Chapter Summaries

Li Yun repelled a hidden assailant who warned him against unifying the Great Void World. His victory established his reputation, while the Supreme Immortal Gates’ allure sparked a widespread search for the five that remained lost.

• An unseen swordsman ambushed Li Yun with Immortal-powered Sword Light, but Li Yun used his Limitless Domain and Limitless Wind to destroy the attacks.
• Li Yun drew on the true power of his Supreme Immortal Gate and forced the attacker to appear and retreat after warning him against unifying the Great Void World.
• Li Yun captured the remaining Venerables and sent them to the Chasing Immortals Divine Dynasty, bringing the North Sea battle to an end.
• News of Li Yun’s victory spread, strengthening his reputation and increasing envy of the Supreme Immortal Gate he controlled.
• Ancient Venerables, Mystic Venerables, and others began searching for the five lost Supreme Immortal Gates, while Li Yun hoped the search would expose those who already possessed them.

Three years after the North Sea battle, Chen Xiu advanced to become a Lesser Venerable with a Supreme Venerable Dao Fruit of Judgment. Her breakthrough awakened fragmented memories containing a clue to a lost Supreme Immortal Gate, and she planned to investigate alone while Li Yun stayed behind.

• In the years after the North Sea battle, Li Yun cultivated as the search for the five lost Supreme Immortal Gates drew other powerhouses’ attention away from him.
• Li Yun sensed a disturbance and found Chen Xiu surrounded by Immortal Light as she crossed into Venerable cultivation and evolved her Judgment Dao Fruit into a Supreme Venerable Dao Fruit.
• After half a month, Chen Xiu awakened and embraced Li Yun, lamenting that her breakthrough had come too late to help him in the North Sea battle.
• Chen Xiu told Li Yun that her new memories contained a clue to one of the lost Supreme Immortal Gates.
• Chen Xiu said she would sort through her memories and search alone, warning Li Yun that his movements would attract too much attention.

Chen Xiu left the Chasing Immortals Divine Dynasty to act alone while Li Yun remained in the Immortal Scar Realm, drawing attention from his enemies. At the Heavenly Dao Palace, Yellow Heaven Venerable clashed with the Shadow Ancestor over his allegiance to the Supreme Heavenly Court, leaving the Shadow Ancestor questioning whether reclaiming his sword half had been worth the cost.

• Li Yun agreed that Chen Xiu should leave alone, and she quietly departed the Great Void World the next day.
• Li Yun continued cultivating and openly used the Supreme Immortal Gate to enter the Immortal Scar Realm, angering those watching him.
• Yellow Heaven Venerable complained about Li Yun to the Shadow Ancestor, who had regained half of the Heavenshadow Sword in exchange for joining the Supreme Heavenly Court.
• Yellow Heaven Venerable warned the Shadow Ancestor to abandon any ambition that opposed the nine Supreme Immortal Dynasties, and the Shadow Ancestor stormed out.
• After reconsidering Yellow Heaven Venerable's warning, the Shadow Ancestor regretted joining the Heavenly Dao Palace and resented how Yellow Heaven had treated him.

Shadow Ancestor feared that the Great Void World’s coming era might replace the old Immortal Realm, so he considered aligning himself with Li Yun instead of the Supreme Heavenly Court. When Yellow Heaven Venerable summoned him to receive an order from the Supreme Heavenly Court, Shadow Ancestor concealed his intentions and asked what the order was.

• Shadow Ancestor wondered whether the Great Void World would become a new Immortal Realm and feared that the changing era might destroy him as a remnant of the old one.
• Shadow Ancestor decided that Li Yun might represent the new era and considered seeking his favor, though he worried that Li Yun would reject him after their recent conflict.
• Shadow Ancestor realized Yellow Heaven Venerable might have used the Heavenshadow Sword to lure him into ambushing Li Yun and prevent them from joining forces.
• Yellow Heaven Venerable summoned Shadow Ancestor to the Heavenly Dao Palace to receive an order from the Supreme Heavenly Court.
• Yellow Heaven Venerable urged Shadow Ancestor to stay loyal, while Shadow Ancestor concealed his resolve to sever ties and asked what the order said.

