Chapter Summaries

Little Pine, Emperor Pan, Azure Emperor, and Green Gold Heavenly Emperor successively underwent tribulations, bringing several new Great Emperors and Immortal Kings into the Human World Universe. Duan De stayed in the Heavenly Court and watched the emergence of these powerful figures, still short of the Immortal King realm himself.

• Little Pine told Black Emperor and Duan De that he could no longer suppress his breakthrough and was about to undergo the Great Emperor Tribulation.
• Duan De remained in the Heavenly Court as Emperor Pan underwent an Immortal King Tribulation, and Black Emperor identified him as the Human Emperor’s disciple transformed from the Peach of Immortality Undying Elixir.
• After Emperor Pan passed his tribulation, Azure Emperor began an Immortal King Tribulation in the Chaos Void.
• Black Emperor predicted that Green Gold Heavenly Emperor would follow Azure Emperor, and Green Gold Heavenly Emperor soon underwent his own tribulation.
• Black Emperor asked Duan De when he would become an Immortal King, and Duan De admitted that he still had a long way to go.

Sun Saint Emperor survived his Immortal King Tribulation, and Ye Fan awakened to find that several Immortal Kings had emerged in the Human World Universe. At a gathering in the Heavenly Court, Duan De spoke of his vanished friends while Ye Fan revealed he was studying the Apex of Immortals.

• Sun Saint Emperor endured a perilous Immortal King Tribulation and successfully entered the Immortal King Realm.
• Taiyin Saint Emperor, Great Peng Emperor, and Xue Yueqing discussed the new Immortal Kings and Xue Yueqing’s progress toward her own tribulation.
• Ye Fan awakened, learned that several Immortal Kings had appeared, and returned to the Heavenly Court.
• Ye Fan reunited with Duan De, who had become a Mortal World Immortal but still suffered from the Immortal Severing Curse.
• At the Heavenly Court gathering, Duan De mourned his vanished friends and identified Desolate Heavenly Emperor as his good brother.
• Ye Fan told Duan De that he was in his Seventh Life and studying the Apex of Immortals, a realm said to fight and kill Immortal Kings.

Ye Fan and Duan De discussed the Apex of Immortals and the identity of Emperor Lord before their gathering ended. Later, the Black Emperor brought Ye Yishui to Without Beginning, while the Five-Colored Divine Phoenix emerged and two young prodigies began a rivalry that continued through their rebirths as cultivators.

• Duan De explained that only the Human Emperor had reached the Apex of Immortals, and Ye Fan resolved to try reaching it.
• Ye Fan asked whether Emperor Lord was Duan De's disciple and questioned whether Duan De had doubted Emperor Lord's identity.
• A stone egg cracked open, and with Ye Fan's permission, the Black Emperor brought Ye Yishui to Without Beginning, who agreed to teach him.
• The Five-Colored Divine Phoenix emerged and called the Great Emperor Xu Kun his father, while Xu Kun urged him to follow his own path.
• The Son of an Immortal King and the Disciple of an Immortal King fought from the King realm to Quasi-Emperor, but an ancient cultivator proved the Dao before their duel ended.
• Rather than seal themselves away, the two chose Self-Severance and began cultivating anew, with Without Beginning and the Great Emperor Xu Kun sending them to other realms for training.

Ye Fan reunited with Duan De at the Nine Dragons Coffin Pull and learned that its origins remained unknown. Beyond the Worlds, Huang and the others sensed the Weird Race’s return, as several more Progenitors awakened on the Weird Plateau and vowed to eliminate the variables.

• Ye Yishui and another prodigy destroyed the Great Emperor’s Myriad Daos and became Emperors, while the Black Emperor watched over Ye Yishui’s tribulation.
• Ye Fan searched the universe for the Nine Dragons Coffin Pull, which appeared among the stars, and met Duan De beside it.
• Ye Fan and Duan De entered the Ancient Coffin and opened the Small Coffin, revealing a vast world; Duan De said the Nine Dragons Coffin Pull had once belonged to Huang.
• Beyond the Worlds, Huang, the Primitive Immortal Emperor, and Chen Zhao discussed the Weird Race’s renewed awakening and sensed that the Weird Plateau had produced new Immortal Emperors.
• Several Weird Progenitors awakened on the Weird Plateau, and one declared that they would eliminate the variables and restore the age to its proper course.

