Chapter Summaries

As the Immortal Dao Flower Bud awaited blooming, slaughter in No Man’s Land made the Eight Regions Venerables appreciate the order of the Yan Huang Empire, and many chose to withdraw. The flower bud then revealed eight hundred additional petals, leading Shi Yi to suspect the Nine Heavens Ten Earths’ shattered Great Dao was trying to heal and that he might be key to it.

• Eight Regions living beings witnessed the lawless killings and grew more grateful for the Yan Huang Empire’s Human Law and order.
• Shi Yi told Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi not to interfere in the slaughter, while the bloodshed continued across No Man’s Land.
• One million Venerables died on the first day, including one hundred thousand from the Eight Regions, and many survivors used Domain Breaking Talismans to leave.
• As the slaughter intensified on the second day, at least four million Eight Regions Venerables gave up on the Immortal Dao Flower Bud.
• The Immortal Dao Flower Bud gained eight hundred petals, and Shi Yi connected the change to the Eight Regions and wondered whether the shattered Great Dao could heal.

Shi Yi and his family waited through the deadly Three Thousand Provinces Genius Battle as the Immortal Dao Flower Bud took thirteen days to bloom. When it finally opened, Shi Yi studied its runes and nearly comprehended them all, bringing him close to ascending to immortality.

• Shi Yi reflected that the Immortal Dao Flower Bud seemed sick and that the competition's slaughter was weakening the next generation, while fifteen million Venerables died and nine million remained.
• Qin Mengyao asked whether they should withdraw, and Shi Yi reassured her that he would protect her as Shi Lingyi compared the slaughter to the calamity from his stories.
• On the thirteenth day, the Immortal Dao Flower Bud began to bloom, releasing immortal dew, healing injuries, and revealing Great Dao runes.
• Shi Yi studied the revealed runes and nearly comprehended them all, while the sect leader-level experts outside No Man's Land could grasp only a fraction.

After the Immortal Dao Flower Bud bloomed, a Red-Haired Creature attacked it and then sent Black Blood toward the nine million Venerable Realm beings in No Man’s Land. Shi Yi confronted the Black Blood, and Shi Hao broke through the flower’s rejection to join him, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• The Immortal Dao Flower Bud bloomed, filling No Man’s Land with Immortal Spirit Energy and heaven-and-earth runes as the beings there began to recover and cultivate.
• A Red-Haired Creature emerged from the darkness, tried to swallow the flower bud, and then charged toward Shi Yi after sensing him.
• The flower bud drove the Red-Haired Creature away, but its Black Blood continued toward the nine million Venerable Realm beings, leaving them with almost no time to escape.
• Shi Yi stepped forward to confront the Black Blood while Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi stood beside him, as the sect masters outside No Man’s Land watched without offering help.
• Shi Hao tore through the force rejecting outside beings and entered No Man’s Land to help Shi Yi.

Shi Yi used Shi Hao’s Hand of Heaven to suppress the descending Black Blood and protect everyone in No Man’s Land. The Immortal Dao Flower Bud then released life-extending divine rain, while sect masters outside argued over whether dwindling Undying Substance would bring a dark age.

• Shi Hao stood between Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi and promised to protect them while Shi Yi faced the Black Blood.
• Shi Yi unleashed Shi Hao’s Hand of Heaven, crushing and sealing the Black Blood before it could spread further.
• Shi Yi explained that a technique’s strength depended on its user, then dismissed questions about why he had not used Qin Mengyao’s innate technique.
• The Immortal Dao Flower Bud bloomed and showered No Man’s Land with Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid, which could extend lifespans and cleanse the body.
• Sect masters outside No Man’s Land debated whether the eventual loss of Undying Substance would shorten lifespans and cause dark turmoil, then angrily rejected warnings based on the flower bud.

Shi Yi and Shi Hao received the Immortal Dao Flower Bud’s blessings while ancient offering spirits discussed the growing danger from the Border Wasteland and the realm’s decay. A Primeval True Dragon then appeared inside the No Man’s Land, and Shi Hao asked Shi Yi for permission to kill it.

