Chapter Summaries

After the strangeness was eradicated, Shi Xuan and Shi Hao rebuilt the Void God Realm and reunited Shi Hao with his family in Shi Village. Shi Xuan revealed that he had reincarnated into a novel, leaving Shi Hao determined to uncover the truth about their world and the strange karma connecting Shi Xuan, Qin Hao, and the Double-Pupil Woman.

• Di Tian entered seclusion to recover, while Shi Xuan and Shi Hao recreated the Void God Realm in the Immortal Domain and restored Shi Village as a home for Shi Hao’s family and friends.
• Shi Xuan and Shi Hao drank beneath the Willow Tree and discussed Shi Xuan’s deep karmic connections with Qin Hao and the Double-Pupil Woman.
• Shi Hao asked whether Shi Xuan’s knowledge of Above the Heavens meant he had origins there, and Shi Xuan showed him a book revealing that he had reincarnated into a novel.
• Shi Hao recognized that the book matched his own experiences and vowed to turn any falsehood into truth by surpassing the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• The Willow Deity read the book and learned of her tragic fate and Shi Hao’s lonely struggle in the story.

Several million years after the darkness was quelled, Willow Deity and Qin Hao became Immortal Emperors, while Shi Hao and Xiao Xuan continued their rivalry. As a dark Ancestor awakened on the Eerie Plateau and sensed an approaching danger, Xiao Xuan entered Heaven and began refining a drop of black blood.

• Willow Deity broke through to the Immortal Emperor realm, and Di Tian recovered to his peak; Qin Hao became an Immortal Emperor soon afterward and discovered his karmic connection to Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan and Qin Hao found they could merge without losing their memories, but recognized that their separate lives made either one’s sacrifice unacceptable.
• Shi Hao and Xiao Xuan fought above the River of Time and Space, where Xiao Xuan complained that Shi Hao was picking fights over Qin Hao for no reason.
• A dark Ancestor awakened in the Eerie Plateau, questioned Mo Yuan about the current era, and ordered the plateau’s forces to search the myriad worlds for anything unusual.
• Xiao Xuan shattered the Immortal Emperor formation at Ultimate Ancient Land, entered Heaven, and used several avatars to refine a drop of black blood.
• Xiao Xuan sensed that the black blood contained Immortal Emperor laws, which could serve as part of an Immortal Emperor’s origin.

Xiao Xuan left the Ultimate Ancient Land and ventured into Above the Heavens, while Shi Hao sealed the Boundary Sea near the Immortal Domain and departed with the other Emperors. Across later ages, Nine Heavens and Ten Earths developed the five-secret-realm cultivation method and produced Heavenly Venerables, before the chapter ended with a young cultivator asking about the First Generation Tyrant Body.

• Xiao Xuan finished refining the black blood, entered Above the Heavens, and crossed the Blood Sea to seek further understanding.
• Shi Hao severed the eternal sky and sealed the Boundary Sea near the Immortal Domain, then vanished into Chaos with the other Emperors.
• The people of Nine Heavens and Ten Earths discovered the Body as Seed method and cultivated the five great secret realms.
• A cultivator reached the pinnacle of the mortal path and became known as a Heavenly Venerable.
• Several more Heavenly Venerables rose over the following ages as the memory of the age of Emperors faded.
• A young Human Race cultivator asked an elder whether the First Generation Tyrant Body had truly been so powerful.

An elder told a young cultivator how the first-generation Tyrant Body was slain by a Heavenly Venerable whose name was erased, and revealed that the same figure created the 'Bing' Secret and killed the Chaos Body. Elsewhere, the Longevity Daoist faced a host of Quasi-Emperors and declared his ambition to attain the Dao, beginning the battle that would make him a Heavenly Venerable.

