Chapter Summaries

Xu Yue completed the Heaven Sealing Platform, joined the Investiture of the Gods with the human path, and became the ruler of heaven and earth. He then enfeoffed allies and other factions, leaving the Real World protected and its people greatly empowered.

• Xu Yue completed the Heaven Sealing Platform, linking the Nine Heavens with the Real World and strengthening the world's defenses through the human path.
• Xu Yue merged with the incarnation of the Great Dao and reached perfected Creation within the Real World, unsettling the Demon Buddha even as he continued to support him.
• Xu Yue projected himself across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds and enfeoffed Huang Tai'er, Meng Qi, Gao Lan, Qi Zhengyan, Lu Zhiping, and Su Wuming as the Five Emperors of the five directions.
• The divine offices strengthened their recipients, helping Meng Qi gain Creation-level strength within the Real World and prompting Qi Zhengyan, Lu Zhiping, and Su Wuming to break through.
• Xu Yue granted offices to the demon race, Nezha, the Howling Celestial Dog, and Yuan Hong, causing humanity and its allies to surge in power.

Junior Master Luo reached Celestial Immortal in the Three Kingdoms world and prepared to ascend after glimpsing Xu Yue’s rise as Human Sovereign. Meanwhile, the Demon Lord, seeking revenge on Xu Yue, went to the Endless Abyss Sea to hasten the Final Tribulation.

• Junior Master Luo surpassed Yu Ji and Zuo Ci, became the world’s strongest expert, and continued exploring a way to leave the isolated world.
• Phantoms of the Heaven Sealing Platform, the Nine Heavens, and the Real World appeared, revealing a path to the immortal realm and showing Xu Yue as ruler of Heaven and Earth.
• Inspired by Xu Yue’s authority, Junior Master Luo ordered his followers to build an Immortal Ascension Platform so they could ascend.
• After Great Shang subdued the universe, the Demon Lord reconsidered direct confrontation and decided to use schemes to bring about the Final Tribulation sooner.
• The Demon Lord secretly traveled to the Endless Abyss Sea, intending to cause trouble for Xu Yue despite his damaged Supreme Demonic Body.

The Demon Lord broke the seal on the Nine Nethers, but Xu Yue used the Great Shang imperial palace and human fortune to confine the eruption and suppress its exit. As the Final Tribulation began and other powers watched for opportunities, Xu Yue questioned Golden Emperor’s motives for giving him the Green Ping Sword and the Eastern Emperor’s Flesh and Blood.

• Nine Spirits Yuan Sheng appeared at the Nine Nethers entrance, and the Demon Lord wondered whether Azure Emperor was secretly present.
• The Demon Lord opened the Nine Nether Rift and vowed to bury the Real World in revenge for the destruction of his demonic body.
• Xu Yue moved the Great Shang imperial palace above the Endless Abyss Sea and suppressed the Nine Nethers’ eruption, prompting people across the heavens to pray for the Human Sovereign.
• Burning Lamp questioned how quickly the Demon Lord’s demonic body had recovered, while Maitreya urged him to help restore the Earthly Buddha Kingdom; Burning Lamp refused to act yet.
• Xu Yue examined the Green Ping Sword and the Eastern Emperor’s Flesh and Blood, wondered why Golden Emperor had allowed him to obtain them, and considered inviting the Demon Lord as a potential ally.

Meng Qi searched the shattered battlefield of Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Lingbao, where Daoist Zhunti approached him and offered a suspicious mantra. After deciding to seek Azure Emperor’s help, Meng Qi found a bloodied warning on Erlang’s broken weapon.

• Meng Qi went to Qing Wei Heaven to investigate Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Lingbao’s whereabouts, with Big Green Root and Howling Celestial Dog accompanying him.
• Daoist Zhunti followed Meng Qi to the ruined battlefield and concluded that Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Lingbao had arranged a setup.
• Zhunti gave Meng Qi four Sanskrit characters that would let him sense Meng Qi, and Meng Qi sealed them after suspecting they could expose his thoughts.
• Meng Qi decided to seek Azure Emperor’s support and headed toward the Fusang Ancient Tree to leave him a message.
• Meng Qi found Erlang’s broken Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd bearing the blood-written warning, “Beware the Azure Emperor!”

