Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan completed his Dao-proving artifact, spent time on Earth as Ye Fan began his journey, then returned to the Big Dipper and resumed cultivating. His clone encountered Ye Fan, the fat Daoist, and a black dog near the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground.

• Xiao Xuan forged twenty-five divine markings into a ring and finished his Dao-proving artifact.
• Xiao Xuan became a library curator in B City, where he met Ye Fan and watched him leave for Kunlun and the Big Dipper aboard the Nine-Dragon Coffin.
• Xiao Xuan returned to the Big Dipper, visited the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground, and spoke with the Ruthless Emperor.
• Xiao Xuan returned to the Martial Profound Holy Land, gave his disciples instructions, and entered a secret realm to create his own Dao and methods.
• Xiao Xuan's clone appeared near the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground and encountered Ye Fan, a fat Daoist, and a huge black dog.

Xiao Xuan reunited with Ye Fan and the Black Emperor, then traveled to the Northern Region and obtained a Vajra Bracelet from the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning. He reached Purple Mountain and began digging into it through an underground dragon vein.

• Xiao Xuan reunited with Ye Fan and the Black Emperor, who recognized him from their distant past, and asked where Little Flower was.
• Xiao Xuan told Ye Fan that a Dao-Slaying King could cross the void to return home and reassured him that his parents could live past a hundred.
• Xiao Xuan traveled to the Northern Region and reflected on its barren landscape and the source mines that had made it prosperous.
• Xiao Xuan seized a Vajra Bracelet from the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning and escaped the elders who pursued it.
• Xiao Xuan arrived at Purple Mountain, examined its ancient weapon marks, and opened a pit along an underground dragon vein.

Xiao Xuan explored the depths of Purple Mountain, where he encountered sealed dangers and the weakened God King Jiang Taixu. After refusing Jiang Taixu’s offer of a Nine Secret, Xiao Xuan revived him with a medicinal Dan and continued toward the center of Ancient Emperor Mountain.

• Xiao Xuan defeated a winged creature and passed a sealed young woman inside a piece of Divine Source.
• Xiao Xuan crossed a deserted palace carved from Ancient Jade and found records left by God King Jiang Taixu, Yang Yi, and Zhang Jiye.
• Xiao Xuan discovered seven peerless experts’ skeletons and heard the weakened Jiang Taixu speak to him.
• Jiang Taixu offered Xiao Xuan a Nine Secret in exchange for helping the Human Race, but Xiao Xuan refused and said he was human himself.
• Xiao Xuan broke open the stone wall, gave Jiang Taixu a medicine-king Dan, and continued deeper into Ancient Emperor Mountain.

Xiao Xuan recovered the Origin Heavenly Book, visited the returned Jiang Taixu, and then joined the gathering of young talents in God City. There, he spoke with Ling Yao as An Miaoyi began her moonlit discussion of techniques and the Dao.

• Xiao Xuan found the Origin Heavenly Book among the remains of a Yuan Heavenly Master, memorized its contents, and collected the nearby Treasure Herbs.
• Xiao Xuan visited the Jiang Family residence with Jiang Taixu's token, where Jiang Taixu and Caiyun Fairy welcomed him and discussed the God King's return.
• Xiao Xuan left the Jiang Family and went to the lakeside, where he met the Yaochi Holy Maiden Ling Yao and spoke with her about time and cultivation.
• An Miaoyi arrived by jade ship and played a qin melody for the young talents gathered in God City.
• A young man declared that he would retreat into the mountains with An Miaoyi, prompting laughter, before An Miaoyi said the gathering would focus on techniques and the Dao.

At An Miaoyi’s gathering, Xiao Xuan warned her about the karmic danger of the ancient bronze cauldron before disappearing. After a century of cultivation, he reached the peak of the Quasi-Emperor realm and created the initial framework of his Spacetime Heavenly Art, leaving him poised to pursue the Great Emperor realm.

• An Miaoyi presented an ancient bronze cauldron, and Xiao Xuan warned her that she and the force behind her could not bear its karma before revealing only that his surname was Xiao.
• Xiao Xuan’s clone traveled across the Big Dipper and advanced to the Quasi-Emperor realm, making his name rival the Ancient Desolate Sacred Body’s.
• Xiao Xuan’s true body spent a hundred years in seclusion in the Martial Profound Holy Land and reached the perfection of the Quasi-Emperor realm.
• Xiao Xuan combined the Taiyi Xuanyuan Scripture with his insights into space to create the initial framework of the Spacetime Heavenly Art.
• Xiao Xuan resolved to accumulate more strength before undergoing tribulation and attaining the Dao.

