Chapter Summaries

Shi Yi and the other leaders formed the Three Kings Council to unite the Eight Regions, Foreign Domain, and Burial Domain against the coming Dark Purge. The council agreed to settle accounts with the Immortal Domain first, and Shi Yi said its kings were too unreliable to leave unchecked.

• The Foreign Realm Kings considered returning the third Rotten Wooden Box to Shi Yi as a gesture of goodwill, since they had failed to find its key and trusted his character.
• Willow Deity explained that Shi Yi’s power came from his own path, so becoming an immortal changed his life level and lifespan more than his strength.
• After Shi Yi and Shi Hao achieved immortality, the Three Kings Council was convened secretly in the Original Emperor City with Shi Yi, Kun Di, and the Burial Master representing their factions.
• The council members argued that the Immortal Domain’s kings could sabotage their preparations for the Dark Purge, and Shi Yi supported settling accounts with them first.
• The Female Burial King asked whether Shi Yi’s judgment was personal, and he admitted his prejudice while saying the Immortal Domain’s kings were unreliable.

Shi Yi secured the Burial Domain and Foreign Domain’s help in guarding the dam while insisting that the Immortal Domain be purged without outside forces. He institutionalized the Three Kings Council, opened the Original Emperor City to the four realms, and six months later the city had flourished as a hub for the five realms.

• Shi Yi rejected the Foreign Realm Kings’ offer to help purge the Immortal Domain and asked them to guard the dam instead, as Boundary Sea threats gathered.
• The Burial Master and Kun Di agreed to guard the dam while Shi Yi handled the Immortal Domain purge.
• Shi Yi concluded the Three Kings Council and distributed official documents for the attendees to sign, formalizing the decisions and their responsibilities.
• Shi Yi announced that the Original Emperor City would open to the four realms and become a hub and defensive line for the five realms.
• Six months later, the Original Emperor City had grown prosperous, its former elderly and disabled residents benefiting from the influx of living beings and merit.
• An unidentified speaker told his brother that he was ready on his end and could proceed anytime.

Shi Yi prepared to reclaim the Immortal Domain, arguing that the Nine Heavens Ten Earths had a just claim and rallying the Billion Strong Army behind him. After breaking open the Immortal Domain’s gates, he had Qin Yining publish a proclamation accusing its kings of eighteen grave crimes and declaring war, leaving the invasion poised to begin.

• Shi Yi told Shi Hao that reclaiming the Immortal Domain required a righteous cause, and the Billion Strong Army rallied to their Human Emperor’s call.
• The Immortal Domain Kings debated their lack of options as Shi Yi’s forces blocked their routes and the allied kings guarded the Boundary Sea Dam.
• Shi Yi raised the Human Emperor Sword fused with the Great Luo Sword Embryo and shattered the Immortal Domain’s sealed gates.
• Qin Yining displayed Shi Yi’s proclamation, which accused the Immortal Domain Kings of betrayal, slaughter, and other crimes before declaring that blood debts must be repaid.

Shi Yi launched his reckoning against the Immortal Domain Kings, rejecting Pan Wang and Qi Yu’s attempts to negotiate and attacking Pan Wang with the Human Emperor Sword. As the Eight Regions army invaded to purge the guilty and protect Immortal Domain’s people, the Dark Eight Kings trapped Ao Cheng in an overwhelming siege.

• Pan Wang rushed out of Immortal Domain’s gate in fury over Qin Yining’s manifesto, but Shi Yi shielded her and dismissed Pan Wang’s claim that the Immortal Domain Kings had acted out of necessity.
• Shi Yi declared that the Immortal Domain Kings did not represent Immortal Domain and struck Pan Wang with the Human Emperor Sword, destroying his spirit body.
• Pan Wang attacked Shi Yi with his Peach Wood Staff, but Shi Yi met his blow with the Human Emperor Sword while Qi Yu held back from intervening.
• Shi Hao led the Billion Strong Army through the gate as the Eight Regions Kings entered Immortal Domain to confront the Immortal Domain Kings and save its uninformed inhabitants.
• The Dark Eight Kings surrounded Ao Cheng and overwhelmed him, invoking his role in the Ancestor Offering Spirit’s siege while denying him a path to escape.

