Chapter Summaries

Shi Hao and his army discovered a dead Frontier King sealing an abyss filled with hundreds of millions of Darkness Creatures, and the king’s warning revealed the danger beneath it. Grief over the king’s forgotten sacrifice drove Shi Hao toward slaughter, but Shi Yi restrained him and discussed how the Nine Heavens Ten Earths could be made to bear the threat instead of the Eight Regions.

• Shi Hao led the Billion Strong Army to an abyss where they found a dead Frontier King sealing its entrance with his body.
• The king’s lingering will warned that the seal would eventually break and release hundreds of millions of Darkness Creatures.
• Shi Hao mourned the king, recognized that his own veins carried Sin Blood, and nearly turned his killing intent on the Billion Strong Army.
• Shi Yi stopped Shi Hao and had the army kneel to honor the king as an Ancient Sage.
• Shi Yi promised Shi Hao he could destroy several Dao Lineages after their return, then face a hundred years of confinement.
• Shi Yi argued that the Nine Heavens Ten Earths should stand against the strange and ominous to protect the Eight Regions from facing the threat directly.

Shi Yi received the Seven Kings of the Human Race’s recognition as Human Emperor and inherited the Most Blood Rune, which let him awaken the human race’s bloodline and draw on its strength. He resolved to restore humanity’s former power and leave the Immortal Domain’s reckoning to Shi Hao, who learned that he was mixed-blood.

• Shi Hao agreed to restrain his killing intent, but Shi Yi insisted that he would be placed under house arrest after the conflict ended.
• Shi Yi bowed to the king’s corpse above the Abyss Entrance and apologized for arriving too late.
• The corpse sent the character Most into Shi Yi’s rune, recognizing him as Human Emperor and granting him a connection to the strength of humanity.
• Shi Yi realized that the human race’s bloodline had been drained and resolved to revive it, while suspecting the Immortal Domain had played a role.
• Shi Yi transmitted the rune’s inheritance to Shi Hao, who was shocked to learn that he was a mixed-blood human.

Shi Yi explained the Most Blood Rune and the human race’s shared identity to Shi Hao, then prepared to lead a vast army into the abyss using the Lesser Great Stellar Array of the Heavens. He revealed the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Banners he had spent a century refining, and Shi Hao secured Shi Yi’s promise not to protect the Immortal Domain’s people from his future actions.

• Shi Yi taught Shi Hao that the Most Blood Rune defined membership in the human race, without distinction between pure-blood and mixed-blood humans.
• Shi Yi ordered Shi Hao to prepare the Billion Strong Army for the Lesser Great Stellar Array of the Heavens so they could prevent Darkness Creatures from escaping the abyss.
• Shi Yi explained that the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Banner could empower the formation to trap and kill an Immortal King, and revealed the banners he had refined over a hundred years.
• Shi Hao asked whether the banners would be returned after being distributed, recalling the betrayal of the Seven Kings of the Human Race.
• Shi Yi told Shi Hao not to harbor hostility toward those below and promised not to interfere with his future actions against the people and affairs of the Immortal Domain; Shi Hao accepted the promise.

Shi Yi used the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens to seal the Abyss Entrance and let the Seven Kings of the Human Race’s corpse leave its post. Shi Hao led the Billion Strong Army in slaughtering the Darkness Creatures that poured out, while Shi Yi watched a powerful, grotesque figure in the abyss remain still and wait.

• Shi Hao distributed the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Banners and Small Zhou Heavenly Stars Banners, and Shi Yi led the assembled forces in forming the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens.
• Shi Yi assured the king's corpse that the abyss would be guarded, and the corpse rose from its post and entered the Bloodstained Ancient Ship.
• Darkness Creatures surged out beneath the Abyss Entrance, but Shi Hao recognized their fear and ordered the Billion Strong Army to attack under the array’s amplification.
• Shi Hao and the Billion Strong Army slaughtered the Darkness Creatures, whose strength seemed far below the terrifying reputation they held among the Nine Heavens Ten Earths.
• Shi Yi watched a twisted, grotesque figure in the abyss quietly send Darkness Creatures to their deaths rather than confront the forces above.