• Cultivators outside the No Man’s Land envied Shi Yi and Shi Hao, but Shi Yi’s suppression of the True Immortal Black Blood kept them from challenging the brothers.
• The Ancient Vine, Old Tree, and White Tortoise discussed the approaching calamity, the Border Wasteland’s turmoil, and their duty to guard the Immortal Antiquity Secret Realm.
• The offering spirits explained that the Immortal Dao Flower Bud needed the Eight Regions’ eight million participants to regain vitality and bloom eight hundred Immortal Dao Petals.
• A Primeval True Dragon appeared inside the No Man’s Land, shocking the nine million Venerables because it had overcome the flower bud’s rejection of those above the Venerable Realm.
• Shi Hao eyed the True Dragon as prey and asked Shi Yi to let him kill it, while Shi Yi questioned whether it had ties to the strange and ominous.

Shi Hao fought the Primeval True Dragon with the six-story Little Pagoda protecting him, overpowering it despite its True Immortal strength. After Shi Hao slammed it into the ground, the dragon shattered its Black Water Dragon Pearl and transformed under the bizarre power, unleashing an attack of black flames and twisted souls.

• Shi Yi warned Shi Hao that the Primeval True Dragon was a True Immortal, but Shi Hao vowed to beat it to death and summoned the six-story Little Pagoda.
• Shi Hao charged the dragon, using the Kun Peng and Qilin Precious Techniques while the Little Pagoda shielded him.
• The Primeval True Dragon attacked with its black mist and dragon pearl, but Shi Hao blocked its assault and smashed it into the ground, while Shi Yi protected the Venerable Realm beings from the shock waves.
• The Primeval True Dragon emerged from the crater, shattered its Black Water Dragon Pearl, and transformed as bizarre power reshaped its body.
• The transformed dragon unleashed black flames and twisted souls at Shi Hao.

Shi Hao battered the Primeval True Dragon while Shi Yi protected the spectators and suppressed the strange forces in No Man's Land. When two mysterious figures intervened to save the dragon, Shi Yi erased them, claimed their artifacts, and let Shi Hao resume the fight.

• Shi Hao used the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique, the Divine Phoenix Precious Technique, and the Little Pagoda's seals to overwhelm the Primeval True Dragon.
• Shi Hao combined several Ten Ferocious Precious Techniques into a five-colored torrent that badly wounded the Primeval True Dragon.
• A figure beneath a Giant Bell and another beneath a circular disk stopped Shi Hao's finishing strike and moved to block his retreat.
• Shi Yi used his Double Pupils and Order Divine Chains to suppress the two figures and restore the corrupted land and affected living beings.
• Shi Yi erased both figures, claimed the Giant Bell and disk, and named them the Without End Bell and Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk.
• Shi Yi told Shi Hao to continue dealing with the Primeval True Dragon.

Shi Yi erased the True Immortal foes, declared himself arbiter of the No Man’s Land, and was recognized by the Immortal Dao Flower Bud. He changed the entry rules so all nine million Venerable Realm beings received Immortal Dao Petals, then sent Shi Hao into the Immortal Antiquity Secret Realm as the others departed.

• Shi Yi sealed and killed the owners of the Giant Bell and disk, stunning Shi Hao, Little Pagoda, and the onlookers.
• Voices from the No Man’s Land warned others not to provoke Shi Yi, while the gathered beings praised him and thanked him for protecting them.
• Shi Yi declared himself arbiter and ordered the beings in the No Man’s Land to stop disrupting the Three Thousand Provinces Genius Battle.
• The Immortal Dao Flower Bud acknowledged Shi Yi, extended a Golden Great Dao to him, and let him reach its lotus platform, where he sensed the Great Daos and Side Doors.
• The Immortal Dao Flower Bud gave all nine million Venerable Realm beings Immortal Dao Petals, and Shi Yi changed the entry process so they could enter without fighting for them.
• After Shi Hao realized he had been left behind, Shi Yi gave him an Immortal Dao Petal and sent him onto the Golden Great Dao.

Shi Yi discovered that the Immortal Dao Lotus Platform could analyze the Great Daos of the sect masters observing the secret realm, while the contestants struggled up the Three Thousand Eight Hundred Bluestone Ancient Roads. The chapter ended with Shi Hao blasted away for digging at the stairs as the Witch and Qing Yi reflected on Shi Yi’s growth and worried about him.

