Chapter Summaries

The Outer Realm Kings attacked the Righteous Qi Alliance’s Floating Island to force Zhang Qingyuan to stop evading. Zhang Qingyuan intervened to protect One Page Scholar and the Alliance, but the five Kings encircled him, broke his immortal technique, and tore his body apart.

• An Outer Realm King attacked the Righteous Qi Alliance’s sect gate, and the other Kings followed to strike the Floating Island and city below.
• One Page Scholar protected the Alliance with Vast Righteous Heaven and Earth, but the first clash injured him.
• Three Outer Realm Kings launched a combined attack against One Page Scholar while two others waited for Zhang Qingyuan to intervene.
• Zhang Qingyuan appeared to protect One Page Scholar and the Alliance, countering with Five Elements All Heavens Great Cycle.
• The five Outer Realm Kings attacked Zhang Qingyuan from all sides, shattered his immortal technique, and tore his body apart.

Zhang Qingyuan tricked the Outer Realm Kings with a powerful clone and annihilated most of them with Erlwood Divine Thunder. As he moved to finish the last two, an unseen Great Emperor intervened, and Zhang Qingyuan prepared to face the Emperor-level threat.

• Zhang Qingyuan revealed that the figure shattered by the Outer Realm Kings was a corporeal clone, while his true body attacked from behind with Erlwood Divine Thunder.
• Zhang Qingyuan's thunder spear killed three Outer Realm Kings and severely injured the two others suppressing the formation.
• Zhang Qingyuan shielded the Righteous Qi Alliance from the blast and pursued the two surviving Outer Realm Kings.
• One wounded Outer Realm King begged the Great Emperor for help, and an immense force erased Zhang Qingyuan's attack before it could hit.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed the Great Emperor watching from the darkness and revealed that he had conserved his strength in anticipation of an enemy at that level.

A hidden Great Emperor-level existence unleashed a world-ending strike against Zhang Qingyuan, who recognized it as the sole attack of an incarnation and answered with his lifelong sword technique, One Sword Samsara. Their powers collided in a blinding clash that shook the East Boundary, leaving the outcome unknown.

• The hidden existence judged Zhang Qingyuan too cautious to expose a flaw and unleashed its strongest attack, engulfing the world in a crushing darkness.
• One Page Scholar and the cultivators of the Righteous Qi Alliance were overwhelmed by the Great Emperor-level power, while Zhang Qingyuan found himself unable to flee.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed that the attacker was an incarnation burning through all its power and resolved to endure its one strike.
• Zhang Qingyuan recalled how his cultivation had shaped One Sword Samsara and drew the sword he had forged with an Immortal Stone.
• Zhang Qingyuan slashed into the descending darkness, and their collision sent a dazzling shock through the East Boundary and beyond.

Zhang Qingyuan defeated a Great Emperor-level incarnation and saved the Righteous Qi Alliance from the battle’s destruction, but remained worried about the powerful beings hidden from view. Daoist Qingwei then offered to explain the secret undertaking involving the Outer Realm True Kings and Great Emperors, as well as ancient Sacred Land ancestors.

• Zhang Qingyuan realized his sword strike had defeated the Great Emperor-level incarnation, which vanished after warning that it would remember him.
• Zhang Qingyuan worried that True Kings and Great Emperors had stayed out of the Heavenly Change because of a secret threat, and resolved to grow stronger.
• Zhang Qingyuan’s avatar revealed that he had used the Void Heaven Mirror to shelter the Righteous Qi Alliance, including One Page Scholar and Daoist Qingwei.
• One Page Scholar asked whether the battle was over, and Zhang Qingyuan confirmed that he had defeated only an incarnation.
• Daoist Qingwei identified himself as a castaway disciple of Taiqing and offered to explain the major undertaking involving Outer Realm powers and ancient Sacred Land ancestors.

Daoist Qingwei explained the origin of the Heavenly Change and revealed that powerful figures were searching a Death Forbidden Area for the remains of an Outer Realm supreme expert who had nearly attained the Supreme Dao. Zhang Qingyuan was stunned by the revelations about the realm and the expert’s battle against the Azure Realm’s Heavenly Dao.

• Daoist Qingwei explained that the Supreme Dao was a legendary realm beyond Escape One, comparable to the power of Immortal Venerables.
• He recounted how, five thousand years earlier, an Outer Realm expert nearly reached the Supreme Dao, broke into the Azure Realm, and severely injured its Heavenly Dao before being killed.
• The expert’s death transformed the surrounding world laws into a Death Forbidden Area, where its remains could reveal a path to the Supreme Dao.
• Daoist Qingwei revealed that Outer Realm True Kings and Great Emperors, along with powerful ancestors and patriarchs, were exploring the Death Forbidden Area for the expert’s inheritance.
• Zhang Qingyuan was stunned as Daoist Qingwei connected the expert’s battle to the current Heavenly Change and the Heavenly Dao’s withdrawal.

