Chapter Summaries

Chen Zhao explained that the Old Era Immortal Emperor, the First Emperor of Creation, had been polluted by the Weird Clan and later reflected back from death by Huang. He confirmed that he had traveled to the Immortal Emperor’s era, leaving the others curious about what he had done there.

• Emperor Lord, Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, Daoist Heavenly Lord, and Li Yang realized Chen Zhao meant the Old Era Immortal Emperor, whose corruption had caused the Previous Era’s Dark Turmoil.
• Emperor Lord recounted how a Weird Clan Immortal Emperor had polluted the Old Era Immortal Emperor, and Chen Zhao confirmed that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had eventually killed him.
• Chen Zhao said Huang had pardoned the Old Era Immortal Emperor and summoned him back with an Immortal Emperor’s thought, prompting the group to wonder how Chen Zhao knew him as a Fellow Daoist.
• Li Yang inferred that Chen Zhao had traveled to the era in which the Old Era Immortal Emperor lived, and Chen Zhao confirmed that he had.

Chen Zhao helped Huang manifest Primordial, and after ten thousand years Primordial returned to the present world as an Immortal Emperor. He arrived at Chaos Mountain and thanked Chen Zhao for accelerating his return.

• Chen Zhao revealed that the Human Emperor Banner contained three Weird Immortal Emperors and showed the group familiar figures trapped within it.
• Chen Zhao and Huang jointly performed a ritual to hasten Primordial's return while Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and the others exchanged Dao insights at Chaos Mountain.
• Ten thousand years passed as Chen Zhao continued guiding Primordial's true spirit back into the present.
• Chen Zhao called on Primordial to return, and Primordial awakened in All Heavens and descended onto Chaos Mountain.
• Primordial thanked Chen Zhao for helping him return more quickly.

Primitive returned in the present era and reunited with Chen Zhao and the others, then severed and sealed his dark aspect as a warning against the Weird Race. He prepared to seek revenge, while Chen Zhao stayed behind in the human world for now.

• Primitive greeted Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and the others, and recognized the Human Emperor's era as the homeland of the Great Ferocious One.
• Primitive explained that his dark soul had awakened with him, and he identified Emperor Lord as someone who had fused with his own dark aspect.
• Primitive refused Chen Zhao's offer to cut away his dark aspect, severed it himself, refined it into ashes, and sealed it in an Earthen Jar that landed on the Ancient Star.
• Primitive invited Chen Zhao to join him in seeking revenge on the Weird Race, but Chen Zhao said he could not go yet.
• Chen Zhao gathered everyone for tea, and Primitive recalled that the Enlightenment Tea Tree had once belonged to him.

Chen Zhao and Primordial discussed the Weird Clan’s ability to revive and exchanged insights on the Dao at Chaos Mountain. Meanwhile, fallen heroes began returning in the Human World Universe, and Chen Zhao revealed that two Immortal Emperors in Firmament were trying to restore their lost comrades.

• Chen Zhao told Primordial that he wanted the Enlightenment Tea Tree to take human form and explained that Weird Immortal Emperors could revive unless erased by one’s own Dao.
• Primordial learned that the Weird Clan had beings stronger than Immortal Emperors, while Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and the others gained a clearer sense of the challenges ahead.
• Chen Zhao and Primordial exchanged insights on the Dao, and Emperor Lord stayed at Chaos Mountain to continue cultivating with Lingbao.
• People across the Human World Universe discovered that fallen heroes, including Great Completion Holy Bodies, had revived through a process linked to the Human Emperor.
• Chen Zhao told Primordial that two Immortal Emperors in Firmament were trying to reflect their world and summon back the Immortal Emperors who had fallen there.

Chen Zhao explained the Weird Race’s ten Sacrificial Dao Progenitors to Primordial Beginning and warned him against attacking the Plateau. After learning the danger, they left the human world to join Great Ferocious One, while the others faced the task of growing stronger before the Great Sacrifice.

• Chen Zhao told Primordial Beginning that the Weird Race had ten Sacrificial Dao Progenitors and explained how the Pollen Empress had died on the Plateau.
• Primordial Beginning acknowledged that the All Heavens could not defeat the Weird Race’s Progenitors with their current strength.
• Chen Zhao and Primordial Beginning decided to leave the human world and help Great Ferocious One, who was fighting the Weird Race alone.
• Chen Zhao urged Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, Li Yang, and the others to grow stronger before the darkness and Great Sacrifice arrived.
• After the two departed, Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord asked Emperor Lord what he planned to do next.

Emperor Lord agreed to keep acting as an undercover agent among the Weird Race while the emperors investigated the revived Heroic Spirits and suspected the Human Emperor was responsible. The chapter ended when the current Human Race Holy Body appeared to defect to the Foreign Realm and meet an Immortal King.

