Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan, Duan De, and Big Black Dog watched the campaign to pacify the Fallen Immortal Domain near its end while discussing their strength, the Immortal Severing Curse, and the search for Desolate Heavenly Emperor. Yang Emperor and two allies returned, but Emperor Lord and Duan De’s disciple were absent, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Ye Fan reflected on the Immortal Emperor’s role as the foundation of All Heavens and felt the gap between his own power and the Weird Immortal Emperor’s.
• Big Black Dog boasted of his Dog Immortal status while Duan De, now an Immortal King, and Ye Fan discussed the Immortal Severing Curse and whether Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord’s group could subdue Emperor Lord.
• Duan De said he planned to search the Sea of Realms for Desolate Heavenly Emperor after the battle, and Gu Tuo thanked Ye Fan and Duan De for helping pacify the Fallen Immortal Domain.
• Gu Tuo departed after Ye Fan explained that they had acted to protect All Heavens, while Gu Tuo privately lamented the Immortal Domain’s slow recovery.
• Yang Emperor and two companions returned without Emperor Lord, and Duan De worried that his disciple had not been subdued, though the curse’s persistence reassured him that the disciple was alive.

Li Yang cleansed and remade the Fallen Immortal Domain and Foreign Realm, then underwent his third transformation and drew closer to becoming an Immortal Emperor. He and the Heavenly Lords visited Earth to meet the Primitive Immortal Emperor, who predicted that Li Yang would eventually reach the End of the Road.

• Li Yang used his Quasi Immortal Emperor power to purge the Darkness Seeds from the Fallen Immortal Domain and Foreign Realm and restore both worlds.
• Ye Fan, Duan De, and the Black Emperor searched the Fallen Immortal Domain for treasures left by fallen Immortal Kings before departing with their gains.
• Li Yang underwent his third transformation in Da Luo Heaven, bringing his two Dao Fruits closer together and moving nearer to the Immortal Emperor realm.
• Li Yang invited Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord to visit the Primitive Immortal Emperor on Earth.
• The Primitive Immortal Emperor drew Li Yang and the Heavenly Lords into a mysterious space and said that Li Yang would eventually become an Immortal Emperor.

Primitive Immortal Emperor reunited with his true self and left All Heavens to fight, leaving Li Yang and the Heavenly Lords to prepare for the darkness beyond. Ye Fan then entered the Immortal King realm and returned to the Heavenly Court, where Duan De and Big Black Dog greeted him.

• Primitive Immortal Emperor told Li Yang, Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord, and Daoist Heavenly Lord that the Weird Race remained dormant and that he was returning to his true self to resume the war.
• Primitive Immortal Emperor departed All Heavens, and Li Yang and the Heavenly Lords decided to move Imperial Pass to the dam as a defensive line against the darkness beyond All Heavens.
• Ye Fan advanced into the Immortal King Tribulation and used its thunder to temper the Myriad Things Mother Qi Cauldron.
• Ye Fan nurtured the Human World Universe in return, strengthening its Great Dao, and then returned to the Heavenly Court.
• Duan De and Big Black Dog greeted Ye Fan, and Duan De congratulated him on becoming an Immortal King.

Ye Fan and the other Immortal Kings moved Imperial Pass to the dam to defend against darkness and prepare for conflict with the Four Outposts. On the Weird Plateau, a newly awakened Progenitor attacked, forcing Pollen Empress and Luo Tianxian to join forces against him while the remaining Immortal Emperors prepared to face the others.

• Black Emperor and Duan De saw Imperial Pass cross the Chaos Void toward the dam, and Ye Fan realized Yang Emperor and the others had moved it there.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord arrived at the dam, announced plans to establish a defensive formation, and explained that the Four Outposts were now enemies of All Heavens.
• The Immortal Kings took turns guarding Imperial Pass and training in the Sea of Realms as years passed, while Ye Yishui and Ye Xian had a child with a constitution formed from two constitutions.
• A Progenitor awakened on the Weird Plateau, learned that the Human Emperor had died with three Progenitors, and emerged to eliminate the remaining threats.
• Pollen Empress told Luo Tianxian she had regained some Sacrificial Dao power and agreed to join forces with her to intercept the Progenitor, leaving Meng Hai, Primitive Immortal Emperor, and Willow God to confront ten Immortal Emperors.