• The elder explained that a quasi-Heavenly Venerable with the Azure Heaven Tyrant Body had been killed by the powerhouse who soon became the second Heavenly Venerable after the Transcending Tribulation Heavenly Venerable.
• The elder said that the second Heavenly Venerable ruled for only four or five thousand years, created the 'Bing' Secret, and killed the Chaos Body before his name vanished from history.
• The elder warned the young cultivator not to approach the planet formed from the Chaos Body, calling it a Forbidden Zone of life where even a Great Saint would die.
• A great disturbance shook the heavens as the Longevity Daoist confronted Quasi-Emperors who had come to obstruct his path.
• The Longevity Daoist announced his Longevity Sword and vowed to attain the Dao; later records said he overcame the tribulation and ruled as the Longevity Heavenly Venerable for twenty thousand years.

The chapter recounted how the Heavenly Venerables created and spread their supreme secret arts, then revealed that the fat Daoist claimed Transcending Tribulation Heavenly Venerable had created a secret art called “Number.” He took his stunned young disciple to dig up Transcending Tribulation Heavenly Venerable’s tomb to prove it existed.

• The narrator described how Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s “Formation” Secret and Carefree Heavenly Venerable’s “Travel” Secret shaped cultivation across different eras.
• The narrator explained that Carefree Heavenly Venerable regretted failing to make escape arts more popular among cultivators.
• The narrator noted that the creators of the “Weapon” and “Battle” Secrets had been forgotten.
• The fat Daoist told his young disciple that Transcending Tribulation Heavenly Venerable had created the unknown “Number” Secret.
• The fat Daoist announced that he would take his disciple to dig up Transcending Tribulation Heavenly Venerable’s tomb, stunning the youth.

The fat Daoist told his disciple that he had found the Transcending Tribulation Heavenly Venerable’s tomb and believed the Heavenly Venerable’s Number Secret explained his extraordinary lifespan. They left their Life Ancient Star to follow an ancient route through the stars, but more than a decade passed without reaching the tomb.

• The disciple doubted that the Transcending Tribulation Heavenly Venerable had a tomb, and the fat Daoist claimed earlier seekers had lacked the skill to find it.
• The fat Daoist boasted of his strength and explained that the dangerous pursuits he had led his disciple through had helped him master the Travel Secret.
• The fat Daoist confirmed that he had found the tomb and suggested that the Number Secret had allowed the Transcending Tribulation Heavenly Venerable to live for hundreds of thousands of years.
• The fat Daoist and his disciple left their Life Ancient Star aboard an ancient treasure and traveled along an ancient route through the stars.
• More than a decade passed on their journey, far longer than the disciple had expected.

Xiao Xuan fought Mo Yuan across the Supreme Land, where their battle destroyed and recreated countless universes. Xiao Xuan defeated the Eerie Clan Immortal Emperor and erased his existence, though Mo Yuan vowed to return.

• Two supreme beings clashed in the space of rules, unleashing power that repeatedly destroyed and recreated countless universes.
• The chaotic-qi being revealed himself as Xiao Xuan and fought back against the black-qi being’s attacks.
• Xiao Xuan summoned a chaotic-colored longsword that blocked Mo Yuan’s forbidden techniques and swept them away with sword qi.
• Xiao Xuan’s sword qi cleaved through Mo Yuan’s past, present, and future, and Mo Yuan declared that he would return.
• Xiao Xuan destroyed every trace of Mo Yuan and severed the Great Dao connected to him.

After restoring the myriad worlds, Xiao Xuan strengthened Earth and checked on the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, Heaven, and his allies. He then underwent ultimate sublimation and reached the Sacrificial Dao realm, awakening the Eerie Progenitor.

• Xiao Xuan reversed time after killing the Eerie Immortal Emperor, restoring the collapsed worlds, and infused a drop of his blood into the ancient star that would become Earth.
• Xiao Xuan surveyed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, Heaven, and the secluded Huang Heavenly Emperor and his allies, finding them safe.
• Di Tian attacked the outskirts of the Eerie Plateau, fled when three Eerie Immortal Emperors emerged, and continued venting his frustration against the eerie race.
• Xiao Xuan began ultimate sublimation, sacrificing Spacetime and Order as his form dispersed and reconstituted within absolute nothingness.
• Xiao Xuan opened his eyes after reaching the Sacrificial Dao realm, and the Eerie Progenitor awoke in response to his aura.