• Emperor Lord told Daoist Heavenly Lord and the others that the Human Emperor had protected his identity, and they agreed to keep fighting him convincingly when they met.
• The emperors at the Imperial Pass discussed their missing memories and the return of the Heroic Spirits, and the Immortal Emperor said the Human Emperor had described a way for an Immortal Dao emperor to revive the dead.
• The emperors concluded that the Human Emperor had likely become an Immortal Emperor, then discussed nurturing promising Cultivators at Da Luo Heaven.
• An Immortal King's enormous hand approached the Imperial Pass, and the current Human Race Holy Body flew out to meet it.
• The Immortal King said that the Human Race Holy Body had chosen to join the Foreign Realm and that Heavenly Devil Lord had sent him to welcome him.

Gu Wushuang betrayed the Human World and joined the Foreign Realm, prompting Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord to fight the Immortal King who had brought him away. As news of the betrayal spread, the universe also learned that the Devouring Heaven Great Emperor had relinquished the Heart of Heaven Imprint and vanished, while a mysterious little girl appeared in the Big Dipper.

• Gu Wushuang’s betrayal shocked the Holy Bodies and cultivators guarding the Imperial Pass, who wondered whether the Heavenly Devil Lord had influenced his choice.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord attacked the Immortal King with four Immortal Swords, but the Immortal King drew on Heavenly Devil Lord’s power, fought back, and escaped after losing an arm.
• The Great Completion Holy Bodies resolved to kill Gu Wushuang if they met again, while news of his defection spread throughout the Human World Universe.
• The universe learned that the Devouring Heaven Great Emperor had relinquished the Heart of Heaven Imprint, declined to ascend to Da Luo Heaven, and disappeared.
• A filthy little girl appeared in the Big Dipper, begging and periodically losing all memory of her past.

Chen Zhao and Yuanshi left the embankment and crossed the Sea of Realms, intending to find Huang and hunt Weird Immortal Emperors outside the Calamity Land. They reached the Firmament and met its Immortal Emperors, Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian, who were astonished to see Chen Zhao alive.

• Chen Zhao and Yuanshi left safeguards at the embankment before setting out toward Beyond the Worlds.
• As they crossed the Sea of Realms, Yuanshi noted that Darkness Beings were searching for Chen Zhao, and Chen Zhao called their hunt a Meaningless Test.
• Chen Zhao and Yuanshi decided to find Huang and wait outside the Calamity Land to hunt any Weird Immortal Emperor who emerged.
• The pair crossed the desolate Dark Land and Ultimate Ancient Land, then traveled through the passage Beyond the Worlds toward the Firmament.
• Yuanshi saw that the Firmament was ruined beneath a flourishing surface maintained by Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian.
• Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian emerged from the Firmament and greeted Chen Zhao, astonished that he had returned.

Chen Zhao and Primal met Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian in the Firmament, where Chen Zhao warned them that the Weird Race could sacrifice their world whenever it wished. Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian refused to abandon their effort to restore the Firmament, and Chen Zhao and Primal left to continue on their own.

• Meng Hai asked who Primal was, and Primal introduced himself before the four Immortal Emperors met in the Firmament.
• Meng Hai praised Chen Zhao for making the Three Great Progenitors bleed, and Primal learned of Chen Zhao's past achievements.
• Chen Zhao warned Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian that the Weird Race could sacrifice the Firmament and that their efforts to bring back fallen Supreme Beings were futile.
• Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian insisted they had no other choice but to keep trying to reflect the Firmament.
• After the two Firmament Immortals departed, Primal concluded they could not be persuaded, and Chen Zhao said their absence would not change the overall situation.

Chen Zhao and Primal reached the Weird Calamity Land, where Huang was waiting after years of war against the Weird Race. Huang welcomed them as allies, and the chapter ended with Primal wondering about the future figures Chen Zhao and Huang had alluded to.

• Chen Zhao led Primal to the Calamity Land, whose location he had learned long ago through the Gate.
• Huang discussed the dangers of the Weird Calamity Land with Willow God and went to meet the two arriving Immortal Emperors.
• Primal recognized Huang as the Great Ferocious One who had once killed him, while Huang noted that Primal had escaped the darkness.
• Chen Zhao praised Huang's efforts to protect the All Heavens, and Huang said Chen Zhao was a welcome variable in the war.
• Chen Zhao and Huang hinted that more powerful allies would emerge in the future, leaving Primal curious about whom they meant.

Chen Zhao met Huang and Primordial in a hidden Great Realm, where they discussed the Weird Race’s Immortal Emperors, Progenitors, and the possibility of reaching the Sacrificial Dao. As Huang sensed a Weird Immortal Emperor approaching, the three prepared for danger.

