Chapter Summaries

After completing another transformation on the Mortal World Immortal Path, Li Yang met the Empress, who sought a way to revive someone she had lost. He told her that becoming an Immortal Emperor could allow her to reflect the dead back to life, and the Human Emperor’s appearance suggested that such a realm had been reached.

• Li Yang sensed an imperfect Chaos Body and invited its owner, the Empress, to his Dao Arena.
• Li Yang recognized the Empress as a future Quasi Immortal Emperor who had once crossed through ancient history to help the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• The Empress asked whether the dead could be revived, and Li Yang said an Immortal Emperor could reflect the dead and even restore the Human World.
• A vision appeared in the sky showing the Human Emperor fighting two indistinct figures with power beyond Li Yang’s understanding.
• The Empress left after witnessing the vision, and an unseen force erased most beings’ memories of it.
• Li Yang concluded that the Human Emperor had become an Immortal Emperor and could bring another such emperor to the All Heavens upon returning.

The Ruthless Great Emperor preserved the youth’s final words at Kunlun and destroyed the Path to Immortality Land, then transformed through a second life by nurturing a divine embryo within her demon body. Meanwhile, Li Yang and the emperors sensed darkness gathering again, with the Foreign Realm army advancing in greater strength and the Human Emperor still missing.

• Li Yang reflected on the Empress’s obsession and suspected it could lead her to become an Immortal Emperor.
• The Empress restored the scene of the youth’s final message at Kunlun, preserved his words, raised a grave, and smashed apart the Path to Immortality Land.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor nurtured a divine embryo within her aged body, refined her Chaos Body, and achieved a Second Life on the path of the Mortal World Immortal.
• Li Yang realized the Human Emperor had crossed into an unknown spacetime and might be fighting a Dark Immortal Emperor.
• The emperors saw a Foreign Realm army approaching with far more True Immortals than before and worried that darkness was rapidly growing stronger.
• Xue Yueqing and the other emperors sensed that they had forgotten important memories concerning the Human Emperor, then prepared to face the arriving darkness.

Emperor Sui’s Imperial Decree summoned the Human World Universe’s Cultivators to fight at the Borderlands as the Foreign Realm began probing the Imperial Pass. When the emperors guarding the frontier attacked, Xue Yueqing swiftly killed a Foreign Realm Immortal, revealing the defenders’ overwhelming strength.

• The Foreign Realm prepared for a prolonged campaign, wary of the missing Human Emperor and the strength of the Human World Universe.
• Li Yang issued an Imperial Decree ordering Cultivators to head to the Borderlands, while leaving Great Emperors free to pursue the path they chose.
• Li Yang resumed exploring how to live another life and sensed that two more exceptional figures would soon emerge.
• The Foreign Realm probed the Borderlands and began constructing cities, prompting the Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors to attack its forces.
• Xue Yueqing defeated a Foreign Realm Immortal within a few moves, and the battle’s outcome stunned the invaders.

The Human World Universe’s True Immortals crushed the Foreign Realm’s forces until an Immortal King intervened, only to be trapped by Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord. A Great Cauldron then broke the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, revealing Emperor Lord as the Foreign Realm’s hidden power, and Daoist Heavenly Lord appeared as the confrontation escalated.

• Xue Yueqing and the other Great Emperors slaughtered the Foreign Realm’s True Immortals, leaving only a few grievously wounded survivors.
• An Immortal King descended from the Foreign Realm, forcing Xue Yueqing and the others to retreat behind the Imperial Pass.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord trapped the Immortal King in the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation and overwhelmed him.
• The Immortal King called for his lord, and a Great Cauldron shattered the sword formation, revealing Emperor Lord as the one behind the Foreign Realm.
• Emperor Lord emerged amid Darkness Matter, and Daoist Heavenly Lord appeared beside Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord as Emperor Lord challenged them.

Emperor Lord attacked Imperial Pass with his Great Cauldron, and Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord opposed him with the Taiji Diagram. As Emperor Lord taunted his opponents and asked who could challenge him in the Human Emperor’s absence, the chapter left Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and his companion facing his overwhelming power amid the darkness spreading through All Heavens.

• Emperor Lord’s Great Cauldron clashed with Daoist Heavenly Lord’s Taiji Diagram, creating and destroying worlds in a contest of Dao and Law.
• An Immortal King praised Emperor Lord and threatened to invade the Human World, then died instantly after insulting the Human Emperor.
• Emperor Lord dismissed Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and his companion, declaring that no one could oppose him while the Human Emperor was gone.
• Emperor Lord reflected that he had refused to refine the black blood’s Quasi Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit because he wanted to become a true emperor.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and his companion, now Supreme Giants, faced Emperor Lord after returning from a darkened Sea of Realms where Heavenly Court had vanished and the Human Emperor’s aura was absent.