The Weird Progenitors awakened and prepared to restore the Great Era to its former course by destroying the anomaly, Huang. Huang sensed their attention and warned his allies that there was not enough time to prepare, so they resolved to fight as danger approached.

• The Weird Progenitors discussed the Great Era's deviation and concluded that Huang, whose avatar had fought three of them for countless years, was an anomaly they had to eradicate.
• The Weird Progenitors announced that they would distribute Primitive Substance to create more Weird Immortal Emperors, cheering the Weird Race.
• Huang sensed three Progenitors watching him from the Weird Plateau and told his comrades that the situation was not optimistic and there was not enough time to grow stronger.
• Chen Zhao called for them to fight, and the Primitive Immortal Emperor agreed that they had long since set life and death aside.
• All worlds trembled as an Eerie and Ominous Aura approached, and the Immortal Emperors sensed that a new turmoil had begun.

Chen Zhao and the allied Immortal Emperors fought ten newly emerged Weird Immortal Emperors, whose rapid resurrection was tied to the Weird Plateau. As the battle turned against the Weird Race’s resurrection advantage, the Three Great Progenitors arrived and declared that they would end the struggle.

• A Weird Immortal Emperor descended, but Chen Zhao drove him back with the Human Emperor Banner and forced him to return to the Weird Plateau by ending his own life.
• Ten Weird Immortal Emperors appeared and attacked Chen Zhao and the Primitive Immortal Emperor, while Willow God, Luo Tianxian, and Meng Hai joined the battle.
• Chen Zhao and his allies repeatedly killed the Weird Immortal Emperors, but the Plateau resurrected them until their returns began to slow.
• Chen Zhao suppressed the Weird Immortal Emperors with the Human Emperor Banner and noticed that they no longer resurrected immediately after returning to the Plateau.
• The Three Great Progenitors emerged and announced that they would bring the battle to an end.

The Three Great Progenitors joined the Weird Immortal Emperors and revealed that the Weird Race’s Great Sacrifice sought traces of a dead Being Above Sacrificial Dao. Huang reunited with his incarnation to face the Six Great Progenitors as they launched an attack intended to kill every Immortal Emperor and use them as offerings.

• The Three Great Progenitors appeared with the Weird Immortal Emperors and confronted Chen Zhao and the others.
• A Progenitor speculated that Chen Zhao had wielded a relic left by a Being Above Sacrificial Dao.
• A Weird Progenitor revealed that the being had died and that the Weird Race’s Great Sacrifice sought its traces to help the Progenitors advance further.
• Huang's incarnation returned and merged with his true body, bringing Huang face-to-face with the Six Great Progenitors.
• The Six Great Progenitors attacked alongside the ten Immortal Emperors, intending to slaughter the Immortal Emperors across the worlds and offer them in a Great Sacrifice.

Huang faced the Six Great Progenitors alone while Chen Zhao awakened the Bronze Gate’s power and rose to Sacrificial Dao strength. Chen Zhao drove three Progenitors into retreat and killed one, but his borrowed power was temporary.

• Huang blocked the Six Great Progenitors and sent his followers away to give them a chance to survive.
• The Progenitors split up, with three attacking Chen Zhao to eliminate the threat he posed.
• Chen Zhao’s power awakened, appearing as a golden sun across countless universes and alarming Emperor Lord, Li Yang, and Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord.
• Chen Zhao borrowed the Bronze Gate’s power, reached a higher level, and forced the three Progenitors into the Sacrificial Sea and then the River of Time.
• Chen Zhao killed one of the three Progenitors, while the remaining two tried to outlast his temporary power.

Chen Zhao slew a Weird Progenitor with power that prevented the Plateau from reviving him, terrifying the remaining Progenitors. Huang pressed his attack on the three Great Progenitors while Chen Zhao faced the two remaining Progenitors above the Sacrificial Sea.