Xiao Xuan fought his way through the Starry Ancient Road and drew the attack of a Forbidden Zone Supreme. He revealed the Heavenly Sword and killed the Supreme, leaving the Big Dipper shaken by his growing power.

• Yan'er saw a ring crash down outside the Taiqing Sacred Realm and recognized Xiao Xuan inside it.
• Xiao Xuan defeated a horned Quasi-Emperor after years of roaming the Ancient Roads and killing nearly fifty powerful foes.
• A Forbidden Zone Supreme emerged from the Reincarnation Sea and attacked Xiao Xuan with an Emperor Weapon.
• Xiao Xuan summoned the Heavenly Sword, whose power exceeded that of an Emperor Weapon, and killed the Supreme with one strike.
• Ye Fan, Jiang Taixu, and people across the Big Dipper witnessed the battle and reacted to Xiao Xuan's power.

Xiao Xuan broke through to the Great Emperor realm, then surpassed it to become the Space-Time Emperor and declared war on the Forbidden Zones. The chapter ended as he attacked the united Forbidden Zone Supremes with the Heavenly Sword.

• Xiao Xuan revealed his true body after killing a Supreme, then broke the Immortal Dao chains and began his tribulation.
• Xiao Xuan endured the lightning tribulation as his body was remade, then separated his Primordial Spirit and physical body to temper himself with the Nine Secret: Bing.
• Xiao Xuan crossed the tribulation again and surpassed the Great Emperor realm, becoming the Heavenly Emperor and taking the title Space-Time Emperor.
• Xiao Xuan confronted the seven Forbidden Zones, where twenty Supremes united against him.
• Xiao Xuan condemned the Forbidden Zones for harvesting living beings and attacked the Supremes with the Heavenly Sword.

Xiao Xuan exterminated the Forbidden Zone Supremes and emerged from the battle with strength beyond the Heavenly Emperor level. He returned to Big Dipper, where the powerful gathered to pay homage, and declared that the existing territories would remain unchanged while forbidding the Life Forbidden Zones from acting recklessly.

• Xiao Xuan fought the Forbidden Zone Supremes after they underwent ultimate sublimation, while mysterious figures across unknown places recognized him and wondered at his return.
• Over the next century, Xiao Xuan killed the Supremes one by one, advanced his mastery of time, and ultimately exterminated them all.
• Xiao Xuan sensed Ruthless watching from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground, acknowledged her, and left the Cosmic Border Wasteland for the universe.
• Xiao Xuan arrived at Big Dipper and recalled how its five continents had been formed from the body of a Chaos Body.
• Leaders and representatives from holy lands, dynasties, and Forbidden Zones gathered at Martial Profound Holy Land to pay homage to Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan ordered the gathered powers to preserve the existing territories and warned that he would suppress and annihilate any Forbidden Zone that acted recklessly.

Xiao Xuan refined the Enlightenment Tea Tree and encountered the lingering imprint of Great Emperor Ruthless, whose Devouring Dao challenged emperors of later generations. After announcing that he would expound on the Dao, Xiao Xuan prepared to address millions of cultivators gathered in the Wuxuan Mountains.

• Xiao Xuan planted the Enlightenment Tea Tree in the Martial Profound Holy Land after taking it from the Mountain of Immortality.
• While refining the tree, Xiao Xuan disturbed ancient imprints and witnessed Great Emperor Ruthless demonstrate her Devouring Dao and form the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• Xiao Xuan continued refining the tree as his vitality and blood resonated with the Great Dao and grew increasingly powerful.
• The Big Dipper Ancient Star flourished as spring passed and summer arrived.
• Xiao Xuan announced that he would lecture on the Dao, and millions of cultivators gathered in the Wuxuan Mountains for his lecture.

Xiao Xuan expounded the Dao at Wuxuan Mountains, explaining how cultivators could strengthen themselves and revealing that he was trying to remove the Heavenly Heart Mark. After answering Ye Fan’s question about immortals and claiming that beings in the Big Dipper were nearing immortality, Xiao Xuan ended the sermon and disappeared.

