver-Haired Man but withdrew when the Strange Green Light began erasing him.
• The Silver-Haired Man was ground down to a drop of black blood, and the Red-Haired Old Man and Golden Long Skirt Woman went downstream to find Huang.
• The Man Stepping on the Cauldron, the man with the Great Bell, and a woman in snow-white robes watched the blood evade them and fall into the Human World Universe.
• The three saw the Darkness Matter corrupt an immortal corpse, which Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord later fought, and realized the blood had fallen into the era when Emperor Lord founded the Heavenly Court.
• The three watched Emperor Lord obtain and fuse with the black blood, and the Man Stepping on the Cauldron speculated that the Strange Green Light had protected him from darkness.

The chapter traced a drop of Quasi Immortal Emperor blood into the Mythological Era, where its Darkness Matter awakened an immortal corpse that Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord fought and killed. Later, Emperor Lord studied the black blood despite Nether Lord’s warning, believing it could help him advance further.

• The Man Stepping on the Cauldron and the other two Quasi Immortal Emperors decided to pursue the two intruders in the Ancient Era of Chaos.
• The cyan light erased the last True Spirit in the drop of black blood, whose Darkness Matter contaminated an immortal corpse.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord encountered the sentient immortal corpse at the Cosmic Frontier and fought it in a battle later remembered as his slaying of an immortal.
• Emperor Lord presided over the Heavenly Court at the height of his power, then privately examined the drop of black blood.
• Nether Lord warned Emperor Lord that the blood carried an ominous aura, but Emperor Lord said he sensed a chance to advance further.

Emperor Lord rejected Nether Lord’s invitation to follow the Reincarnation Path, then fused the mysterious black blood into himself despite Nether Lord’s warning. After returning to the Sea of Realms, Chen Zhao connected the black blood to Emperor Lord’s corruption and recognized the azure light’s role in keeping him from falling completely into darkness.

• Nether Lord warned Emperor Lord about the black blood and the danger of cooperating with the Forbidden Zone Supremes, while Emperor Lord urged him to eliminate the Netherworld and destroy the Heavenly Nether Treasure.
• Nether Lord left the Heavenly Court to prepare for reincarnation, and Emperor Lord fused the black blood into his body after noticing a streak of azure light within it.
• The azure light crossed the River of Time, and Chen Zhao awoke on an island in the Sea of Realms, reflecting on his encounter with the Quasi Immortal Emperors.
• Chen Zhao realized that the black blood had caused Emperor Lord’s corruption and that the azure light had fused into Emperor Lord’s primordial spirit to resist the darkness.
• Chen Zhao saw a Darkness Storm sweep through the Sea of Realms and chose to wait for it to subside rather than travel through it.

Chen Zhao fought five Immortal Kings on Sea of Realms Island, killing two and absorbing their bodies and primordial spirits into the Human Emperor Banner. The Man in Azure Armor revealed that he was a descendant of a Heavenly Court general and used the Sacrifice Method left by an ancient emperor to challenge Chen Zhao.

• Five Immortal Kings attacked Chen Zhao, but he destroyed one king’s spear and used the Human Emperor Banner’s spirits to hold off the others.
• Chen Zhao struck the spear-wielding Immortal King, then absorbed his body and primordial spirit into the Human Emperor Banner.
• Chen Zhao trapped the remaining four Immortal Kings on the island and killed another, drawing him into the banner.
• The Man in Azure Armor insisted that Chen Zhao’s strength would bring greater rewards when sacrificed and summoned an altar covered in Great Dao Runes.
• The Man in Azure Armor said he descended from a Heavenly Court general who crossed the sea with an ancient emperor and claimed the emperor’s incomplete Sacrifice Method could defeat Chen Zhao.

Chen Zhao defeated the Man in Azure Armor, learned the truth behind the pilgrims and the Sacrificial Method, and spent ten thousand years studying it while suppressing Immortal Kings in the Human Emperor Banner. With the Darkness Storm sweeping the Sea of Realms, he decided to leave the island and return across the sea.

• The Man in Azure Armor sacrificed two Immortal Kings and tried to sacrifice Chen Zhao, but Chen Zhao dispelled the altar and pinned him down.
• The Man in Azure Armor revealed that Immortal Kings crossed the sea as pilgrims to behold the Azure Emperor, and Chen Zhao suppressed him in the Human Emperor Banner.
• Chen Zhao searched the Man in Azure Armor's primordial spirit, found the incomplete Sacrificial Method, and studied its Dao for insight into Breaking King to Become Emperor.
• During the Darkness Storm, Chen Zhao suppressed many pilgrim Immortal Kings in the Human Emperor Banner, earning the name Banner-Wielding Fiend.
• After ten thousand years on the island, Chen Zhao watched the Darkness Storm, took up the Human Emperor Banner, and decided to return across the sea.