Yellow Heaven Venerable told Shadow Ancestor that Heavenly Lord wanted him to investigate a strange fluctuation in the Despair Ruins that might indicate a lost Supreme Immortal Gate. Shadow Ancestor questioned why he had been chosen, and Yellow Heaven Venerable explained that the mission would test his loyalty and could restore his immortality and earn him a Heavenly Monarch position.

• Yellow Heaven Venerable told Shadow Ancestor that the Supreme Heavenly Court had ordered him to travel to the dangerous Despair Ruins, and Shadow Ancestor protested the risks.
• Yellow Heaven Venerable promised that completing the test could restore Shadow Ancestor to his peak and make him an Indestructible Immortal again within a thousand years.
• Shadow Ancestor agreed to hear the mission after Yellow Heaven Venerable warned him not to reveal the secret.
• Yellow Heaven Venerable revealed that Heavenly Lord had sensed a fluctuation resembling a Supreme Immortal Gate in the Despair Ruins and wanted Shadow Ancestor to investigate using his traceless Dao.
• Shadow Ancestor doubted Heavenly Lord's motives, but Yellow Heaven Venerable explained that Heavenly Lord wanted a discreet investigator because the fluctuation might be a false lead and the other Supreme Immortals could react if he moved openly.
• Yellow Heaven Venerable said Heavenly Lord would help Shadow Ancestor condense immortality after his return and grant him Indestructible Immortal status and a Heavenly Monarch position if he found a Supreme Immortal Gate.

Shadow Ancestor traveled toward the Despair Ruins under orders from Yellow Heaven Venerable, while trying to evade the watcher tailing him. A Chaos Tide and a dazzling pillar of light gave him a chance to plunge into the tide and shake off his pursuer.

• Shadow Ancestor questioned Yellow Heaven Venerable about how to report finding the Supreme Immortal Gate, and agreed to depart for the Despair Ruins in three days.
• Shadow Ancestor realized Yellow Heaven Venerable was watching him, so he postponed contacting Li Yun and set out as ordered.
• Shadow Ancestor detected an unknown pursuer who followed him through two and a half years of continuous teleportation.
• After traveling for another five years, Shadow Ancestor encountered a Chaos Tide and tried to use it to lose the pursuer.
• A radiant pillar of light appeared beyond the tide, and Shadow Ancestor charged into the Chaos Tide as though drawn by it.

Shadow Ancestor used the Chaos Tide to escape his pursuer and encountered Chen Xiu, whom he recognized from the battle at the North Sea. After Chen Xiu nearly attacked him, he asked her to pass Li Yun a message about information he had concerning the lost Supreme Immortal Gate.

• Shadow Ancestor entered the Chaos Tide, changed direction, and escaped the pursuer who followed him toward the pillar of light.
• After moving through the tide for three days, Shadow Ancestor spotted a woman nearby and recognized her as Chen Xiu from the North Sea battle.
• Chen Xiu recognized Shadow Ancestor as the attacker who had ambushed Li Yun and prepared to strike him with the Judgment Immortal Eyes.
• Shadow Ancestor pleaded with Chen Xiu to contact Li Yun, explaining that he wanted to apologize for the ambush and discuss an important matter.
• Chen Xiu confirmed she was Li Yun's Dao Companion, and Shadow Ancestor revealed that he had information about the lost Supreme Immortal Gate.

Li Yun met Shadow Ancestor in the Chaos Tide after Shadow Ancestor requested an audience to share information about a lost Supreme Immortal Gate. Shadow Ancestor revealed that the Despair Ruins might conceal one, then explained why he was willing to tell Li Yun, leaving the reason for his choice unresolved.

• Li Yun decided to meet Shadow Ancestor, confident that his strength had grown since their North Sea battle and ready to settle their old grudge if necessary.
• Three days later, Li Yun emerged through an Immortal Gate into the Chaos Tide, where Shadow Ancestor and Chen Xiu were waiting.
• Shadow Ancestor admitted that he had been wrong to ambush Li Yun and said the Heavenly Lord of the Supreme Heavenly Court had ordered him to investigate Supreme Immortal Gate-like fluctuations in the Despair Ruins.
• Shadow Ancestor explained that the Heavenly Lord suspected one of the five lost Supreme Immortal Gates was hidden there and had promised to help restore Shadow Ancestor's Indestructible Truth.
• Li Yun questioned why Shadow Ancestor would share such valuable information instead of seeking the gate himself, and Shadow Ancestor admitted he wanted it but believed the treasure would be fatal to anyone who lacked the strength to control it.