Emperor Lord overwhelmed Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord, while the Human Emperor remained absent from the Human World Universe. A Quasi Immortal Emperor Artifact left behind by the Human Emperor drove Emperor Lord away, and the Foreign Realm’s second campaign ended in defeat.

• Emperor Lord fought Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord and said refining them might help him become an emperor.
• Living beings across the Surrounding Border Regions watched the battle’s record in the Illusory God Realm and learned that Emperor Lord had joined the darkness.
• Gu Tuo wondered whether Emperor Lord was the mysterious Heavenly Devil mentioned by a Darkness Being.
• A Quasi Immortal Emperor Artifact appeared in the Human World Universe, and Emperor Lord sensed a lethal threat and retreated.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord warned that Emperor Lord might return, while the remaining Foreign Realm army was slaughtered.

After Emperor Lord took control of the Foreign Realm, the Human World prepared for a prolonged conflict and used the battlefield to temper its cultivators. Emperor Lord ordered the Foreign Realm to wait for an opportunity while investigating the Weird Clan’s search for a mysterious variable, which he suspected might be the Human Emperor.

• The Immortal Emperor, Chuan Ying, and the Great Peng Emperor discussed Emperor Lord’s fall and feared that his control of the Foreign Realm would strengthen the darkness.
• The Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord urged the others to defend the Human World themselves, and a dark ancestral artifact appeared as a towering city in the Chaos Void.
• The Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and the Daoist Heavenly Lord said the Yang Emperor was stationed in the Human World and that its cultivators could be tempered by fighting the Foreign Realm.
• Emperor Lord told the Foreign Realm experts to wait for an opportunity to attack, intending to use the conflict to temper cultivators across the realms.
• After the experts withdrew, Emperor Lord wondered what variable the Weird Clan was searching for and considered whether the Human Emperor was that being.
• The two realms began fighting in the Emperor Pass Battlefield, where only Human Dao Domain cultivators fought under the restraint of both sides.

Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian speculated that Chen Zhao might have returned from an ancient era as they worked to restore the Firmament. Chen Zhao confronted a Weird End of the Road Lifeform and, with two Weird Immortal Emperor Banner Slaves, fought him as two more Weird Immortal Emperors arrived.

• Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian considered whether Chen Zhao was a lifeform returned from an earlier era, and Meng Hai said more End of the Road Lifeforms would emerge.
• Chen Zhao sensed that the Human Emperor Banner had been activated in the Human World, then encountered the Weird Clan approaching him.
• A Weird End of the Road Lifeform challenged Chen Zhao, who summoned two Weird Immortal Emperor Banner Slaves and attacked him.
• Chen Zhao and the two Banner Slaves overwhelmed the Weird End of the Road Lifeform, who reconstructed his body after being blasted apart.
• Two more Weird Immortal Emperors arrived, and Chen Zhao challenged the three, saying he would send them to reunite inside his banner.

Chen Zhao fought five peak Weird Immortal Emperors beyond the Worlds, using his fists and the Human Emperor Banner against their combined assault. After one enemy chose self-destruction to avoid becoming a Banner Slave, Chen Zhao battled the remaining four and began refining another into the banner.

• Five Weird Immortal Emperors joined forces against Chen Zhao, who attacked them with his sword while two captives emerged from the Human Emperor Banner to aid him.
• Chen Zhao blasted a gray-mist Weird Immortal Emperor into Blood Mist, but the enemy self-destructed rather than risk being trapped and refined by the banner.
• The remaining Weird Immortal Emperors warned that the banner had flaws, and Chen Zhao charged back into battle with his fists.
• Chen Zhao blasted another Weird Immortal Emperor apart, while the two Banner Slaves held off the remaining three.
• Chen Zhao personally wielded the Human Emperor Banner and began refining the shattered Weird Immortal Emperor.

Chen Zhao overwhelmed the Weird Immortal Emperors and captured one with the Human Emperor Banner, but the Weird Progenitors arrived before he could leave. The Progenitors confronted him over his mysterious origins and moved to kill him.

• Chen Zhao captured a Weird Immortal Emperor in the Human Emperor Banner, leaving three enemies to fight him.
• Chen Zhao blasted apart the golden, long-haired Weird Immortal Emperor as ominous signs announced the Progenitors’ arrival.
• Several Weird Progenitors appeared and questioned Chen Zhao about his origins and whether he belonged to another era.
• Chen Zhao accused the Progenitors of fearing him, and they denied it despite remembering a dream of their deaths.
• A Weird Progenitor declared that Chen Zhao had to die and prepared to attack.

