Chapter Summaries

Gu Hui studied the Nine Secrets while living in the Eastern Wasteland, and reflected on how their combined wisdom revealed the path toward transcending death. As the Empress’s era stretched on, Ruthless Great Emperor reached the twilight of her first life and prepared to risk transforming herself without an Immortality Medicine.

• Gu Hui opened a medical clinic in a small Eastern Wasteland city and contemplated the Nine Secrets, which he had gathered after defeating Supremes and collecting their possessions.
• Gu Hui considered how the Nine Secrets revealed a path forward as sixteen thousand years passed in the Empress’s peaceful era.
• Eighteen thousand years after the Empress attained the Dao, Ruthless Great Emperor entered the twilight of her first life, and signs of decay appeared in her aura.
• Ruthless Great Emperor prepared to shatter her old shell and transform through her own strength rather than consume an Immortality Medicine.
• Gu Hui and the others watched Ruthless quietly as the Supremes in the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning marveled at her talent.

Ruthless lived out her second life and created the Myriad Transformations Sacred Art, but after entering her later years she faced an attack by eight Supremes. She led them to the Cosmic Border Wasteland to fight, leaving the Big Dipper Star Region fearful of both the battle and what would follow her eventual death.

• Ruthless completed her second life, then created the Myriad Transformations Sacred Art, which could transform and weaken other secret arts.
• After her second life lasted twenty-five thousand years, eight Supremes emerged and attacked the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground as Ruthless entered her later years.
• Gu Hui sensed that the Supremes had finally made their move, while the attackers taunted Ruthless for her decaying aura and threatened to study her remains.
• Ruthless challenged the eight Supremes to fight at the Cosmic Border Wasteland and crossed the Star Regions to meet them there.
• Living beings across the world feared the coming battle and worried about the calamity that might follow when Ruthless could no longer guard the mortal realm.

Ruthless fought off eight Supremes and exhausted herself while attempting to break through the brink of life and death. Gu Ya then killed three more Supremes, refined their remains into pills, and invited Ruthless to visit the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning after she lived out a third life.

• Eight Supremes attacked Ruthless, but she used the Dao Bottle and Flying Immortal power to fight them back.
• Ruthless continued battling as the Supremes waited for her to weaken, then killed all eight despite suffering repeated injuries.
• Three more Supremes appeared after Ruthless reached her limit and asked Gu Ya to join them.
• Gu Ya rejected the Supremes, crushed all three with One Pill Creates a World, and refined their remains with the eight slain Supremes into six pills.
• Gu Ya gave Ruthless two pills, invited her to the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning after her third life, and disappeared into the mine.

Ruthless survived her third life and watched the mortal world pass through eras of silence and renewal as emperors rose and fell. As she began transforming into her fourth life, a Completed Sacred Body and his wife, Western Empress Mother, welcomed a child with the unprecedented Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo.

• Ruthless dispersed her Heavenly Heart Imprint, then visited the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning and discussed the Dao with its eight Great Emperors.
• A Human Race genius became Shenzhou Great Emperor, ruled for six thousand years, and died in his twilight years without living a second life.
• A Human Race Sacred Body reached Great Perfection and guarded the world for ten thousand years before passing away.
• Nine Li Emperor proved the Dao, founded the Nine Li Dynasty, and died after guarding the world for seven thousand years.
• A third Sacred Body reached Great Perfection, married a Human Race genius who became Western Empress Mother, and had a child with her.
• Gu Hui appeared when the child was born and recognized the child’s Peerless Physique as the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo.

After Ji Xukong became a Great Emperor and killed three Supremes, the Five-Colored Heavenly Saber struck at him, but an unknown powerhouse blocked its attack. The Supremes recognized the saber as belonging to the Immortal Heavenly Emperor, whose growing strength left Gu Jiuxuan wary.

