Chapter Summaries

After Emperor Sui evolved a Chaos Body, he explained the difficult paths required to create one, prompting Cultivators across the Human World Universe to pursue the possibility. At Chaos Mountain, Li Yang visited Chen Zhao with Primordial Beginning, who learned that a Saintly Spirit was being nurtured beneath the mountain.

• Emperor Sui told visiting lineages that evolving a true Chaos Body before Proving the Dao required either harmonizing Taiyin and Sun or merging the Myriad Daos, and both paths were exceedingly difficult.
• Li Yang returned to Chaos Mountain with Primordial Beginning, while Daoist Heavenly Lord searched for Bodhi's fated person and Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord traveled through the Surrounding Border Regions.
• Chen Zhao welcomed Li Yang and addressed him as a Fellow Daoist, prompting Primordial Beginning to wonder about Li Yang's origins.
• Li Yang told Primordial Beginning that he was not Emperor Lord and that his origins were too complicated to explain.
• Primordial Beginning asked Chen Zhao whether Chaos Mountain was nurturing a Saintly Spirit, and Chen Zhao confirmed that one was being nurtured beneath the mountain.

Chen Zhao and Li Yang explored ways to advance beyond the Quasi Immortal Emperor realm as the Human World Universe witnessed the Primordial Beginning Great Emperor and Emperor Sui disappear. Chen Zhao’s Dao Fruit collision triggered a powerful transformation but failed to reach the Immortal Emperor realm, leading him to consider refining All Heavens into a Unique True World.

• Chen Zhao told Primordial that an Immortal Tears Green Gold Saintly Spirit was being nurtured beneath Chaos Mountain, then discussed the Spreading Fire Path with Li Yang while Primordial listened.
• After Li Yang and the others departed, Chen Zhao studied how to make his two Dao Fruits collide and spent years refining the method.
• Fifty thousand years later, the Primordial Beginning Great Emperor abandoned the Heavenly Heart Imprint and vanished, while Emperor Sui also disappeared from the Ancient Star.
• The Human Emperor released a Quasi Immortal Emperor-level aura across the Human World Universe and Surrounding Border Regions, but his attempted breakthrough ended quickly.
• Chen Zhao collided his Dao Fruits beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tree, failed to reach the Immortal Emperor realm, and underwent a Nirvana transformation that condensed an Immortal Fetus.
• Chen Zhao considered refining All Heavens and Myriad Realms into a Unique True World to form an Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit and reach the End of the Road Realm.

A terrifying aura in the Human World Universe was attributed to the Human Emperor, while Emperor Sui abandoned his Chaos Body after a century of transformation. Chen Zhao recognized the meaning of Emperor Sui’s act and continued developing his own path toward the Immortal Emperor realm by refining All Heavens into a Unique True World.

• Cultivators in the Human World Universe felt a brief, overwhelming aura and believed it came from the Human Emperor, whose strength they learned surpassed all others across the surrounding realms.
• Chaos Qi filled a remote starfield for a hundred years before Emperor Sui emerged from his Chaos Body and returned to a Mortal Body.
• A Passing Cultivator explained that Emperor Sui had mastered the mysteries of the Chaos Body and returned to simplicity.
• Chen Zhao watched Emperor Sui’s transformation from Chaos Mountain and reflected on how his own essence had advanced to the Quasi Immortal Emperor level.
• Chen Zhao continued exploring how to refine the All Heavens within his body into a Unique True World and forge an Immortal Emperor Dao fruit.

Amitabha rose from a disciple raised by the Daoist Heavenly Lord into a Great Emperor who spread the Buddhist Sect and converted countless prodigies. He visited Chen Zhao on Chaos Mountain to seek guidance and settle old karmic ties, where he reunited with the master he had long searched for.