• The Human Emperor killed a Weird Progenitor, and the Primitive Immortal Emperor realized the Plateau had not revived him.
• The Primitive Immortal Emperor taunted the Weird Immortal Emperor, who recalled a legend of three Progenitors eternally silenced in the distant past.
• Huang noticed the three Great Progenitors tremble with fear and charged at them with his sword.
• The remaining two Great Progenitors questioned whether other Beings Above Sacrificial Dao existed as Chen Zhao's radiance swept toward them.
• Chen Zhao confronted the two Progenitors, who retreated and warned that they would erase him from ancient history when his power ran out.

Chen Zhao killed two Weird Progenitors, then attacked the Plateau and confronted its newly awakened consciousness. The Plateau revealed that an unknown force had obscured it since their previous encounter, and it prepared to attack Chen Zhao to test whether another Being Above Sacrificial Dao existed.

• Chen Zhao killed one Weird Progenitor with golden flames and immortal power, then pursued and killed the other as he fled across the Silent Sea.
• Chen Zhao attacked the Plateau, burning away its ominous aura, but it healed and returned to its former state.
• The mist hid the Plateau from observers, while Huang suspected the Plateau itself was alive and had a consciousness.
• The Plateau Consciousness told Chen Zhao that an inexplicable force had obscured it after it let him leave, and that it had awakened only moments ago.
• The Plateau Consciousness questioned Chen Zhao about the door within his body and said it intended to kill him to see whether another Being Above Sacrificial Dao would appear.

Chen Zhao controlled the Bronze Gate’s phantom and struck the Plateau, devastating it before its consciousness recovered and fell back into slumber. The Human Emperor vanished in the aftermath, leaving Huang and the others uncertain of his whereabouts as Huang suspected the Plateau had developed consciousness.

• The Plateau Consciousness awakened and tried to seize Chen Zhao as an opportunity to become a true living being.
• Chen Zhao controlled the Bronze Gate’s phantom, which collided with the Plateau’s manifestation of ominous power and reduced the Plateau and its weird beings to ruin.
• The Plateau healed despite its severe wounds, and its consciousness declared that the variable had vanished before falling asleep again.
• Huang could no longer sense the Human Emperor, while the Three Great Progenitors continued fighting him in the River of Time.
• Primitive Immortal Emperor and Willow God wondered where the Human Emperor had gone and what the gate had been.
• Huang returned in his true body, speculated that the Human Emperor had gone to an unknown time and space, and warned that the Plateau might possess consciousness.

After learning that the Plateau had developed consciousness, Huang abandoned plans to attack it and prepared to hold back the Weird Race while seeking a breakthrough. Meanwhile, the Sword Light’s flaw let Darkness Immortal Kings invade All Heavens, whose defenders prepared to fight back.

• Huang and the other Immortal Emperors concluded that the Plateau had consciousness but was not yet a true living being, making an assault on it too dangerous.
• Huang said his avatar would hold back the Three Great Progenitors while his true body sought to break through to Above Sacrificial Dao, and he urged the others to strengthen themselves.
• The Primitive Immortal Emperor sensed that All Heavens’ seal had changed, and Huang said the realm needed the tempering of battle.
• Darkness Beings exploited a flaw in the Sword Light to enter Boundary Sea Heavens, while Weird Quasi Immortal Emperors at the Four Outposts discussed the opening.
• At Da Luo Heaven, Emperor Lord and the other Quasi Immortal Emperors learned Darkness Immortal Kings could cross the Sword Light and discussed fighting the Four Outposts.
• Emperor Lord returned to the Foreign Realm, where its people were disappointed that the arriving reinforcements included only an Immortal King.

After arriving in an ancient era, Chen Zhao watched its events as an unseen observer and recognized Ye Fan as the person he had been waiting for. Ye Fan reached the Apex of Immortals through relentless battles with Darkness Beings and entered the Immortal King battlefield, where a Foreign Realm Immortal King attacked him.