Meng Qi investigated Yang Jian’s apparent defeat and sought help from Dao De, while Xu Yue considered Laojun’s response to the shifting situation. The Great Sage Equal to Heaven emerged and revealed that he could not attack Xu Yue directly, leaving Meng Qi to suspect Xu Yue had influenced the Azure Emperor’s awakening.

• Meng Qi examined Yang Jian’s broken halberd and blood, concluding Yang Jian was alive but impossible to locate.
• Meng Qi tried to reach Dao De, but found a message telling him not to come; Laojun then sent the Great Sage Equal to Heaven from his pill furnace.
• Xu Yue watched the Nine Nether Rift and assessed Laojun’s moves as the conflict’s overall trend began to fracture.
• The Great Sage Equal to Heaven reunited with the Golden Cudgel and Sha Wujing, then said he could not personally kill Xu Yue because he owed him a favor.
• The Great Sage said Xu Yue had awakened the Azure Emperor before Meng Qi did, strengthening Meng Qi’s suspicion that Xu Yue had interfered with the Azure Emperor.

Meng Qi and Monkey sought Bodhi Ancient Buddha’s aid in investigating the Nine Nethers, where Yang Jian had vanished and strange black blood had appeared. They entered the Nine Nethers with Bodhi’s support and met a hidden ally who pointed them toward the black blood’s traces in Yellow Springs.

• Meng Qi connected Yang Jian’s disappearance and the strange black blood to the Nine Nethers and suspected Demon Buddha’s schemes.
• Monkey told Meng Qi that Laojun had advised them to seek help from the master of the four Sanskrit characters.
• Bodhi Ancient Buddha agreed to support the investigation and promised to intervene if an Other Shore appeared.
• Meng Qi and Monkey entered the Nine Nethers through a small crack, where Meng Qi gained temporary Creation-level strength.
• A Pseudo-Other Shore ally revealed that the black blood had appeared in Yellow Springs before someone erased its traces.

Xu Yue reflected on his hidden plans in the Nine Nethers and turned his attention to the Reincarnators, who had ascended with their world into the Real World. Junior Master Luo realized how small his strength was in the Immortal Realm, while the Reincarnators began to suspect they had been brought into a dangerous situation.

• Xu Yue considered how the Three Pseudo-Other Shores around Meng Qi, along with Bodhi Academy, Laojun, and the Golden Emperor, had disrupted the earlier alliance and bought him time.
• Xu Yue decided the Reincarnators were easy to shape and saw their survival as an opportunity to consolidate them.
• The Reincarnators used Xu Yue's mark and the Immortal Ascension Platform, with help from Junior Master Luo, Yu Ji, and Zuo Ci, to merge their world into the Real World.
• Junior Master Luo attended a banquet on Three Xiāo Island and felt Primordial Fairy's power suppress his cultivation, prompting him to reconsider his standing among immortals.
• Junior Master Luo believed that further cultivation could let him rival seniors like the Falling Cherry Divine Axe, while the generals and strategists around him worried about why they had landed in the Real World.

Meng Qi and the others traced the black blood to the Origin of Life and Death, a Place of Near Dao, and found True Martial at its core, being cleansed and contaminated by the blood. They left without learning the blood’s source, while realizing its unknown owner could threaten even the strongest among them.

• Black Heavenly Emperor explained that the black blood originated in the Origin of Life and Death, and the group used Yellow Springs to open a way inside.
• Meng Qi perceived the Great Dao of life and death and gained insights that brought him close to the peak of the Legendary realm.
• Yellow Springs sensed an ominous change in the Origin and led Meng Qi, Black Heavenly Emperor, Fengdu, and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven deeper inside.
• The group found True Martial in a state between life and death, with black blood dripping from him and cycling back into his body.
• Fengdu and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven recognized that the black blood stripped away the Place of Near Dao’s Great Dao traces and could contaminate even those at the pinnacle of Creation.
• Black Heavenly Emperor wondered whether the blood was residue left by Dao Venerate, and the group guarded against the unknown being behind it.

The Azure Emperor revealed that he had hidden in the Origin of Life and Death and sought an agreement that the powers behind Meng Qi and the others would not obstruct his path to the Other Shore. He then used Yellow Springs to awaken True Martial, whose transformation into a monster drove Meng Qi and the others to flee.