Li Yun learned that Shadow Ancestor had lost faith in the Immortal Realm Continent because he believed a new era was emerging and would destroy the old one. Li Yun began to reconsider the coming conflict between the expanding Great Void World and the Immortal Realm Continent.

• Li Yun realized Shadow Ancestor lacked confidence in his own future and had sent him news of the Supreme Immortal Gate because he distrusted the Supreme Heavenly Court.
• Shadow Ancestor told Li Yun that he had lost confidence in the entire Immortal Realm Continent because of the changing era.
• Shadow Ancestor explained that a new era was emerging as the Great Void World expanded, and that its power would destroy the old era represented by the nine Supreme Immortal Dynasties and Nine Supreme Immortals.
• Li Yun and Chen Xiu were shocked by Shadow Ancestor's theory that even Supreme Immortals could not resist the new era.
• Li Yun reconsidered his assumption that the Immortal Realm Continent's Supreme Immortals would simply occupy the Great Void World, and feared the future conflict would be far more terrifying.

Shadow Ancestor told Li Yun how his past conflicts with the nine Supreme Immortal Dynasties, his humiliation under Yellow Heaven Venerable, and his experience with the Heavenshadow Sword led him to recognize a change between eras. After warning Li Yun that old-era rulers were reacting to the emerging Great Void World, Shadow Ancestor seemed transformed by finally revealing everything.

• Shadow Ancestor explained that Hongming Supreme Immortal had stripped him and his clan of their status and Immortal Substance, driving him to rebuild his strength in the Chaos Great Void.
• Shadow Ancestor said he joined the Heavenly Dao Palace to reclaim the Heavenshadow Sword, but found he could no longer comprehend the Indestructible Truth within it and was treated as a servant by Yellow Heaven Venerable.
• Shadow Ancestor described how Yellow Heaven Venerable's humiliation made him recognize that the nine Supreme Immortal Dynasties clung to their former dominance and failed to perceive the new era's changes.
• Shadow Ancestor told Li Yun that Yellow Heaven Venerable's rage at him after he defeated Eternal Dragon Venerable revealed the rulers' belated fear of the new Great Void World.
• Shadow Ancestor said he had intended to warn Li Yun about the order to go to the Despair Ruins, but only found the chance during the Chaos Tide with Chen Xiu.
• After Shadow Ancestor finished speaking, Li Yun and Chen Xiu sensed that his temperament had become clearer, as though he had been washed clean and changed into a different person.

Li Yun and Shadow Ancestor discussed the cycle of old and new Immortal Realms, leading Li Yun to suspect that an unknown mechanism erased each age from the Chaos Great Void. Remembering a mysterious fruit he once saw, Li Yun wondered whether it could control that mechanism, then awoke from a three-day trance with a growing sense that the fruit was taboo.

• Li Yun agreed that the birth of a new Immortal Realm would pit its new-age immortals against the Nine Supreme Immortals and other immortals of the old age.
• Li Yun asked Shadow Ancestor whether the Chaos Great Void had cycled through ages before the Immortal Realm Continent existed, and Shadow Ancestor realized he knew nothing about any earlier age.
• Li Yun conjectured that a powerful mechanism created new ages and erased old ones, causing later generations to forget them.
• Li Yun remembered seeing a fruit in the Chaos Great Void when he first fused with the Supreme Immortal Gate and wondered whether it was a Dao Fruit tied to the mechanism.
• Chen Xiu and Shadow Ancestor woke Li Yun from a three-day trance, and Li Yun suspected the mysterious fruit was responsible.

Li Yun learned from Shadow Ancestor about a fugitive who claimed to have escaped from the Void Ancient Path, then invited Shadow Ancestor to join the Chasing Immortals Divine Dynasty. The chapter ended with Li Yun and Shadow Ancestor preparing to investigate the Despair Ruins while Chen Xiu chose to continue traveling.

