Chapter Summaries

Ye Xuan empowered Huo Ling'er and the Fire Emperor, then recruited the Fire Emperor into the Heavenly Court. Meanwhile, Shi Hao crossed the uninhabited region, rescued Azure Immortal in the form of a seed, and continued deeper into the forbidden zone.

• Ye Xuan gave Huo Ling'er divine power and helped her awaken a formidable strength.
• Ye Xuan gave the Fire Emperor a Heavenly God Fruit and an immortal pill, helping him break through to the Void Dao Realm.
• The Fire Emperor accepted Ye Xuan's invitation to join the Heavenly Court and oversee resource allocation.
• Shi Hao crossed deadly terrain and escaped a Star Array by fighting through its Sword Qi and finding a flaw.
• Shi Hao freed a woman named Azure Immortal from blue chains, and she transformed into a seed that asked him to bury it near the Chaos Azure Lotus's lingering aura.
• Shi Hao buried Azure Immortal's seed beside a glowing pit and continued onward into the uninhabited region.

Ye Xuan left the Heavenly Court after sensing a disturbance in his karmic connection to Shi Hao, who was exploring the uninhabited region. He joined Shi Hao, and together they encountered a strange purple bamboo forest.

• Ye Xuan guided Huo Ling'er in cultivating her immortal phoenix bloodline, helping her refine her flames and strengthen her foundation.
• Ye Xuan sensed a powerful disturbance in his karmic thread with Shi Hao and decided to investigate.
• Ye Xuan told Huo Ling'er to continue cultivating safely in the Heavenly Court, then left for the uninhabited region.
• Ye Xuan found Shi Hao after his battles and breakthrough of a blue Star Array, and Shi Hao greeted him with delight.
• Ye Xuan and Shi Hao traveled together for several days before reaching a purple bamboo forest veiled in condensed spiritual energy.

Ye Xuan and Shi Hao entered the Purple Bamboo Grove and traveled back in time to the Immortal Ancient era. There, Ye Xuan recognized a karmic connection between the Phoenix Maiden and Huo Ling'er, leaving him to ponder how their first meeting across time shaped their present-day bond.

• Ye Xuan led Shi Hao into the Purple Bamboo Grove, where they crossed into a living world from the Immortal Ancient era.
• Ye Xuan explained that Shi Hao's fate had resonated with ancient laws and caused them to travel through time rather than enter an illusion.
• Ye Xuan and Shi Hao witnessed Immortal Ancient beings and its abundant cultivation environment as they explored the grove.
• The Phoenix Maiden transformed from an immortal phoenix above a spirit mountain and appeared before them.
• Ye Xuan sensed a karmic thread linking the Phoenix Maiden to Huo Ling'er and realized their connection might form a closed loop across time.

Ye Xuan and Shi Hao encountered Immortal King Wuzhong and Six Paths Reincarnation Immortal King in the Immortal Ancient Era, where the two kings recognized Ye Xuan as an unfathomable visitor beyond time. Ye Xuan accepted their invitation to discuss the Dao, leaving Shi Hao and the gathered Heavenly Prides stunned.

• The Phoenix Maiden sensed Ye Xuan’s immense, unfathomable presence as she looked toward him and Shi Hao.
• Immortal King Wuzhong and Six Paths Reincarnation Immortal King descended into the purple bamboo grove, suppressing the surrounding world with their presence.
• The two Immortal Kings fixed their attention on Ye Xuan, whom they perceived as a blind spot beyond the River of Time.
• Immortal King Wuzhong addressed Ye Xuan as a Daoist Friend and invited him to share Immortal Tea and discuss the Dao.
• Ye Xuan accepted the invitation and joined the two Immortal Kings at a white jade table above the South Sea Purple Bamboo Grove.

Ye Xuan revealed that he came from a later age, and Immortal King Wuzhong and Six Paths Reincarnation Immortal King saw both the coming destruction of Immortal Ancient and hope in his existence. When the Foreign Territory invaded and slaughtered Shi Hao’s friends, Ye Xuan decided to intervene despite the risks of changing history.

• Ye Xuan admitted to Immortal King Wuzhong and Six Paths Reincarnation Immortal King that he came from the later generations.
• The two Immortal Kings deduced the future, saw Immortal Ancient’s destruction, and found hope in Ye Xuan’s role in the later age.
• The Foreign Territory broke through the Heavenly Abyss and attacked the South Sea Purple Bamboo Grove, killing young supremes.
• Shi Hao watched helplessly as his friends, including the girl with the little white qilin and the young man carrying a sword of Radiant Immortal Gold, were killed.
• Immortal King Wuzhong and Six Paths Reincarnation Immortal King charged into battle against the invading demonic shadows.
• Ye Xuan saw the Phoenix Maiden in danger and Shi Hao overcome with despair, then resolved to act despite the consequences for history.

