Chapter Summaries

After helping Shi Hao and Shi Yi eliminate the Upper Realm forces in the Lower Realm, Shi Xuan entered the Upper Realm and traveled toward the Yuantian Secret Realm. There he met the evenly matched Ning Chuan and arrived as Yue Chan and the young lord of the Immortal Palace drew attention.

• Shi Xuan, Shi Hao, and Shi Yi killed the pseudo-gods in the Lower Realm, subdued sacred lands, and left through the teleportation formation beneath Shi Village.
• The three underwent transformations in the Upper Realm before separating to travel on their own.
• Shi Xuan fought Ning Chuan, who introduced himself after their battle ended in a draw.
• Shi Xuan traveled through the Three Thousand Dao Prefectures, remained undefeated against the prodigies he encountered, and headed to the Yuantian Secret Realm.
• Shi Xuan disguised himself before entering the secret realm in Five Elements Prefecture, where he saw Yue Chan beside the young lord of the Immortal Palace.

Shi Xuan entered the Yuantian Secret Realm and defeated Lightning Prince in a single clash, killing him before he was revived. He later encountered Shi Yi, and they acknowledged each other before going their separate ways through the realm.

• Many renowned young Supremes and First Generations gathered as Qin Hao’s arrival heralded the opening of the Yuantian Secret Realm.
• Shi Xuan entered the realm, explored its abundant spiritual resources, killed vicious beasts, and collected herbs and sacred medicines.
• Lightning Prince attacked Shi Xuan and challenged him over his use of lightning laws.
• Shi Xuan countered Lightning Prince’s punch with the Zhu Yan Precious Technique, badly wounding him and winning the clash.
• Shi Xuan stomped on Lightning Prince’s head and killed him, after which an ivory tusk carried Lightning Prince’s primordial spirit back to the Forbidden Zone altar for revival.
• Shi Xuan later met Shi Yi, and the two nodded before flying off in different directions.

Shi Xuan befriended Cao Yusheng and later entered the ancient hall at the depths of the secret realm, where he challenged the wielder of a golden lamp after the man’s flames burned off his hair. Their clash shook the hall, and Shi Xuan sent the golden-lamp man flying with a kick.

• Shi Xuan met Cao Yusheng while gathering spiritual herbs, and the two teamed up to rob heavenly geniuses.
• Shi Xuan witnessed Shi Hao defeat Qin Hao while holding back and giving him a chance to challenge him again.
• Shi Xuan, Cao Yusheng, Shi Hao, and others reached an ancient hall filled with Chaos aura, where Cao Yusheng reunited with Little Rabbit.
• A young man wielding a golden lamp attacked indiscriminately, and his flames burned off Shi Xuan’s hair.
• Shi Xuan struck the golden-lamp man with a Zhuque technique, then kicked him hundreds of meters away as the collision’s blast threw Little Rabbit aside.

Shi Xuan defeated Zhe Xian, claimed the Yuantian Secret Realm’s final fortune, and traveled to Demon Province before entering the Immortal Ancient Era. There he began his breakthrough to the Divine Fire Realm, enduring heavenly lightning as it tempered his body and primordial spirit.

• Shi Xuan trapped Zhe Xian with the Third Killing Formation carved into his body, pierced his chest, and drove him to flee with a void-breaking talisman.
• Shi Xuan claimed the Yuantian Secret Realm’s final fortune, gained sacred medicines, and traveled to Demon Province after saying farewell to Lunar Jade Rabbit, Cao Yusheng, and the others.
• Shi Xuan obtained entry to the Immortal Ancient Era, where he encountered Shi Yi and Shi Hao among the Venerables climbing the stone stairways.
• Shi Xuan secluded himself, ignited his divine fire, and began his Divine Fire Realm breakthrough as divine lightning struck the region.
• Shi Xuan endured the lightning without dodging, using the Undying Scripture and his physical strength to temper his flesh, blood, bones, and primordial spirit.

Shi Xuan survived the tenth layer of his tribulation and found the Thunder Pool, where Tribulation Lightning Liquid began transforming his body and Primordial Spirit. The rebirth was still underway as his old body cracked and peeled away.