• Shadow Ancestor told Li Yun that a man once claimed to have escaped from the Void Ancient Path and sought shelter from the Shadowless Immortal Clan.
• Shadow Ancestor recounted how he refused to help the man, who was later captured by the Heavenly Lord of the Supreme Heavenly Court.
• Li Yun reasoned that others might have escaped from the Void Ancient Path and urged Shadow Ancestor to focus on becoming stronger.
• Li Yun formally invited Shadow Ancestor to join the Chasing Immortals Divine Dynasty, and Shadow Ancestor accepted.
• Li Yun and Shadow Ancestor planned to investigate whether the Despair Ruins held a lost Supreme Immortal Gate without alerting their rivals.
• Chen Xiu declined to go to the Despair Ruins and chose to continue traveling and broaden her horizons.

Li Yun discovered several Supreme Venerables gathered around an ancient Immortal City protected from Chaos by a mysterious light barrier. Venerable Yue Lan recognized the city as belonging to a previous era, or possibly an even older one, and revealed that multiple Immortal Realms had existed before the current one.

• Chen Xiu declined to seek the Supreme Immortal Gate in the Despair Ruins and parted ways with Li Yun and Shadow Ancestor.
• Li Yun noticed several Supreme Venerables gathering in the Void and decided to investigate before pursuing Shadow Ancestor.
• Li Yun used the power of the Supreme Immortal Gate to travel near the Venerables and found an ancient Immortal City surrounded by a barrier that kept out Chaos.
• The Venerables examined the barrier and wondered where the unfamiliar Immortal City had come from.
• Venerable Yue Lan said the city predated the current era and revealed that multiple Immortal Realms had existed before the present one.

Venerable Yue Lan convinced several Venerables that an ancient immortal city could reveal the erased history of previous eras and offer fortune amid the transition to a new age. They agreed to explore it with him, but he asked to discuss something before they entered.

• The Venerables challenged Venerable Yue Lan's claim that earlier eras had existed, but his questions about what preceded them left them uncertain.
• Venerable Yue Lan said a mysterious force had erased memories of previous eras, even from Supreme Immortals, and pointed to writing above the ancient city's gate as evidence of an older age.
• Venerable Yue Lan urged the Venerables to investigate the intact city, arguing that its sudden appearance might be a stroke of fortune rather than a coincidence.
• Venerable Yue Lan linked the Immortal Realm Continent's decline and the Great Void World's expansion to a transition between eras, persuading the Venerables that exploring the city could help them become immortals of a new age.
• The Venerables agreed to follow Venerable Yue Lan into the city, and he said he wanted to discuss something before they entered.

Li Yun watched as Venerable Yue Lan revealed that he was an envoy of the ancient Azure Tiger Palace and tried to recruit the gathered Venerables. The Azure Tiger King arrived with other powerful figures, and Venerable Yue Lan pressed the Venerables to decide whether to join.

• Li Yun secretly watched Venerable Yue Lan and wondered about his true background.
• Venerable Yue Lan offered to protect the Venerables inside the ancient immortal city if they agreed to join the Azure Tiger Palace.
• Venerable Yue Lan claimed the Azure Tiger Palace came from the previous era and its Palace Master intended to rule the new Immortal Realm.
• When a Venerable questioned what would happen if they refused, several powerful figures appeared near the ancient immortal city.
• Venerable Yue Lan praised Azure Tiger King and explained that he had brought the Venerables there to recruit them.
• Azure Tiger King’s presence filled the Venerables with terror, and Venerable Yue Lan asked whether they would join the Azure Tiger Palace.

Li Yun watched Azure Tiger King recruit the former-era Venerables and lead them into an ancient Immortal City, then realized the city’s opening was a trap and escaped just in time. A second group of Venerables arrived outside the city, anticipating the fate of the prey inside.

• Li Yun watched the Venerables submit to Azure Tiger King, who promised they could prosper in the new era and lead the Azure Tiger Palace to rule the Immortal Realm again.
• Azure Tiger King cut open the city’s barrier, and he and his followers entered the Ancient Immortal City; Li Yun slipped in after them.
• Li Yun discovered the city’s abundant Immortal Substance and active Great Daos, then suspected Azure Tiger King’s easy breach was a trap and escaped through the closing crack.
• Li Yun concealed his aura as another Supreme Immortal Gate appeared, releasing dozens of Venerables led by a figure whose true meaning power exceeded Azure Tiger King’s.
• The newcomers gathered outside the Ancient Immortal City and joked that their prey had taken the bait.

