Chapter Summaries

Chen Zhao defeated the Lord of Reincarnation even after he underwent Ultimate Sublimation, then challenged the Life Forbidden Zones. When the Primordial Ancient Mine defended its past attack on him, it offered him two Primordial Life Stones as an explanation.

• The Lord of Reincarnation underwent Ultimate Sublimation and unleashed Three Realms Reincarnation against Chen Zhao.
• Chen Zhao used Return to Origin to destroy the Lord of Reincarnation and his divine ability, leaving only fragments of Ascension Cyan Gold.
• After recovering his energy and growing stronger from the battle, Chen Zhao stood above the Big Dipper and challenged the Life Forbidden Zones, but none of the Supremes answered.
• Chen Zhao accused the Primordial Ancient Mine of sending an Ancient Emperor Weapon after him before he attained the Dao.
• An existence within the Primordial Ancient Mine offered Chen Zhao two Primordial Life Stones as an explanation.

Chen Zhao forced the Primordial Ancient Mine to yield Primordial Life Stones, then took the Moon Laurel Undying Medicine from the Sea of Reincarnation before ending his confrontation with the Forbidden Zones. He announced that he would establish a Dao Arena on the Big Dipper and expound the Dao to all living beings.

• Chen Zhao drew two Primordial Life Stones from the Primordial Ancient Mine after its Forbidden Zone Supremes bowed to him.
• Chen Zhao challenged the Sea of Reincarnation, and its Supreme offered him the Moon Laurel Undying Medicine as its final line of defense.
• Chen Zhao put away the Moon Laurel Undying Medicine and left without further pressing the Sea of Reincarnation.
• The Lord of the Immortal Mausoleum warned that any Forbidden Zone that accepted Chen Zhao in his later years would become an enemy.
• Chen Zhao announced that he would establish a Dao Arena on the Big Dipper and expound the Dao, prompting cultivators from across the universe to travel there.

Chen Zhao forged the first of nine Immortal Gold cauldrons on Big Dipper and concealed it to temper with Faith Power. He then forcibly opened the Path to Immortality, leaving the awakened Forbidden Zone Supremes wondering whether he would enter.

• After Chen Zhao preached for ninety-nine days on Big Dipper, cultivators from across the universe left, and the star returned to quiet.
• Chen Zhao forged a cauldron from the Lord of Reincarnation's Ascension Cyan Gold robe, intending to temper nine cauldrons with Faith Power and use them against Emperor Lord's formation.
• Chen Zhao hid the Big Dipper Cauldron in the starfield, sealing it with his Great Dao and formation patterns.
• Chen Zhao struck the void above Big Dipper with Return to Origin, forcibly splitting it open and revealing the Path to Immortality.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes awoke and discussed Chen Zhao's feat, comparing it to Emperor Lord's attempt to open the Path at the wrong time.

Chen Zhao entered the Big Dipper Path to Immortality and emerged carrying the remains of the Yin Human Emperor. The Forbidden Zone Supremes recognized the corpse’s familiar aura and wondered whether it was connected to someone they believed had died long ago.

• The Forbidden Zone Supremes recalled that the Yin Human Emperor and several others had fallen inside the Path to Immortality, and chose to wait rather than confront Chen Zhao.
• Cultivators and ancient living fossils across the universe watched as Chen Zhao forcefully entered the opened Path to Immortality.
• The Path to Immortality began closing, then burst open as Chen Zhao emerged with a corpse wrapped in Chaos Qi.
• The corpse released terrifying Imperial Dao Pressure, and observers identified it as the remains of an Ancient Emperor.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes recognized the remains as belonging to the Yin Human Emperor and sensed an aura associated with someone they thought had died long ago.

The Yin Human Emperor’s lingering will returned through his remnant corpse, Faith Power, and the Yin Dao traces, allowing him to briefly reunite with the universe. After bidding farewell to the Human Race and leaving the Human Emperor Seal and safeguards on Ziwei Star, he faded away, while Chen Zhao noticed his preparations against the Dark Turmoil.