• Shi Xuan endured the first nine layers of Lightning Tribulation, then prepared for the legendary tenth layer.
• A lightning creature formed from the imprint of a former era’s strongest young Supreme fought Shi Xuan, and he destroyed it after a thousand exchanges.
• Shi Xuan reached the Thunder Pool and discovered it contained Tribulation Lightning Liquid capable of restoring and transforming him.
• Shi Xuan and his Primordial Spirit absorbed the divine liquid, gaining vitality and strength until they reached a bottleneck.
• Shi Xuan began a violent rebirth as his bones reshaped, his skin peeled away, and his Primordial Spirit repeatedly cracked and reformed.

Shi Xuan completed his transformation, cultivated two strands of immortal energy, and later reached the peak of the Divine Fire Realm with three strands. When Shi Hao fought the Ten Crown King and Zhe Xian, Shi Xuan entered the battle, struck down Zi Yanfei, and challenged Ning Chuan.

• Shi Xuan absorbed lightning tribulation fluid as his body and primordial spirit were reforged, then cultivated two strands of immortal energy and advanced into the late Divine Fire Realm.
• Over the following year, Shi Xuan reached the peak of the Divine Fire Realm with three strands of immortal energy, while Shi Hao and Shi Yi also cultivated immortal energy.
• Shi Hao fought the Ten Crown King and Zhe Xian, and Ning Chuan joined them to attack him as the battle devastated the arena.
• Zi Yanfei attacked the battlefield, but Shi Xuan appeared and struck him down before confronting the other experts.
• Shi Xuan killed the distant attackers with the Willow Deity Method, rejected Ning Chuan's accusation about Sin Blood, and told Shi Hao to hold off the other two while he fought Ning Chuan.

Shi Xuan and Shi Hao entered the Immortal Ancient Era’s light gate and found a mysterious stone wall in the Creation Land. The wall opened a passage to a staircase of stars, leaving them to climb toward an unknown destination.

• Shi Xuan froze time and space, wounded Ning Chuan with the Willow Deity Method, then entered the collapsing light gate after Shi Hao and accelerated its collapse.
• Zhe Xian, the Ten Crown King, Ning Chuan, Shi Yi, Cao Yusheng, Chang Gong Yan, and other geniuses entered the still-open gate and raced through a law-built passage.
• Shi Xuan and Shi Hao witnessed visions of ancient battles and fallen experts, but neither could identify the enemy or recall why the scenes felt familiar.
• Finding nothing but a stone wall, Shi Xuan and Shi Hao used their three strands of immortal energy to reveal an opening through the Wall of Despair.
• Shi Xuan and Shi Hao passed through the wall and stepped onto a star-forged staircase stretching into the unknown.

Shi Hao and Shi Xuan reached an underground palace of jade coffins and endured a brutal altar trial that brought them to the peak of the True God realm. When the coffins began choosing other geniuses, Shi Hao grew furious that none had chosen him, and the ancient freaks continued arriving to claim their scriptures.

• Shi Hao and Shi Xuan climbed the nine steps, discovered an underground palace of jade coffins, and found scriptures and immortal seeds left in place of vanished corpses.
• The altar trapped and refined Shi Hao and Shi Xuan through repeated trials, eventually raising their cultivation to the peak of the True God realm.
• Zhe Xian and the Ten Crown King arrived, attacked Shi Hao and Shi Xuan, then sensed and approached coffins resonating with them.
• Shi Hao complained that the coffins had not chosen him as Zhe Xian and the Ten Crown King received their resonance.
• Ning Chuan and then Shi Yi entered and were recognized by ancient coffins, prompting Shi Hao to attack Ning Chuan in anger.
• Other ancient freaks arrived, and several more coffins began glowing for the peerless geniuses.

Shi Hao and the other geniuses discovered that the Immortal Ancient Era’s coffins granted inheritances only to cultivators who had cultivated immortal energy, while Heavenly Gods attacked those who emerged with treasures. Shi Xuan broke into the Saint Sacrifice Realm and killed two Heavenly Gods, as the realm’s dangers and importance to future cultivation were revealed.