• As the imperial path opened, the young man raised by the Daoist Heavenly Lord took the Bodhi Ancient Tree and left to pursue his own path.
• Amitabha defeated prodigies without killing them, and many became his followers as he spread his teachings and Faith Power.
• Amitabha survived the great tribulation and proved the Dao, then founded the Buddhist Sect and established Mount Sumeru as its holy land.
• Amitabha traveled to Chaos Mountain to visit Chen Zhao, who welcomed him and served him Enlightenment Tea.
• The Daoist Heavenly Lord appeared, and Amitabha joyfully recognized the master who had raised him.

At Chaos Mountain, Amitabha returned the Bodhi Ancient Tree to Daoist Heavenly Lord and reaffirmed his vow to save all living beings, while Chen Zhao warned him never to harm the common people. After Amitabha departed, Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Li Yang arrived, and Chen Zhao explained that his attempt to reach the Immortal Emperor realm had failed, though he had undergone another transformation.

• Amitabha offered the Bodhi Ancient Tree to Daoist Heavenly Lord, who declined it and said it belonged with Amitabha, settling his karmic debt.
• Amitabha spoke of his vow to resolve the world's hardships, and Chen Zhao warned him that the Buddhist Sect must never harm the common people.
• Amitabha promised he would not harm living beings, then left after speaking with Daoist Heavenly Lord.
• Daoist Heavenly Lord told Chen Zhao that his karma with Amitabha remained entangled and could not easily be severed.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord arrived at Chaos Mountain and remarked that Amitabha seemed to be Daoist Heavenly Lord's destined person.
• Li Yang visited Chen Zhao, who said he had failed to reach the Immortal Emperor realm but had grown stronger through another transformation.

Chen Zhao told Li Yang, Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, and Daoist Heavenly Lord that he had found his path to becoming an Emperor, and explained how Dao Ancestors forged their own paths. After the others left to seek growth in the Sea of Realms, the Bronze Gate stirred in Chen Zhao’s mind, and he forged his remnant body into a Quasi Immortal Emperor banner for the Human World Universe.

• Chen Zhao said he had found the path to becoming an Emperor, and Li Yang praised his progress while sharing that he was in his Third Life as a Mortal World Immortal.
• Chen Zhao explained to Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord that they needed to forge their own paths to become Dao Ancestors and Quasi Immortal Emperors capable of reaching the end of the road.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord announced that they would travel to the Sea of Realms, and Li Yang approved of their plan.
• The Bronze Gate in Chen Zhao’s mind trembled and radiated hazy azure light as Li Yang and the others departed.
• Chen Zhao refined his Quasi Immortal Emperor-level remnant body into a banner to serve as a foundation for Chaos Mountain and a safeguard for the Human World Universe.

Chen Zhao forged the Human Emperor Banner as a reserve defense for the Human World Universe and altered Da Luo Heaven’s rules so that ascended prodigies would continue to be tempered there. As the Bronze Gate began to open again, he remained unable to see what lay beyond it.

• Chen Zhao planted the banner forged from his remnant body in Chaos Mountain, leaving it as a Quasi Immortal Emperor reserve for the Human World Universe.
• Chen Zhao modified Da Luo Heaven’s Guiding Rules so that prodigies who attained the Dao under Great Dao Suppression could ascend after passing a tribulation and continue their trials there.
• Li Yang sensed the Human Emperor Banner’s creation, while the rest of the universe remained unaware of the banner and the changed rules.
• Amitabha Great Emperor continued spreading Buddhism and relieving hardship throughout the universe, with the Western Desert established as a Buddhist Pure Land.
• The Bronze Gate in Chen Zhao’s mind trembled and opened a crack, spilling azure light, but Chen Zhao could not see what lay beyond it.

Chen Zhao used the Bronze Gate to travel upstream through the River of Time, while the Weird Race awakened and began searching for a prophesied variable. The azure light finally reached an unknown ancient history, where a tall man emerged.

• Chen Zhao unleashed the Bronze Gate’s power, causing time and space to shake before the fluctuations vanished.
• Li Yang sensed the Human Emperor’s power at Chaos Mountain and chose not to investigate his secrets.
• Ancient beings in Calamity Land awoke, sensed a variable related to Huang, and ordered it found and killed.
• The Weird Race searched for the variable, while hazy azure light traveled upstream through the River of Time unnoticed.
• The azure light reached an unknown ancient history, and a tall man stepped out.