Shi Yi trapped the Dark Weirdness Ominous Aggregate in the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens, while Shi Hao and the Billion Strong Army attacked it. As the aggregate faced a slow death, Shi Yi contacted the imprisoned Dark Eight Kings, who discussed how they had fallen to darkness.

• Over ten days, Shi Hao and the Billion Strong Army nearly wiped out the Darkness Creatures in the abyss, suffering fewer than one million casualties.
• Shi Yi summoned the Dark Weirdness Ominous Aggregate from beneath the abyss and used the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens to disperse its mental influence and block its escape.
• Shi Hao and the army attacked the aggregate with techniques strengthened by the array, while three thousand eight hundred Order Divine Chains pierced and restrained it.
• The aggregate resisted the attacks with its immense vitality and insisted it could not be killed, but the army continued wearing it down.
• Shi Yi contacted Heaven Slaughter, Earth Calamity, Profound Nether, Yellow Flame, Cosmic Evil, Cosmic Calamity, Great Deluge, and Huang Sha, who discussed how some had entered the path of darkness by choice and others by necessity.

Shi Yi met with the Dark Eight Kings in the Void Great Rift and learned that its Abyss Entrances were tied to the Nine Heavens Ten Earths and the fallen Seven Kings of the Human Race. Cosmic Calamity revealed the Golden Age’s history and warned that the dam before the Emperor’s Fall had been built to guard against threats from the Boundary Sea, but Shi Yi pressed for a direct answer about when it was built.

• Shi Yi asked the Dark Eight Kings about their expedition, and Heaven Slaughter reported finding Abyss Entrances that might be suppressed by the corpses of the former Seven Kings of the Human Race.
• Earth Calamity said many Abyss Entrances had already been unsealed, while Profound Nether and the others explained that powerful beings in the Void Great Rift generally would not provoke Shi Yi.
• The Dark Eight Kings explained that the Void Great Rift remained connected to the Nine Heavens Ten Earths through the Immortal Dao Flower Bud and the Original Gate.
• Cosmic Calamity told Shi Yi that the Border Wilderness Emperor Pass and the dam before the Emperor’s Fall had been built to resist invisible threats from the depths of the Boundary Sea.
• Cosmic Calamity described the Golden Age, when Emperors ruled above the Immortal Kings, and said their fall began the Nine Heavens Ten Earths’ decline.
• Shi Yi asked whether the dam had been built before the Emperor Fall Era, and challenged the Great Deluge after it failed to answer directly.

Shi Hao and the Billion Strong Army spent a year grinding the Dark Weirdness Ominous Aggregate to death, while Shi Yi investigated the Abyss Entrances and confirmed they were sealed by the Seven Kings of the Human Race. As the army began purifying the creature’s remains, Shi Yi reflected on why the Primeval Covenant had failed and continued dividing rewards among those who fought for him.

• Shi Yi refused to let Shi Hao rely on outside help to finish off the Dark Weirdness Ominous Aggregate, and Shi Hao recognized his impatience to catch up with his brother.
• Little Pagoda advised Shi Hao to calm down and stop measuring himself against Shi Yi, then quarreled with him over being called Little Tower.
• Shi Hao regained his composure and delayed breaking through to True Immortal, while Shi Yi investigated the other Abyss Entrances and confirmed they were suppressed by the Seven Kings of the Human Race.
• Over the course of a year, Shi Hao and the Billion Strong Army slowly killed the Dark Weirdness Ominous Aggregate, and Shi Yi warned that its remains had to be purified to prevent it from returning.
• Shi Yi taught the army to purify the creature’s remains and considered how the Primeval Covenant had failed because it demanded sacrifice without providing meaningful rewards.
• By Flame Yellow Calendar, January 20, 0139, the Billion Strong Army had spent nearly three years in the Void Great Rift and was still purifying the aggregate’s remains into flesh and blood.

Shi Yi reassured Qin Yining, Yun Xi, and Huo Ling'er that he would leave the Void Great Rift and return within a month. He remained responsible for the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens, but his family’s longing pushed him to arrange his return sooner.

• Qin Yining complained that Shi Yi had been away for three years and pressed him to give an exact return date; he promised to be back within a month.
• Shi Yi decided to summon Shi Hao sooner and arrange for him to take over control of the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens.
• Yun Xi told Shi Yi that she missed him, and Shi Yi reassured her that he would return to the Eight Regions within a month.
• Huo Ling'er teased Shi Yi about breaking his promise, and he insisted he would return within a month.