• Shi Hao pretended to be furious after failing to gain recognition, while Cao Yusheng claimed that an ancient coffin was calling to him.
• Zhe Xian, the Ten Crown King, Ning Chuan, Shi Yi, Cao Yusheng, and Chang Gong Yan obtained inheritances, but people without immortal energy exploded upon opening coffins.
• Shi Hao carried off a coffin, hid by the Wall of Despair, and tried to seize inheritances before fleeing when the geniuses left.
• Heavenly Gods blocked the exit and demanded the scriptures, prompting the geniuses to fight back; the Hun Clan’s ancient ancestor helped Shi Hao escape.
• Twelve Heavenly Gods entered the Immortal Ancient Era and attacked the geniuses, while Shi Hao bargained with the Hun Clan’s ancient ancestor for protection.
• Shi Xuan broke into the Saint Sacrifice Realm, briefly gained power comparable to a Heavenly God, and killed two Heavenly Gods before fleeing.

After leaving the Immortal Ancient Era, Shi Xuan traveled to Boundless Heaven to seek entry into the Heavenly God Academy, only to discover that its disciple selection had already ended. He concealed his identity and aura among the crowds of prospective followers, where Princess Yao Yue noticed his spiritual power and singled him out.

• Shi Xuan used the Zhu Yan Precious Technique to change his appearance, crossed a forbidden zone, and traveled through Boundless Heaven toward the Heavenly God Academy.
• Shi Xuan arrived at the academy and learned that the crowds were seeking positions as followers, servants, or maidservants because the disciple selection had already ended.
• Shi Xuan observed the powerful young cultivators Feng Xing Tian and Princess Yao Yue among those gathered at the academy.
• Princess Yao Yue sensed Shi Xuan's formidable spiritual power, searched the crowd, and identified him, drawing jealous and hostile attention toward him.

Shi Xuan joined Shi Hao in provoking the Heavenly God Academy’s geniuses, then defeated challengers with his physical strength and took their treasures. After two days of winning phoenix blood, he planned to seek more cultivation resources before going into seclusion.

• Shi Xuan encouraged Shi Hao to challenge the Academy’s arrogant geniuses, and Shi Hao dodged the demonic bear before entering Wang Xi’s cave abode.
• The demonic bear attacked Shi Xuan, who used Tenfold Finger to defeat him and strip him of his belongings.
• Shi Xuan challenged the onlookers to stake treasures and defeated the silver Pangolin, taking his phoenix blood.
• Shi Xuan won several more fights and collected six additional portions of true phoenix blood over two days.
• Shi Xuan planned to obtain more heavenly treasures before cultivating in Princess Yao Yue’s cave abode.

Shi Xuan gathered cultivation resources, broke through to the Heavenly God realm, and became the first person granted access to the Academy’s Scripture Depository. After years of study, he immersed himself in the Great Dao and touched its source, beginning another transformation.

• Shi Xuan challenged other students and defeated even two-strand immortal-energy geniuses, earning nearly forty portions of phoenix blood before entering seclusion.
• After a year of cultivation, Shi Xuan refined the phoenix blood, broke beyond the Saint Sacrifice realm, and formed his third strand of immortal energy as a blooming Great Dao flower.
• Shi Hao congratulated Shi Xuan, and the two were recognized as personal disciples of Heavenly God Academy after the elders discovered their identities.
• Shi Xuan broke through to the Heavenly God realm, suppressed numerous geniuses, slaughtered extraterritorial beings in the Immortal Battlefield, and earned exceptional access to the Scripture Depository.
• After studying the Academy’s scriptures for two years, Shi Xuan used his Temporal-Spatial Double Pupil and the Space-Time True Explanation to comprehend the primordial Great Dao and touch its source.

After completing the Severing Self Realm and recovering his name, Shi Xuan joined the defense of the Border Wasteland Imperial City to seek life-and-death battles. He slaughtered Foreign Realm forces by the hundreds, but a near-Supreme expert struck him down, and Shi Xuan prepared to fight back.

