Chapter Summaries

After Shi Hao claimed the Void God Realm’s rewards, the Divine Flame Man appeared on the Sky Battlefield and demanded that Ling Tian, Jun Huang, and the others submit. He pursued Yue Chan and clashed with Ling Tian, whose attack wounded him; Ling Tian then summoned a gigantic black wheel as the battle continued.

• Shi Hao accepted the Void God Realm’s rewards, and the Venerables withdrew rather than risk angering Ling Tian and Jun Huang.
• The Divine Flame Man appeared on the Sky Battlefield, attacked Ling Tian and the others, and demanded that they follow him.
• The Divine Flame Man called for Yue Chan, then burned several young men to ash when they rebuked him.
• Jun Huang challenged the Divine Flame Man, but Ling Tian claimed the fight for himself and struck him, drawing blood.
• Ling Tian told the wounded Divine Flame Man to face reality, then summoned a gigantic black wheel over the battlefield.

Ling Tian seized the Samsara Disk after the Domain Envoy was accidentally killed, while the awakened will of the Void God Realm forced the survivors to flee. After the great calamity, Shi Hao became Human Emperor of the Shi Kingdom and accepted Mount Eternal’s decree, deciding to visit and find his parents.

• Ling Tian’s greatswords destroyed the Domain Envoy, and the Divine Flame Man began absorbing the fragments of the Great Dao’s rules.
• Ling Tian’s Heaven Mending Technique failed against the Divine Flame Man’s Chaos treasure, but the Samsara Disk broke free and flew into Ling Tian’s hand.
• The awakened will of the Void God Realm drove the Divine Flame Man to flee, while Shi Hao and three others escaped with the help of a willow branch.
• After the calamity, Shi Hao cultivated in Shi Village, received the title Desolate Heavenly King, and succeeded the vanished Stone Emperor as Human Emperor of the Shi Kingdom.
• A messenger from Mount Eternal brought Shi Hao a decree, and Shi Hao decided to visit Mount Eternal to find his parents.

Shi Hao traveled from the Desolate Region to the Mysterious Region to search for his parents and grandfather, arriving aboard a great ship bound for Mount Eternal. After clashing with Mount Eternal’s people over the VIP cabins, he opened his Ten Cave Heavens and drew the attention of Upper Realm geniuses, who came to meet him.

• Shi Hao prepared to leave the Imperial Palace and set out with Qin Ming aboard a Void-Breaking Ship, which Shi Hao pushed to travel far faster than it was built to withstand.
• Shi Hao and his companions reached the Fire Kingdom’s capital, activated a formation, and crossed into the Mysterious Region, where Shi Hao vowed to find his parents and grandfather.
• At a border platform, Shi Hao’s group prepared to board a massive ship bound for Mount Eternal as a procession of cultivators from the Upper Realm arrived.
• After learning the Upper Realm geniuses had taken all the VIP cabins, Shi Hao demanded one and confronted Mount Eternal’s people when they objected to his behavior.
• Shi Hao opened his Ten Cave Heavens to search for news of his parents, attracting the attention of several Upper Realm geniuses, including a polite woman in blue who came to visit him.

Shi Hao traveled with the Upper Realm fairies, learned about the Lower Realm’s restrictions and Mount Eternal, and arrived at the mountain gate. There, Mount Eternal’s hostile members confronted him and demanded that he kneel before their Heavenly Venerable statue.

• Hong Huang flirted with Shi Hao and tested him with a phoenix attack, which he countered with Zhuque.
• Lan Yu and Shui Yue explained that the Lower Realm was one of eight prisons and that independent cultivators faced strict barriers to entering the Upper Realm.
• Shi Hao reached Mount Eternal, recognized Five Elements Mountain, and wondered whether his grandfather was there.
• Mount Eternal’s members gathered angrily, accusing Shi Hao of killing their people and blocking his way.
• Qin Shoucheng demanded that Shi Hao kneel before the Heavenly Venerable statue, but Shi Hao refused.

Shi Hao reached Mount Eternal to reunite with his parents, but Qin Fa tried to persuade him to remain there and let his younger brother rule Shi Kingdom. After Shi Hao discovered that his grandfather had been attacked, he confronted Qin Fa and began fighting him.

• Shi Hao forced Mount Eternal's disciples to kneel before the divine ancestor's edict bearing the ancestral seal.
• Qin Ming escorted Shi Hao toward Five Elements Mountain and said the valley where his parents were cultivating would open within two days.
• Qin Fa told Shi Hao that his parents were well and urged him to cultivate at Mount Eternal while his younger brother took his place as Human Emperor.
• Shi Hao suspected the Qin Family wanted control of Shi Kingdom and asked where his grandfather had gone.
• Shi Hao used the Ancient Divine Eye to see his grandfather being attacked, then struck Qin Fa before he could activate the formation.
• Qin Fa retreated from Shi Hao's attacks and warned him that he was on Mount Eternal.

Shi Hao defeated Qin Fa while demanding news of his grandfather, then discovered Qin Hao was likely his younger brother and learned that a white-haired man had beaten Shi Zhongtian. Enraged, Shi Hao challenged the man to answer for his grandfather’s humiliation.