Chen Zhao traveled through a primordial age, spread the fundamental Dao across the newly emerging world, and was honored by the Human Race as the Human Emperor. His attempt to refine the All Heavens and enter the Immortal Emperor realm fell short, leaving him considering a new approach: shattering and recreating the worlds.

• Chen Zhao explored a primitive world where races possessed only rudimentary cultivation methods and the Human Race lived in scattered tribes.
• Chen Zhao traveled across the realm and spread the primordial Dao, giving its living beings a foundation to pursue their own paths.
• The Human Race honored Chen Zhao as the Human Emperor, and he tacitly accepted the title.
• After hundreds of thousands of years, Chen Zhao formed a Dao cocoon and attempted to refine the All Heavens into a Unique True World.
• Chen Zhao emerged after his breakthrough attempt fell short and realized that an invisible force prevented the All Heavens from merging.
• Chen Zhao considered shattering the All Heavens and recreating them as a way to refine them into one.

Chen Zhao explored the Sea of Realms and discovered Primordial constructing an early embankment. After they met and introduced themselves, Primordial invited Chen Zhao to his Dao Arena to discuss the Dao.

• Chen Zhao considered whether surviving annihilation could transform his path, then traveled through the Chaos Void to the Sea of Realms.
• Chen Zhao realized that no embankment existed yet and inferred that the First Emperor of Creation was building its earliest form.
• Chen Zhao sensed a Quasi Immortal Emperor undertaking World Creation near the Sea of Realms and saw him constructing the embankment.
• Primordial approached Chen Zhao, sensed no hostility, and introduced himself.
• Chen Zhao gave his honorific title as Human Emperor, and Primordial invited him to his Dao Arena for a discussion.

Fifty thousand years after the Human Emperor departed, Amitabha Great Emperor vanished or entered nirvana, leaving the Buddhist Sect unsure of his fate. Meanwhile, the Weird Clan sent Darkness Seeds across the Sword Light toward the Human World Universe, and Li Yang prepared to stop them by borrowing power from his previous life's Dao Fruit.

• Li Yang alone sensed the Human Emperor's departure, while the human world remained peaceful under Amitabha Great Emperor's Buddhist Sect.
• After fifty thousand years of fulfilling his vow, Amitabha Great Emperor left the Heavenly Heart Imprint without explanation, and the Buddhist Sect withdrew to Mount Sumeru.
• The Weird Clan's Progenitors ordered a search for the variable connected to Huang, and an End-of-Path being scattered Darkness Seeds beyond the Sword Light.
• Li Yang saw the two strands of darkness approaching the Human World Universe and decided to borrow his previous life's Dao Fruit power to intercept them.

Li Yang and the Human Emperor Banner’s incarnation stopped two Darkness Sources from reaching the Human World, but the sources took root in the Foreign Realm and a fragment of the Immortal Domain. In the past, Chen Zhao sensed the banner’s activation and suspected that Darkness had returned, while Yuan Shi questioned him about his reaction.

• Li Yang and the Human Emperor Banner’s incarnation joined forces to destroy two Darkness Sources, which then spread into the Foreign Realm and an Immortal Domain fragment.
• The Darkness Sources corrupted beings in both realms, while Li Yang’s borrowed Quasi Immortal Emperor power faded back into the Human Dao Domain.
• Li Yang realized the Darkness Sources could not be erased and feared that the Human World, caught between two Dark Lands, would face further calamity.
• The Human Emperor Banner’s incarnation disappeared and returned to Chaos Mountain, leaving the Human World unaware that Darkness had returned.
• In the past, Chen Zhao sensed that his Human Emperor Banner contingency had been activated and suspected that Darkness or the Weird Plateau was involved.
• Chen Zhao examined the Bronze Gate, then declined to explain his concerns when Yuan Shi asked what had happened.

