Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu and the other nine Bookholders spent a century in an Immortal Emperor illusion that tested how they would govern the world. After the illusion ended, a ranking began calculating their performances, but Zhang Yu did not yet know what it measured.

• Zhang Yu accepted the Immortal Ancestor's trial and found himself an Immortal Emperor, while his inner voices argued over whether to rule through domination or restraint.
• Bu Yuangui and Dugu Ming concluded that the ten Bookholders were trapped in separate illusion worlds, and Fa Liuyuan learned that Zhang Yu's simulated power was weaker because he lacked Ascension Realm cultivation.
• Bai Gusheng, Qian Airen, Tian Feibao, and other Bookholders imposed exploitative systems on their worlds, while Zhang Yu built schools and taught people for free.
• Observers criticized Zhang Yu's approach as his predicted ranking fell to last place, and Gao Chongguang worried that Zhang Yu's choices clashed with the Ten Immortal Emperors' ideals.
• After thirty days in reality and a century in the illusion, the Bookholders awoke and the Light Screens merged into a ranking whose numbers began changing year by year.
• Zhang Yu suspected the ranking was tallying each Bookholder's performance across the illusion, but he did not know what the numbers represented.

The Rankings tracked each Bookholder’s world development while excluding the Bookholders’ own share of production, and Zhang Yu and Wang Guiren rose above the others by continuing to invest in their worlds. At year 100, Wang Guiren yielded the Four Books to Zhang Yu, who finished in first place as the other three Books gathered before him.

• Hyperfrequency Heavenly Lord and Redundant Lord of Heaven explained that the Rankings measured each world’s immortal dao gross product, as Yuan Sheng, Tian Feibao, Wan Yaosheng, Qian Airen, and Bai Gusheng each surged into first place through different development methods.
• Bai Gusheng’s and other Bookholders’ growth slowed as they began appropriating their worlds’ output, and Hyperfrequency Heavenly Lord concluded that the Rankings excluded the Bookholders’ personal holdings.
• Cultivators praised Zhang Yu for continuing to invest in his world and lend out his Books, while he recognized similarities between Wang Guiren’s methods and Senior Ying Xintian’s approach in lost history.
• At year 99, Zhang Yu suspected Wang Guiren was Senior Ying Xintian, while Wang Guiren decided to leave the Four Books with Zhang Yu and cover him afterward.
• At year 100, Zhang Yu took first place, and the Book of Transformation, the Flight Book, and the Ascension Book joined the Feather Scroll before him.

Zhang Yu won the Bookholder Conference and received the Immortal Ancestor’s inheritance, uncovering lost histories that suggested rollbacks had transformed several Immortal Emperors. Meanwhile, the Wanfa Immortal Emperor discovered Zhang Yu’s preserved questions to figures in lost history and vowed to bring that history under his rule.

• The Hyperfrequency Heavenly Lord announced Zhang Yu as the conference’s winner, and the Book of Transformation, Flight Book, and Ascension Book merged into him.
• Cultivators across the Spirit Realm reacted to Zhang Yu’s victory, while Bai Gusheng, Tian Feibao, and Qian Airen watched him take possession of their former Books.
• Zhang Yu and Zhan Xian suspected Wang Guiren was a clone of Ying Xintian, who may have yielded first place to Zhang Yu and sought the inheritance to prevent an apocalypse.
• The Feather Scroll absorbed the three Books and opened new chapters, including the Dao Inheritance Chapter, which revealed lost histories of the Heavenly Demon, Blissful Union, and White Bone Immortal Emperors.
• Zhan Xian explained that the Ten Immortal Emperors had defeated a former master of rollbacks and seized the Supreme Immortal Artifact and its authority.
• The Wanfa Immortal Emperor examined Zhang Yu’s preserved questions to figures in lost history, recognized that Zhang Yu had sought their help, and declared that lost history would fall under his rule.

Zhang Yu studied the False Dao Chapter and uncovered the Wanfa Immortal Emperor’s history of surviving world rollbacks and plotting to seize the Supreme Immortal Artifact. Meanwhile, Ying Xintian rallied the sect immortals against the Ten Immortal Emperors while Tai Yuebai worked to gather Zhang Yu’s companions, and the chapter ended with the Wanfa Immortal Emperor finding his chance to strike.

• Zhang Yu and Wild Ox questioned whether the Desolate Ox Great Saint’s memories were connected to the Heavenly Demon Immortal Emperor’s lost history, but they could not resolve the mystery.
• Tai Yuebai went to the Old Days Graveyard to gather Zhang Yu’s companions so they could be sent out with Zhang Yu and support his growth.
• Immortal Roujia and Immortal Yixuan read Ying Xintian’s message and decided the Reformists would join the other sects if their immortals entered the conflict.
• Ying Xintian evaded the Ten Immortal Emperors while sending messages to the sects’ Immortal Venerables and preparing them to unite against the emperors.
• Zhang Yu learned that the Wanfa Immortal Emperor had used repeated rollbacks to build up his strength unnoticed, study the rollback user, and finally find an opportunity to seize the Supreme Immortal Artifact.

Zhang Yu learned how the Wanfa Immortal Emperor had once defeated the rollback wielder, while the Ten Immortal Emperors prepared to seize the Immortal Ancestor’s legacy and launch an irreversible war. The chapter ended as Kunxu was sealed and the Ten Immortal Emperors stripped away the world’s resources to begin the Final Dao Struggle.