• Sect masters joined forces to use the Immortal Dao Flower Bud to reveal scenes inside the Immortal Antiquity Secret Realm, unknowingly exposing their Great Daos for Shi Yi to analyze.
• Shi Yi realized that the lotus seeds surrounding his platform might contain Great Dao insights from past eras and could help him reach extraordinary heights.
• Qin Mengyao hurried up the bluestone road to prove she could keep pace with Shi Yi, while Shi Lingyi advised her to slow down and comprehend the Daos.
• The observing sect masters saw Shi Hao squatting on the stairs and digging at the bluestone, then watched a bolt of Nine Heavens Tribulation Light blast him away.
• The Witch and Qing Yi discussed Shi Yi’s steady progress and expressed concern for him as they watched the secret realm.

Shi Yi entered the Immortal Antiquity Secret Realm to watch over Shi Hao and address Willow Deity’s concerns. After eight hundred unexplored Mottled Worlds appeared, he used his authority as adjudicator to restrict entry to those over one hundred years old, while the Immortal Dao Flower Bud continued to grant him sweeping powers.

• Shi Yi entered the Immortal Antiquity Secret Realm and confronted Shi Hao and Little Pagoda about their reckless behavior.
• Shi Yi learned that changes to the Immortal Dao Flower Bud had created eight hundred new bluestone paths and Mottled Worlds.
• Geniuses and Ancient Monsters raced to enter the unexplored Mottled Worlds after igniting their Divine Fire.
• First-time entrants accused Ancient Monsters of exploiting repeated Divine Fire ignitions and asked Shi Yi to intervene.
• Shi Yi imposed a rule barring anyone over one hundred years old from entering the Immortal Antiquity Secret Realm.
• Shi Yi realized the Immortal Dao Flower Bud was relying on him to deal with its problems and had given him extensive authority.

After three months, Shi Yi and the Immortal Phoenix Woman recognized the Eight Hundred Splendid Worlds as a forgotten battlefield and discussed Shi Yi’s alarming growth. At the Initial Ground, Shi Hao began a dangerous attempt to temper himself with the Three Thousand Eight Hundred Bluestone Ancient Road, while Shi Yi reluctantly let him proceed.

• Living beings outside No Man's Land discovered True Immortal blood in the Eight Hundred Splendid Worlds and debated whether its treasures were opportunities or grave robbing.
• The Double Pupil Woman and the Immortal Phoenix Woman identified the Eight Hundred Splendid Worlds as a forgotten battlefield and discussed Shi Yi’s power and rapid rise.
• Shi Hao told Shi Yi he intended to use the Great Daos and Side Doors of the Three Thousand Eight Hundred Bluestone Ancient Road to burn his body and primordial spirit and build his True Self.
• Shi Yi objected because the process could kill Shi Hao, but Shi Hao insisted that his Using the Body as a Seed path required him to surpass himself.
• Shi Hao summoned spiritual energy and lifted the Three Thousand Eight Hundred Bluestone Ancient Road into the air, while Shi Yi’s influence kept the Immortal Dao Flower Bud from destroying or expelling him.

Shi Hao endured the Three Thousand Great Daos Fire and Eight Hundred Side Doors to forge his true self, while Shi Yi intervened to keep him alive. After Shi Hao completed his breakthrough, Shi Yi ordered him to stay confined for a hundred years when they returned.

• Shi Hao entered the furnace formed by the Three Thousand Eight Hundred Bluestone Ancient Roads and endured the fire of Ten Thousand Daos as it burned his body and soul.
• Shi Yi judged Shi Hao's attempt extremely dangerous and used the Willow Deity Method's Unceasing Growth to restore his flesh and stabilize him.
• More than ten days later, Shi Hao completed his limit sublimation, strengthening his physical body and primordial spirit.
• Shi Hao told Shi Yi he had succeeded, and Shi Yi ordered him confined for a hundred years and threatened to double the term if he kept explaining.
• Shi Yi left and entered the Eight Hundred Splendid Worlds.