• The Azure Emperor appeared before Meng Qi, Fengdu, Monkey, and the others, explained his proposed deal, and assured them that Yang Jian was safe in the depths of the Sea of Blood.
• Meng Qi and the others prepared to leave, but the Azure Emperor declared that Yellow Springs was excluded from his promise because True Martial had left a contingency on him.
• Yellow Springs approached True Martial to awaken him, but True Martial's black blood enveloped and absorbed him.
• True Martial awakened with a blackish-purple gleam and spoke chillingly about Yellow Springs being delicious.
• Meng Qi and the others fled the Origin of Life and Death, suspecting that the Demon Buddha had corrupted both the Azure Emperor and True Martial.

After Azure Emperor and True Martial emerged from the Origin of Life and Death, Meng Qi and his allies recognized that both were close to becoming fallen Ancient Ones. With Bodhi Academy and the Three Pure Ones unable to intervene directly, the group sought reinforcements while Black Heavenly Emperor stayed behind to treat Yang Jian.

• Xu Yue returned True Martial's Primordial Sun Ruler and warned him against relying too heavily on external weapons, while Azure Emperor accepted his own corruption.
• Black Heavenly Emperor and Fengdu explained that Azure Emperor and True Martial might soon attain the Other Shore, and Great Sage Equal to Heaven noted that Azure Emperor's earlier bargain created a restraint on their actions.
• The group found Yang Jian near death in the Blood Sea and used Laojun's Furnace to restore much of his strength; Yang Jian revealed that he was resisting a dangerous contamination.
• Yang Jian said he could contain the contamination by restoring and unifying his Pseudo-Other Shore state in the Nine Nethers, while Black Heavenly Emperor agreed to help him recover.
• The allies split up to recruit help: Monkey went to Demon Emperor Hall, Emperor Fengdu to the True Vacuum Homeland, Daoist Zhunti to Amitabha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, and Meng Qi to seek Lu Ya in the Investiture of the Gods World.

Azure Emperor used Black Blood to attempt attaining the Other Shore, while Bodhi Ancient Buddha and other allies prevented the heavenly wills and powerful beings from stopping Him. Azure Emperor and the Fusang Ancient Tree successfully attained Dao.

• Rumors spread among consummation-level Creation realm experts that Black Blood could help one attain the Other Shore, though many questioned its risks and waited to see who would try it.
• Azure Emperor began attaining Dao from the Fusang Ancient Tree, radiating a dark, distorted aura that left Burning Lamp and Lu Ya stunned.
• Meng Qi and his allies prepared to stop Azure Emperor, but the heavenly wills they expected to intervene did not appear.
• Bodhi Ancient Buddha asked Amitabha to let Him protect Azure Emperor, while Daoist Zhunti delayed the Demon Sovereign and the Heavenly Emperor guarded the True Vacuum Homeland.
• Azure Emperor and the Fusang Ancient Tree successfully attained Dao amid the cheers of the Nine Nethers and the worship of living beings across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.

Azure Emperor attained Dao through the black blood, prompting other powerful figures to consider following his path, while Bodhi Ancient Buddha separated from his three corpses and reached perfection. Meng Qi then learned that Yang Jian had been corrupted by the black blood but remained rational and loyal to his Grandmaster, leaving Meng Qi worried that he was still too weak to face the growing threats.

• Azure Emperor attained Dao before the Fusang Ancient Tree, and powerful beings across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds considered whether the black blood could help them advance.
• Bodhi Ancient Buddha had his three corpses touch the black blood, separated from them, and reached perfection as Fengdu and Black Heavenly Emperor became weak Other Shores.
• After learning from Demon Emperor Hall that Bodhi had turned against them, Meng Qi warned Great Sage Equal to Heaven that Yang Jian was in danger.
• Yang Jian appeared with a corrupted third eye and Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, explaining that the black blood had changed his personality but that he remained in control.
• Yang Jian told Meng Qi that he would help his Grandmaster win the final victory, while Meng Qi feared a wave of dark attainments and lamented his lack of strength.