Chen Zhao returned from the Sea of Realms to the vast Ancient Immortal Domain, earning fear and avoiding conflict as he traveled. He found no realm beyond the Immortal King Realm and began to suspect the Origin Ancient Artifacts had split the original Primitive Immortal Domain into the realms known in later generations.

• As the Darkness Storm forced Immortal Kings to return, Chen Zhao traveled alone and defeated those who tried to block his way, feeding their Dao Fruits to his Breaking King to Become Emperor.
• After a hundred thousand years, Chen Zhao used teleportation formations to leave the Sea of Realms and crossed the dam without anyone daring to challenge him.
• Chen Zhao entered the Ancient Immortal Domain and found a vast, war-torn world where Immortal Kings were common and descendants of the Heavenly Court's generals followed the incomplete Sacrificial Method.
• Chen Zhao found no existence beyond the Immortal King Realm and reasoned that the Origin Ancient Artifacts had split the Primitive Immortal Domain into the Foreign Realm and the Burial Domain.

Chen Zhao traveled the Primitive Immortal Domain and developed a path to Break King to Become Emperor by opening All Heavens within his body. He also refined and spread his own cultivation system through the Human Body Heavens, remaining on an immortal mountain while the outside world descended into a bloody reckoning.

• Chen Zhao studied the worlds beyond the dam, their Origin Ancient Artifacts, and the remnants of the Darkness Four Emperors' lineages as he traveled the Primitive Immortal Domain.
• Chen Zhao gathered knowledge from Immortal Kings by discussing the Dao with them and using the Human Emperor Banner to secure their cooperation.
• After a hundred thousand years and repeated failed breakthroughs, Chen Zhao abandoned merging his Sixth Secret Realm into his body and instead used it as the core for opening All Heavens within himself.
• Chen Zhao refined five cultivation stages—Body Tempering, Mana, Spirit Condensation, Mortal Shedding, and Three Flowers—and spread the system throughout the Human Body Heavens.
• Chen Zhao stayed on an immortal mountain to cultivate while the returning kings sparked a bloody reckoning, sending every Immortal King who intruded into the Human Emperor Banner.

Butcher rescued Lingbao and Daode after Primordial Heavenly Lord shattered their sword formation and fled, then learned about the Nine Heavens and the darkness threatening it. He invited the two Immortal Kings to join him at the Heavenly Court.

• Primordial Heavenly Lord broke the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation and prepared to refine Lingbao and Daode, but sensed a presence and fled.
• Butcher killed the remaining Darkness Immortal King with an immortal Dao arrow and introduced himself to Lingbao and Daode.
• Lingbao and Daode recognized Butcher as an Emperor Light Immortal King and recounted the Human Emperor, the Mortal World Immortals, and the darkness affecting the Nine Heavens.
• Butcher revealed that Primordial Heavenly Lord carried Quasi Immortal Emperor-level darkness and questioned how the Human Emperor had purged it before.
• Butcher invited Lingbao and Daode to follow him to the Heavenly Court.

Chen Zhao met Li Yang, a white-clad Immortal King whose unusual Dao Fire path suggested he might be Footprint Emperor, and they discussed ways to Break King to Become Emperor. Li Yang invited Chen Zhao to join him in establishing a Heavenly Court to fight the coming darkness.

• Butcher led Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and the others toward the Heavenly Court Huang had left behind as darkness returned to the Sea of Realms.
• Chen Zhao continued advancing his Human Body Heavens and his cultivation system side by side until he sensed an Immortal King approaching his immortal mountain.
• Li Yang introduced himself to Chen Zhao and said he had come to discuss the Dao and prepare for the coming great reckoning.
• Li Yang described how his Dao Fire tempered his body and primordial spirit, while Chen Zhao explained his path of using the human body to carry the All Heavens.
• Li Yang invited Chen Zhao to join him in establishing a Heavenly Court and quelling the dark upheaval.

Li Yang told Chen Zhao he would establish a Heavenly Court to purge the darkness, while Chen Zhao agreed to help without joining. In the future, Di Que, the Eternal Great Emperor, and Gou Chen Great Emperor shaped successive eras, and Gou Chen reunited with Fu Xi in Chaos Mountain.