After Zhang Qingyuan’s victory over eight Outer Realm Kings, refugees and ancient factions flocked to the Righteous Qi Alliance for protection. He learned that rivals might reach the Death Forbidden Area’s core in about ten years and resolved to train in the Imperial Tomb, but One Page Scholar brought him fourteen Immortal Stones to aid his cultivation.

• News of Zhang Qingyuan’s victory spread, drawing refugees toward the East Boundary and raising the Righteous Qi Alliance’s standing.
• Daoist Qingwei told Zhang Qingyuan that explorers might reach the Death Forbidden Area’s core in roughly ten years.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to train in the Imperial Tomb and strengthen himself before the coming struggle.
• One Page Scholar gave Zhang Qingyuan fourteen Immortal Stones collected by the Righteous Qi Alliance and donated by refugee factions.

One Page Scholar gave Zhang Qingyuan fourteen Immortal Stones to help him advance toward the Great Emperor level, and Zhang Qingyuan planned to use them alongside the Imperial Tomb of the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty. After hearing that Lin Yan had found an Outer Realm base, Zhang Qingyuan suspected it held more Immortal Stones and prepared to reclaim them.

• One Page Scholar recognized that Zhang Qingyuan had far surpassed him and mobilized the Righteous Qi Alliance to gather Immortal Stones while Zhang Qingyuan cultivated in the Void Heaven Mirror.
• One Page Scholar gave Zhang Qingyuan fourteen Immortal Stones, which Zhang Qingyuan said could greatly improve his chances of reaching the Great Emperor level within ten years.
• Zhang Qingyuan planned to use the Imperial Tomb of the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty as a trial ground and asked One Page Scholar to collect more Immortal Stones.
• One Page Scholar told Zhang Qingyuan that Lin Yan had discovered a possible Outer Realm base.
• Zhang Qingyuan reasoned that the Outer Realm Kings might have stored plundered Immortal Stones at the base and vowed to take them back.

Zhang Qingyuan reached the Outer Realm Gods and Demons’ stronghold in a corrupted world and broke into their chaos vessel. He seized its vast stores of plundered resources and left the surviving guards unable to stop him.

• Zhang Qingyuan traveled for half a month to the desolate, corrupted region identified in Lin Yan's Messaging Talisman.
• He found a colossal chaos vessel and watched Outer Realm Gods and Demons carry plundered resources aboard, but could not find Lin Yan nearby.
• Zhang Qingyuan triggered the vessel's defenses, suppressed its guards, and cut through the protective light curtain to enter.
• Inside the vessel's Spatial Secret Realm, he found vast piles of cultivation resources and began transferring them into the Void Heaven Mirror.
• Zhang Qingyuan annihilated the squads that attacked him and collected the resources while the remaining Outer Realm Gods and Demons watched helplessly.

Zhang Qingyuan plundered the cultivation resources and World Origin Power aboard the chaotic giant vessel, then set out for the ship captain’s quarters in search of Immortal Stones. The chapter left him heading toward what he expected to be the vessel’s most valuable storehouse.

• Zhang Qingyuan crushed the attacking Outer Realm Gods and Demons and suspected the vessel belonged to an Outer Realm King who had gone to attack the East Boundary.
• Zhang Qingyuan discovered a sinkhole where a Heaven-Refining Furnace extracted World Origin Power from cultivation resources, then took the furnace and its contents.
• Zhang Qingyuan raided the remaining seven sinkholes, taking their Heaven-Refining Furnaces and World Origin Power while killing the guards who tried to stop him.
• After finding little else left aboard the vessel, Zhang Qingyuan soul-searched an Outer Realm God and Demon and headed toward the captain’s quarters, where he expected to find Immortal Stones.

Zhang Qingyuan raided several Outer Realm Kings’ strongholds and gathered enough resources to spend nine years cultivating toward the Great Emperor level. After reaching that level, he realized the path beyond it remained unclear and set his sights on the Death Forbidden Area.

• Zhang Qingyuan Soul Searched Outer Realm Gods and Demons, found several Kings’ strongholds, and raided them for resources, including fifty-three Immortal Stones.
• After learning the remaining strongholds had relocated, Zhang Qingyuan returned to the Floating Immortal Island and entered seclusion.
• Zhang Qingyuan spent the first year settling his mind and refining an Immortal Stone before entering the Imperial Tomb of the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty.
• Zhang Qingyuan fought the tomb’s Escape One Supremes and studied their Dao, then spent the final three years battling and exchanging insights with two Emperor Level Remnant Souls.
• Zhang Qingyuan exhausted his resources and reached the Emperor Level, but found no way forward toward the Ultimate Dao and set out for the Death Forbidden Area.