• Xiao Xuan appeared above Wuxuan Mountains, accepted the cultivators’ worship, and began expounding the Dao.
• After several years of teaching, Xiao Xuan explained that combat strength depended on cultivation, Dao, talent, physique, opportunities, and experience.
• Xiao Xuan told the cultivators that he was attempting to strip away the Heavenly Heart Mark so others might have a chance to become Emperors.
• Ye Fan asked whether immortals existed, and Xiao Xuan confirmed that immortals were real and that several beings in the Big Dipper were close to becoming immortals.
• Xiao Xuan concluded the sermon and vanished from Wuxuan Mountains.

Xiao Xuan used the White Tiger Immortal Medicine to prepare for a second life, then shed his Heavenly Heart Imprint while Ye Fan became an emperor and founded the Heavenly Court. After a century sealed in an immortal cocoon, Xiao Xuan emerged as a child in a new immortal body, with an even more formidable foundation.

• Xiao Xuan chose to live nine lives in the Red Dust and kept the White Tiger Immortal Medicine for his second life.
• Xiao Xuan stripped away the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and a thousand years later Ye Fan became an emperor and established the Heavenly Court.
• Xiao Xuan gathered faith-born immortal radiance and his blood-energy into an immortal cocoon, while Ye Fan and the Forbidden Zone Supremes sensed the extraordinary event.
• A hundred years later, the immortal cocoon opened, and Xiao Xuan emerged as a child with a new immortal embryo and powerful Spacetime Dao.

After returning from nirvana, Xiao Xuan sealed his power and fell asleep, while his consciousness awakened in primordial chaos as Xuan. Born into an ancient world, he used his Temporal Double Pupil to stop a dragon attack and protect a group of hunters.

• Xiao Xuan welcomed Ye Fan, then sealed his strength to begin cultivating from scratch and fell asleep.
• Xiao Xuan's consciousness awakened in primordial chaos, gradually formed a body, and came to know the name Xuan.
• Xuan developed the Temporal Double Pupil and saw the outside world for the first time.
• Xuan was born into the world as hunters discovered him and an azure dragon descended with demonic beasts.
• Xuan froze time and space to stop the dragon and reassure the hunters, while the other beasts retreated in fear.

Xuan settled among the Wind Clan, learned about the Human Race’s desperate position in the Origin Era, and taught Di Tian a cultivation art. When the ancestral treasure seal reappeared and offered the chance to become Human Emperor, Di Tian urged Xuan to witness the event.

• Xuan took a medicinal herb from the black mist and asked Feng Kun about the era and their location.
• Feng Kun brought Xuan to the Wind Clan, where Xuan learned that the Human Race was struggling against the myriad races.
• Xuan practiced his cultivation art, and the tribe’s children grew stronger by imitating him.
• Xuan recognized Di Tian’s exceptional talent and taught him how to cultivate; Di Tian vowed to forge a new realm for the Human Race.
• A bell announced that the Human Race’s ancestral treasure seal had reappeared, and Di Tian invited Xuan to see whether a Human King would become Human Emperor.

The ten Human King tribes gathered at the Human Race’s ancestral vein to await the Human Emperor Seal and compete for its baptism. After the kings chose to let their younger generation contest for the divine land, Di Tian challenged the assembled princes and faced the Fire Clan prince.

• Ancestor Feng welcomed Xuan and brought the Feng Clan to the Central Plains ancestral vein, where the Human Emperor Seal had begun to appear.
• The other Human King tribes arrived with their experts and princes, and the gathered people watched the seal’s projection while hoping for its recognition and baptism.
• The Human Kings agreed to let the younger generation compete for the divine land around the ancestral vein.
• Di Tian stepped forward to fight, and the Fire Clan prince accepted his challenge.

After Di Tian and Di Yuan demonstrated the Wind Clan's strength, the Human Race gathered around the ancestral treasure seal, which transformed and strengthened their bodies. Ten Immortal Kings from other races arrived to claim it and threatened to annihilate the Human Race, leaving the ten Human Kings preparing to resist while Xuan continued his mysterious cultivation.

• Di Tian defeated the Fire Clan prince, and Di Yuan claimed first place in the following battles.
• The treasure seal bathed the Human Race in wondrous visions and immortal light that cleansed and strengthened their bodies as Xuan and Di Tian pursued insights into their paths.
• After several months, the treasure seal manifested in the sky, and ten Immortal Kings from other races arrived with their followers to claim it.
• Xuan remained immersed in cultivation as golden runes appeared across his body and double pupils let him glimpse a fleeting vision of reincarnation.
• The ten kings belittled the Human Race and threatened its survival, prompting the ten Human Kings to descend and prepare to fight.