Shi Yi reassured the women who worried about his safety, then told Shi Hao he would return home after three years in the Void Great Rift. He left Shi Hao in charge of the Billion Strong Army and the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens, with a projection of his consciousness available to help, and provided a route for clearing the remaining Darkness Creatures.

• Shi Yi spent several days comforting the women in his family, who feared for his safety in the Void Great Rift.
• Shi Yi told Shi Hao he was going home because the crisis in the Void Great Rift would take years to resolve and he had already settled the troubles that brought him to the Immortal Antiquity Secret Realm.
• Shi Yi appointed Shi Hao to command the Billion Strong Army and preside over the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens, promising that his consciousness could descend through an incarnated projection if needed.
• Shi Yi transmitted the locations of Abyss Entrances and Darkness Creature gathering places to Shi Hao and instructed him to clear them in order.

Shi Yi returned from the Void Great Rift to the Yan Huang Empire using the Original Gate, reunited with Qin Yining, and attended a Grand Court Assembly as Human Emperor. The court opened a proposal to let the native residents of the Eight Regions’ secret realms and Small Worlds become human, and Shi Yi asked what that meant.

• Shi Hao declined Shi Yi’s invitation to visit Qin Yining and asked him to reassure their mother that he would not risk his life recklessly again.
• Little Tower recognized Shi Yi’s Original Gate and marveled that Shi Yi possessed both it and an Immortal Dao Flower Bud.
• Shi Yi used the Original Gate to return to the Yan Huang Empire and reunited with Qin Yining after three years away.
• Qin Yining urged Shi Yi to attend the Grand Court Assembly, and he dressed as Human Emperor and went to court.
• A civil official proposed giving native residents of the Eight Regions’ secret realms and Small Worlds a chance to become human, and Shi Yi asked what that meant.

Shi Yi presided over a Grand Court Assembly where officials debated civilizing the secret realm Small Worlds and expanding the Eight Regions’ army, then approved an increase of ten million soldiers. He told Qin Yining he planned to use his own merit to support the Billion Strong Army and fill the Border Wilderness Emperor Pass, but she argued that the Eight Regions had no place interfering in its defense.

• A Six Ministries Minister proposed civilizing the Native Residents of the secret realm Small Worlds, but Shi Yi ruled that it was unnecessary until they ascended into the Eight Regions.
• A veteran military general requested ten million more soldiers, while officials argued over the army’s cost and the growing Eight Regions’ need for protection.
• Shi Yi held a Grand Court Assembly for half a month and made final decisions on military expansion and other state affairs.
• Qin Yining asked Shi Yi whether he had agreed to expand the army, and he said the Eight Regions could afford it.
• Shi Yi told Qin Yining he planned to fund the Billion Strong Army and fill the Border Wilderness Emperor Pass with his own merit, but she opposed the Eight Regions taking responsibility for its defense.

Shi Yi reassured Qin Yining that he would help defend the Nine Heavens Ten Earths without risking his life, then visited his birth mother Yu Yuexian after three years away. He took her to a quiet mountain river to share a meal, where she began to apologize for not stopping her family in the past.

• Qin Yining urged Shi Yi to focus on the Eight Regions instead of helping the Nine Heavens Ten Earths, and he promised he would not force himself or risk his life.
• Shi Yi comforted Qin Yining, and the two spent the night together before he went to visit Yu Yuexian.
• Yu Yuexian embraced Shi Yi after his return and suggested that his adopted son take over dangerous duties, prompting Shi Yi to insist that Shi Hao was only his cousin.
• Shi Yi invited Yu Yuexian on a peaceful outing, and she agreed to go wherever he went.
• Shi Yi cooked for Yu Yuexian beside a river in the Profound Domain, where she began apologizing for not stopping her grandfather and the others.

Shi Yi spent time with Yu Yuexian and later walked through Luoyang with Huo Ling'er, where he secretly killed two Foreign Domain envoys who tried to approach him. The Foreign Domain Kings discussed the envoys' deaths and Shi Yi's power, and Wu Shang called the Ancestor Offering Spirit the Mad Woman.