Ye Xuan rescued the Phoenix Maiden in the Immortal Ancient illusion and fought the Immortal Kings before the Great Dao’s backlash forced him to withdraw with Shi Hao. Back in the real Uninhabited Region, Shi Hao mourned the dead, then renewed his resolve to become strong enough to reclaim what he had lost.

• Ye Xuan shattered the blood feather aimed at the Phoenix Maiden and severely wounded an Immortal King's projected Dharma body.
• Ye Xuan charged the Immortal Kings, but the river of time and karmic lightning manifested to erase him for interfering with the past.
• Ye Xuan took Shi Hao through the time-space barrier and returned with him to the real Uninhabited Region.
• Shi Hao found fragments of the Light Immortal Gold Sword and a five-colored phoenix bone, then wept as he remembered the fallen.
• Ye Xuan urged Shi Hao to grow strong enough to overcome the Great Dao and revive his departed friends.
• Shi Hao wiped away his tears, put away the broken sword, and rekindled his determination.

Ye Xuan, Shi Hao, and the Witch discovered a pure-blooded white Qilin hidden in the mountains near the border city. After Shi Hao recognized its connection to Immortal Ancient, Ye Xuan traced its lost master’s reincarnation to Taiyin Jade Rabbit and persuaded the Qilin to follow him.

• Ye Xuan and Shi Hao arrived at the border city, where they met the Witch, who told them that a pure-blood Qilin egg was rumored to be hidden nearby.
• Ye Xuan carried Shi Hao and the Witch to the mountains, where Shi Hao recognized the Qilin’s apparition from his journey through Immortal Ancient.
• The little Qilin told Shi Hao it had been sent away during the Immortal Ancient Great Calamity and had waited ages for its vanished master to return.
• Ye Xuan traced the Qilin’s bond to Taiyin Jade Rabbit, whose soul carried an aura resembling that of the Qilin’s former master.
• Ye Xuan promised to take the Qilin to meet Taiyin Jade Rabbit, and the little white Qilin revealed its true body and chose to follow him.

Ye Xuan, Shi Hao, and the Witch reached a valley in the Border Wasteland, where the little white qilin reunited with the Taiyin Jade Rabbit and chose to stay with her. The Heavenly Prides bowed to Ye Xuan as the chapter ended with Qingyi approaching him.

• Ye Xuan led Shi Hao, the Witch, and the little white qilin through the Border Wasteland toward a valley.
• The little white qilin sensed a familiar aura and rushed into Little Rabbit's arms.
• Little Rabbit greeted Ye Xuan excitedly, and he told her to take the qilin with her.
• The Ten-Crowned King, Shi Yi, and the other Heavenly Prides bowed to Ye Xuan and called him the Heavenly Emperor.
• Qingyi stepped out from the crowd and joined Ye Xuan, showing her affection for him.

Ye Xuan led the Heavenly Prides to Imperial City, where Great Elder Meng Tianzheng and its armies welcomed him as the Heavenly Emperor. As Shi Hao, Shi Yi, and Qin Hao entered, their bloodline marks awakened and revealed their descent from the Seven Kings of the Borderlands, overturning the stigma of Sin Blood.

• The Witch teased Qingyi about her feelings for Ye Xuan as the group approached Imperial City.
• The Heavenly Prides saw Imperial City’s colossal star-built walls and the Immortal Dao Grand Array protecting it.
• Meng Tianzheng and the Imperial City soldiers knelt before Ye Xuan and hailed his descent as the Heavenly Emperor.
• Ye Xuan entered Imperial City with the Heavenly Prides, and the bloodline marks on Shi Hao, Shi Yi, and Qin Hao awakened.
• Meng Tianzheng declared that the three brothers were descendants of the Seven Kings of the Borderlands, and the city’s residents responded with awe.

Ye Xuan revealed that the Sin Blood stigma came from the Seven Kings of the Borderlands killing comrades who had been corrupted by the Foreign Territory, while Immortal Kings later twisted the story to persecute their descendants. As the hall erupted in anger, Jin Taijun arrived to challenge the account and investigate Ye Xuan.

• Ye Xuan led Shi Hao, Shi Yi, Qin Hao, and the others into Emperor Pass and took the foremost seat in the council hall.
• Shi Yi asked Ye Xuan why their ancestors had been branded as Sin Blood.
• Ye Xuan explained that the Seven Kings had killed corrupted comrades at their comrades' own request to prevent them from becoming monsters.
• Ye Xuan said that hostile Immortal Kings had used the incident to slander the Seven Kings and order Withered Immortals to suppress their descendants.
• Meng Tianzheng, Shi Hao, Shi Yi, and the Emperor Pass Supremes grew furious at the conspiracy Ye Xuan described.
• Jin Taijun arrived at the council hall in an ancient war chariot and fixed her gaze on Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan killed Jin Taijun with a glance and exposed several long-lived clans’ collusion with the Foreign Territory. He gave Meng Tianzheng a Divine Edict to purge the traitors, beginning a reckoning within Emperor Pass.