• The Yin Human Emperor Seal awakened and flew to the Big Dipper Star as Faith Power and the emperor’s Dao traces gathered around his remnant corpse.
• The Yin Human Emperor’s phantom appeared, revealed that an unforeseen change on the Path to Immortality had left him with regrets, and warned Chen Zhao and Sun Daoist to beware of the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• The Yin Human Emperor traveled to Ziwei Star, left the Human Emperor Seal at the Yin God Sect, and journeyed across the universe to see how the Human Race had fared.
• At the Cosmic Frontier, the Yin Human Emperor said he could rest easy about the Human Race, then dissolved into light as beings across the universe mourned him.
• Chen Zhao returned to Ziwei Star and recognized the Yin Human Emperor’s arrangements to protect it from the Dark Turmoil.

After defeating the Lord of Reincarnation and searching the Big Dipper for the Undying Heavenly Emperor, Chen Zhao returned to Ziwei and spent several thousand years forging the Ziwei Cauldron and comprehending the Chaos Great Dao. He reached the limit of the human realm, sensed the barrier to immortality, and considered paths to becoming a Mortal World Immortal.

• Chen Zhao examined the Yin Human Emperor's essence blood, gathered immortal metal fragments from the Path to Immortality, and planned to use them with the Two Human Emperors' metal plates to forge the Ziwei Cauldron.
• Chen Zhao stayed on Ziwei for several thousand years, while the Human Race prospered under his protection and temples to the Three Great Human Emperors spread across the universe.
• The Yin, Sun, and Heaven-Severing Dao lineages governed Ziwei and sent disciples across the star regions to instruct the Human Race.
• Chen Zhao cultivated in Intercepting Heaven Dao and sensed the barrier that restrained living beings from entering the immortal dao.
• Chen Zhao considered becoming a Mortal World Immortal or entering the Strange World for Longevity Substance, but he had failed to find the Nine Dragons Coffin Pull.

Chen Zhao gathered Faithful Thought Power and sought Sun Saint Emperor’s Divine Spirit Ancient Coffin to attempt to revive the two ancient Human Emperors. He returned to Ziwei Star, where Taiyin and Taiyang’s sons awaited news of his method.

• Chen Zhao considered whether his Chaos Bitter Sea could become an Inner World but chose not to risk experimenting before perfecting the idea.
• Chen Zhao refined the Ziwei Cauldron and concealed it in the Void to let Faith Power transform it, hoping to revive Yin Human Emperor and Sun Saint Emperor.
• Chen Zhao traveled across the universe and found Sun Saint Emperor’s sealed Divine Spirit Ancient Coffin on a desolate star, along with the Emperor’s wandering Divine Sense.
• Chen Zhao returned to Ziwei Star without opening the coffin, while Yin Emperor Son and Sun Emperor Son waited at the Human Emperor Temple.
• A Golden Path appeared over Ziwei Star as Chen Zhao returned, and the two Emperor’s Sons sensed his arrival.

At the Human Emperor Temple, Chen Zhao used the Scripture of Salvation to awaken the True Spirits of the Sun Saint Emperor and the Yin Human Emperor. He gathered Faith Power to strengthen their remnants, beginning their return in the Forbidden Domain.

• Chen Zhao opened the Sun Saint Emperor's coffin and revealed that only his golden Human Skin remained, prompting the Sun Emperor Son and Yin Emperor Son to demand who had tampered with the remains.
• Chen Zhao explained that the deaths of both Human Emperors were connected to the Undying Heavenly Emperor, then released their Divine Senses.
• Chen Zhao recited the Scripture of Salvation, purifying the Divine Senses until the True Spirits of the Yin Human Emperor and Sun Saint Emperor awakened.
• The two emperors greeted their sons and warned Chen Zhao that restoring them in the Forbidden Domain would require an enormous price.
• Chen Zhao gathered Faith Power from across the universe and merged it into the emperors' remnants, making them more solid as Imperial Dao Pressure swept across Ziwei Star Region.

Chen Zhao revived Yin Human Emperor and Sun Saint Emperor through descendant blood, their relics, and Faith Power, but a Heavenly Tribulation threatened their return. He concealed the Ziwei Star Region from heaven and earth, leaving the Two Human Emperors alive there as Faith Power beings and revealing a new method of longevity.