• Gu Hui named the child Wu Shi and left jade tokens that could transport their holders to the Interstice World.
• Over the following tens of thousands of years, several Completed Sacred Bodies and Emperor Hengyu rose, and some entered the Interstice World near the ends of their lives.
• Ji Xukong attained the Dao at age four hundred and ninety-nine and killed three Supremes in a single day.
• The Five-Colored Heavenly Saber attacked Ji Xukong after his battle, and a pair of enormous hands appeared to block the slash.
• Ji Xukong realized that power beyond the level of Great Emperors existed and resolved to pursue it.
• The Supremes identified the saber as the Immortal Heavenly Emperor's, while Gu Jiuxuan remarked that the Immortal Heavenly Emperor had grown stronger.

Ji Xukong survived the battle against the Life Forbidden Zones with help from his master, Gu Jiuxuan, and later chose to let his era end rather than use an Immortality Medicine. His passing began a long age of Human Race supremacy, which culminated in the rise of the peerless Wu Shi.

• Gu Jiuxuan revealed himself to Ji Xukong after the battle, and Ji Xukong recognized him as the master who had tricked him into becoming a disciple.
• Ten thousand years later, Ji Xukong refused Gu Jiuxuan's offer of an Immortality Medicine and accepted the end of his era.
• The Heavenly Heart Imprint returned to heaven and earth, and living beings mourned the passing of the Void Emperor.
• The Life Forbidden Zones vanished as Great Emperors and Completed Sacred Bodies of the Human Race rose through the Desolate Ancient Era.
• Ten thousand years after the Chaotic Ancient Emperor passed away, Wu Shi emerged and defeated opponents across realms, even resisting Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapons with his bare hands.

Great Emperor Wu Shi reached the peak of power before meeting the Black Emperor and facing the Immortal Heavenly Emperor in his later years. At Purple Mountain, Wu Shi and the Immortal Heavenly Emperor began a subtle, dangerous battle while Gu Jiuxuan watched.

• Great Emperor Wu Shi became a Great Emperor at four hundred and ruled the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths for nearly forty thousand years.
• The Black Emperor met Great Emperor Wu Shi and was sealed away when Wu Shi entered the twilight of his second life and encountered a formidable enemy.
• Great Emperor Wu Shi gained the upper hand against the Immortal Heavenly Emperor, whose Five-Colored Heavenly Saber had been suppressed by the Wu Shi Bell.
• The Immortal Heavenly Emperor appeared in person, and Gu Jiuxuan revealed himself as the Thunder Emperor and challenged him.
• Great Emperor Wu Shi insisted on facing the Immortal Heavenly Emperor alone as their laws and spirits clashed at Purple Mountain.

Wu Shi Great Emperor and the Immortal Heavenly Emperor fought across the stars until the Immortal Heavenly Emperor used an Immortal Ascension Road Node to seize Wu Shi’s blood. Wu Shi turned the trap against him, and both entered the node as Gu Jiuxuan let them go; the story then shifted to a young man in the Central Plains Holy City declaring the Desolate Ancient Era over.

• Wu Shi Great Emperor and the Immortal Heavenly Emperor clashed in a battle that damaged the fabric of the cosmos, with both surpassing the Great Emperor realm.
• Wu Shi Great Emperor and the Immortal Heavenly Emperor fought to the Demon Domain Sea on Yinghuo Star, where a Chaos Cave opened at an Immortal Ascension Road Node.
• Gu Jiuxuan recognized that the Immortal Heavenly Emperor had lured Wu Shi Great Emperor to the node to suppress him and take his blood.
• The Immortal Heavenly Emperor obtained Wu Shi Great Emperor’s blood, but Wu Shi’s Wu Shi Bell swept them both into the Chaos Cave.
• Gu Jiuxuan allowed Wu Shi Great Emperor to enter the strange world beyond the node, which contained immortal substances that could grant Changsheng.
• A young man in a tavern in the Holy City of the Central Plains declared that the Desolate Ancient Era had ended and the Post-Desolate Ancient Era had begun.