• Jin Taijun tried to pressure Ye Xuan by invoking the rules and prestige of the Jin Clan, Wang Clan, and Wind Clan.
• Ye Xuan killed Jin Taijun and destroyed her ancient war chariot with a glance, shocking everyone in the council hall.
• Ye Xuan revealed scenes of the Jin Clan, Wang Clan, Wind Clan, and others conspiring with the Foreign Territory and betraying Emperor Pass.
• Ye Xuan gave Meng Tianzheng a Divine Edict ordering him to uproot the clans involved and kill anyone who obstructed him.
• Meng Tianzheng and the Supremes accepted the order, and the reckoning against the traitorous clans began.

Meng Tianzheng led Emperor Pass Supremes to the Longevity Wang Clan to punish its treason, then revealed that Wang Changsheng was a Dark Creature. Wang Changsheng exposed his hidden identity and pursued Meng Tianzheng into the cosmos, where their battle began.

• Meng Tianzheng arrived at the Longevity Wang Clan with Emperor Pass Supremes and accused its leaders of colluding with the Foreign Territory.
• Wang Changsheng emerged from seclusion as the clan elders called for him to suppress the intruders.
• Meng Tianzheng showed evidence of the Wang Clan leaders handing Emperor Pass array diagrams to the Foreign Territory, and Wang Changsheng killed the guilty elders.
• Meng Tianzheng refused to let the matter end and declared that he had come to purge both traitors and Dark Creatures.
• Wang Changsheng revealed that a Dark Immortal King’s Primordial Spirit inhabited his body, then followed Meng Tianzheng into the cosmos for their battle.

Meng Tianzheng used the Heavenly Emperor's Divine Edict to destroy Wang Changsheng after the Dark Immortal King unleashed his Immortal King Dao Fruit. He then led Emperor Pass's army in a purge that brought down the Wang Clan, Jin Clan, and Wind Clan.

• Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng fought a devastating battle across the starry sky, destroying stars and shaking the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Wang Changsheng revealed his Dark Creature essence and summoned the power of his damaged Immortal King Dao Fruit to try to defeat Meng Tianzheng and escape.
• Meng Tianzheng activated the Heavenly Emperor's Divine Edict, which purified Wang Changsheng's dark mist and erased him completely.
• Ye Xuan watched from Emperor Pass as the battle ended and praised Meng Tianzheng's strength and potential.
• Meng Tianzheng led the Emperor Pass army against the ancestral lands of the Immortal Jin Clan and the Wind Clan, using the Divine Edict to expose their traitors.
• Meng Tianzheng ordered the clans exterminated, and the Wang Clan, Jin Clan, and Wind Clan were destroyed in the purge.

The True Dragon Horn summoned Emperor Pass’s forces as the Foreign Territory advanced, and Ye Xuan secretly protected the young Heavenly Prides with a Zenith Heaven Dharma Seal. After the armies were teleported to the battlefield beneath the Heavenly Abyss, the two realms’ forces clashed.

• The True Dragon Horn sounded, warning Emperor Pass that the Foreign Territory’s army had returned.
• Shi Hao, Shi Yi, the Ten-Crowned King, the Exiled Immortal, Qingyi, the Witch, and the Taiyin Jade Rabbit prepared to fight as Emperor Pass’s elders worried for their safety.
• Ye Xuan secretly placed a Zenith Heaven Dharma Seal within the Primordial Spirits of the important Heavenly Prides, allowing them to fight without risk of permanent death.
• Ye Xuan ordered the million-strong army to teleport from Emperor Pass to the battlefield beneath the Heavenly Abyss.
• The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands’ army met the Foreign Territory’s forces, and war erupted as soon as they entered attack range.

Ye Xuan sent an incarnation into the battlefield and lured a Foreign Territory royal clansman named Moro underground. After devouring Moro and stealing his memories, the incarnation transformed into him and returned to the battle to begin infiltrating the Foreign Territory.

• Ye Xuan's incarnation entered the battle between the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and the Foreign Territory while his true body remained at Emperor Pass.
• The incarnation drew Moro into a subterranean cavern beneath the battlefield by pretending to be an exhausted opponent.
• The incarnation used the Heaven-Devouring Art to consume Moro and absorb his memories and knowledge of the Foreign Territory.
• Using the Eight-Nine Mystical Art, the incarnation transformed into Moro and took his battle halberd.
• The incarnation returned to the battlefield disguised as Moro and began his infiltration of the Foreign Territory.