Xiao Xuan reached the Sacrificial Dao realm, defeated an Eerie Progenitor, and shared his dangerous breakthrough insights with the Immortal Emperors while revealing fragments of his past as Qin Hao. Shi Hao later became a Sacrificial Dao existence, and his breakthrough awakened a powerful force in the distant ancient land.

• A red-haired Eerie Progenitor attacked Xiao Xuan, who struck him into the Eerie Plateau and reversed the destruction of the heavens around his true body.
• Xiao Xuan gathered the Immortal Emperors, gave them insights into ultimate sublimation, and warned them that his method could lead to Eternal Silence.
• Xiao Xuan explained that he had once been called Qin Hao and that the Double-Pupil Woman had transformed alongside him; Qin Hao changed his name to Qin, dissolving their Cause and Effect.
• Shi Hao attacked Eerie Immortal Emperors near the plateau, provoked a sleeping progenitor, and was sent flying through boundless worlds.
• A million years later, Shi Hao reached the Sacrificial Dao realm and suspected Shi Xuan might be a hidden force behind Heaven.
• Half a month later, Shi Hao's breakthrough appeared to awaken a distant power that sought to obliterate tangible matter.

The great sacrifice began as Shi Hao and his allies fought the Eerie Clan across the worlds. When a fifth progenitor ambushed him, Shi Hao sacrificed his Great Dao, while Xiao Xuan was struck down into the present age.

• A blood-black altar appeared above the Sacrificial Sea, and an ancient voice declared that the great sacrifice had begun.
• Xiao Xuan broke through to the Sacrificial Dao Realm and confronted four awakened Eerie Progenitors on the River of Time and Space.
• Shi Hao brought Qin Hao, Willow Deity, and their allies to Heaven to help them advance, but the Eerie Clan's attacks devastated worlds and killed countless people.
• Shi Hao summoned figures tied to Shi Xuan, Willow Deity, and Shi Yi, doubling their Immortal Emperor combat power.
• A fifth progenitor ambushed Shi Hao, who sacrificed his Great Dao at the peak of the Immortal Emperor Realm and surged in power.
• Xiao Xuan attacked the gray progenitor to protect Shi Hao, then the other four progenitors knocked him from the River of Time and Space into the present age.

Shi Hao and Xiao Xuan fought five strange progenitors while the strange race’s forces overwhelmed the Heavens and Myriad Worlds. The calamity land’s ancestral depths awakened all ten progenitors, who prepared to destroy the two threats.

• Shi Hao restored his body, summoned powerful He-Transforming manifestations, and attacked the strange progenitors Gray and White as Shi Yi charged a strange Immortal Emperor.
• Strange Dao Ancestors shattered worlds, but blood-red streaks from the Calamity Land pierced several of them, inspiring the worlds’ defenders to fight back.
• Butcher battled a Dao Ancestor, and the former Dark Immortal Emperor killed a strange Immortal Emperor while the Heavens and Myriad Worlds descended into a desperate melee.
• A figure on an altar claimed the strange race could survive annihilation by emerging again from its ancestral land.
• Shi Hao and Xiao Xuan, badly wounded, stood against five strange progenitors as the ancestral land opened and its awakened figures made the strange race and its armies bow.
• The ten progenitors emerged together, with three facing Huang and two facing Xiao Xuan, and declared that they would annihilate the variables.

Shi Hao and Xiao Xuan held off the ten Eerie ancestors through a hundred-thousand-year war, while the Eerie Clan’s grand sacrifice was thwarted. Xiao Xuan’s avatar fell into the Immortal Domain, where he reunited with the Black Emperor and a white horse.

• Shi Hao and Xiao Xuan confronted the ten awakened Eerie ancestors while battles raged across the Yang Realm and countless fighters fell.
• The decisive war lasted a hundred thousand years, and the myriad worlds shattered the Eerie Clan’s altar preparations, causing the grand sacrifice to fail.
• The Eerie ancestors planned to seal Shi Hao and Xiao Xuan, so the two sent avatars beyond the River of Time and Space; both avatars were slain.
• Xiao Xuan’s avatar crashed into the Immortal Domain, creating the Immortal Pit, then went to the Imperial City.
• Xiao Xuan found the Black Emperor arguing with a white horse, recognized his old companion, and teased him about his long life and slow progress.