Huang realized that the Pollen Empress’s power had begun to revive through Luo Tianxian, who used it to confront the newly emerged Weird Race Progenitor. The battle left the Progenitor struggling against Luo Tianxian as the other Immortal Emperors fought the Weird Race’s forces.

• Huang sensed the Pollen Empress’s Sacrificial Dao power and understood that Luo Tianxian was wielding it.
• A new Weird Race Progenitor appeared and declared that Huang and his allies would fall.
• Luo Tianxian used the Pollen Empress’s power to reach the Sacrificial Dao level and attacked the Progenitor.
• Luo Tianxian and the Progenitor exchanged blows, and he recognized the Pollen Empress’s aura within her.
• The Progenitor vowed to destroy the Pollen Empress’s hope of revival, but Luo Tianxian’s fierce attack put him in a difficult situation.
• The Primitive Immortal Emperor, Willow God, and Meng Hai fought the Weird Immortal Emperors.

Two Weird Immortal Emperors broke away from the battle and began the Great Sacrifice ahead of schedule, tearing open the barrier above the Sea of Realms and sending All Heavens into chaos. As the two Immortal Emperors approached, Li Yang said he could only try to break through to the Immortal Emperor realm to defend All Heavens.

• Two Weird Immortal Emperors left the battle and headed for All Heavens to sacrifice Huang's homeland, while the Primitive Immortal Emperor and the Willow God were held back.
• Huang cut down a Progenitor who taunted him, then looked toward All Heavens and hoped Li Yang could break through.
• The two Weird Immortal Emperors tore open the barrier above the Sea of Realms, and ominous gray mist poured into All Heavens as the Great Sacrifice began.
• Emperor Lord, the Yang Emperor, Ye Fan, Duan De, and the other cultivators realized that the Great Sacrifice had started far earlier than expected.
• Li Yang told the kings at the Imperial Pass that two Immortal Emperors were approaching and that he would attempt to break through to the Immortal Emperor realm.

Li Yang chose to risk breaking through to the Immortal Emperor realm rather than stand by as the Great Sacrifice approached. As his two Dao Fruits collided and transformed, the Weird Immortal Emperors rushed to stop him, while the Sea of Realms erupted under his nearly imperial power.

• Li Yang declared that he would become an emperor and fight for all living beings, then stepped onto the Sea of Realms.
• Li Yang made his Double Dao Fruit collide and realized that fear had held him back from breaking through.
• The two Weird Immortal Emperors sensed Li Yang's attempt and hurried toward All Heavens to kill him before he became a new variable.
• The Quasi Immortal Emperors in the Four Outposts recognized Li Yang as an ancient survivor from before the Era of Emperor Fall, while Emperor Lord judged himself unready to attempt the breakthrough.
• Li Yang's breakthrough released a tremendous fluctuation that evaporated much of the Sea of Realms and reduced the Darkness Immortal Kings crossing it to ash.

Li Yang broke through to the Immortal Emperor realm and fought the two Weird Immortal Emperors Beyond the Worlds, holding them back from beginning the Great Sacrifice. All Heavens gained a reprieve, but its people worried about the Yang Emperor’s ongoing battle.

• Li Yang fused the two Great Dao Flames, became an Immortal Emperor, and dispersed the ominous gray mist across the Sea of Realms.
• Li Yang attacked the two Weird Immortal Emperors and fought them beyond the worlds, overpowering them despite having only just entered the realm.
• Li Yang burned away the incarnations the Weird Immortal Emperors sent back through time, then drew the pair deeper Beyond the Worlds to keep their battle from destroying All Heavens.
• The Quasi Immortal Emperors at the Four Outposts recognized that the Great Sacrifice would be difficult to begin while the two Great Sacrificers were occupied.
• Emperor Lord and the others on the side of All Heavens were relieved that Li Yang’s breakthrough had prevented the Great Sacrifice, but worried about his fight against two Immortal Emperors.