Junior Master Luo met with Lu Bu and other historical figures after a Beyond-the-Shore omen spurred their rapid cultivation. When Junior Master Luo mentioned Xu Yue, Lu Bu sensed a powerful presence and realized the world’s unusual Three Kingdoms recreation might be connected to the Reincarnators.

• The Beyond-the-Shore omen shook the Reincarnators, while Junior Master Luo noticed historical generals gathering and advancing rapidly.
• Junior Master Luo invited Lu Bu and other figures to his residence in Luoyang and humbly sought their guidance.
• Lu Bu explained that the newcomers faced few restrictions and that their memories had already been exposed, frightening Junior Master Luo.
• Junior Master Luo asked for future assistance and promised to support the Far East and let Xu Yue rule after he ascended.
• Lu Bu felt an immense presence when he began to discuss Xu Yue, suspected an abnormal change involving the Reincarnators, and told Junior Master Luo that further information would cost him.

The Asura Ancestor used Black Blood to attempt proving the Dao, but Daoized and vanished after failing to cross the Sea of Suffering. As the Heavenly Wills mobilized to stop True Martial from proving the Dao, Meng Qi seized the turmoil to attain Creation and revive Gu Xiaosang at the same realm.

• Moonlight Bodhisattva promoted Black Blood, and the Asura Ancestor became its first true test subject.
• The Asura Ancestor used Black Blood to begin proving the Dao, but he vanished after his true nature wavered while crossing the ancient era.
• The Azure Emperor announced that Black Blood had been placed in secret realms, prompting Creation experts, Heavenly Wills, and others to seek it for research or use.
• True Martial began proving the Dao, and nearly every Heavenly Will intervened because they feared the alliance between True Martial, the Azure Emperor, and Demon Buddha.
• Meng Qi used the Heavenly Wills' turmoil to attain Creation, and Gu Xiaosang emerged from his body resurrected at Creation.

As True Martial attained the Dao, the Azure Emperor suppressed the Three Corpses and the Golden Emperor, while Amitabha unexpectedly held back Bodhi Ancient Buddha instead of joining the attack. True Martial survived as an ordinary Beyond the Shore, Meng Qi broke through to the Creation realm and resurrected Xiao Sang, and Xu Yue took Lu Bu into the Human Emperor Palace to question him.

• The Three Corpses attacked True Martial, but the Azure Emperor suppressed them and stopped the Golden Emperor from interfering.
• Amitabha chose to discuss the Dao with Laojun, leaving Bodhi Ancient Buddha to face the recovering Heavenly Emperor.
• The Azure Emperor attained the Dao with overwhelming power, while True Martial's breakthrough left him far weaker and only an ordinary Beyond the Shore.
• Meng Qi broke through to the Creation realm and resurrected Xiao Sang as the clash neared its end.
• Xu Yue seized Lu Bu into the Human Emperor Palace so he could question him more carefully.

After True Martial attained the Other Shore, Xu Yue questioned Lu Bu about the Upper Realm and learned how its worlds, Authorities, and chaotic enemies worked. The revelations strengthened Xu Yue’s resolve to prepare for the struggle for the Dao Fruit and ascend.

• True Martial returned to his throne after successfully attaining the Other Shore, encouraging other Black Blood powers to consider attempting the breakthrough.
• Xu Yue brought Lu Bu to the Human Emperor Palace and asked him to explain the Upper Realm, first revealing that the changes among the Heavenly Wills had not been caused by his true body.
• Lu Bu described the Upper Realm’s high standing, the role of mission worlds and Authorities, and how Laojun grew powerful by digesting projection power through repeated resets.
• Lu Bu explained that the Upper Realm’s enemy was an impersonal concept of chaos, which periodically produced specific threats, and recounted how order had once been driven back by hostile forces.
• Xu Yue gained insight from Lu Bu’s account, said he would have his arrangements ready within two or three missions, and sent Lu Bu back.
• Xu Yue resolved to pursue the Dao Fruit more seriously, recognizing that he would need to force Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Lingbao out of their current state.

The Golden Emperor joined Xu Yue’s plan to pressure Meng Qi into fleeing to the Nine Nethers and absorbing the Eastern Emperor’s embryonic Dao Fruit. Xu Yue blocked her strike and saved Meng Qi’s family and companions, but the Golden Emperor pierced him, leaving his fate unknown as Meng Qi escaped in fury.