Shi Yi and the Dark Eight Kings trapped Immortal King Ao Cheng while battles erupted across the Immortal Domain. As Shi Yi approached Pan Wang, Shi Hao arrived and asked to fight him himself.

• Immortal King Ao Cheng denied responsibility for Ancestor Offering Spirit Willow Deity's fate, but the Dark Eight Kings condemned him and blocked his escape.
• Shi Yi continued fighting Pan Wang while the Dark Eight Kings surrounded Immortal King Ao Cheng, and the narration explained the danger of exposing All Heavens Myriad Realms to Above the Heavens.
• The Three Kings of the Western Mausoleum Realm fought Tai Shi Immortal King, the Two Kings of the Void God Realm overwhelmed Immortal King Yuan Chu, and Shi Yi kept Pan Wang near death.
• Shi Yi walked toward Pan Wang with the Human Emperor Sword, but Shi Hao interrupted him and asked to fight Pan Wang himself.
• Shi Yi questioned why Shi Hao had left the battlefield duties he had been assigned to come over.

Shi Hao asked to fight Pan Wang after Shi Yi warned him of the danger, and Shi Yi agreed to let him take over. Pan Wang begged the Lord of the Forbidden Zone to spare him, but Shi Hao arrived and declared that he wanted to kill him too.

• Shi Hao told Shi Yi that the Immortal Domain's forces were weak and said he wanted to test himself against an Immortal King.
• Shi Yi warned Shi Hao that Pan Wang was dangerous, but Shi Hao trusted Little Tower and insisted on fighting.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone and the World's First Spiritual Root discussed the Ancestor Offering Spirit Willow Deity and whether Shi Yi could advance further.
• Wounded and exhausted, Pan Wang begged the Lord of the Forbidden Zone to let him leave, but he refused and the World's First Spiritual Root condemned him.
• Shi Hao arrived beside Pan Wang and said he wanted to kill him too.

Shi Yi spared Pan Wang after ordering him to defeat Shi Hao, while Immortal King Qi Yu offered to become the Human Emperor Sword’s sheath and restrain its baleful aura. Three months later, the Immortal Domain had largely been pacified, and Shi Yi watched Pan Wang’s desperate battle with Shi Hao.

• Shi Yi gave Pan Wang a chance to live if he defeated Shi Hao, and Pan Wang immediately attacked Shi Hao.
• Immortal King Qi Yu offered her true spirit soul, then became an Azure Sword Sheath to restrain the Human Emperor Sword’s baleful aura.
• Shi Yi accepted Qi Yu as his sword sheath, stored her true spirit and soul, and sheathed the Human Emperor Sword at his waist.
• Pan Wang suppressed Shi Hao in their fight, but Shi Hao continued resisting with Little Pagoda’s help.
• Over three months, Shi Yi’s forces executed Tai Shi Immortal King, Immortal King Yuan Chu, and Immortal King Ao Cheng, largely pacifying the Immortal Domain.
• Shi Yi looked at the nearly defeated Pan Wang and the increasingly spirited Shi Hao as their battle continued.

Shi Yi halted Shi Hao and Pan Wang’s battle when Darkness Creatures gathered at the Boundary Sea Dam, offering Pan Wang a chance to atone by killing one trillion of them. As the Foreign and Burial Domain forces prepared an ambush, Shi Yi issued a decree calling the newly conquered Immortal Domain to muster for the coming war.

• Shi Hao taunted Pan Wang for holding back, while Pan Wang endured the humiliation because he feared Shi Yi’s judgment whether he won or lost.
• Shi Yi sensed Darkness Creatures trying to cross the Boundary Sea Dam, stopped the fight, and sent Shi Hao to join the Billion Strong Army.
• Shi Yi offered Pan Wang clemency if he killed one trillion Darkness Creatures, and Pan Wang surrendered his true spirit and soul to show his submission.
• Foreign Realm Kings and Burial Realm Kings prepared an ambush at the dam as Darkness Creatures gathered on the fallen side, drawn by an unknown cause.
• Shi Yi projected a decree across the Immortal Domain, ordering its forces to assemble at Border Wilderness Emperor Pass within ten days and join him at the front lines.
• The Immortal Domain’s people answered Shi Yi’s decree after hearing that the Boundary Sea Dam faced a grave threat.