After the darkness temporarily retreated, the Immortal Kings prepared to grow stronger before it returned. Ye Fan, Beginningless Great Emperor, and Ruthless Great Emperor traveled upstream through time to seek Human Emperor, while Chen Zhao sensed their gaze and the Empress detected someone probing the River of Time.

• Ye Fan, Duan De, and the other survivors recognized their weakness after Yang Emperor stopped the two Immortal Emperors, and Ye Fan resolved to pursue the path to becoming a Quasi Immortal Emperor.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord urged the Immortal Kings to train in the Sea of Realms while some others guarded Imperial Pass.
• Ye Fan, Beginningless Great Emperor, and Ruthless Great Emperor traveled upstream through time, but they could not investigate the fog-shrouded years of Quasi Immortal Emperors or contact Human Emperor in the sealed Ancient Era.
• Chen Zhao discussed opening a new world with Numinous Treasure Heavenly Lord and Daoist Heavenly Lord, then sensed a gaze from later generations.
• Ye Fan and the other two separated along the River of Time, while the Empress sensed someone searching from upstream and approached that spacetime point.

Huang drank the wine containing the Great Daos of the Immortal Ancient Era and drew Crimson King’s attention as an anomaly across time. The Empress arrived from the future and drove back Crimson King’s Dharma Body, though his true body remained in the past and was preparing to act.

• Huang drank the wine from the pot, triggering an anomaly that alerted Crimson King across the River of Time.
• Crimson King crossed time to kill Huang, but the Empress appeared from the future to protect him.
• The Empress severed Crimson King’s tail and battered his Dharma Body with her Immortal Sword and immortal light.
• The woman explained that Crimson King’s true body remained in the past and would suffer grievous injuries from the clash.
• Crimson King roared in rage at the end of the Immortal Ancient Era and resolved to act personally.

Crimson King returned through the River of Time, but Without Beginning and two other future experts attacked him and drove him back to the Immortal Ancient Era. The three then hid Huang from the deductions of his enemies, leaving him uncertain about who they were and what had happened in the future.

• Crimson King charged back through the River of Time, only to be confronted by a woman and Without Beginning, who arrived wearing the Without Beginning Bell.
• Crimson King recognized the aura of Without End in Without Beginning and wondered if he was Without End’s reincarnation.
• A third future expert arrived atop a Great Cauldron, and the three attacked Crimson King together as Huang watched.
• Crimson King revealed his true body, but the attack tore him apart before he sacrificed his tail and escaped to the Immortal Ancient Era.
• The woman and the two men enveloped Huang in immortal light, removing him from his enemies’ deductions.

After returning from the River of Time, Ye Fan, Without Beginning, and the Empress prepared to pursue their own paths toward Breaking King to Become Emperor. Ye Fan traveled through All Heavens, witnessed Azure Emperor create a world, and ended in the pacified Foreign Realm before statues of two Immortal Kings.

• Beginningless Great Emperor, Without Beginning, and the Empress returned to the Human World Universe and set out to cultivate toward Breaking King to Become Emperor.
• Ye Fan visited Da Luo Heaven, where he found that many former princes and Emperor's Sons had reached the True Immortal realm, while Gu Tuo was the only new Immortal King among All Heavens.
• Ye Fan encountered Azure Emperor creating a Great World in the Chaos Void; Azure Emperor merged it into Da Luo Heaven and explained how the accumulated cultivation of his three lives had advanced his Dao.
• Ye Fan learned that Emperor Pan had moved his former homeland from the Immortal Domain into Da Luo Heaven along with his descendants.
• Ye Fan traveled through the pacified Foreign Realm and recognized two statues as the Immortal Kings once suppressed by Desolate Heavenly Emperor.