• The Golden Emperor concluded that the wills of heaven made it difficult to pressure Meng Qi without risking her other schemes.
• Xu Yue met the Golden Emperor at the Human Emperor Palace, revealed her motives involving Gu Xiaosang and the Three Pure Ones, and proposed cooperating to push Meng Qi into the Nine Nethers.
• The Golden Emperor agreed to work with Xu Yue and returned to attack Meng Qi and Gu Xiaosang while the wills of heaven restrained one another.
• Xu Yue blocked the Golden Emperor’s strike with the Human Emperor Palace and helped Meng Qi flee into the Nine Nethers.
• Xu Yue drew Meng Qi’s family, friends, companions, Guangchengzi, and others into the Human Emperor Palace, but the Golden Emperor pierced him and left his life or death unknown.
• The Human Emperor Palace and Human Emperor Sword escaped, while the Great Sage, Yang Jian, and Gu Xiaosang dragged the enraged Meng Qi into the Nine Nethers and helped block the Golden Emperor.

After the Golden Emperor’s attack, Xu Yue gave the Reincarnation Seal’s imprint to protect himself and explained why he had saved Meng Qi. As the Nine Nethers became a possible path to greater power, Junior Master Luo decided to venture there and received Lu Bu’s approval.

• Meng Qi resolved to refine the Eastern Emperor’s embryonic Dao Fruit with Gu Xiaosang while hiding in the Nine Nethers.
• The Heavenly Emperor temporarily sealed the main Nine Nether Rift, and the Demon Buddha confronted Xu Yue for risking himself to save Meng Qi.
• Xu Yue explained that Meng Qi could become a powerful ally and that he could not safely attain the Dao without him surviving; the Demon Buddha accepted the reasoning and renewed his plan to seize the Nine Nethers.
• Junior Master Luo saw Black Blood and the Nine Nethers as a chance to advance beyond his limits and planned to seek protection from Xu Yue there.
• Junior Master Luo asked Lu Bu for advice, and Lu Bu encouraged him to go to the Nine Nethers.

Junior Master Luo reached Meng Qi through Nine Nethers, seeking the Black Blood and offering his loyalty to Xu Yue. As Meng Qi uncovered his strange origins and connection to Xu Yue, the chapter ended with more Creation-level beings succumbing to the Black Blood and perishing in their attempts to attain the Other Shore.

• Junior Master Luo endured Nine Nethers and reached Meng Qi after repeatedly invoking the names of Muscle Heavenly Venerate and the Human Sovereign.
• Junior Master Luo told Meng Qi that he wanted to serve Xu Yue and admitted that he also sought the Black Blood.
• Meng Qi learned that Junior Master Luo was Franklin D. Roosevelt from another world, whose companions included Hoover and whose world featured Three Kingdoms generals.
• Meng Qi discovered a connection between Junior Master Luo's Reincarnation Space and Xu Yue, then asked Yang Jian to take Junior Master Luo as a test subject.
• Meng Qi returned with Gu Xiaosang to study the embryonic Dao Fruit of the Eastern Emperor.
• Another Black Blood-infected Creation-level being Daoized, as more great powers failed in their attempts to attain the Other Shore.

Xu Yue recovered in the Human Emperor Palace and planned to merge with black blood to gain enough strength to protect his junior brother as he attained the Dao. He intended to wait until the moment was right, while Guangchengzi and Manjushri Guangfa Tianzun offered to risk their lives to help him.

• The Bull Demon King, strengthened by black blood and protected by his divine office and humanity’s fortune, reached peak Creation and hoped Xu Yue would recover and attain the Other Shore.
• Guangchengzi welcomed the recovered Xu Yue and revealed that black blood had harassed him, though the Jade Dynasty Sword stopped it from taking hold.
• Guangchengzi considered merging with the black blood to attempt attaining the Other Shore, but Xu Yue volunteered to take the black blood himself.
• Manjushri Guangfa Tianzun and Guangchengzi offered to attain the Dao first and draw the other powers’ attention for Xu Yue.
• Xu Yue explained that he would merge with black blood to gain Other Shore-level combat strength, then wait until his junior brother successfully attained the Dao before making his own attempt.