After the Azure Emperor began pursuing immortality through the Red Dust, Gu Hui watched Ye Fan’s journey begin when the Nine-Dragon Coffin carried him and his classmates from Earth to the Big Dipper Star Region. Ye Fan survived the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground and entered Lingxu Cave Heaven, while Ruthless awoke to seek the person she had been waiting for.

• Azure Emperor read Gu Hui’s booklet on becoming a Red Dust Immortal, staged his death, and began his own path to eternal life.
• Ruthless awoke in her fifth life after sensing that the person she had awaited had appeared.
• Gu Hui observed Ye Fan’s class reunion trip to Mount Tai and the Nine-Dragon Coffin’s departure, then left an incarnation on Earth.
• The Nine-Dragon Coffin carried Ye Fan and his classmates through Yinghuo Ancient Star and onward to the Big Dipper Star Region.
• Ye Fan and his classmates emerged from the Bronze Coffin into a vast immortal palace in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground, then escaped and met Weiwei.
• After the cave heavens competed to recruit the survivors, Ye Fan was passed between them because of his Ancient Desolate Sacred Body before entering Lingxu Cave Heaven.

Ye Fan pursued the resources and inheritances his Sacred Body needed, eventually entering Purple Mountain and encountering the imprisoned Jiang Taixu. After seeing Great Emperor Wu Shi’s image, he met a talking black dog that called itself the Black Emperor and attacked him.

• Gu Hui summoned his future self in Dao Mirror Space and secretly attempted to use Great Dream Through Myriad Ages to reach an eleventh life.
• Ye Fan cultivated his Sacred Body, depleted his resources, and joined Ji Ziyue at Taixuan Sect, where they sought Nine Secrets: Jie at Clumsy Peak.
• Ye Fan obtained Nine Secrets: Jie and later met Fifth Master Zhang, who introduced him to Yuan Heavenly Masters and the Origin Heavenly Book.
• Ye Fan entered Purple Mountain alone, encountered Jiang Taixu, and promised to tell the Jiang Family that he was imprisoned there.
• Ye Fan saw Great Emperor Wu Shi’s figure in a great hall, then met the talking Black Emperor, who pounced on him after Ye Fan called it a dog demon.

Ye Fan studied the Origin Heavenly Book, gathered resources through stone gambling, and advanced to the Dao Palace Secret Realm. After Jiang Taixu was rescued from Purple Mountain and recovered enough to defeat his enemies, he prepared to help Ye Fan challenge the restrictions on Sacred Body cultivation, leaving Ye Fan facing a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation during his breakthrough to the Four Extremes Realm.

• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor bickered over Divine Source and ancient scriptures while Ye Fan confirmed the dog had once followed Great Emperor Wu Shi.
• Ye Fan studied the Origin Heavenly Book, improved his Origin Art, and joined the others in winning abundant resources from Northern Region stone-gambling dens, allowing him to enter the Dao Palace Secret Realm.
• Ye Fan told an expert from the Jiang Family that Jiang Taixu was trapped in Purple Mountain, and the family rescued Jiang Taixu with an Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapon and other experts.
• Jiang Taixu recovered, killed the enemies who attacked him in God City, and persuaded the major holy lands to temporarily set aside their grievances with Ye Fan.
• Jiang Taixu prepared to help Ye Fan break through to the Four Extremes Realm, drawing a crowd eager to see whether a Sacred Body could overcome the restrictions of the Post-Desolate Ancient Era.
• Ye Fan began his breakthrough inside the Transformation Dragon Pool, but an exceptionally terrifying Heavenly Tribulation descended as the Black Emperor and Pang Bo watched anxiously.

Ye Fan faced the Innate Dao Diagram, which threatened to destroy his cultivation, then encountered the mysterious wandering doctor Xiao Yao, who recognized his Dao wound. Years later, Ye Fan’s wound had healed as Qishi Mansion opened and the Golden Age approached, with human and primordial prodigies preparing to compete.