Ye Fan traveled through the Foreign Realm and All Heavens, using their Great Daos to strengthen his path to becoming a Quasi Immortal Emperor. Meanwhile, Duan De searched for the Desolate Heavenly Emperor but was drawn with the Black Emperor into a strange place after hearing a voice call him Cao Yusheng.

• Ye Fan surveyed the Foreign Realm and decided to travel through All Heavens, absorbing their varied Great Daos to temper his own path.
• Ye Fan crossed the Imperial Pass and sat within the Chaos formed by an Immortal Emperor’s Sword Light, where the Hundred-Character Scripture stirred memories of his choices for the Minor Immortal Domain.
• Duan De searched ancient ruins for the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, while the Black Emperor accused him of really hoping to find the Lunar Jade Rabbit.
• Huang shouted Cao Yusheng’s name across the River of Time, and Duan De and the Black Emperor heard the familiar call.
• Duan De and the Black Emperor vanished into a place filled with immortal qi and the power of time.

Duan De pierced the River of Time and briefly reunited with Huang, asking him to protect the Lunar Jade Rabbit before setting out for the Sea of Realms. Emperor Lord noticed Duan De and prepared to resume his harsh tempering, while Ye Fan joined him without knowing they were both being targeted.

• Duan De and the Black Emperor encountered Huang across the River of Time, and the Grave Keeper recognized that they were seeing figures from the future.
• Duan De explained that he remained himself despite being buried nine times, endured Heaven's lightning, and asked Huang to protect the Lunar Jade Rabbit.
• Duan De left for the Sea of Realms to grow stronger, and Emperor Lord sensed his arrival from the Soul River and looked forward to tempering his master again.
• Ye Fan met Duan De, heard about his reunion with Huang, and agreed to travel with him to the Sea of Realms.
• Emperor Lord saw Ye Fan alongside Duan De and decided to put them through tempering together.

Ye Fan and Duan De ventured into the Sea of Realms, where four powerful Immortal Kings ambushed them. Duan De fled to find reinforcements, leaving Ye Fan to face the attackers alone.

• Ye Fan explained the Sea of Realms’ dangers to Duan De, and the two walked across its waves as they traveled deeper into the treacherous sea.
• Four Immortal Kings waited on a solitary island, and a Darkness Being wielding a saber forged from a Great Realm attacked Ye Fan and Duan De.
• Ye Fan recognized that Emperor Lord had likely tracked them through the Immortal Severing Curse on Duan De.
• Ye Fan fought the saber-wielding Supreme Giant, while two other attackers joined the battle against him and a fourth confronted Duan De.
• Duan De sensed his opponent’s strength, fled to find reinforcements, and left Ye Fan free to fight without worrying about protecting him.

Ye Fan defeated two Immortal Kings and confronted a third amid a battle that unexpectedly linked different eras. He disappeared into the Ancient Era of Chaos alongside the Darkness Immortal King, while Emperor Lord recognized the Human Emperor in a vision of the past.

• Ye Fan overwhelmed three Immortal Kings, refined one in the Myriad Things Mother Qi Cauldron, and drove another to burn his Great Dao in a desperate attack.
• Ye Fan absorbed the attacking Immortal King's laws and sent his True Spirit and primordial spirit into the cauldron to be refined.
• Ye Fan faced the last Immortal King, who transformed into a colossal beast as the River of Time revealed scenes from the Ancient Era of Chaos and the Human Emperor.
• Ye Fan realized that the battle had connected three battlefields across ancient and modern times, then disappeared with the Darkness Immortal King into the past.
• Emperor Lord recognized the Human Emperor in the time scene and recalled how the Human Emperor had vanished after fighting an Immortal King in the Sea of Realms.