• Huang told Chen Zhao that the Weird Race could replace fallen Immortal Emperors and that its number of Immortal Emperors had remained at ten; he said seven currently remained.
• Chen Zhao revealed that he had sealed three Weird Immortal Emperors in the Human Emperor Banner, and Huang and Primordial saw them inside it.
• Chen Zhao said the Weird Race had ten Progenitors, though new ones might have succeeded to the positions of the three he had permanently annihilated.
• Huang said he had glimpsed the path to the Sacrificial Dao through years of battle, while noting that only Progenitors and the Empress of the Firmament had reached that realm in the past.
• Huang sensed danger approaching, and Chen Zhao and Primordial recognized the aura of a Weird Immortal Emperor.

Huang, Chen Zhao, and Primal fought the Weird Race’s overwhelming assault, turning the battle against seven Weird Immortal Emperors before three Weird Progenitors arrived. Chen Zhao recognized the Progenitors’ arrival as the desperate situation Huang might need to overcome to reach the Sacrificial Dao.

• Huang beheaded a Weird Immortal Emperor with one sword strike, then charged into battle as Chen Zhao and Primal followed.
• Chen Zhao discovered seven Weird Immortal Emperors and countless Weird creatures outside, while the Bronze Gate in his mind remained unresponsive.
• One Weird Immortal Emperor recognized Chen Zhao as the feared variable who had once sent a Progenitor into eternal silence.
• Chen Zhao summoned the Human Emperor Banner’s three Weird Immortal Emperors, and they joined Huang and Primal in fighting the seven attackers.
• The three Weird Progenitors tore through time and space and descended onto the battlefield.

Chen Zhao and Huang faced the Weird Progenitors as Willow God tried to break through to the Immortal Emperor realm. Willow God was struck down, but Huang entered the Sacrificial Dao realm and turned the battle against the Progenitors.

• The three Weird Progenitors recognized Chen Zhao but chose to focus on killing Huang, while Chen Zhao intercepted six Weird Immortal Emperors.
• Willow God prepared to make the Ultimate Leap after slaughtering enemies, but a Weird Progenitor attacked her as Huang rushed to stop him.
• The Progenitor's strike destroyed Willow God's body and soul, and Huang burned his Great Dao to enter the Sacrificial Dao realm.
• Huang used He Transforms into Freedom, He Transforms Myriad Ages to shatter the leading Progenitor and badly damage the other two.
• The Progenitors began reassembling, while the fighters on the battlefield saw hope in the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's return.

Huang fought the Three Great Progenitors while Chen Zhao and Primal battled seven Weird Immortal Emperors, and Willow God resurrected as an Immortal Emperor. The Progenitors fled after sensing the Bronze Gate’s power, leaving Chen Zhao facing the seven Weird Immortal Emperors as they tried to escape.

• Huang battled the Three Great Progenitors while Chen Zhao and Primal fought seven Weird Immortal Emperors.
• Willow God revived from her charred stump, became an Immortal Emperor, and joined Chen Zhao’s battle.
• The Bronze Gate in Chen Zhao’s mind stirred with azure light, and the Progenitors recognized the power they feared could annihilate them permanently.
• The Three Great Progenitors retreated to the Calamity Land, and Huang let them go after learning seven Progenitors remained there.
• Chen Zhao moved to stop the seven Weird Immortal Emperors from escaping after their Progenitors withdrew.

After the Weird Progenitor retreated, the remaining Weird Immortal Emperors self-destructed or fought to escape as Chen Zhao, Huang, the Willow God, and the Primitive Immortal Emperor attacked. The battlefield was cleared, but the Weird Race remained a threat, and Chen Zhao turned his attention to the Weird Plateau.

• The Weird Progenitor withdrew, and the seven Weird Immortal Emperors began self-destructing to return to the Plateau.
• Chen Zhao locked down a Weird Immortal Emperor with the Human Emperor Banner and refined him inside it.
• Huang killed a Weird Immortal Emperor permanently, while another escaped by self-destructing and the Willow God and Primitive Immortal Emperor defeated their opponents.
• Chen Zhao used the Human Emperor Banner to absorb the remaining weird creatures, including powerful Dao Ancestors.
• Chen Zhao told the exhausted survivors that the battle was not over and looked toward the Weird Plateau.

After Huang reached Sacrificial Dao, he and his allies discussed the Weird Race’s threat, the Plateau, and the possibility of a being Above Sacrificial Dao. They suspected the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin was connected to that being, while Chen Zhao considered whether the path of Sacrificial Dao suited him.