• Chen Zhao used Yin Human Emperor's Remnant Soul, Yin God Sect blood, and the Human Emperor Seal to restore Yin Human Emperor's body.
• Chen Zhao revived Sun Saint Emperor, who recovered his flesh and bones and reclaimed the Sun Stone Pagoda.
• Heavenly Tribulation gathered to destroy the Two Human Emperors, but Chen Zhao shattered its lightning and used the Ziwei Cauldron and Faith Power to obscure the Heavenly Secrets.
• The Two Human Emperors remained within the Ziwei Star Region, where Faith Power sustained their unusual existence and allowed them to protect the Human Race.
• Chen Zhao recognized that the Two Human Emperors' Faith Power existence resembled Incense Gods and could serve as a new Longevity Method.

Chen Zhao learned that the returned Yin Human Emperor and Sun Saint Emperor were sustained by faith, which also eroded their True Spirits and bound them to shelter the Human Race. He questioned them about the Undying Heavenly Emperor and learned that the Chaos Body from the Mythological Era might still be alive.

• Chen Zhao concluded that heaven and earth prevented the Two Human Emperors from fully returning, though faith allowed them to persist and shelter the Human Race.
• The Yin Human Emperor and Sun Saint Emperor explained that the prayers sustaining them also eroded their True Spirits, and they accepted a duty to protect those who worshipped them.
• Chen Zhao asked about the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and the Two Human Emperors recounted how he had ambushed and sabotaged them.
• Chen Zhao said the Undying Heavenly Emperor had taken the path of Bathing in Emperor Blood, and the Two Human Emperors warned that he would likely emerge when Chen Zhao reached his late years.
• The Yin Human Emperor said the Chaos Body from the Mythological Era might not have died but instead gone into hiding.

After discussing the path of rebirth with the Two Human Emperors, Chen Zhao followed a mysterious pull to a ruined Small World beyond the Cosmic Frontier. There he found a dormant Chaos Green Lotus Seed and placed it in his Chaos Bitter Sea, where it began to revive.

• Chen Zhao learned that the Yin Human Emperor had independently discovered rebirth through transformation as a path toward immortality.
• Chen Zhao discussed the Dao with the Two Human Emperors, then left the Human Emperor Temple to return to the Intercepting Heaven Dao.
• A sudden intuition drew Chen Zhao beyond the Cosmic Frontier to a ruined Small World filled with faint Immortal Spiritual Energy.
• Chen Zhao found a lake of Immortal Spiritual Energy and retrieved the damaged seed at its bottom.
• Chen Zhao recognized the seed as the Chaos Green Lotus Seed and placed it in his Chaos Bitter Sea, where Chaos Qi began restoring its life.

Chen Zhao discovered that the Chaos Green Lotus Seed was recovering in his Chaos Bitter Sea and uncovered a ruined Immortal Spring Eye beneath the lake. After returning to the Intercepting Heaven Dao and entering seclusion for ten thousand years, he emerged at his peak as the Chaos Great Dao erupted and his imperial pressure swept across the universe.

• The Chaos Green Lotus Seed began recovering as Chaos Qi and Fortune Qi nourished it, forming a special connection with Chen Zhao.
• Chen Zhao drained the lake and uncovered a ruined Immortal Spring Eye, then stored away its remaining Immortal Dao Essence before the Small World collapsed into Chaos.
• Chen Zhao returned to Ziwei Star and entered seclusion in the Intercepting Heaven Dao to comprehend the Longevity Method.
• Over ten thousand years, Human Emperor faith spread across the universe while Chen Zhao remained secluded and the outside world speculated that he had entered his late years.
• Chen Zhao emerged from seclusion at his true peak, and the Chaos Great Dao erupted as his imperial pressure swept across the Nine Heavens.

After more than ten thousand years, Chen Zhao remained at the height of his First Life while observing the Chaos Green Lotus’s slow Nirvana and considering how to exploit the Forbidden Zone Supremes’ assumptions about his longevity. He visited the Two Human Emperors to examine their Faith Power-based return and left with several possible paths to future transformations.