Duan De was hunted down and apparently killed by a powerful man serving Heavenly Devil Lord, but he survived through his life-preserving methods. Emperor Pan identified the attacker as God Emperor, leaving the group to wonder whether God Emperor had truly embraced darkness or was secretly working against it.

• A heroic-looking man pursued Duan De and said Emperor Lord had ordered his execution, then struck him into the Sea of Realms and reduced him to Blood Mist.
• The attacker sensed someone approaching and vanished, leaving Emperor Pan, Taiyin Saint Emperor, and Sun Saint Emperor to find the aftermath.
• Duan De reappeared and thanked the three for helping him evade the attacker, then said the man had called him Nether Lord.
• The group considered whether Gu Wushuang had been the attacker, but Duan De ruled that out because the man lacked a Holy Body's aura.
• Emperor Pan recognized the attacker as God Emperor, and the group speculated that he might be an undercover agent within the darkness.

Emperor Lord tested God Emperor and suspected that he was an Undercover Agent, then ordered Gu Wushuang to return to the Human World Universe as one. Meanwhile, Ye Fan arrived in the Ancient Era of Chaos and confronted An Lan alongside the Human Emperor, leaving Ye Fan puzzled by how closely An Lan’s boast resembled the Human Emperor’s famous words.

• Duan De and his companions returned to the isolated island but found Ye Fan gone, and Emperor Pan deduced that Ye Fan was safe.
• Emperor Lord questioned God Emperor about Nether Lord’s survival and suspected that God Emperor had deliberately held back.
• Emperor Lord told Gu Wushuang to return to the Human World Universe as an Undercover Agent, and Gu Wushuang agreed.
• Ye Fan arrived in the Ancient Era of Chaos, where An Lan was attempting to cross Heavenly Abyss, and joined the Human Emperor in mocking him.
• An Lan boasted of his invincibility, and Ye Fan wondered whether the Human Emperor or An Lan had originated the similar famous saying.

Ye Fan arrived above Imperial Pass and watched the Human Emperor and Huang battle An Lan, while investigating the mysterious drop of blood within Huang. As the blood’s power faded and the era began rejecting him, Ye Fan prepared to leave.

• Ye Fan recognized a faint Immortal Emperor aura in the drop of blood within Huang and wondered about its origin.
• Ye Fan tested An Lan by riding his cauldron toward him, then withdrew when he realized he could not kill An Lan without disrupting time and space.
• Ye Fan watched the Human Emperor battle An Lan, break his ancient spear, and wound him, and wondered why the Human Emperor could withstand the karma of time.
• Huang drew on the drop of blood’s power and used the He Transforms Freedom Great Method to manifest other figures, including the Human Emperor, another Desolate Heavenly Emperor, and the Yang Emperor.
• An Lan was driven to desperation and called for Yu Tuo to save him.
• As the drop of blood’s power faded and time and space began rejecting him, Ye Fan decided that he had to leave.

Ye Fan left the time rift, while Chen Zhao pondered the transformed Da Luo Heaven and the distant era he was trapped observing. He eventually encountered Chen Dong, whose resemblance to Huang and Ye Fan suggested a connection to Ashes Emperor, but contemplating the possibility brought ominousness upon him.

• Ye Fan tried to speak with the Human Emperor about Emperor Lord, but space-time blocked his words, so he departed through a rift on the Great Cauldron.
• Chen Zhao saw a glimpse of Da Luo Heaven transformed by the Immortal Domain and sensed that darkness had returned to the Sea of Realms.
• In an unknown space-time, Chen Zhao sensed that Li Yang had become an Immortal Emperor and concluded that the path of Sacrificial Dao had not yet been created.
• Chen Zhao continued searching for Ashes Emperor and his own path of End of the Road sublimation while observing the changes of countless Great Universes.
• Chen Zhao saw a man named Chen Dong who resembled Huang and Ye Fan, and wondered whether he was Ashes Emperor.
• When Chen Zhao considered a connection between Chen Dong and Ashes Emperor, ominousness surrounded him before receding after he stopped thinking about it.