Xiao Xuan met Ye Fan, Wu Shi, and the Empress, warned them that a vast war against the darkness awaited, and gave them resources to cultivate. He continued traveling and guiding promising figures as the heavens endured growing losses, while the three rose into powerful battlefield leaders.

• Xiao Xuan reunited with Ye Fan, Wu Shi, and the Empress, recognized their potential, and warned them about the darkness and the powerful enemies beyond the Immortal Domain.
• Xiao Xuan gave the three storage rings filled with cultivation resources, then vanished to continue searching for promising cultivators.
• Xiao Xuan traveled through the Lower Realm and offered guidance to people he considered promising as years passed and experts emerged.
• The Plateau Consciousness sent Sacrificial Dao-level corpses to attack the heavens, causing heavy losses despite the Empress of the Pollen Path's defense.
• Strange invaders occupied part of the Immortal Domain, and Ye Fan and the others advanced toward the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level while fighting them.
• Xiao Xuan traveled through boundless Chaos with the Heavenly Sword, whose power had grown as he gathered mysterious fragments.

Xiao Xuan was drawn through a terrifying gate in the Chaos Void and arrived in a weakened state in a convoy bound for the Yuhua Sect. After meeting Fang Han, he realized he had entered Fang Han’s world and identified the gate as the Eternal Life Gate.

• Xiao Xuan encountered an immense gate in the Chaos Void, and the Heavenly Sword carried him inside as an unknown existence wondered who he was.
• The passage through the gate crushed Xiao Xuan’s body and left him unconscious; he later awoke in a carriage traveling with a large convoy.
• Xiao Xuan discovered he could use less than one hundred-millionth of his power and met Fang Han, who said Fang Qingxue had taken him in after finding him by the roadside.
• Fang Han told Xiao Xuan that the convoy was headed to the Yuhua Sect, allowing Xiao Xuan to recognize Fang Han’s world and identify the gate as the Eternal Life Gate.
• Over the following weeks, Xiao Xuan befriended Fang Han and saw Fang Qingxue once while traveling with the Fang Family’s servants.

Xiao Xuan arrived at Yuhua Immortal Mountain with the Fang Family and became a servant on Fang Qingxue’s Purple Lightning Peak. He copied the sect’s scriptures, sealed his remaining power, and began adapting to the Eternal Life World’s cultivation system.

• Fang Qingxue brought the Fang Family convoy to Yuhua Immortal Mountain and assigned Fang Han and Xiao Xuan to raise the spirit beasts on Purple Lightning Peak.
• Fang Qingxue appointed Fang Han chief steward and gave Fang Qiang responsibility for the peak’s food and cleaning.
• Fang Han beat Fang Lie and told Xiao Xuan that strength mattered more than avoiding trouble in the Yuhua Sect.
• Xiao Xuan used his Divine Sense to copy the Yuhua Sect’s Scripture Depository and then sealed away his remaining strength.
• Xiao Xuan practiced an ordinary fist technique and found that it tempered the body and spiritual will under this world’s laws.

Over half a year, Xiao Xuan advanced from basic fist practice to the Divine Ability Secret Realm, rose to first place on the Mountains and Rivers Ranking, and became a true disciple with his own peak. The chapter ended with Fang Han visiting Xuan Peak after reaching the ninth level of the physical body.

• Xiao Xuan practiced fist techniques and rapidly broke through the ten physical-body realms, reaching Divine Transformation.
• Xiao Xuan spent half a year tending cranes and cultivating, then opened the gate of Divine Abilities and accumulated nearly a thousand Divine Abilities.
• Xiao Xuan suppressed his cultivation to compete in the Mountains and Rivers Ranking, took first place, and soon became a true disciple who renamed his granted peak Xuan Peak.
• Fang Qingxue advanced to the fourth level of Divine Ability after receiving guidance from Xiao Xuan.
• Fang Han visited Xuan Peak, and Xiao Xuan congratulated him on reaching the ninth level of the physical body.