The ten Human Kings used the Ancestral Vein Seal to fight the Foreign Realm’s Immortal Kings, but they were defeated and left near death. As the aliens moved to seize the seal, Xuan emerged as a Quasi-King, struck down one Immortal King, and challenged the rest.

• The ten Human Kings invoked the Ancestral Vein Seal and unleashed their strongest attack against the Immortal Kings, but they lost and collapsed, gravely wounded.
• Several Foreign Realm kings targeted the Feng Clan’s sacred peak to retrieve the treasure seal, and one pressed a finger toward the clan.
• Xuan opened his double pupils and pierced an Immortal King with two beams from his eyes, killing him.
• The Human Race realized Xuan was a Quasi-Immortal King and cheered as he rose to face the remaining kings.
• Xuan summoned his innate longsword, attacked, and called on the kings to fight.

Xuan fought the kings with his strange sword until the Treasure Seal chose him as its master and proclaimed him the Human Emperor. Empowered by the seal, he pressed his overwhelming attack and left the Feather King badly wounded.

• Xuan destroyed an ancient tower with his sword as the kings attacked him together.
• The Treasure Seal left Chaos and descended before Xuan, and the crowd recognized him as the Human Emperor.
• Xuan shattered several kings’ weapons and endured the Feather King’s sword storm without being pierced.
• Xuan struck the Feather King with a blazing fist, breaking his arm and mangling half his body.
• The Treasure Seal poured its power into Xuan, raising his strength to an unfathomable level as he faced the kings.

Xuan wielded the Human Emperor Seal to kill ten Kings, establishing the Human Race’s rise, then returned to his cultivation. Ten years later, he taught the Human Kings and other experts the Undying Scripture, which offered hope of reaching the King realm and preserving the body beyond death.

• Xuan trapped the enemy Kings and used the Human Emperor Seal to kill King Cang, King Hong, King Yu, and all ten Kings in total.
• The Human Race’s experts hailed Xuan as the Human Emperor, and the ten Human King tribes submitted to him as news of his victory spread across the universe.
• Xuan returned to the Human Race’s ancestral land and resumed his enlightenment, while the Human Race’s branches waited for him to lead them.
• Ten years later, Xuan summoned the ten Human Kings and other Human Race experts and expounded the Dao.
• Xuan taught them the Undying Scripture, a body-tempering method that could preserve the body after death and potentially allow it to form a new primordial spirit.

Xuan inscribed the Undying Scripture and Spacetime Heavenly Scripture for future generations, hid them within a mountain, and entrusted Azure Dragon with cultivating them and protecting the Human Race. Over the next hundred thousand years, the Human Race flourished under his rule, while Xuan became an Immortal King and felt an unseen call drawing him toward departure.

• Xuan carved the Undying Scripture and Spacetime Heavenly Scripture into a mountain and concealed the writings for worthy descendants to find.
• Xuan allowed Azure Dragon to study both scriptures and charged it not to harm the Human Race, and Azure Dragon vowed that dragons would protect the people as their totem.
• The Human Race united in the Central Plains and entered the Human Emperor Era, while Di Tian rose to Supreme and became known as Xuan’s successor.
• Ancestor Feng advanced into the Immortal King realm, and Xuan’s victories over returning powers established the Human Race as a foremost force.
• A hundred thousand years after the era began, the ten Human Kings had become Immortal Kings, Di Tian had reached True Immortal, and Xuan had entered the King realm.
• As Xuan ruled from the Human Emperor Palace, his loneliness deepened and he sensed an unknown call that would eventually lead him away.

Xuan blessed the Human Race and departed to search the Boundary Sea for a way home. After a temporal disturbance cost him an unknown span of time, he hurried back toward the continent and encountered a dark creature and the Daoist Yuanjue.

• Xuan used the Human Emperor Seal to bless the ten Human Kings and the Human Race, infusing them with enduring power.
• At a celebration, Xuan announced that he was leaving because he could not remember who he was, and the Human Race agreed to await his return rather than choose a successor.
• Xuan left along a golden path and entered the Boundary Sea, hoping to find a way home in another ancient realm.
• Xuan traveled through the Boundary Sea for ten thousand years and encountered legendary kings on isolated islands.
• A surge of temporal power engulfed Xuan, and he realized that an unknown span of time had passed before he turned back toward the continent.
• A Black Hou attacked Xuan, but he killed it with a casual palm, and Yuanjue greeted him.