• Shi Xuan traveled across the Three Thousand Dao Prefectures, suppressed powers that had offended him, and reached great perfection in the Severing Self Realm, remembering that his name was Xiao Xuan.
• Led by Huang, Shi Xuan went to the Imperial City with Shi Hao and the others, seeking battles to temper himself.
• When the Foreign Realm army attacked, Shi Xuan charged into battle and killed nearly a hundred Void Dao cultivators, nearly twenty Severing Self cultivators, and two Dunyi experts.
• A powerful enemy unleashed a gigantic golden finger that shattered Shi Xuan's Dharma form and sent him flying.
• Shi Xuan healed with the Heaven Mending Technique, recognized that his attacker was near the Supreme Realm, and declared that he would kill him.

After a year of fighting in the Border Wasteland, Shi Xuan recovered memories of his past lives and returned to the Desolate Region to seek what he had left in Shi Village. He reunited with the villagers and warned Xiao Hong, Mao Qiu, and Da Hong that the Upper Realm was too dangerous for them for now.

• Shi Xuan became invincible in the Dunyi Realm, recovered memories of his eight previous lives, and told Shi Hao he planned to return to the Desolate Region.
• The Human Emperor Seal recognized Shi Xuan as the first Human Emperor, and Shi Xuan crossed into the Lower Realm with its help.
• Shi Xuan arrived at Shi Village and learned that its residents had grown much stronger while he was away.
• Shi Xuan reassured Shi Yunfeng that Shi Hao was safe in the Upper Realm and would return when his affairs were settled.
• Da Hong asked Shi Xuan to take them to the Upper Realm, but Shi Xuan warned him, Xiao Hong, and Mao Qiu about its dangers and showed them battles between its geniuses.

Shi Xuan uncovered an ancient cultivation inheritance beneath Shi Village and spent fifty years reaching the peak of Dunyi before attempting the true Supreme Realm. His breakthrough blessed the Eight Regions, but a terrifying purple tribulation attacked his primordial spirit in Chaos, where he awakened just before his consciousness could be erased.

• Shi Xuan trained the children of Shi Village, helped Shi Yunfeng, Shi Qingfeng, and Heaven Mending Pavilion elders reach the Venerable Realm, and sent spiritual avatars to teach and travel.
• Beneath Shi Village, Shi Xuan found a stone stele detailing an ancient cultivation system and a ring containing a vast world and a pool of formidable essence blood.
• After fifty years absorbing the essence blood, Shi Xuan reached the peak of Dunyi and began advancing toward the true Supreme Realm.
• Heaven and earth trembled as Shi Xuan's breakthrough brought blessings to Shi Village, the Desolate Region, and the Eight Regions, while Shi Hao and the others returned to the village.
• Shi Xuan left Shi Village to face a crimson attack, then entered Chaos to draw away the final purple strike as Shi Hao fled across the Great Wilderness.
• The purple light assaulted Shi Xuan's primordial spirit, but he resisted with the Willow Deity's method, the True Phoenix Precious Technique, and the Heaven Mending Technique before awakening at the edge of annihilation.

Shi Xuan spent hundreds of thousands of years advancing toward emperorhood, then began his breakthrough in the Boundary Sea. As enemy kings attacked him and Shi Hao and Willow Deity defended him, Shi Xuan completed his transformation and overwhelmed his attackers.

• Shi Xuan survived the karmic fire, became a Supreme, and spent years refining Immortal essence blood and the energy within his body until he reached the peak of the Immortal realm.
• After five hundred thousand years of cultivation in the Boundary Sea, Shi Xuan mastered his Dao and began breaking through the King Realm, alarming experts throughout the Boundary Sea.
• Shi Hao and the Dark Willow Deity arrived to protect Shi Xuan, while Kun Di, Wushang, An Lan, and other kings gathered to kill him.
• Under the kings' assault, Shi Xuan completed his final transformation and rose to face them.
• Shi Xuan wounded Demon King Pu, shattered the Blade King's weapon, and left the watching Immortal Kings terrified.

Shi Xuan defeated the kings who had attacked him and continued cultivating in the Boundary Sea until he consolidated his Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm. He reunited Willow Deity with her undarkened primordial spirit and explained the Quasi-Emperor realm, while Shi Hao and the others learned that Shi Xuan had surpassed the kingly realm.