Shi Yi placed the Immortal Domain under martial law and ordered an investigation of the factions that had defied his decree, setting punishments for cowardice and treasonous collusion with Darkness Creatures. As Pan Wang and Immortal King Qi Yu investigated, the war against the Darkness Creatures erupted at the Boundary Sea Dam.

• Shi Yi assembled a two-billion-strong Immortal Domain army, mobilized the Nine Heavens Ten Earths' billion-strong army, and imposed martial law on the Immortal Domain.
• Shi Yi ordered Pan Wang and Immortal King Qi Yu to investigate the factions that had defied the Human Emperor's Decree, while the Immortal Domain's forces imposed order.
• At Shi Yi's court, Shi Hao urged him to slaughter the defiant factions, while Qin Yining and others argued for investigation before punishment.
• Shi Yi ruled that those who had only refused to fight would serve one hundred thousand years of atonement, while factions that colluded with Darkness Creatures would be exterminated.
• Shi Yi reflected on the threat posed by the weird and ominous and resolved to hide Willow Deity, buy time, and grow stronger.
• Foreign Realm Kings and Burial Realm Kings led their armies into battle against the Darkness Creatures at the Boundary Sea Dam to defend their domains.

Shi Yi learned that six powerful Immortal Domain families and clans had defied his decree and considered whether they had colluded with Darkness Creatures. As officials and generals urged him to punish them, he ordered his decree transmitted.

• The Foreign Realm Kings and Burial Realm Kings blocked the embankment, while Darkness Kings in the Boundary Sea discussed the new Faith Merit system and the threat it posed to their plans.
• The Female Kun Peng gave Shi Yi a list of those who had refused to obey the Human Emperor's Decree, naming the Wang Family, Jin Family, Feng Family, Ye Clan, Lin Clan, and Gu Clan.
• Shi Yi condemned the six groups for defying his decree and suspected them of aiding the Darkness Creatures, though he had no proof of collusion.
• Officials and generals urged Shi Yi to dispatch troops and eliminate the six groups, and Shi Yi ordered, “Transmit my decree.”

Shi Yi completed the purge of Immortal Domain traitors and prepared a three-billion-strong expeditionary army to reinforce the Boundary Sea Dam. As the army arrived, the Emperor Fall Boat emerged before the embattled forces of the Burial Domain and Foreign Domain.

• Shi Yi ordered the investigation and extermination of the Immortal Domain powers suspected of colluding with the Weird Clan, and the purge killed over a billion people.
• After the investigation exposed a wider network of traitors, Shi Yi told Shi Hao to integrate two billion Immortal Domain troops with the Nine Heavens Ten Earths army and prepare to sail.
• Shi Yi assembled the three-billion-strong expeditionary force and declared war on the weird and ominous before leading it toward the Boundary Sea Dam.
• At the dam, the Burial Domain and Foreign Domain armies struggled against tens of billions of Darkness Creatures while their kings fought four Darkness Kings.
• A bell toll announced the arrival of a vast Void Warship, which the soldiers recognized as the Emperor Fall Boat, the Emperor's lost warship.

Human Emperor Shi Yi arrived at the Boundary Sea Dam with a vast army, where the Footprint Emperor briefly appeared and warned him about the Dark Four Emperors before vanishing. Shi Yi led Immortal Domain's army through the dam to attack the Darkness Creatures, while Shi Hao and the Nine Heavens Ten Earths army remained behind and the Willow Deity followed Shi Yi.

• Shi Yi's arrival in the Emperor Fall Boat stirred the Footprint Emperor's traces, and the genderless figure appeared to warn him about the terror in the Ultimate Ancient Land and name the Dark Four Emperors before being erased.
• Shi Yi struck the Darkness Creatures with the Human Emperor Sword, exposing the Darkness Kings hidden beyond the Boundary Sea Dam.
• Shi Yi assigned Shi Hao and the Nine Heavens Ten Earths army to defend the dam and support the allied forces, then led two billion Immortal Domain troops out through it.
• The Willow Deity silently followed Shi Yi as he charged toward the densest concentration of Darkness Creatures.
• The Eight Regions Kings sought out the Darkness Kings, who complained that Shi Yi had sent others to fight them, but found themselves unable to retreat or flee.