Chen Zhao and Primordial fought in a contest of Great Daos before arriving at Primordial’s Chaos Dao Arena, where Chen Zhao saw the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin and glimpsed the Bronze Gate opening. The vision left him wondering what lay beyond the gate, while Primordial planned to forge the coffin into an emperor sword after becoming a true emperor.

• Chen Zhao sensed through the Human Emperor Banner that it remained undamaged, then set aside his questions about the Human World Universe.
• Chen Zhao and Primordial traveled through the Chaos Void, exchanged Great Daos, and eventually fought across the heavens, Chaos, and the River of Time without producing a victor.
• Chen Zhao and Primordial arrived at Primordial’s Chaos Dao Arena, where Chen Zhao noticed the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin.
• Primordial told Chen Zhao that the coffin had shown him his fate as a corpse sealed upon the Emperor Throne, so he had left it idle in the Dao Arena.
• Chen Zhao saw the Bronze Gate within the coffin’s azure light and glimpsed it opening, but the vision vanished before he could see what lay beyond.
• Primordial said he would dig up the coffin and forge it into his emperor sword once he became a true emperor.

Chen Zhao and Primordial discussed the karma tied to the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin and the origins of their cultivation paths. Their exchange clarified Primordial’s understanding of the Emperor path, and they continued discussing the Dao.

• Chen Zhao realized that Primordial’s misfortune stemmed from digging up Ashes Emperor’s coffin to forge an Emperor Sword, an act carrying immense karma.
• Primordial showed Chen Zhao the Enlightenment Tea Tree he had cultivated, and they brewed tea together.
• Primordial asked whether Chen Zhao came from a world beyond the Sea of Realms, but Chen Zhao said he belonged to the All Heavens in a different timeline.
• Primordial explained his Dao of expressing heaven and earth’s fundamental principles through runes.
• Chen Zhao described his path of treating the self as the All Heavens and his complementary Human Body Heavens cultivation system.
• Primordial said their discussion had clarified his Emperor path, and the two continued verifying their Dao and Law.

Chen Zhao and Primitive discussed the paths that could lead them to the end of the Dao, while darkness spread through the future worlds under Primitive’s command. As the Foreign Realm launched its third campaign against the Human World Universe, Li Yang sensed the invasion and the emperors of Da Luo Heaven recognized the returning darkness.

• Primitive saw that Chen Zhao’s Human Body Heavens had not yet become the Unique True World and advised him to borrow outside force to shatter All Heavens into ruins.
• Chen Zhao praised Primitive’s path, and the two continued exchanging insights about their Dao Fruits without fully opening themselves to each other.
• Primitive’s command to find a mysterious object and bring blood and chaos reached the Darkness Beings, who began targeting other realms.
• The Fallen Immortal Domain aimed at other Immortal Domain Fragments, while the Foreign Realm opened a passage to the Human World Universe to attack the Nine Heavens’ successor.
• Li Yang sensed the Foreign Realm’s invasion and considered it an opportunity for the Human World Universe.
• The emperors of Da Luo Heaven detected the passage and recognized the repulsive power of darkness.

As darkness returned to the Human World Universe, the emperors left Da Luo Heaven to confront the invading Foreign Realm army. They crushed the invasion and discovered from an Immortal Being's memories that darkness was searching for something in their universe.

• Sensing darkness approaching the Human World Universe, Xue Yueqing and the other emperors resolved to fight and left Da Luo Heaven.
• Li Yang asked the Human Emperor Banner's consciousness to create a vast city in the Chaos Void, where the emperors gathered to meet the invasion.
• The Foreign Realm Immortal Being ordered his army to retreat after seeing the many Immortal Beings, but the Taiyin Saint Emperor confronted him.
• The Fighting Saint Emperor struck the Immortal Being apart, and the emperors defeated him together before massacring the Darkness Army.
• The emperors searched the Immortal Being's memories and learned that darkness had rapidly raised many Immortal Beings and was seeking something in the Human World Universe.