• Shi Xuan killed the Saber King, Demon King Pu, the nine-headed monster, Kun Di, Wushang, and many other kings who fled or fought him.
• Shi Xuan cleansed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, the Foreign Realm, and the Immortal Domain, then remained in the Boundary Sea to cultivate.
• Ten thousand years later, Shi Xuan had consolidated his Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, and Shi Hao, Willow Deity, and the others gathered to greet him.
• Shi Xuan drew Willow Deity’s undarkened primordial spirit from the Receiving Ancient Hall and offered to reunite her with her other self and remove her darkness.
• Shi Xuan explained that Shi Hao’s Body as Seed path and Willow Deity’s Sacrificial Spirit path could each produce a Quasi-Emperor, and said the Di Luo era was named after a Quasi-Emperor’s fall.

After hundreds of thousands of years in seclusion, Shi Xuan entered the Emperor Realm and awoke to save Shi Hao, Willow Deity, and their allies from Quasi-Immortal Emperors. He captured seven enemies and distributed their corpses and origins, then began absorbing their knowledge and Dao insights.

• Willow Deity merged with Dark Willow Deity, studied the Sacrificial Spirits path, and later entered seclusion to pursue the Imperial Pass while Shi Hao searched for the seventh secret realm.
• After tempering his Dao seed for hundreds of thousands of years, Shi Xuan entered the Emperor Realm, reforged his ring into an imperial weapon, and slept inside it in the Boundary Sea.
• Shi Xuan awoke when Yu Emperor and other Quasi-Immortal Emperors threatened Shi Hao, Willow Deity, the Human Emperor Seal, and Little Pagoda, and he annihilated or captured seven attackers.
• Shi Xuan gave Yu Emperor's corpse and primordial spirit to Willow Deity, gave Emperor Hong and Cang Emperor's origins to Shi Hao, and entrusted other corpses to Little Pagoda and the Human Emperor Seal.
• Shi Xuan refined four primordial spirit origins and gained the Quasi-Emperors' experiences, Dao insights, and techniques.

After reaching the peak of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, Shi Hao entered the Ultimate Ancient Land and uncovered the Rotten Wooden Chest’s connection to a remnant of an ancient emperor. Deeper inside, he confronted the source of Dark Matter, an Immortal Emperor whose attack left his companions gravely injured.

• Shi Hao refined the memories and essence blood of Quasi-Emperors until he reached the limit of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, then set out for the Ultimate Ancient Land with Willow Deity, Little Pagoda, and the Human Emperor Seal.
• At the Receiving Ancient Halls, the Rotten Wooden Chest flew into the grandest hall and transformed into an ancient shrine, revealing a remnant soul that had once been the Human Emperor’s disciple and an emperor.
• The remnant soul warned Shi Hao about its polluted true body, sealed deep within the ancient hall, and learned from the Human Emperor Seal that its teacher had become a true emperor.
• Shi Hao and his companions found the rotting corpse of an Immortal Emperor, the source of Dark Matter, bound to a stone throne.
• The corpse attacked with a Dark Matter storm, and its power grievously injured Willow Deity, Little Pagoda, and the Human Emperor Seal before they could intervene.

Shi Hao reunited his scattered blood across time and refined He-Transforming Free into a peerless Imperial Art, then defeated Corpse Immortal Emperor with Shi Xuan. After the corpse revealed the origins of the strange darkness and was cleansed, Shi Xuan, Shi Hao, and Di Tian prepared to enter Above the Heavens, while an awareness beyond all worlds noticed Shi Xuan crossing the Soul River.

• The Corpse failed to locate Shi Hao after blasting him apart, while Shi Hao’s blood scattered through different eras and began cultivating He-Transforming Free.
• Shi Hao’s blood gathered again after countless ages, and he evolved He-Transforming Free into a peerless Imperial Art.
• Shi Hao used the art to overwhelm Corpse Immortal Emperor, and Shi Xuan appeared as the corpse’s former master.
• Corpse Immortal Emperor explained that strange black blood had contaminated him and that the darkness originated in Above the Heavens, where Immortal Emperors were not the strongest.
• Shi Xuan and Shi Hao joined forces to seal the corpse, remove the strange substance, and restore its remaining primordial spirit origin.
• Shi Xuan, Shi Hao, and Di Tian prepared to enter Above the Heavens, while an awareness in the supreme land saw Shi Xuan crossing the Soul River.