Shi Yi led the Immortal Domain army through the Boundary Sea while Shi Hao’s forces gained the upper hand at the Boundary Sea Dam, but the Darkness Kings avoided confronting their united armies. Ten years later, Shi Yi commanded the battles remotely with Willow Deity beside him and let the Human Emperor Sword fight on its own.

• Shi Yi swept through the Boundary Sea aboard the Emperor Fall Boat, but no powerful Darkness King came to challenge him.
• Shi Hao used the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens to help his army gain the advantage at the Boundary Sea Dam and protect the Foreign Domain and Burial Domain forces.
• Shi Yi stopped personally slaughtering Darkness Creatures and released the Human Emperor Sword to fight while he directed the armies through live Void Sky Screen broadcasts.
• Willow Deity explained to Shi Yi how time felt shorter as a cultivator’s life and realm grew, while privately recalling that she had waited over a million years for him.
• The Human Emperor Sword returned to Shi Yi, who checked that it had killed no innocents and accepted its reassurance.

Shi Yi led a vast allied army into the Boundary Sea, cutting off the flow of Darkness Creatures and easing the pressure on the Boundary Sea Dam. After saving a wounded Immortal King and ordering him back to the dam, Shi Yi focused on the war and the restoration of Nine Heavens Ten Earths.

• Shi Yi struck through a phantom gate and annihilated the Dark Weirdness Ominous Aggregates pursuing a wounded figure with a Peach Wood Staff, then ordered him to return and help defend the dam.
• Shi Yi reflected that overwhelming power mattered more than combat techniques at the highest realms, while Willow Deity explained that techniques remained essential among opponents of equal strength.
• Shi Yi led the Emperor Fall Boat and a two-billion-strong army through the Boundary Sea, blocking the Darkness Creatures’ advance and greatly reducing pressure on the Boundary Sea Dam.
• Shi Hao asked Shi Yi to let him join the expedition into the Boundary Sea’s depths, but Shi Yi told him to guard the dam and continue defending the front.
• The Burial Domain and Foreign Domain armies bought Shi Yi’s purification formation and studied it while fighting, as Shi Yi held a petition to pacify the forbidden zones and perilous lands of Nine Heavens Ten Earths.

Shi Yi convened the Three Kings Council after the dark unrest at the Boundary Sea Dam was pacified and urged the realms to continue into the Boundary Sea rather than withdraw. The Kings reacted with fear and doubt, but Wu Shang stepped forward to support Shi Yi’s proposal.

• Shi Yi agreed to let Shi Hao leave the Boundary Sea Dam, and Shi Hao thanked him before continuing to fight the Darkness Creatures.
• Forty years passed, and the united forces pacified the dark unrest at the Boundary Sea Dam in fifty years, far sooner than expected.
• Shi Yi convened the Three Kings Council aboard the Emperor Fall Boat to discuss whether to withdraw their troops or push outward.
• Kun Di, An Lan, and the Burial Master raised concerns about the dangers of advancing, while Fake Medicine Seller suggested seeking the Pig Butcher’s help against powerful Darkness Kings.
• Shi Yi argued that the realms should counter-purge the Darkness Creatures before the Dark Purge arrived and reminded the Kings that they had already succeeded by working together.
• Wu Shang supported Shi Yi’s call to strike beyond the Boundary Sea Dam, though many of the Kings remained afraid to advance.

Shi Yi secured support for permanently stationing troops at the Boundary Sea Dam and received the third Rotten Wooden Box from Wu Shang. The Great Luo Sword Embryo reacted to the box, and Shi Yi and Willow Deity suspected it was the missing key, leaving them poised to open it.

• Shi Yi insisted on permanently stationing three billion troops at the Boundary Sea Dam, and the Three Kings Council ended with a billion Foreign Domain and Burial Domain soldiers joining the deployment.
• Wu Shang presented Shi Yi with the third Rotten Wooden Box, believing only Shi Yi could find a way to open it.
• The Human Emperor Sword stirred when Shi Yi saw the box, leading him to suspect that the Great Luo Sword Embryo was its missing key.
• Shi Yi brought the box to Willow Deity, who explained that no one had ever found the third key.
• Shi Yi showed Willow Deity the Great Luo Sword Embryo, and it conveyed that it could open the box.