Xiao Xuan broke through directly to the Golden Core realm, connected to Immortal Realm Yuan Qi, and spent two years refining an enormous stock of pills. He left his Golden Core near perfection, with the wind and fire tribulation and later realms within reach.

• Fang Han told Xiao Xuan he planned to enter the sect's Mountains and Rivers Ranking tournament, and Xiao Xuan encouraged him.
• Xiao Xuan began a forceful breakthrough and condensed his natal talisman into a Golden Core containing many Divine Abilities.
• Xiao Xuan completed the Golden Core baptism, then tore open the Void and drew down pure Immortal Realm Yuan Qi.
• Xiao Xuan refined hundreds of millions of Nascent Soul Pills, Pure Yang Pills, and low-grade pills, along with large supplies of other powerful medicines.
• After two years of consolidation, Xiao Xuan's Golden Core approached perfection, and he prepared for the wind and fire tribulation and future breakthroughs.

After two years in seclusion, Xiao Xuan visited Fang Qingxue and learned that Fang Han was trapped in the Taiyuan Immortal Abode. He joined Fang Qingxue and Jialan as Feng Baiyu arrived to open a way inside and rescue Fang Han.

• Xiao Xuan went to Purple Lightning Peak, found Fang Qingxue was on Jialan Peak, and joined her and Jialan as they discussed Fang Han's predicament.
• Fang Qingxue received a summons from the Sect Master, and Xiao Xuan agreed to accompany her and Jialan.
• Feng Baiyu met them and led the group to the Taiyuan Immortal Abode, where he examined its radiance and explained that its deepest gates and Immortal Artifact could not be overcome.
• Xiao Xuan observed the immortal abode but chose not to interfere, leaving Feng Baiyu to prepare to tear open a gap so they could rescue Fang Han.

Feng Baiyu broke through Taiyuan Immortal Abode’s defenses to rescue Fang Han, but ancient giants from the Demon God Sect and the Heavenly Silkworm Empress moved to seize the Yellow Springs Diagram. The Yuhua Sect’s three Supreme Elders arrived to support Feng Baiyu as the confrontation escalated.

• Feng Baiyu used the Vacuum Yin-Yang Way to spend two days breaking a tiny opening through Taiyuan Immortal Abode’s restrictions.
• Fang Han emerged from the Void passage protected by the Yellow Springs Diagram, but the Nine Suns Demon God reached in to seize him.
• Feng Baiyu shattered the Nine Suns Demon God’s claw with the War God Whip, then fought the Nine Suns Demon God, the Nine Yin Demon God, and the Demon God using three Primordial Spirits.
• The Heavenly Silkworm Empress blocked the passage with a net of silken threads and challenged Feng Baiyu’s attempt to take the Yellow Springs Diagram.
• Wang Kunlun, Zhao Shenyang, and Wu Mingkong appeared as reinforcements for the Yuhua Sect.

Fang Han returned to the Yuhua Sect after being rescued and revealed that the God Race had reappeared, alarming Feng Baiyu. Meanwhile, Xiao Xuan began his Wind-Fire Tribulation, whose overwhelming power burned away a third of his Yuan Qi as he remained protected by the Emperor Xuan Pagoda.

• Wang Kunlun, Zhao Shenyang, and Wu Mingkong joined Feng Baiyu and rescued Fang Han from the Nine Suns Demon God and the other giants.
• Feng Baiyu brought the group to the Yuhua Mountains and assured Fang Han that the sect would not seize the Yellow Springs Diagram.
• Fang Han reported encountering the God Race and presented a God Race corpse, causing Feng Baiyu to fear that a calamity had arrived.
• Xiao Xuan sensed that his Golden Core had reached perfection and triggered his Wind-Fire Tribulation deep in the mountains.
• Xiao Xuan used the Emperor Xuan Pagoda to contain the Red Lotus Karmic Fire and Black Nightmare Dragon Wind as they ravaged his body and Golden Core.
• The tribulation burned away one-third of Xiao Xuan's Yuan Qi, leaving his Golden Core listless while he continued to endure the ordeal.