• The Forbidden Zone Supremes awoke after sensing Chen Zhao’s aura and speculated that he had used an Undying Medicine or possessed an unusually long lifespan as a Chaos Body.
• Chen Zhao observed that the Chaos Green Lotus’s damaged seed had recovered within his Chaos Bitter Sea, though its Nirvana remained incomplete after ten thousand years.
• Chen Zhao considered using the Supremes’ mistaken belief that he had entered a Second Life to lure a Life Forbidden Zone into acting against him.
• Chen Zhao visited the Human Emperor Temple, where the Yin Human Emperor and Sun Saint Emperor praised his strength and longevity.
• Chen Zhao asked how the Two Human Emperors had fared since returning through Faith Power, and learned that they endured through incense offerings while Sentient Thoughts eroded their True Spirits.
• Chen Zhao recognized that the Two Human Emperors could protect his Dao and that Faith Power might provide another method of longevity, alongside the Chaos Green Lotus, an Undying Medicine, and Immortal Essence.

Chen Zhao discussed Undying Medicines, longevity, and the dangers of his future transformation with the Yin Human Emperor and the Sun Saint Emperor. After leaving the Human Emperor Temple, he toured the universe and arrived at a Life Star Region with two thriving Life Stars.

• The Yin Human Emperor explained that Undying Medicines varied in their ability to undergo Nirvana and suggested they might be related to immortals.
• Chen Zhao said he had concluded that all Undying Medicines came from fallen immortals, and the Human Emperors discussed the possibility of becoming immortal through Human World Transformation.
• The Yin Human Emperor and the Sun Saint Emperor offered to protect Chen Zhao during his Late-Life Transformation and warned him about the Undying Heavenly Emperor and the Life Forbidden Zones.
• The Human Emperors discussed using Faith Power to intervene against the Forbidden Zones, and the Yin Human Emperor identified the Sea of Reincarnation as a possible target.
• Chen Zhao left the Human Emperor Temple, summoned the Ziwei Cauldron, and traveled across the universe as the Chaos Sword transformed into the Human Emperor Sword.
• Chen Zhao crossed innumerable Star Rivers and reached another Life Star Region, where he saw two vigorous Life Stars.

Chen Zhao descended onto Ancient Star and explored the Kunlun Mountain Range, where he found the Ginseng Fruit Tree. After bringing the Undying Medicine into his Bitter Sea, he saw it nourish the Chaos Green Lotus Seed and considered how the changes might lead him toward a Sixth Secret Realm.

• Chen Zhao surveyed Ancient Star and Ying Huo Ancient Star, then descended through Ancient Star’s protective formations.
• Chen Zhao reached the Kunlun Mountain Range and recalled its history, the exiled Kunlun Remnant Tribe, and Emperor Lord’s conquest of the region.
• Chen Zhao deduced that surviving Ancient Heavenly Court forces held Emperor Lord’s Becoming Immortal Cauldron.
• Chen Zhao found the Ginseng Fruit Tree in the Kunlun Immortal Vein and brought it into his Bitter Sea.
• The Ginseng Fruit Tree resonated with Chen Zhao’s other Undying Medicines and sent Fortune Qi to the Chaos Green Lotus Seed, prompting Chen Zhao to consider a path toward creating heaven and earth and finding his Sixth Secret Realm.

Chen Zhao entered the Path to Immortality Land and discovered that an Ancient Coffin beneath its Immortal Pool was being nurtured by the valley’s life force. The Taiji Diagram’s Deity revealed that Daoist Heavenly Lord lay inside, undergoing transformation, but Chen Zhao sensed that his condition was precarious.

• Chen Zhao passed through the Path to Immortality Land’s killing array and reached its Immortal Pool, where he found an Ancient Coffin.
• Chen Zhao examined the pool and discovered that the land’s life essence flowed through blood-vessel-like webs to nurture an Immortal Fetus inside the coffin.
• Chen Zhao called out the hidden presence, and the Taiji Diagram appeared with its Deity, who greeted him as the Current Human Emperor.
• The Taiji Diagram’s Deity confirmed that Daoist Heavenly Lord was undergoing transformation in the coffin.
• Chen Zhao recognized that Daoist Heavenly Lord was caught between life and death and could fail at any moment.