After reaching the Emperor Level, Zhang Qingyuan prepared to enter the Death Forbidden Area in search of the Supreme Dao’s remains. He left his inheritance and a powerful Puppet with the Righteous Qi Alliance before departing with One Page Scholar’s support.

• Zhang Qingyuan mastered his Emperor Level strength and decided to head to the Death Forbidden Area.
• The Outer Realm Kings stayed hidden after Zhang Qingyuan defeated their forces, while the Righteous Qi Alliance grew into the Central Continent’s foremost power under One Page Scholar.
• Zhang Qingyuan visited the alliance without revealing himself and saw that Shen Zheng, Yan Beigui, Ku Qiusheng, Lin Hao, and others had joined it.
• Zhang Qingyuan gave One Page Scholar a Jade Slip containing his life’s insights and left the alliance a Puppet empowered with three of his all-out strikes.
• One Page Scholar gave Zhang Qingyuan thirty-one Immortal Stones and escorted him to the East Boundary, where they said farewell before Zhang Qingyuan departed.

Zhang Qingyuan entered the blood-colored Forbidden Land and learned that he had to pass three gates to reach the inheritance of a being who had pursued the Supreme Dao. The first gate required him to read and remember an immense collection of knowledge from other worlds, and he prepared to face its examination.

• Zhang Qingyuan encountered the remains of an Emperor Level being nailed to a mountain and sensed the dangerous laws governing the Forbidden Land.
• A blood-colored phantom explained that the land contained three gates to the Supreme Dao inheritance and that those who failed could be killed or trapped.
• Zhang Qingyuan agreed to take the trial and learned that seven people had reached the third gate, twenty-eight the second, and one hundred eighty-three the first.
• The phantom transported Zhang Qingyuan to a vast sea of books and Jade Slips for the first gate, where he had to memorize knowledge from seven great worlds and eighteen great thousand worlds before taking an examination.

After spending three years mastering the knowledge in the Vast as the Ocean Jade Slips, Zhang Qingyuan passed the first trial and reached the second trial space. There, he faced a swordsman whose presence seemed to be that of a living person, and the swordsman drew his blade to challenge him.

• Zhang Qingyuan studied the Jade Slips for three years, using the Proficiency Panel to master the recorded knowledge and deepen his cultivation insights.
• Zhang Qingyuan asked to end the first trial and passed it with every answer correct, astonishing the Old Man's phantom.
• The Old Man's phantom explained that the second trial would pit Zhang Qingyuan against an Emperor Level enemy one realm above him.
• Zhang Qingyuan arrived in the second trial space and saw a bamboo-hatted swordsman approach with overwhelming Sword Intent.
• Zhang Qingyuan questioned why the swordsman seemed alive rather than a residual memory image, and the swordsman drew his sword to begin the fight.

Zhang Qingyuan battled a bamboo-hatted swordsman whose Emperor-level Sword Dao initially overwhelmed him, but he used the fight to study and strengthen his Chaos Great Dao until he could defeat the swordsman without relying on his movement technique. The swordsman accepted his defeat and prepared to unleash one final sword strike.

• The bamboo-hatted swordsman’s devastating Sword Momentum overwhelmed Zhang Qingyuan and steadily wore down his Chaos Great Dao.
• Zhang Qingyuan counterattacked with his Chaos and Five Elements Great Daos, then fought the swordsman through ten days and ten nights of clashes.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Chaos Dragon Kun Roaming Body Technique and the Proficiency Panel to study the Sword Dao, grow stronger, and grasp its conceptual power.
• Zhang Qingyuan eventually shattered the swordsman’s Sword Light and declared that the swordsman had lost.
• The bamboo-hatted swordsman acknowledged defeat and asked Zhang Qingyuan to face his final sword.

Zhang Qingyuan survived the conical-hatted swordsman’s final strike and gained a clearer glimpse of the Supreme Dao. He moved on to the third trial, where he found the other powerful challengers gathered.

• The conical-hatted swordsman unleashed a Supreme Dao-level sword strike that wounded Zhang Qingyuan’s spirit and Chaos Great Dao.
• Zhang Qingyuan praised the swordsman’s strike, and the swordsman vanished after exhausting the power sustaining him.
• Zhang Qingyuan used his Chaos Great Dao to break down and absorb the lingering sword intent, stabilizing his Aura and gaining insight into the Supreme Dao.
• Zhang Qingyuan summoned the old man’s phantom and traveled to the third trial.
• Zhang Qingyuan arrived to find more than a dozen powerful Auras belonging to other challengers, including Great Emperors from beyond the domain and local Emperor Level strongers.