The Weird Progenitors emerged from their Ancient Coffins and attacked Chen Zhao, while his Bronze Gate began to awaken in response. Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian recognized the coffins as the source of the power that had once overwhelmed the Empress, and the chapter ended as a mighty power descended upon Chen Zhao.

• The Ancient Coffins released strange substances and mists that empowered the Weird Progenitors to their peak state.
• The Red Hair Progenitor attacked Chen Zhao with a hand of ominous mist as the other Progenitors sensed an unexplained crisis.
• The Weird Progenitors wondered whether the disturbance came from the being they had been seeking, but concluded that the power was similar yet distinct.
• On Firmament, Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian saw three Weird Progenitors emerge from the ancestral ground and realized their Ancient Coffins had suppressed the Empress.
• Chen Zhao's Bronze Gate trembled within his mind, and a mighty power descended upon him.

Chen Zhao borrowed the Bronze Gate’s golden power, rose beyond the End of the Road Realm, and fought the Three Great Progenitors. He burned all three to ash, though he was unsure whether the dead Progenitors could revive as his borrowed power began to fade.

• Chen Zhao’s Bronze Gate transformed from azure to dazzling gold, and its power raised him to a realm beyond the End of the Road Realm.
• Chen Zhao shattered the Red Hair Progenitor’s arm with a punch, and the golden radiance burned away his red hair and wounded him severely.
• Chen Zhao advanced on the Three Great Progenitors and drove them from the Primitive Chaos Land to the Sacrificial Sea, where his golden light burned them and cracked their bodies.
• Chen Zhao burned the Red Hair Progenitor alive, prompting the watching Weird Immortal Emperors to realize that a Progenitor had died.
• Chen Zhao charged the two remaining Progenitors and burned them to ash as his borrowed power began to recede.

Chen Zhao witnessed the Weird Clan’s shock after a Progenitor fell, while seven ancient Progenitors emerged from the Ancestral Land. One Progenitor revealed that the Weird Immortal Emperors were successors who could replace the three fallen Progenitors.

• Chen Zhao surveyed the Sacrificial Sea and the Weird Clan’s altar after the battle ended.
• The Weird Immortal Emperors wondered whether the fallen Progenitor had been eternally silenced because the Ancestral Land did not revive him.
• Seven Progenitors emerged from the depths of the Accursed Earth Plateau, causing the Weird Race to kneel in reverence.
• The Weird Immortal Emperors realized that the Weird Clan had ten Progenitors, including the three who had fallen.
• A Progenitor explained that the Weird Immortal Emperors were seeds and successors, and that three of them could fill the vacant positions.

Chen Zhao’s Bronze Gate clashed with the Plateau’s dark mist as the Seven Great Progenitors attacked, erasing him from time and space. The Plateau altered history and the Weird Race forgot him, though a voice promised they would meet again.

• The Three Weird Immortal Emperors rejoiced that the Three Great Progenitors’ deaths opened a path for them to become Progenitors.
• The Seven Great Progenitors attacked Chen Zhao, while he challenged the Weird Race’s reliance on revival and overwhelming numbers.
• The Plateau revealed its consciousness and sent dark mist toward Chen Zhao to investigate the Bronze Gate’s power.
• The Bronze Gate projected a vast golden phantom that clashed with the Plateau’s dark mist, and the resulting force shattered the Progenitors and erased Chen Zhao from that time and space.
• The Plateau changed history, restoring the Seven Great Progenitors and other weird beings while making them forget Chen Zhao and the ancient gate.
• The surviving Weird Immortal Emperors learned that three could qualify to become Progenitors, and an unheard voice above the Plateau said they would meet again.

Three Progenitors of the Weird Clan remembered the variable who had once destroyed their predecessors and ordered their clan to investigate him cautiously. Meanwhile, the Human World remained in a fragile balance, and the chapter ended with the Undying Golden Body displaying strength comparable to a Great Emperor.

• Three Progenitors awakened in the Accursed Earth Plateau and recalled that the variable had burned their predecessors to death with golden radiance.
• The Progenitors explained to the Weird Immortal Emperors that the variable had once caused the former Progenitors to fall and warned them to search carefully.
• The Progenitors ordered powerful members of the Weird Clan to test the variable and learn his current condition.
• The Dark and Bright Factions maintained a balance in the World Behind the Dam while the Ruthless Great Emperor studied her own method of immortality.
• A Fire Clan Saintly Spirit rose in the Big Dipper, but it was annihilated, and its Heaven Severing Mountain Range was destroyed by a single sword strike.
• The Undying Golden Body shone on the Emperor Pass Battlefield, with its completed form said to rival a Great Emperor of the Human World.

Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord sought Duan De, newly awakened as Nether Lord, and asked him to try to turn Emperor Lord back from darkness. Duan De agreed after they promised to protect his cultivation and keep him safe, leaving him set to face his former disciple.

• Undying Golden Bodies repeatedly repelled Foreign Realm attacks at the Imperial Pass, earning the name Holy Body.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord found Duan De beneath a dragon-shaped mountain range in the Big Dipper Starfield.
• Duan De awakened, recovered his memories, and learned from Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord that the Human Emperor had left the mortal world.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord explained that Emperor Lord had taken command of the Dark World and asked Duan De to try to save him.
• Duan De warned that Emperor Lord might refuse to listen to his former Master, but agreed after Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord promised to protect his Dao and both Heavenly Lords assured him they would keep him safe.

Duan De joined Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord at Imperial Pass to try to persuade Emperor Lord to abandon the darkness. After meeting the gathered emperors, they turned their attention toward Darkness City, where the Immortal Slaughtering Four Swords flew toward the opposing Dark City Pass.

• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord agreed to protect Duan De as he prepared for reincarnation.
• Duan De traveled with the two Heavenly Lords to Imperial Pass and recognized a strange familiarity in the place.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord told the emperors that they had come to see if Emperor Lord could be persuaded to change his mind.
• Chuan Ying recognized Duan De as Nether Lord, and they exchanged reflections on their paths and changed fortunes.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord looked toward Darkness City and sent the Immortal Slaughtering Four Swords toward the Dark City Pass.

Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord tried to stop Emperor Lord, who attacked Duan De despite their intervention. Just as Emperor Lord claimed no one could challenge him, the Human Emperor returned and confronted him.

• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord unleashed the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, but Emperor Lord blocked it with his Great Cauldron.
• Duan De appeared and called Emperor Lord his disciple, prompting Emperor Lord to attack him; Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord intervened.
• Emperor Lord repeatedly shattered Duan De’s body while Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord reconstructed it, until the battle ended and Daoist Heavenly Lord sent Duan De back to the human world.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord accused Emperor Lord of choosing darkness and warned that the Human Emperor might return to challenge him.
• The Human Emperor’s voice rang out from the Chaos Void, and Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and the other emperors welcomed his return.

Chen Zhao returned to Imperial Pass as the Human Emperor, revealing the overwhelming might of an Immortal Emperor and learning how All Heavens had changed during his absence. He left the worlds to continue facing darkness on their own while remaining wary of the Weird Clan.

• The cultivators at Imperial Pass learned that the Human Emperor had returned, and his aura overwhelmed the Foreign Realm beings and Immortal Kings.
• Emperor Lord feared that Chen Zhao would expose him and considered revealing that he was an Undercover Agent, while a faint azure light within his primordial spirit isolated the Darkness Matter.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord recognized Chen Zhao's return and wondered whether he had become an Immortal Emperor.
• Chen Zhao appeared in the Chaos Void, surveyed All Heavens, and saw that the darkness had arrived early and the worlds had changed during his absence.
• Chen Zhao learned that the Weird Clan had searched for him and sent the Darkness Source and Darkness Seeds through the Sword Light's barrier.
• Chen Zhao decided not to interfere with All Heavens' development and remained wary of the Weird Clan despite having eternally silenced three Progenitors.

Chen Zhao reunited with Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, Emperor Lord, Daode Heavenly Lord, and Li Yang after becoming an Emperor, and explained that the current darkness was only preparation for a greater threat. He planned to leave the human world to join the battle beyond it, but first intended to awaken an old Fellow Daoist.

• Chen Zhao brought Emperor Lord and Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord to Chaos Mountain and revealed that Emperor Lord had only pretended to join the darkness.
• Emperor Lord explained that he had guarded the Foreign Realm and Fallen Immortal Domain while searching for the variable sought by the Weird Race, which he believed was Chen Zhao.
• Chen Zhao confirmed that he had become an Emperor and said he had blurred the memories of Cultivators who witnessed his return so Emperor Lord could continue his undercover work.
• Chen Zhao told Daode Heavenly Lord and Li Yang that the current invasion was only early military training compared with the true darkness.
• Chen Zhao said he would leave the human world to join the battle beyond it and first awaken an old Fellow Daoist in an unfathomable region of the All Heavens.