• The Innate Dao Diagram descended on Ye Fan, injured him, and threatened to sever his path to cultivation despite his ancient visions and attacks.
• Gu Hui met Ye Fan and his companions in the divine city, called himself Xiao Yao, and recognized that Ye Fan had a wound to his Dao.
• Ye Fan entered the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground and emerged with his Dao wound healed, though he pretended otherwise and continued swindling people.
• Years later, Qishi Mansion opened as the Strongest Human Trial Ancient Road prepared to begin and the Golden Age drew near.
• The Primordial Ten Thousand Races began awakening and reasserting their arrogance as human and other prodigies gathered to compete.

Ye Fan and his companions fled into Mountain of Immortality while escaping a Primordial Imperial Clan member they had angered, then ventured deeper into the Life Forbidden Zone and discovered the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree. The chapter left them approaching the ancient tree, unaware of the danger around them.

• The Black Emperor, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Li Heishui, Tu Fei, and the little girl escaped a furious Primordial Imperial Clan member after the Black Emperor stripped her of her belongings and woke her.
• The group realized they had reached Mountain of Immortality, and the Black Emperor warned them that its ancient Great Emperor arrays could kill even the strongest cultivators.
• As the group explored the forbidden zone, the Black Emperor and Ye Fan discussed the Human Race’s Great Emperors and the legendary Thunder Emperor.
• Ruthless awakened from seclusion after sensing the little girl’s perspective in Mountain of Immortality, and she recalled the Thunder Emperor’s family at the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning.
• Ye Fan used his Source Heaven Eye to sense the terrifying arrays around them as the group spotted the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree and approached it.

Ye Fan and his companions witnessed ancient images of Great Emperor Wushi and Ruthless Great Emperor beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, followed by a figure who stripped its leaves and broke off a branch. They learned the intruder came from the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning, a forbidden zone feared even by the Supremes of other forbidden zones.

• The Big Black Dog rushed toward an image of Great Emperor Wushi beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, but Ye Fan stopped him and explained it was only an illusion.
• Pang Bo pointed out another image, and Ye Fan and the others recognized the terrifying presence as Ruthless Great Emperor before she departed.
• The Black Emperor explained that ancient Great Emperors had left enduring images beside the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree.
• A mysterious figure stripped every leaf from the tree and broke off part of a branch, leaving Ye Fan and his companions stunned.
• Ye Fan wondered why the Mountain of Immortality's Supremes had not intervened, and the narration revealed they feared the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning and its history of slaying Forbidden Zone Supremes.
• The narration revealed that the figure who had damaged the tree came from the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning.

Ye Fan and his companions took all 108 leaves from the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree in the Mountain of Immortality, but the tree escaped when they tried to dig it up. As the primordial races awakened and demanded human territory, representatives of both sides gathered at the Grand Assembly of Ten Thousand Races, where human lands were openly challenged.

• Ye Fan and his companions plucked all 108 leaves from the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, which uprooted itself and fled when they tried to take it.
• Ye Fan and his companions searched the Mountain of Immortality, found no other treasures, and left while its Supremes discussed the coming Immortal Ascension Road.
• The primordial races awakened and claimed the land surrounding their slumbering grounds, provoking alarm among the Human Race's great holy lands.
• The primordial races called a grand assembly to redraw territorial boundaries, with imperial princes and powerful human representatives attending.
• At the assembly, the races argued over dividing the land, and some primordial speakers demanded that the Human Race surrender its territories.

The primordial races threatened the Human Race at the ten-thousand-race gathering and brought seven Ancient Saints to demand recognition as their equals. Just as the humans faced despair, Jiang Taixu arrived as a Saint of the Human Race, having broken through the world’s limits.