• Shi Yi reassured Yu Yuexian that being sent to Stone Village had brought him opportunities, then accompanied her for nine days as she needled Qin Yining over Shi Hao's absence.
• Shi Yi and Huo Ling'er walked through bustling Luoyang while Shi Yi exchanged text messages with Huo Ling'er's father on Xi Yi.
• Shi Yi captured two Foreign Domain envoys with an invisible spider thread and killed them through the giant spider before they could meet him.
• The Foreign Domain Kings learned their envoys had died and speculated that the Dark Eight Kings and the Ancestor Offering Spirit were connected to Shi Yi's power.
• Wu Shang said the Mad Woman could suppress all eight kings, and Red King questioned his nerve in calling her that.

The Foreign Realm Kings discussed how to contact Human Emperor Shi Yi and persuade the Dark Eight Kings to return, settling on Ning Chuan's Mother as a possible intermediary. A month later, Shi Hao urgently asked Shi Yi for help against a strange creature that the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens and the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Banner could not contain, and Shi Yi agreed to go at once.

• Red King, Ten Evils True Phoenix, An Lan, Yu Tuo, Pu Demon King, He Wushuang, God-Grub, and Kun Di discussed Human Emperor Shi Yi and whether the Dark Eight Kings might return to the Foreign Domain.
• Kun Di proposed contacting Shi Yi through Ning Chuan's Mother, while Wu Shang and the others pointed out the risks of reaching her or sending Ten Evils True Phoenix into the Eight Regions.
• A month later, Shi Hao reported that a strange creature had overwhelmed the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens and the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Banner, killing more than a million creatures and threatening the Billion Strong Army.
• Shi Yi left Moon Chan and the Witch and agreed to go help Shi Hao deal with the creature.

Shi Yi brought Moon Chan and Witch to the Bloodstained Ancient Ship, then left them there while he went to help Shi Hao face a Darkness Creature wielding a devastating ancient sword. After evading its first strike, Shi Yi recognized the weapon as a sword embryo that could strengthen his Human Emperor Sword, and the chapter ended as the creature attacked again.

• Moon Chan and Witch insisted on joining Shi Yi on his dangerous trip through the Void Great Rift, and he brought them aboard the Bloodstained Ancient Ship.
• Shi Yi left Moon Chan and Witch aboard the ship and rushed to help Shi Hao and the Billion Strong Army.
• Shi Yi reclaimed control of the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens and the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Banner, then used the Original Gate to pull Shi Hao away from a deadly sword strike.
• Shi Yi confronted a humanoid Darkness Creature whose ancient sword nearly tore apart the Void Great Rift, and he suspected the unsharpened blade could serve as a sword embryo for his Human Emperor Sword.
• The Darkness Creature attacked Shi Yi again, but he judged its sword light powerful yet too slow.

Shi Yi claimed the Great Luo Sword Embryo and planned to fuse it into the Human Emperor Sword, while Shi Hao led the army to another Abyss Entrance and recovered a human king’s corpse. The chapter ended with Shi Yi declaring that the Immortal Domain still owed a debt, prompting Moon Chan to worry he would act alone.

• Shi Yi cautiously waited a day before killing the humanoid Darkness Creature and taking the Great Luo Sword Embryo.
• Moon Chan and the Witch warned Shi Yi that the sword was ominous, but he said he would fuse it into the Human Emperor Sword or leave it unused.
• Shi Hao led the Billion Strong Army to the second Abyss Entrance, where they found the corpse of one of the Seven Kings of the Human Race and brought it back to the Bloodstained Ancient Ship.
• Moon Chan felt guilt after seeing the ancestor’s corpse, and Shi Yi told her that the Nine Heavens Ten Earths had mostly repaid its debt to the Seven Kings.
• Shi Yi said the Immortal Domain had not repaid its debt, and Moon Chan worried he would try to confront it alone.

Shi Yi postponed his reckoning with the Immortal Domain while the Billion Strong Army fought the Darkness Creatures at the second Abyss Entrance. He boosted the army’s morale by ordering the spoils distributed before the battle and showed the Witch and Moon Chan the enormous haul he had gathered in the Void Great Rift.