• Chen Zhao warned Li Yang that establishing a Heavenly Court carried great karma, and Li Yang said he would become the greatest purger and destroy the darkness.
• Chen Zhao declined to join Li Yang's Heavenly Court but promised to lend him a hand, then continued discussing Breaking King to Become Emperor with him over tea.
• After Li Yang left, Chen Zhao sat alone and evolved his Human Body Heavens.
• Di Que used an Undying Medicine to begin anew, then ascended to Da Luo Heaven forty thousand years after becoming an Emperor.
• An Eternal Great Emperor rose from the Eternal Star Region, followed by Gou Chen Great Emperor, who made the Gou Chen Star Region the universe's center.
• At Chaos Mountain, Gou Chen Great Emperor recognized Fu Xi as the ascetic cultivator who had guided him in his youth, and Fu Xi expressed surprise that he had become an Emperor.

Fu Xi entered the Immortal Domain with help from the Human Emperor’s Faith Incarnation, while Chen Zhao continued pursuing the final step of Breaking King to Become Emperor. The chapter left Chen Zhao wondering whether the Bronze Gate’s green light had enabled the smooth development of his Human Body Heavens.

• Fu Xi thanked Gou Chen Great Emperor for his past guidance and told Emperor Pan he intended to leave the universe for other heavens and earths.
• Emperor Pan awakened the Human Emperor’s Faith Incarnation, which sent Fu Xi through a passage into the Immortal Domain.
• Fu Xi met Gu Tuo, denied having designs on the Immortal Domain, and vanished into the boundless mortal world.
• In the past spacetime, Li Yang established the Heavenly Court and united the kings to confront the approaching Great Reckoning.
• After tens of thousands of years of cultivation, Chen Zhao considered whether the Bronze Gate’s green light had helped develop his Human Body Heavens.

Chen Zhao sensed that his Faith Incarnation had awakened in the Human World Universe, then joined the battle against the Darkness Army in the Immortal Domain. He destroyed an Ancient Guiding Hall and defeated a monster fused from nineteen Darkness Immortal Kings, but the great battle continued to claim many Immortal Kings.

• Chen Zhao sensed that his Faith Incarnation had been activated and suspected Emperor Pan had awakened it.
• Chen Zhao realized a Darkness Immortal King had arrived and joined the battle raging across the Immortal Domain.
• Chen Zhao shattered an Ancient Guiding Hall with one sword strike, drawing the attention of the battling kings and relieving Li Yang.
• Chen Zhao suppressed the Nineteen-Headed Monster, a fusion of nineteen Immortal King-level beings, and gathered its remains with the Human Emperor Banner.
• Chen Zhao charged at other Darkness Immortal Kings while the battle left the Immortal Domain’s sky blood-red and many Immortal Kings dead.

Chen Zhao watched Li Yang sacrifice himself to break through the Immortal King realm, then witnessed him resurrect as a Quasi Immortal Emperor and purge the darkness. After the devastating battle, Chen Zhao and Li Yang discussed their cultivation paths over tea.

• Chen Zhao tried to reach Li Yang, who was being overwhelmed by Darkness Immortal Kings, but Li Yang’s Dao Fire went out and he was beaten to death.
• Li Yang’s scattered Dao Fire swept across the Immortal Domain, destroying Darkness Immortal Kings and gathering into a blaze as the survivors renewed their resolve.
• Li Yang emerged from the flames through resurrection in annihilation, became a Quasi Immortal Emperor, and ordered the Heavenly Court to quell the turmoil.
• Li Yang used his Imperial Might to purge the remaining Darkness Immortal Kings, ending the darkness behind the dam at the cost of immense destruction across the Immortal Domain.
• Chen Zhao congratulated Li Yang over tea, and Li Yang said Chen Zhao might have become an emperor already if he were not advancing along two paths at once.

Li Yang revealed that he had reached the Quasi Immortal Emperor Realm but believed becoming a true Emperor required walking his own path to its end. He chose not to cross the Sea of Realms yet, and later found a rare ingredient that might let him revive the Immortal Kings who died in battle.

• Li Yang explained to Chen Zhao that he had surpassed the Immortal King Realm but remained a step short of becoming an Immortal Emperor.
• Chen Zhao suggested that becoming a true Emperor might require reaching the end of one's own path, and Li Yang considered the idea.
• Li Yang said he would not cross the Sea of Realms while powerful enemies and the Dark Source remained on the far shore, and he offered to protect Chen Zhao's cultivation.
• Chen Zhao continued cultivating, and one hundred thousand years later Li Yang returned with a Three Lives Great Medicine he had found in a Great Tomb.
• Li Yang planned to combine the medicine with other rare materials to refine a Life and Death Reviving Pill for the Immortal Kings who had died in battle.