Li Yun watched the Great Void Era trap the Azure Tiger Palace inside the ancient immortal city and kill several Supreme Venerables, including Venerable Yue Lan. As Li Yun decided to leave, the Fire Cloud Palace attacked the city’s barrier and helped the Azure Tiger King escape, provoking the Great Void Palace.

• Li Yun recognized that the Great Void Era had its own Supreme Immortal Gate and stayed hidden to observe its battle with the Azure Tiger Palace.
• The Great Void Era entered the ancient immortal city through the barrier and used the city’s rules to turn the fight against the Azure Tiger Palace.
• Several Supreme Venerables defected to the Great Void Era, helping kill Venerable Yue Lan and other Azure Tiger Palace cultivators.
• Li Yun traced Venerable Yue Lan’s fate and discovered that his past was disappearing, then abandoned his plan to reap rewards and prepared to leave.
• Twelve Supreme Venerables from the Fire Cloud Palace attacked the barrier, allowing the Azure Tiger King to tear open a gap and escape the city.
• The leader of the Great Void Palace cursed the Fire Cloud Palace for disrupting its plans and threatened to fight it to the death.

Li Yun watched the Azure Tiger King escape Great Void Palace’s ambush with help from Fire Cloud Palace, then encountered a mysterious figure who detected his hiding place. The figure revealed that the struggle accompanying the change of eras centered on the Ancient Seeking Heavenly Ladder, not the Immortal Realm’s overlord, and left Li Yun with more questions.

• Fire Cloud Palace and the Azure Tiger King teleported away, while the remaining Supremes of Azure Tiger Palace surrendered to King Kong Su.
• King Kong Su seized the surrendered Supremes and made the ancient immortal city vanish, furious that the Azure Tiger King had escaped.
• Li Yun considered whether forces from other past eras would emerge as the Chaos Great Void changed eras.
• A gray-misted figure appeared near Li Yun and found him by sensing his vitality.
• Li Yun concealed his new-era vitality with the Forbidden Divine Charm, and the figure praised his potential and proposed an alliance.
• The figure told Li Yun that era-changing struggles were about the Ancient Seeking Heavenly Ladder, and that Immortal Realm overlords were merely those who had failed to reach it.

Li Yun learned that Supreme Immortals who failed to climb the Ancient Seeking Heavenly Ladder were cast out of the Void Ancient Path, then continued pursuing the Shadow Ancestor. Three months later, the Supreme Heavenly Lord appeared before the Supreme Immortal Gate and challenged Li Yun to meet him.

• The mysterious gray mist explained that the Ancient Seeking Heavenly Ladder offered Supreme Immortals a chance to approach the Chaos Dao Fruit, while those who failed were expelled and had their memories erased.
• After the gray mist vanished, Li Yun resolved to cultivate all Three Thousand Great Daos until each formed a Supreme Venerable Dao Fruit, even if he had to wait for another era to enter the ladder.
• The gray mist reappeared and wondered how Li Yun had mastered a Supreme Immortal Gate before attaining the Dao of Immortality, then decided to watch him and seek out old friends.
• About three months later, Li Yun caught up with the Shadow Ancestor and secretly followed him toward the Despair Ruins, but sensed a powerful force shaking the Supreme Immortal Gate.
• Li Yun sent a strand of consciousness into the Supreme Immortal Gate and saw the Supreme Heavenly Lord waiting before it; the Supreme Heavenly Lord invited him to reveal himself and meet.

Li Yun met the Supreme Heavenly Lord through a detached avatar, and the two discussed cooperating to prepare for the coming new era. The Supreme Heavenly Lord explained that each new era offered immense opportunities but allowed no more than nine Supreme Immortals to be born.

• Li Yun sent an aura-created avatar to meet the Supreme Heavenly Lord instead of risking his true self.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord proposed cooperation, and Li Yun agreed to hear how their interests aligned despite their past conflicts.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord said the approaching era change would destroy most current Immortals, though some could escape through the Void Ancient Path.
• Li Yun brought up the Ancient Seeking Heavenly Ladder, and the Supreme Heavenly Lord explained that ancient Immortals also needed the new era to gain strength and pursue transcendence.
• The Supreme Heavenly Lord revealed that each new era produced at least one and at most nine Supreme Immortals, with existing Supreme Immortals accumulated across previous eras.