Chen Zhao helped Daoist Heavenly Lord’s failing transformation by sending life-giving Immortal Liquid into his coffin, in exchange for the Heavenly Lord’s inherited Dao Scripture and transformation method. As Chen Zhao studied the scripture, he discovered its brewing and pill-refining arts and continued reading the method he most wanted to learn.

• The Taiji Diagram's Deity explained that Daoist Heavenly Lord’s transformation was faltering because the Path to Immortality Land was leaking essence, and asked Chen Zhao to help him.
• Chen Zhao agreed, accepted the Dao Tribulation Gold sheet containing Daoist Heavenly Lord’s scripture and transformation method, and sent Immortal Liquid into the Ancient Coffin to strengthen the Heavenly Lord’s life aura.
• Chen Zhao studied Daoist Heavenly Lord’s Dao Scripture and learned its teachings on nature, cultivation, and the principles of heaven and earth.
• Chen Zhao found the Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill Refining Method and the Saintly Spirit Brewing Method recorded on the sheet.
• Chen Zhao continued studying Daoist Heavenly Lord’s method of transformation, the secret art that had motivated him to help.

Chen Zhao studied the Dao Scripture Golden Book and identified several methods for defying death, including the Saintly Spirit Transformation Method and the Reincarnation Seal. He concluded that Daoist Heavenly Lord was using an established transformation method, while the Reincarnation Seal was a perilous path that only Duan De had successfully followed.

• Chen Zhao recognized the Saintly Spirit Transformation Method as Daoist Heavenly Lord's way of veiling the Heavenly Secrets and borrowing heaven and earth's fortune to nurture a new life.
• Chen Zhao speculated that Emperor Lord had learned and adapted Daoist Heavenly Lord's method, while the Feathered Emperor had used another version to become a stone-embryo Saintly Spirit.
• Chen Zhao discovered a formation-based transformation method attributed to Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and connected it to methods later used by Ye Fan and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• Chen Zhao wondered whether Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord remained partly alive, as Daoist Heavenly Lord lay within the Immortal Pool undergoing transformation.
• Chen Zhao identified the final method as the Reincarnation Seal, judged it nearly impossible, and suspected Daoist Heavenly Lord had later chosen it in hopes of returning through Reincarnation's Return.

Chen Zhao studied the Daoist Heavenly Lord’s transformation and learned the Number Secret, then returned to Ziwei after five thousand years with new insight into his own path. Back at the Intercepting Heaven Dao, he found a fragment of the Human-Shaped Undying Medicine among the materials gathered by his disciples.

• Chen Zhao discovered the Number Secret in the Dao Scripture Golden Book and learned that One Qi Transforms into Three Purities could create three temporary Dao bodies.
• The White Tiger Divine Medicine chose Chen Zhao, and he placed it in his Bitter Sea alongside his other Undying Medicines.
• Chen Zhao observed the Daoist Heavenly Lord’s transformation for five thousand years, gained insight into his own transformation, and added Immortal Liquid to the Ancient Coffin.
• Chen Zhao returned to Ziwei and resumed his work at the Intercepting Heaven Dao while his disciples searched for materials for the Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill.
• Chen Zhao found a crystalline fragment of the Human-Shaped Undying Medicine among the collected materials, adding to the branch he had taken from Carefree Heavenly Lord.

Chen Zhao discovered a faint remnant of Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord’s true spirit inside the Celestial Platform on the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star. He studied Dao patterns left by Emperor Lord’s previous incarnation that had been sustaining the spirit, leaving open the possibility of the Heavenly Lord’s return.

• Chen Zhao revived the nearly withered human-shaped undying medicine with immortal liquid and placed it in his Bitter Sea.
• Chen Zhao traveled to the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, which had been transformed from Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord’s head.
• Chen Zhao entered the subterranean world and found a vast Celestial Platform containing flame-shaped divine liquid with immortal vitality.
• Chen Zhao discovered prototype Dao patterns resembling Emperor Lord’s, which he suspected had been left by Emperor Lord’s previous incarnation, Primordial Heavenly Lord.
• Chen Zhao found a faint trace of Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord’s true spirit in the divine liquid and determined that the Dao patterns had been strengthening it.