Li Yang refined Life and Death Reviving Pills, gave three to Chen Zhao, and discussed the need for a unified cultivation system. After sensing a dark Quasi Immortal Emperor awakening and approaching the Sea of Realms, Li Yang went alone to intercept him, leaving footprints in the dam’s sand.

• Li Yang used Three Lives Elixir to refine nine Life and Death Reviving Pills and gave three to Chen Zhao.
• Li Yang discussed creating a cultivation system suited to all living beings with Chen Zhao.
• Li Yang sensed a fallen Quasi Immortal Emperor watching him from across the Sea of Realms.
• Li Yang realized the dark Quasi Immortal Emperors were awakening and set out alone to stop one from reaching the dam.
• The Heavenly Court’s kings saw Li Yang’s footprints appear in the sand, where ordinary beings could leave no trace.

Li Yang crossed the Sea of Realms and entered the land of darkness, where he discovered an abandoned Heavenly Court and confronted another Quasi Immortal Emperor. He rejected the being’s demand for worship and attacked with his sword.

• Li Yang followed a road of Ancient Guiding Halls across the darkened Sea of Realms and reached the far shore’s dam.
• Li Yang warned the ancient Immortal Kings to leave, then continued alone as those who followed him were killed by the dam’s force.
• Li Yang entered the land of darkness and found a vast, lifeless complex identified as Heavenly Court.
• A Quasi Immortal Emperor demanded that Li Yang kowtow and seek an audience, but Li Yang refused and declared he would send his opponent into reincarnation.
• Li Yang summoned a sacred sword embryo and struck at the other Quasi Immortal Emperor.

Li Yang defeated Azure Emperor but faced Vast Emperor and Feather Emperor as they joined forces against him. Meanwhile, Chen Zhao emerged from tens of thousands of years of cultivation with a transformed understanding of the immortal Other Shore and rushed toward the battle at the Sea of Realms.

• Li Yang fought Azure Emperor across the River of Time and defeated him with a sword, then demanded his name.
• Azure Emperor named himself and revealed that Vast Emperor and Feather Emperor had fallen into darkness and were coming for Li Yang.
• Vast Emperor and Feather Emperor arrived, and Li Yang prepared to face the three Quasi Immortal Emperors alone.
• Chen Zhao found the Other Shore within his own path, returned to the present, and underwent a transformation in essence, energy, and spirit.
• Chen Zhao sensed the battle at the far shore of the Sea of Realms, tore through space and time, and hurried there.

As the Darkness Army overwhelmed the worlds behind the dam, Chen Zhao became the Human Emperor and annihilated the invading Darkness Immortal Kings with his banner. He then rushed through the Ancient Guiding Halls toward the Dark Land, where the three emperors recognized the arrival of another Quasi Immortal Emperor and remained confident in their hidden trump card.

• Ancient Guiding Halls descended into the worlds behind the dam, and the kings struggled against a vast host of Darkness Immortal Kings.
• Chen Zhao appeared as the Human Emperor, and the kings recognized the Purple Banner he carried.
• Chen Zhao used the Human Emperor Banner to devour the Darkness Immortal Kings and turn their True Spirits into banner souls.
• Chen Zhao traveled along the Ancient Guiding Halls toward the Sea of Realms and the Dark Land.
• Azure Emperor and the other two emperors sensed Chen Zhao's arrival, dismissed him as an anomaly, and trusted that their senior could suppress him.

Chen Zhao arrived after breaking through to the Quasi Immortal Emperor realm and rescued Li Yang from the three Emperors’ killing attacks. Though time and space rejected him as an anomaly, he faced the Feather Emperor and Vast Emperor while Li Yang fought the Azure Emperor.

• Li Yang endured the three Emperors’ coordinated assault, burning his True Blood as they prepared to kill him.
• Chen Zhao crossed the Sea of Realms and struck down the Feather Emperor’s War Chariot, wounding all three Emperors and allowing Li Yang to escape their restraint.
• The three Emperors recognized that Chen Zhao did not belong to their time and space and warned him that interfering would bring ruin.
• Chen Zhao declared that he could suppress the three Emperors despite time and space’s burden, then used his power of origin to help Li Yang recover.
• Li Yang engaged the Azure Emperor while Chen Zhao fought the Feather Emperor and Vast Emperor, forcing the two into a disadvantage.