• Primordial races belittled the Human Race and issued an ultimatum, claiming their returning powerhouses would force it to submit.
• Seven Ancient Saints of the primordial races arrived at Yaochi and suppressed the gathered human powerhouses with their auras.
• The Saints mocked the gathering and demanded to know who among the humans was qualified to discuss the world’s future with them.
• Jiang Taixu appeared in white robes as a Saint, lifting the humans’ despair and astonishing them with his rapid breakthrough.
• The gathered cultivators realized Jiang Taixu had broken through the constraints of heaven and earth, which were not yet expected to support a Saint.

Jiang Taixu killed seven Saints of the primordial races, then faced twenty more who demanded his death and threatened the Human Race. He struck first with Nine Secrets: Dou, manifesting Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapons as the next battle began.

• Jiang Taixu cut apart a Saint's divine sword and used Nine Secrets: Dou to suppress and kill all seven Saints of the primordial races.
• Jiang Taixu recalled his ancestor's book and his visit to the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning, which had eased his concern about the consequences of killing the seven Saints.
• Twenty Saints of the primordial races arrived, condemned Jiang Taixu, and threatened to punish both him and the Human Race.
• Jiang Taixu attacked the twenty Saints with Nine Secrets: Dou, manifesting Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapons.

Jiang Taixu overwhelmed the Primordial Races’ Saints, revealing that his strength had risen to the peak of the Saint King realm after his experience in the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning. After he killed eighteen Saints, a Great Saint arrived and threatened the Human Race, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Jiang Taixu fought off the twenty Saints of the Primordial Races and was recognized as a Saint King nearing the Great Saint realm.
• Jiang Taixu’s second life and rapid cultivation growth after visiting the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning were revealed.
• Jiang Taixu slaughtered eighteen of the Primordial Races’ Saints, leaving only two alive.
• A Great Saint of the Primordial Races arrived, and the Primordial Races cheered while the humans feared a wider catastrophe.
• The Great Saint condemned Jiang Taixu for killing the Saints of his race and threatened him.

Jiang Taixu defied the Primordial Races until a mysterious golden hall arrived and killed their Great Saint and two Saints. The Primordial Races then awakened an Ancient Emperor Weapon and sent it toward Yaochi, leaving Jiang Taixu warning that their actions could trigger an all-out war.

• Jiang Taixu challenged the Great Saint of the Primordial Races, declaring that the Human Race still possessed strength to punish those who oppressed it.
• As the Great Saint attacked Jiang Taixu and the humans, a magnificent golden hall descended from the heavens toward Yaochi.
• The hall crushed the Great Saint and the two Saints Jiang Taixu had spared, reducing them to ash.
• The remaining Primordial Races realized the hall was a Human Race power, while the humans briefly celebrated its intervention.
• Primordial Race powerhouses ordered an Ancient Emperor Weapon deployed, and its divine might surged toward Yaochi.
• Jiang Taixu warned the Primordial Races that provoking the Human Race could lead to an all-out war.

Thor Palace suppressed the Primordial Races’ two Ancient Emperor Weapons, and a decree revealed that the Thunder Emperor was still alive and ordered the races to coexist or face death. The Ten Thousand Races Gathering ended, the Primordial Races withdrew, and the golden age continued as the Immortal Ascension Road drew near.

• Jiang Taixu, Yaochi, and the Human Race brought out the Hengyu Furnace, Western Empress Tower, and Void Mirror to confront the Primordial Races’ Ancient Emperor Weapons.
• Thor Palace surged forward and suppressed both Ancient Emperor Weapons, terrifying the Primordial Races and prompting them to fear the Thunder Emperor’s return.
• A radiant decree emerged from Thor Palace, confirming the Thunder Emperor was alive and warning all races to coexist or be killed.
• The Ten Thousand Races Gathering ended, and the Primordial Ten Thousand Races retreated to their former regions.
• The descendants of the Ancient Emperors left the Big Dipper Star Region for the universe as prodigies gathered for the golden age and the coming Immortal Ascension Road.