• Zhang Yu read that the Wanfa Immortal Emperor had exploited rollback’s cooldown, secretly gathered allies, and ultimately won control of rollback, though the details of his victory were erased from official history.
• Tai Yuebai took Zhang Yu’s companions from Layer 11, while Immortal Roujia and Immortal Yixuan prepared the Reformists for war and Ying Xintian urged Immortal Zhimiao to join the resistance.
• Ying Xintian tried to communicate with the Ten Immortal Emperors as they closed in, but they ignored him; the Wanfa Immortal Emperor reviewed future information revealing that another rollback had begun and the Final Dao Struggle was imminent.
• The Wanfa Immortal Emperor ordered the Eight Divine Departments and immortals of every faction to seal Kunxu, cutting off access to the Spirit Realm and Dharma Realm and diverting the world’s energy.
• At the Bookholder Conference, Bai Gusheng briefly perceived Zhang Yu as the Immortal Emperors’ target before the emperors stripped away his perception, thoughts, body, and power to fuel their ultimate war.

Zhang Yu learned how the Immortal Ancestors’ lineage preserved the Book and fought the Rollbackers, then joined their effort against the Ten Immortal Emperors. After Zhang Yu triggered a battle among the Emperors, aid arrived through bloodlines passed down by generations of mortals, leaving Ying Xintian and the others thirty-three seconds to prevent the Emperors from rolling back time.

• Zhang Yu read the Dao Integration Chapter’s history of the Immortal Ancestors, who created the Book to share Immortal Dao knowledge and whose successors fought the Rollbackers across generations.
• The Immortal Ancestors’ wills revived through the Book and called on Zhang Yu to help them oppose the Ten Immortal Emperors, who had inherited rollback authority.
• Zhang Yu tried to take his own life, prompting the Ten Immortal Emperors to intervene and ignite a battle centered on his body.
• While trapped in darkness, Zhang Yu saw the Book send pleas for help into lost histories and learned that the Immortal Ancestors had also passed support forward through mortal bloodlines.
• The original owner of Zhang Yu’s body appeared in the bloodline inheritance, and Zhang Yu thanked him and his ancestors for carrying the baton forward.
• Ying Xintian received memories from lost histories and began preparing with the others to stop the Ten Immortal Emperors from rolling back time during their thirty-three-second cooldown.

Zhang Yu and the Immortal Ancestor's Will used the Book's power to arm Ying Xintian with Yun Taizhen's [Creation Emperor Seed], Chain Law Diagrams, and restored techniques, letting him break into the Immortal Emperor Domain. Ying Xintian ultimately fell to the Wanfa Immortal Emperor, who revealed that mortal bloodlines had served as bait, while the other nine Immortal Emperors surrounded Zhang Yu.

• Zhang Yu and the Immortal Ancestor's Will bestowed the level 9 [Creation Emperor Seed] on Ying Xintian and infused him with Chain Law Diagrams and cultivation manuals.
• Ying Xintian rapidly strengthened, wounded Immortal Roujia and Immortal Yixuan, and seized some of their authority over the Kunlun Dao Orthodoxy.
• Ying Xintian broke through the Eight Divine Departments and the immortals guarding the upper layers, reaching the thirtieth layer in under three seconds.
• Zhang Yu regained control of his body on the Immortal Ascension Platform and saw Ying Xintian kneeling before the Wanfa Immortal Emperor.
• The Wanfa Immortal Emperor said that mortal bloodlines had been fishing past Immortal Emperors out of history, as the other nine Immortal Emperors surrounded Zhang Yu.

Ying Xintian and the nine Immortal Emperors joined forces against Wanfa, while Zhang Yu was cast out of the displaced Layer 20 and appointed crown prince of the Myriad Laws Sect. The Immortal Ancestor's Will revealed that the apparent rollback plan was a deception and urged Zhang Yu to grow strong enough to join the battle, leaving him to face the coming conflict with renewed resolve.

• Ying Xintian turned the nine Immortal Emperors against Wanfa, who resisted their assault and swallowed Ying Xintian as the battle shattered his body.
• Ying Xintian struck Zhang Yu away from Layer 20, and Wanfa appointed Zhang Yu crown prince while the other Immortal Emperors sent their own messages.
• Zhang Yu examined the unlocked future information and learned that its rollback strategy was a false plan designed to deceive the Immortal Emperors.
• The Immortal Ancestor's Will explained that Ying Xintian had created time for Zhang Yu to grow by drawing the Immortal Emperors into attacking Wanfa, then shared Zhang Yu's previous message asking his future self for aid.
• After the Immortal Ancestor's Will vanished, Zhang Yu received messages from his allies and vowed to grow stronger and join the battle, then asked why Dugu Ming had called him crown prince.

After the Wanfa Immortal Emperor appointed Zhang Yu crown prince, Zhang Yu used his new authority and the Eight Department Gods to secure control of the Myriad Laws Sect and stabilize its territories. Immortal Zhimiao warned him that the Ten Immortal Emperors’ escalating war could produce an Endtime Immortal Emperor, while the other sects still distrusted Zhang Yu as a possible contingency of Wanfa.

• Zhang Yu learned he had become the Myriad Laws Sect’s crown prince and summoned the Eight Department Gods to protect him and maintain order.
• Zhang Yu rejected the Ascension Hall’s refusal to let the Eight Department Gods descend, dismissed thirteen officials, and secured approval for their arrival.
• The Eight Department Gods gave Zhang Yu access to their powers, registered Fu Ji, Xiang Shen, and Bao Shen as his Dharma Treasures, and helped him stabilize the sect and promote his allies.
• Zhang Yu issued himself a temporary Ascension Qualification Certificate and invited Bai Zhenzhen to join the Myriad Laws Sect.
• Immortal Zhimiao explained that the Immortal Emperors’ war would continue until an Endtime Immortal Emperor emerged, and that sect immortals could not break through to challenge them.
• Zhang Yu reasoned that the threat could unite Kunxu’s factions against the Endtime Immortal Emperor, but Immortal Zhimiao warned that the sects had no shared plan and still suspected Zhang Yu might serve Wanfa’s interests.