After the Ancient Era Emperors learned that a mysterious artifact had created the Darkness Beings, they agreed to guard the Borderlands against future invasions. Li Yang, a comrade of the Human Emperor, told them he would summon the human world's powerful cultivators if darkness returned, while news of the invasion spread across the Human World Universe and prompted the great orthodoxies to prepare for war.

• The emperors discovered that a mysterious artifact had revived darkness and created the Darkness Army, then concluded that the Human Emperor had left the human world.
• Taiyin Saint Emperor opened a city gate with the Human Emperor Banner, and the emperors speculated that the Borderlands had been built to temper them and others.
• The emperors vowed to defend the Borderlands as darkness's first wave was only the beginning.
• Li Yang revealed that he had fought alongside the Human Emperor and instructed the emperors to guard the Borderlands, promising to summon powerful cultivators if darkness invaded again.
• The Chaos Border Pass battle appeared in the skies, and news from the Illusory God Realm confirmed that surrounding realms had fallen to darkness.
• The beings of the universe learned of darkness's return, and the great orthodoxies began preparing to resist the coming invasion.

Ten thousand years after the darkness failed to return, the struggle for the Great Emperor position began, and a prodigy from the Feathered Star Region became the Feathered Emperor. He later searched the Big Dipper Starfield for the ancient Chaos Body, then studied Transformation into Saintly Spirit and created a method tailored to himself.

• After ten thousand years passed without darkness returning, the Human World Universe turned its attention to the struggle for the Great Emperor position.
• A prodigy from the Feathered Star Region swept aside his rivals, became the Feathered Emperor, and led the Feathered God Dynasty to the Big Dipper Starfield.
• The Feathered Emperor searched the Big Dipper Starfield for the Chaos Body from the Mythological Era but found no trace of it.
• After giving up the search, the Feathered Emperor pursued other ways to evolve a Chaos Body, then turned to Transformation into Saintly Spirit.
• The Feathered Emperor went to the Eternal Star Region and created a Transformation into Saintly Spirit Method suited to himself.

The chapter described the spreading Darkness and the Immortal Domain’s preparations to resist it, while the Feathered Emperor considered transforming into a Saintly Spirit. At the Immortal Domain’s border, Gu Tuo thanked Fu Xi, whose connection to the Human Emperor remained uncertain.

• The Feathered Emperor abandoned his plan to obtain a Chaos Body and chose the lower-risk Transformation into Saintly Spirit Method instead.
• Darkness spread across Immortal Domain Fragment worlds, turning their inhabitants into Darkness Beings and driving surviving factions to prepare for the coming turmoil.
• The Immortal Domain’s natives and Forbidden Zone Supremes joined forces to defend against Darkness, while the Supremes mourned their separation from the human world.
• Gu Tuo stood on the Immortal Domain’s Borderlands and thanked Fu Xi for his help in resisting Darkness.
• Gu Tuo remained wary of Fu Xi, who neither confirmed nor denied his suspected connection to the Human Emperor.

Fu Xi helped Gu Tuo build the Immortal Domain’s Borderlands against Darkness and learned that the Human Emperor had left the Human World Universe. In the past, Chen Zhao watched Primordial challenge the Immortal Emperor Realm in the Sea of Realms, where Primordial’s shattered body reformed into an Immortal Emperor.

• Fu Xi and Nüwa helped Gu Tuo and the Immortal Domain’s experts build the Borderlands against Darkness, though Nüwa fell asleep again afterward.
• Fu Xi told Gu Tuo that the Human Emperor had left the Human World Universe and that he did not know where he had gone.
• Chen Zhao and Primordial discussed the Great Dao, and Chen Zhao considered seeking an Immortal Emperor’s sword strike to break through his own limits.
• Primordial began challenging the Immortal Emperor Realm in the Sea of Realms, and Chen Zhao sheltered the All Heavens from the immense aftershocks.
• After more than a hundred thousand years, Primordial’s body exploded and gathered back together as a figure whose presence shook the laws of the All Heavens, revealing a true Immortal Emperor.