Zhang Qingyuan arrived among the assembled Emperors and fought off a joint attack by Blood Origin Great Emperor and Silent Death Great Emperor. Their remarks revealed how quickly he had risen, making the other Emperors wary, and he asked about the third trial while pretending his breakthrough had damaged his foundation.

• The Emperors gathered in the void wondered who Zhang Qingyuan was when he arrived.
• Blood Origin Great Emperor and Silent Death Great Emperor attacked Zhang Qingyuan, and the other Emperors withdrew to watch.
• Zhang Qingyuan countered both attackers with a punch empowered by his Chaos Great Dao and a trace of Supreme Dao power.
• Blood Origin Great Emperor and Silent Death Great Emperor stopped fighting and revealed that Zhang Qingyuan had risen from Dao Integration Heavenly Being to Great Emperor in roughly two hundred years.
• Zhang Qingyuan regretted that the two Great Emperors had made the others wary of him, then claimed he had damaged his foundation and asked about the third trial.

Zhang Qingyuan learned that the third trial required him to defeat a mirror opponent with identical strength and entered the portal. His copied adversary immediately matched his Chaos Great Dao and techniques, forcing him onto the defensive.

• Zhang Qingyuan summoned the administrator's phantom and learned that only one person could attempt the third trial at a time, facing a mirror opponent that copied all their strength.
• Zhang Qingyuan entered the Void Portal as the Great Emperors watched and schemed to seize the inheritance if he won.
• Zhang Qingyuan arrived in a vast white space, where his mirror opponent attacked immediately with the Chaos Great Dao.
• Zhang Qingyuan fought back with the Chaos Dragon Kun Roaming Body Technique, but the mirror opponent copied his powers and movements exactly.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized the mirror opponent also wielded its abilities with formidable battle consciousness and had forced him into a disadvantage.

After thirty-three days fighting a mirror opponent in the chaotic trial, Zhang Qingyuan discovered it had only copied his strength from the moment he entered. He surpassed it, cleared the third stage, and emerged with a clearer path toward the Supreme Dao.

• Zhang Qingyuan struck the mirror figure and realized it still possessed only the strength he had thirty-three days earlier.
• He recalled how he had endured the mirror figure's attacks, learned from its techniques, and steadily grown stronger over the three stages of their battle.
• Zhang Qingyuan analyzed the Supreme Dao Power behind the mirror figure and reached the limit of a Great Emperor, beginning his path toward the Supreme Dao.
• Zhang Qingyuan evaded the mirror figure's One Sword Samsara and pierced its heart with a single finger.
• The mirror figure vanished, the trial world collapsed, and Zhang Qingyuan cleared the third stage.

Zhang Qingyuan passed the three trials but learned that the Supreme Dao Fruit had already been given to someone else, so he asked the lingering thought of its former owner to explain the Supreme Dao. Outside, the Emperors plotted to capture Zhang Qingyuan, then realized he had cleared the final trial and surged toward him.

• Zhang Qingyuan arrived before the lingering thought of a Supreme Dao cultivator, who told him a congenital sacred body with a Dao embryo had received the Supreme Dao Fruit three years earlier.
• The lingering thought offered Zhang Qingyuan cultivation guidance, and he respectfully asked what the Supreme Dao was.
• While Zhang Qingyuan remained inside, the Emperors agreed that Blood Origin Great Emperor and Nirvana Great Emperor could capture him and force him to reveal the secret behind his rapid rise.
• The Death Forbidden Area began collapsing as its Supreme Dao seals dissipated, revealing that Zhang Qingyuan had cleared the third trial.
• The Emperors realized Zhang Qingyuan had passed and unleashed their auras, rushing toward the center of the Death Forbidden Area.

Zhang Qingyuan realized the Supreme Dao expert had used him to draw the Emperor Level pursuers away from his disciple, but accepted the arrangement as fair payment for the guidance he had received. When more than a dozen Emperors attacked him for the supposed Supreme Dao Fruit, Zhang Qingyuan revealed power approaching the Supreme Dao and slaughtered his attackers, leaving the rest fleeing as his sword pursued them.

• Zhang Qingyuan recognized that the fading expert had made him a target so his disciple could escape, and suspected the supposed inheritance of the Supreme Dao Fruit was no simple transfer.
• More than a dozen Emperors and Great Emperors saw Zhang Qingyuan and attacked, while their power gravely injured the nearby Heavenly Human Realm cultivators.
• Zhang Qingyuan drew his sword and killed the six Great Emperors at the forefront with one strike.
• Several Emperors attacked again, but Zhang Qingyuan vanished and reappeared after killing them before they could understand his methods.
• Zhang Qingyuan said he had reached only the quasi-Supreme Dao level, then sent Sword Qi after the fleeing Emperors.