• Shi Yi told the Witch he would eventually settle accounts with the Immortal Domain, while Moon Chan asked what that would mean for the Heaven Mending Dao and Heaven Intercepting Dao.
• Shi Yi explained that he might relocate those Dao Lineages to the Nine Heavens Ten Earths and use the Void Great Rift campaign to prepare the Eight Regions to replace the Immortal Domain as the center of power.
• Shi Hao and the Billion Strong Army struggled against the powerful Dark Weirdness Ominous Aggregate at the second Abyss Entrance, which the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens and Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Banner suppressed.
• Shi Yi ordered the army’s spoils distributed immediately, and the prospect of receiving rewards revived the soldiers’ morale and broke the stalemate.
• At Moon Chan’s insistence, Shi Yi projected the Bloodstained Ancient Ship’s hold, revealing vast stores of God Soil, many kinds of immortal gold, and more than ten billion treasures.
• Shi Yi explained that the Void Great Rift had yielded no spiritual medicines or immortal herbs because the Darkness Creatures had consumed them.

Shi Yi continued leading the campaign against the Darkness Creatures while distributing the spoils among the Billion Strong Army. After three years of fighting at the second Abyss Entrance, he prepared to return home and leave Shi Hao in command.

• Shi Yi explained his plans for the Nine Heavens Ten Earths and shared God Soil and immortal gold with the army, while Moon Chan and the Witch asked to join the battle.
• Shi Yi empowered Moon Chan and the Witch through the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens and the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Banner so they could fight safely beside the army.
• After three years, Moon Chan and the Witch decided they would return to the Nine Heavens Ten Earths once the second Abyss Entrance was suppressed, and Shi Yi gave them and the army their rewards.
• Shi Yi discovered that the spoils gathered from the campaign far exceeded what he had distributed and pondered how to use his surplus merit and opportunities.
• Shi Hao led the army as its strength grew, and Shi Yi told him he was going home to rest while Shi Hao continued the campaign.

Shi Yi returned to Yun Xi after leaving Shi Hao, then visited Yun Menglan and met Ning Chuan's Mother, Ning Shi. He welcomed her as kin because Ning Chuan carried Supreme Blood and looked ahead to the younger generation becoming his future generals.

• Shi Yi left Shi Hao, and Little Pagoda praised his hidden plans while explaining how the resources Shi Hao distributed had helped restore its body.
• Shi Yi rested in Yun Xi's embrace and explained that he could not miss the chance to gain control of the Nine Heavens Ten Earths and prepare for the Ten Weird Ancestors.
• Shi Yi visited Yun Menglan and found her speaking with Ning Chuan's Mother, who had come to the Eight Regions to escape harassment.
• Ning Chuan's Mother, Ning Shi, paid respects to Shi Yi, and he recognized her as Six Crown King Ning Chuan's mother and noticed the dim cross-realm communication formation on her body.
• Shi Yi welcomed Ning Shi as kin because Ning Chuan's Sin Blood had been recognized as Supreme Blood, and he imagined Ning Chuan and other young cultivators serving as his future generals.

Shi Yi examined Ning Chuan’s Mother’s cross-realm formation after she asked him to grant Ning Chuan a Human Registry, and she and Yun Menglan grew close to him. Three days later, Shi Yi removed the formation, prompting Foreign Domain kings to suspect him and discuss Ning Chuan’s potential.

• Ning Chuan’s Mother knelt before Shi Yi and asked him to grant Ning Chuan a Human Registry because her son’s origins were connected to the Foreign Domain.
• Shi Yi examined the cross-realm communication formation on Ning Chuan’s Mother, but she mistook his actions for romantic interest and embraced him; Yun Menglan joined them, and Shi Yi agreed to consider Ning Chuan’s registry when he wanted one himself.
• Shi Yi offered to remove the formation, and Ning Chuan’s Mother accepted his help despite doubting he could undo one left by an Immortal King.
• On the third day, Shi Yi deciphered and removed the formation, and Ning Chuan’s Mother continued spending time with Yun Menglan and Shi Yi.
• In a Foreign Domain sacred place, the kings learned the formation had vanished and debated who had removed it; An Lan suspected Shi Yi and praised his talent in formations.