• The Primitive Immortal Emperor lamented that Huang’s breakthrough was not enough to end the conflict with the Weird Race.
• Huang, Chen Zhao, and their allies reviewed the battle, noting that Chen Zhao had sealed a Weird Immortal Emperor and that the Plateau and its Ten Progenitors remained their greatest threats.
• Huang wondered whether a being Above Sacrificial Dao existed and suggested that the being buried in the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin might be that entity.
• The Primitive Immortal Emperor asked Huang about his Great Luo Sword Embryo, and Huang explained that he had fused it into his own sword embryo.
• Chen Zhao confirmed that a being Above Sacrificial Dao had existed and considered whether he should follow the path of Sacrificial Dao.
• Chen Zhao concluded that the universes could catch their breath for now, as the Weird Progenitors would not emerge casually while the Bronze Gate intimidated them.

Huang, Chen Zhao, and the others discussed the Weird Plateau’s connection to a being Above Sacrificial Dao and the unknown path to that realm. After the Weird Race retreated, Huang proposed trying to reflect the Empress of the Firmament, leaving Chen Zhao to consider the obstacles surrounding her return.

• Huang speculated that the Weird Plateau had inherited traits from a being Above Sacrificial Dao and was linked to the Weird Race and the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin.
• Chen Zhao described Above Sacrificial Dao as requiring the sacrifice of one’s Dao and self, Resurrection in Annihilation, and unshakable conviction.
• Huang resolved to pursue the higher realm, while Chen Zhao doubted that anyone without the Ashes Emperor’s legacy could survive its path.
• Chen Zhao wondered why the Pollen Empress had failed to reach Above Sacrificial Dao despite her foundations and conviction.
• Chen Zhao warned that the Plateau remained the chief threat, even though the Weird Race had retreated and four Weird Immortal Emperors were trapped in his Human Emperor Banner.
• Huang said he wanted to try reflecting the Empress of the Firmament, and Chen Zhao recalled that the Plateau’s Ancient Coffins had suppressed and obliterated her.

Huang decided to attempt reflecting the Pollen Empress, while Chen Zhao warned him about contamination by the Weird Race. In the Foreign Realm, Gu Wushuang’s apparent defection drew suspicion, but Emperor Lord recognized his undercover purpose and began considering how to temper the Holy Body Lineage as the Human Emperor had instructed.

• Primitive Immortal Emperor doubted the Pollen Empress could be reflected, but Huang said he would try if there was any chance, and Chen Zhao agreed while warning him about the Weird Race’s contamination.
• Chen Zhao stayed behind in the Human Body Heavens to contemplate his path after the group finished discussing the Weird Race.
• Foreign Realm Immortal Kings debated whether Gu Wushuang had truly defected and decided to treat him carefully because Emperor Lord favored him.
• Emperor Lord met Gu Wushuang, recognized that he intended to infiltrate the Foreign Realm, and let him leave after giving him instructions.
• Emperor Lord recalled the Human Emperor’s order to temper the Holy Body Lineage and considered how to carry it out.

Gu Wushuang returned with the Foreign Realm’s army and challenged the Imperial Pass, where he overwhelmed another Great Completion Holy Body. Watching from Chaos Mountain, Emperor Lord and the Heavenly Lords discussed how to temper the Holy Body Lineage.

• The Great Completion Holy Bodies at the Imperial Pass discussed Gu Wushuang’s betrayal and wondered whether Darkness Matter had drawn him to the Foreign Realm.
• Gu Wushuang arrived at the Imperial Pass along a radiant Golden Path, and the cultivators sensed that his power had grown greatly.
• A Great Completion Holy Body challenged Gu Wushuang over his betrayal, but Gu Wushuang defeated and suppressed him.
• Emperor Lord, Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, and Daoist Heavenly Lord watched the fight and noted that Gu Wushuang’s way of traveling resembled the Human Emperor’s.
• Emperor Lord proposed using the Great Dao of heaven and earth to temper the Holy Body Lineage, and Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord considered the idea.

Emperor Lord and the Heavenly Lords discussed how to temper the Holy Body Lineage as Emperor Pan completed his Wither-Flourish Transformation in Chaos Mountain. Emperor Pan awakened with memories of Pan Wang from the Previous Era, leaving the nature of reincarnation uncertain.

• Emperor Lord said heaven and earth would temper the Holy Body Lineage while he provided supporting measures, and he praised Gu Wushuang’s potential.
• Emperor Pan’s Peach Ancient Tree revived, while the Heavenly Lords noted that several other Chaos Mountain beings were nearing consciousness or taking form.
• Emperor Pan completed his transformation and appeared before Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, Emperor Lord, and Daode.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord told Emperor Pan that the Human Emperor had left and recounted the major events that occurred while Emperor Pan slept.
• Emperor Pan revealed that his transformation had brought him memories from the Previous Era, and the Heavenly Lords discussed whether true reincarnation existed.