• Chen Zhao arrived in a strange era after his collision with the Plateau and found that he could observe its time and space but could not interfere.
• Chen Zhao learned the secrets of the era and recognized Ye Fan, whose features reminded him of Huang and Ye.
• Ye Fan lived through his Ninth Life, forged the Nine-Colored Immortal Cauldron, and fought Darkness Beings as he sought a breakthrough.
• Ye Fan merged his Ninth Life Dao Fruit during the battles and reached the Apex of Immortals without becoming an Immortal King.
• Ye Fan appeared on the Emperor Pass Battlefield, and a Foreign Realm Immortal King struck at him while the Taiyin Saint Emperor stood ready to intervene.

Ye Fan revealed that he had reached the Apex of Immortals and fought an Immortal King without becoming one, driving back the Foreign Realm’s attackers. After learning that Yang Emperor and two allies had begun confronting Emperor Lord, Ye Fan sensed a Quasi Immortal Emperor’s aura erupting from the Foreign Realm.

• Ye Fan shattered an Immortal King’s palm and fought him evenly, revealing strength Taiyin Saint Emperor identified as the Apex of Immortals.
• The Foreign Realm’s Immortal Kings attacked Ye Fan together, but the Taiyin and Taiyang Saint Emperors and other allies moved to support him.
• Ye Fan wounded the Immortal King he had been fighting, and the Foreign Realm’s Immortal Kings withdrew.
• Ye Fan confirmed to Taiyin Saint Emperor that he had reached the Apex of Immortals and could contend with ordinary Immortal Kings.
• Taiyin Saint Emperor told Ye Fan that Yang Emperor, Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, and Daoist Heavenly Lord planned to defeat Emperor Lord and confront the darkness of the Sea of Realms.
• Ye Fan sensed a Quasi Immortal Emperor’s aura erupting from the Foreign Realm and realized that Yang Emperor and the others had begun their operation.

The Foreign Realm learned that the Human World Universe was launching a war to sweep away the darkness, and its Immortal Kings chose to defend their homeland while others fled. The fleeing Darkness and Fallen Immortal Kings reached the Sea of Realms embankment, where Human World Universe Immortal Kings were waiting to ambush them.

• The World Tree delivered an imperial decree announcing that Heavenly Devil Lord was fighting three Quasi Immortal Emperors and that the Two Realms War had begun anew.
• The Foreign Realm’s Immortal Kings rejected calls to flee to the Sea of Realms and resolved to fight for their homeland, while Darkness Immortal Kings and Fallen Immortal Kings chose to leave.
• The Darkness Immortal Kings and Fallen Immortal Kings crossed the Chaos Void and reached the embankment leading to the Sea of Realms.
• Fu Xi, Nüwa, Emperor Pan, Beginningless Great Emperor, Great Emperor Xu Kun, Azure Emperor, Green Gold Heavenly Emperor, and Tea Heavenly Emperor confronted the arrivals at the embankment.
• Without Beginning taunted the Darkness Immortal Kings, who angrily challenged the Human World Universe’s forces.

Without Beginning, Dish Chicken, Fu Xi, and the others wiped out the Darkness Immortal Kings on the embankment and prepared to guard against a future invasion. Meanwhile, Emperor Lord and his allies staged a convincing battle in the Sea of Realms, drawing two Weird Quasi Immortal Emperors into a trap.

• Without Beginning killed a Darkness Immortal King by shattering and suppressing his primordial spirit, while Dish Chicken slew another with the Nine-Colored Heaven Blade.
• Fu Xi used the Eight Trigrams Diagram to block fleeing Darkness Immortal Kings, and the group killed them all.
• Fu Xi and Without Beginning agreed to leave guardians at the embankment while the others returned to aid the Human World Universe.
• Emperor Lord, Yang Emperor, Li Yang, and their allies fought across the Sea of Realms, with Emperor Lord acting as though he was losing to three opponents.
• The Weird Four Outposts noticed the battle and sent two Weird Quasi Immortal Emperors to help the Heavenly Devil.
• Li Yang, Emperor Lord, the Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, and the Daoist Heavenly Lord recognized the newcomers and planned to trap and kill them.

Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, Daoist Heavenly Lord, and Li Yang fought the Four Outposts’ Weird Quasi Immortal Emperors, with the newcomers’ strength alarming their enemies. After three more Quasi Immortal Emperors joined the battle, Li Yang and Emperor Lord secretly agreed to lure them all into a trap and kill them.

• Two Weird Quasi Immortal Emperors arrived, and Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord trapped one in the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord’s sword formation pierced the trapped Quasi Immortal Emperor’s armor as he tried to break free.
• Li Yang fought Emperor Lord while Daoist Heavenly Lord used the Taiji Diagram to restrain another Quasi Immortal Emperor.
• The Four Outposts’ leaders decided to kill Li Yang and the others, then sent three more Quasi Immortal Emperors into the battle.
• Li Yang and Emperor Lord exchanged a glance and agreed to lure all the Weird Quasi Immortal Emperors into a trap.

Li Yang and the Heavenly Lords defeated the Four Outposts’ Quasi Immortal Emperors, while Emperor Lord escaped after being wounded by Li Yang. In the Soul River, Emperor Lord encountered the long-missing God Emperor and wondered whether he was an undercover agent or had joined the darkness.

• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord used the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation to destroy a Quasi Immortal Emperor’s body and imprison his primordial spirit.
• Daoist Heavenly Lord defeated another Quasi Immortal Emperor, while Li Yang battered three opponents until they fled in different directions.
• Li Yang captured one fleeing Quasi Immortal Emperor in the Ancient Pagoda and struck Emperor Lord with a full-force attack that wounded him.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord finished off the remaining weakened Quasi Immortal Emperor, but the three failed to find Emperor Lord after pursuing him.
• Emperor Lord returned to the Soul River as an undercover agent and encountered the long-missing God Emperor, whose allegiance he could not determine.

God Emperor reflected on the Four Outposts and the recent battle, while Li Yang and the Heavenly Lords planned how to purge the Foreign Realm. As the final battle began, Without Beginning arrived in the Foreign Realm and the Without End Bell reacted, though its attempted fusion with the Without Beginning Bell had long stalled.

• God Emperor remained undercover in the Soul River and learned that Emperor Lord considered resistance against the darkness futile, while Emperor Lord resolved to watch him more closely.
• In the Sea of Realms, Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, Daoist Heavenly Lord, and Li Yang discussed the Four Outposts’ losses and concluded their Quasi Immortal Emperors were likely weaker than Dao Ancestors.
• Li Yang decided that the Human World forces would purge the Foreign Realm’s powerful beings and clans stained with Human World blood, then use Dao Fire to cleanse the survivors’ hearts.
• Li Yang assigned the Foreign Realm’s two objects of origin to the dark side of an Immortal Emperor on Earth.
• Without Beginning and his companions split into groups and crossed the Chaos Void to attack the Foreign Realm and the Fallen Immortal Domain.
• When Without Beginning arrived in the Foreign Realm, the Without End Bell rose from his body, reacting to the land despite his failed attempts to fuse it with the Without Beginning Bell.

Without Beginning fused the Without End Bell into his own bell and killed an Immortal King in the Foreign Realm, while Dish Chicken confronted the last Fallen Immortal Kings. A Weird Immortal Emperor’s plan to destroy the All Heavens was thwarted by a dormant Immortal Emperor on Earth, whom Ye Fan recognized.

• The Without End Bell rang three times over the Foreign Realm, then merged into the Without Beginning Bell.
• Without Beginning crushed an Immortal King’s artifact, killed him, and sealed his primordial spirit inside the bell.
• Dish Chicken led his group through the Fallen Immortal Domain and prepared to kill the remaining Fallen Immortal Kings at the central divine hall.
• A hazy figure declared that Heavenly Devil had failed and threatened to destroy the All Heavens.
• A dormant Immortal Emperor on Earth struck down the Weird Immortal Emperor’s backup plan and vanished.
• Ye Fan recognized the mysterious Immortal Emperor as the one he had met on Earth.