Shi Yi opened the Rotten Wooden Box and learned that it held the pure primordial spirit of an immensely powerful being, then chose to leave it sealed while he grew stronger. Seven hundred years later, Teacher Cao prepared a group of young graduates for an examination in the Origin of Demons.

• Shi Yi used the Human Emperor Sword to open the Rotten Wooden Box and found a pure primordial spirit protected by the phantom of a divine temple.
• Willow Deity warned Shi Yi that the primordial spirit’s owner was so powerful she had no confidence in defeating Them, and Shi Yi proposed keeping the box rather than provoking a possible enemy.
• Shi Yi resealed the Rotten Wooden Box and focused on cultivation, and seven hundred years passed.
• Teacher Cao brought young graduates to the Origin of Demons for their examination, warning them to purify Darkness Creatures while protecting themselves with the Golden Light Mantra.
• The students peppered Teacher Cao with questions about merit, divine mantras, and the Killing Array inheritances as they prepared to enter the Restricted Area.

Teacher Cao cleared the demonic energy around the Origin of Demons so Flame Yellow Academy’s students could enter for their graduation assessments. The chapter then looked back on the academy’s role in a transformed world before leaving Shi Yi teasing Lunar Jade Rabbit in the Yan Huang Empire.

• Teacher Cao used the Purifying Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra to disperse the weakened demonic energy, then sent the students into the Origin of Demons for their assessments.
• The students invoked the Golden Light Mantra to protect themselves before entering the Restricted Area for Living Beings.
• Teacher Cao complained to his fellow teachers that the students underestimated darkness, while they recalled how much safer life had become over the past seven hundred years.
• The chapter explained that Shi Yi had founded Flame Yellow Academy to educate powerful students and spread knowledge of protective divine mantras as the Nine Heavens Ten Earths recovered from darkness.
• Shi Yi teased Lunar Jade Rabbit by threatening to eat braised rabbit, and she insisted that he was not allowed to eat rabbits.

Shi Yi’s daughters were pulled into the Ancient Desolate Battlefield and briefly encountered their father across time, while Shi Yi learned they had interfered with his past. Later, Butcher came to Shi Yi seeking to join his command, and he began explaining why he had waited to approach the Boundary Sea.

• Qin Mengyao and Shi Lingyi used a summoning formation, were drawn into the Ancient Desolate Battlefield, and found Shi Yi, though they could neither see nor hear him clearly.
• A giant Double Pupil appeared after Shi Yi left, summoned the sisters home, and scolded them for disturbing his past.
• Shi Yi reunited with Yun Xi, checked on her pregnancy, and realized that the fairies he had encountered years earlier were his daughters.
• A Man told Shi Yi that Butcher, a survivor of the Emperor Fall Era, wanted to join his command and fight Darkness Creatures on the Boundary Sea Dam.
• Shi Yi met Butcher, who described witnessing the Emperor’s fall and explained that he had avoided charging into the Boundary Sea’s depths before beginning to address Shi Yi’s possible future as an Emperor.

Shi Qingxuan sacrificed half of herself to become Reincarnation, creating the Six Paths and giving the Burial Domain a future. A million years later, Shi Yi answered a call from the Immortal Ancient Era, closed a time loop, and killed the nineteen-headed Emperor Light Immortal King; the chapter ended with others calling him the Human Emperor Heavenly Emperor.

• Butcher warned Shi Yi not to venture rashly to the end of the Boundary Sea, and Shi Yi asked whether Butcher truly believed he could become an Emperor.
• A million years later, Shi Yi tried to dissuade Shi Qingxuan from turning herself into Reincarnation, but she chose to sacrifice half of herself to evolve the Six Paths and perfect the Burial Domain.
• Shi Yi discovered that the Immortal Dao Flower Bud was the remnant body of an Immortal Emperor he called the Pollen Emperor, whose true spirit had already vanished.
• Shi Yi heard calls from the Immortal Ancient Era, used his purple Double Pupils to look back through time, and sealed the era into a closed loop by reclaiming a bloody giant hand and crushing the nineteen-headed Emperor Light Immortal King.
• The Immortal Kings praised Shi Yi as the Human Emperor Heavenly Emperor, a title that had persisted even after he abdicated and passed the Yan Huang Empire to his descendants.