Shi Yi entered one of the Eight Hundred Splendid Worlds and encountered a strange, ominous humanoid being that attacked him with a bronze spear. After fighting it without trying to harm it, Shi Yi realized it was bound by a restriction that forced it to speak and act mechanically, and he considered whether he could save it.

• Shi Hao watched Shi Yi leave in confusion, and Little Pagoda told him to settle his mind during the hundred years of confinement.
• Shi Yi entered a Mottled World among the Eight Hundred Splendid Worlds and sensed an ominous presence approaching.
• A Bronze Ancient Lamp appeared in the void, and a gray-mist humanoid figure arrived and repeatedly threatened to kill Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi drew the Human Emperor Sword and fought the figure's Bronze Ancient Spear, carefully limiting his attacks so he would not break his opponent.
• After the two separated, Shi Yi asked the injured figure to talk, but it could only say "Kill!" as darkness and gray mist surged around it.
• Shi Yi concluded that a terrifying restriction had robbed the figure of freedom and wondered whether his status as the Human Emperor and a saint might let him save it.

Shi Yi purified Spirit Void Child of the strange ominous power and learned that he came from the Emperor Fall Era, when Quasi Immortal Emperor Footprint Emperor vanished in the Boundary Sea. After stopping Spirit Void Child from erasing his memories, Shi Yi seized the Bronze Ancient Lamp and considered the dangers of the dark source as the current era neared its end.

• Shi Yi chanted the Script of Salvation five times, purging the strange ominous power from Spirit Void Child and weakening his aura.
• Spirit Void Child told Shi Yi that Footprint Emperor had entered the Boundary Sea to investigate the darkness, and Shi Yi explained that their era was remembered as the Emperor Fall Era.
• Spirit Void Child tried to erase his memories to protect Shi Yi, but Shi Yi sealed space-time and stopped him, along with the Bronze Ancient Lamp, from moving.
• Shi Yi seized the Bronze Ancient Lamp despite Spirit Void Child's warning and examined its eerie features and corrupting power.
• Shi Yi sensed that the current era was nearing its end and resolved to study the strange ominous power and grow stronger before its dark source noticed him.
• Shi Yi told Spirit Void Child he would send him out to learn about the current era and stop trying to kill himself.

Shi Yi sent Spirit Void Child out of the Immortal Antiquity Secret Realm and explored the purified Mottled World. Days later, an immortal cave mansion offered a True Immortal’s inheritance to the gathered geniuses, but Shi Yi arrived as Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi were about to enter its trials despite his orders.

• Shi Yi expelled Spirit Void Child from the sealed secret realm and crushed the Bronze Ancient Lamp.
• Shi Yi considered whether the strange and ominous came from an imbalance between yin and yang, and concluded he needed to find the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin to test his theory.
• Geniuses gathered outside an immortal cave mansion, where a remnant will revealed that candidates could win its master’s inheritance by passing Three Trials, crossing Five Paths, and climbing the Ascending Ladder.
• Qin Mengyao asked about the inheritance’s requirements, while Shi Lingyi reminded her that their father had forbidden them from taking part in trials.
• Shi Yi appeared behind Qin Mengyao and demanded to know what she had planned while he was away.

Shi Yi brought Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi into the Immortal Cave Mansion to meet the Lingxiao Holy Mother and mediate between her and the Willow Deity. The Willow Deity said the conflict was not over, but that she no longer needed to fight for now.

• Shi Yi scolded Qin Mengyao for acting on her own, then took her and Shi Lingyi into the Immortal Cave Mansion while the old man opened the inheritance trial for the gathered geniuses.
• Ten Crown King Tianzi and Fallen Immortal entered the inheritance assessment, while Ning Chuan and the others discussed whether Shi Hao had entered the secret realm and gossiped about Qin Mengyao's unknown father.
• Shi Yi led Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi through the Lingxiao Holy Residence, where they asked him for its treasures and he ignored them.
• Shi Yi bowed to the Lingxiao Holy Mother, and a pinecone fell from the tree and struck him as an ethereal voice asked the Willow Deity whether they had won.
• The Willow Deity answered that they had not won yet, but told the voice that there was no need to fight for now; the voice responded with relief, and the Willow Deity fell silent.