Shi Hao and the other Heavenly Prides drove back the Foreign Territory army until its grand formation tore open Heavenly Abyss and allowed a True Immortal to begin crossing over. Ye Xuan killed the Immortal with the Chaos-Calming Art, and the formation collapsed as the breach began to close.

• Shi Hao, Shi Yi, the Ten-Crowned King, the Exiled Immortal, Qingyi, and the Witch fought through the Foreign Territory forces as the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands army advanced.
• The Foreign Territory activated a peerless grand formation that tore open Heavenly Abyss's laws and let a True Immortal force his way through.
• The Immortal's aura devastated the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands army, while Meng Tianzheng and the other supreme experts feared they could not stop him.
• Ye Xuan used the Chaos-Calming Art to pierce the Immortal's brow and annihilate his Primordial Spirit in one strike.
• The Immortal's corpse fell into Heavenly Abyss, the Foreign Territory formation collapsed, and the laws began closing the breach.

Ye Xuan secretly returned to the Foreign Territory and traveled to its homeland, where he saw the World Tree and the realm’s formidable defenses. He settled in a border city and began planning to infiltrate the Time Beast Clan’s ancestral land while the Crimson King underwent nirvanic rebirth.

• A Foreign Territory Immortal ordered a retreat, and Ye Xuan’s avatar slipped back across the border with the fleeing army.
• Months later, Ye Xuan traveled through a Space Channel and entered the Foreign Territory homeland, sensing its complete and powerful heavenly great dao.
• Ye Xuan saw the World Tree guarded by Immortal Kings and learned that dozens of giant cities housed Immortal beings.
• Ye Xuan concealed his aura and flew to a medium-sized city to seek information about the Time Beast Clan.
• Ye Xuan resolved to find and kill the Crimson King’s divine embryo during its nirvanic rebirth and seize the King’s Dao Fruit of Time.

Ye Xuan tracked down the Red King's Ancestral Land and infiltrated its guarded heart using the Chaos Bead. He found Crimson King in a tiny, vulnerable body as he underwent nirvana to break through from King to Emperor.

• Ye Xuan searched a Foreign Territory city for the Time Beast Clan's ancestral land, then seized and searched the memories of an arrogant Time Beast clansman to learn its location.
• Ye Xuan crossed the Foreign Territory and reached the Red King's Ancestral Land, where two Time Beast immortals guarded the entrance to an earthen city.
• Ye Xuan's true body at Emperor Pass used the Chaos Bead to conceal his incarnation from the two guardians and let him enter the city unnoticed.
• Ye Xuan reached the forbidden zone at the city's center and discovered Crimson King undergoing nirvana in a small, fiery-red Time Beast body.

Ye Xuan used the Chaos Bead to suppress Crimson King, seal his nirvana body, and loot his treasure vault. When the Crimson King Furnace erupted and other Foreign Territory kings rushed to respond, Ye Xuan escaped through a spatial rift with his prizes.

• Ye Xuan overwhelmed Crimson King's time laws with chaos and sealed him inside a fist-sized orb.
• Ye Xuan emptied Crimson King's vault, taking its treasures, scriptures, and Jade Stone Platform.
• Two immortals sensed Crimson King's vanished aura and raised the alarm, awakening the Crimson King Furnace.
• The Crimson King Furnace tore through Ye Xuan's chaos seal and drew the attention of the Foreign Territory's Immortal Kings.
• Ye Xuan opened a spatial rift, escaped with Crimson King's orb and the stolen treasures, and left the furnace to destroy the ancestral city.

The Crimson King Furnace rampaged after Ye Xuan escaped with the Crimson King's Nirvana body, devastating the ancestral land and nearly killing two Time Beast immortals. An Lan, Yu Tuo, and other Immortal Kings subdued the furnace, learned the Crimson King's body had been abducted, and failed to trace Ye Xuan because the Chaos Bead had concealed the evidence.

• Ye Xuan's incarnation escaped through a spatial rift with the Crimson King's Nirvana body and rare treasures, leaving the Crimson King Furnace to rampage.
• The Crimson King Furnace's fire destroyed the ancestral land and overwhelmed two Time Beast immortals, leaving their fates unknown.
• An Lan, Yu Tuo, and other Immortal Kings arrived and joined forces to suppress the furnace.
• The furnace's artifact spirit revealed that a mysterious expert had taken the Crimson King's Nirvana body.
• An Lan, Yu Tuo, and the other Immortal Kings searched the river of time but found no trace because the Chaos Bead had erased the clues.