Shi Yi told Lingxiao Holy Mother that the Eight Regions would not sacrifice itself for the Nine Heavens Ten Earths, while Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi received her inheritance. The sisters then watched the deadly Illusionary Fire Maze trial, where most challengers were killed.

• Shi Yi explained that the Eight Regions had no obligation to defend the Nine Heavens Ten Earths, and Lingxiao Holy Mother accepted that they could no longer afford to fight.
• Lingxiao Holy Mother gave Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi five rune precious bones each, then sent them to a quiet place in the palace.
• Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi found a water curtain above a dry well that showed the secret-realm trials facing the other challengers.
• Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi watched challengers enter the Illusionary Fire Maze, where flaming beasts, fire crows, and deadly illusions killed many of them.
• Qin Mengyao called the trial cruel as the surviving challengers searched for the true path to the second trial.

Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi watched challengers face the second and third trials, and Qin Mengyao considered helping a wounded True Dragon to win her for Shi Yi. The True Dragon earned part of the inheritance, while Lingxiao Holy Mother confronted the Ancestor Offering Spirit over abandoning the Offering Spirit Dao.

• Qin Mengyao switched the water curtain to show the Cold Abyss Ice Prison, where challengers struggled across a frozen wasteland as an enormous iceberg advanced on them.
• The water curtain showed the Thunder Tribulation Destroys the World, where a wounded True Dragon fought through chaos divine lightning and charged into another bolt to seek survival.
• Qin Mengyao asked Shi Lingyi whether they could alter the trials' difficulty and said she wanted to give the True Dragon to Shi Yi; Shi Lingyi objected.
• The True Dragon broke through the chaos lightning and obtained one-third of the True Immortal inheritance, but did not attempt the Five Paths or Ascending Ladder.
• Lingxiao Holy Mother told the Ancestor Offering Spirit that abandoning the Offering Spirit Dao meant abandoning its inheritors, who might not understand the decision.

The Willow Deity explained that she had not forgotten her followers and that Shi Yi could use the Immortal Dao Flower Bud to help them leave the Immortal Antiquity Secret Realm. She told Lingxiao Holy Mother that darkness did not come from strange misfortune or any distant source, but from the human heart, leaving the meaning of darkness unsettled by any victory over powerful enemies.

• Shi Yi stopped the Willow Deity from speaking carelessly and assured Lingxiao Holy Mother that she had not abandoned or forgotten the Offering Spirit Dao.
• The Willow Deity explained that Shi Yi could control the Immortal Dao Flower Bud and freely enter and leave the Immortal Antiquity Secret Realm, so she no longer needed to forcibly rescue her followers.
• Shi Yi told Lingxiao Holy Mother that he had sent the corrupted Spirit Void Child out of the secret realm, prompting her to wonder if the Willow Deity planned to join the darkness.
• Lingxiao Holy Mother manifested her humanoid Law Body, and the Willow Deity arrived beside her and Shi Yi to explain that neither the Foreign Domain nor strange misfortune represented darkness.
• The Willow Deity said darkness came from the human heart, not from a so-called origin, and observed that the oppression of weaker beings had persisted even after the Three Heavenly Emperors defeated the Ten Weird Ancestors.

Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi tried to contact Shi Yi through the Dream Great Dao, but Qin Mengyao’s modified summoning formation trapped their spiritual consciousnesses until Lingxiao Holy Mother rescued them. After Shi Yi returned and scolded them, Shi Hao alerted him to a bloodstained Black Ancient Ship inside a Void Great Rift, leaving Shi Yi worried that his brother would investigate it recklessly.

• Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi used the Dream Great Dao to create a spiritual world and tried to summon Shi Yi with Qin Mengyao’s modified formation.
• Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi became lost in the spiritual world, and Lingxiao Holy Mother rescued their spiritual consciousnesses and called Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi returned, rebuked Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi for endangering themselves, and they promised to be more careful.
• Shi Hao told Shi Yi that he had found a bloodstained Black Ancient Ship in a Void Great Rift and called it a fortuitous opportunity.
• Shi Yi warned Shi Hao not to enter the rift alone, threatening to double his confinement, and Shi Hao said he would not act recklessly.