• Shi Hao shattered Qin Fa’s defenses and defeated him, leaving his cultivation on the verge of falling below the Venerable Realm.
• Qin Hao arrived with two elders and demanded that Shi Hao release Qin Fa; Shi Hao questioned him about Shi Zhongtian, whom he suspected was Qin Hao’s grandfather too.
• Qin Hao challenged Shi Hao to a same-realm fight, but Shi Hao knocked him into a mountain with one punch and urged him to gain more experience.
• Shi Hao planted a broken sword into the ground and demanded news about his grandfather from the two elders.
• A white-haired man arrived and admitted he had beaten Shi Zhongtian; Shi Hao vowed to fight him and avenge his grandfather.

Shi Hao killed Qin Zhan and a powerful deity before finding his parents trapped inside a Divine Formation. The chapter ended as Shi Hao and his parents finally saw each other again.

• Shi Hao merged with the Indestructible Golden Body and killed Qin Zhan with two sword strikes, then found the Nirvana Method in his corpse.
• Shi Hao reached a valley and saw his parents inside a Pure Land sealed by a Divine Formation, but the God-Slaying Stone said it would be difficult to break.
• Shi Hao sensed a powerful old man, fought him to a standstill, and killed him with the Willow Deity Method.
• Shi Hao reached the formation and saw his parents struggling to cut through the void; they finally saw him and called out, "Hao'er!"

Shi Hao reunited with his parents after breaking the formation imprisoning them, then fled as powerful Upper Realm projections arrived to pursue the newly freed Undying Being. The Undying Being escaped toward Shi Hao and Little Pagoda and demanded they hold off its pursuers for three days.

• Shi Hao shattered the formation with a willow leaf and embraced Qin Yining and Shi Ziling, who wept as they reunited with him.
• Shi Hao reassured his parents that he did not blame them or his younger brother, and said he hated Mount Eternal.
• Shi Hao plundered Mount Eternal's treasure vault, and he and Little Pagoda freed the Undying Being beneath Five Elements Mountain.
• The Heavenly Venerable of Mount Eternal appeared as a projection and fought the weakened Undying Being, while Shi Hao escaped with his parents inside Little Pagoda.
• A Western Sect projection arrived, and the Undying Being fled toward Shi Hao and Little Pagoda, asking them to hold off its pursuers for three days.

The Willow Deity appeared in the Primordial Treasure Realm, drove away the Upper Realm titans, and later returned with Shi Hao to Shi Village. Shi Hao reunited with his parents and village companions, while the Willow Deity announced she would enter a long seclusion.

• Little Pagoda and Shi Hao entered the Primordial Treasure Realm, where Shi Hao sensed the Willow Deity’s aura.
• The Willow Deity overwhelmed the titans of Mount Eternal, Five Elements Mountain, and the ox-riding expert, forcing them to retreat and sparing Kunpeng Zi.
• After exploring the realm, Shi Hao returned to the Desolate Region with his parents and learned that the Willow Deity had moved Shi Village to a place rich in spiritual energy.
• Shi Hao reunited with the villagers, and Shi Ziling and Qin Yining thanked them for raising their son.
• The Willow Deity told Shi Hao to prepare to return to the Upper Realm, then announced she would enter seclusion for a long time.
• Shi Hao met Mao Qiu and Little Red Bird again, and his family and companions saw the extraordinary village and its powerful inhabitants.

Shi Hao brought his family to meet Red Dust, who explained the Upper Realm’s damaged laws and the Immortality Calamity’s origins. She revealed that a peerless woman who forged an acquired Chaos Physique had already crossed paths with Shi Hao through the North Sea and the paper boat.

• Shi Hao brought his parents, Yue Chan, and Qin Hao to visit Red Dust in Shi Village while Gegu and Qin Hao fought at the same cultivation level.
• Red Dust congratulated Shi Hao, then urged him to go to the Upper Realm and explained that its laws had been tampered with and that the powerful figures he knew were only ants on the human path.
• Red Dust explained how the Immortality Calamity and Qin Changsheng’s Immortal Bone led to the Supreme Nirvana Plan, which targeted Shi Hao and Qin Hao for their Supreme Blood.
• Red Dust described a woman who overcame her ordinary physique, devoured countless special physiques, and eventually shattered the immortal path.
• Red Dust told Shi Hao that he had already met the woman responsible for the North Sea and the paper boat.

Shi Hao learned about Seven Star Academy and resolved to grow stronger before entering the Upper Realm. When Upper Realm forces invaded the Desolate Region, Willow Deity confronted them and demonstrated overwhelming power, leaving the path between the realms close to being severed.

• Red Dust told Shi Hao that his reborn Supreme Bone gave him great potential, warned him that Jun Huang, Ling Tian, and the revived Shi Yi could surpass him, and described Seven Star Academy's Seven Star Techniques.
• Shi Hao decided to eliminate the Lower Realm's unstable factors, find a successor to the Human Emperor, and then seek the Seven Star Techniques in the Upper Realm.
• Six months later, Upper Realm forces opened a rift in the sky, and Little Pagoda warned that they were probing the Desolate Region in search of treasures of Creation.
• Willow Deity struck through the rift, destroyed the invading heroic spirits, and repelled the Chaos corpses and their Netherworld Wheel.
• Willow Deity pierced and killed the Chaos corpse, then knocked the Heavenly Venerable of Mount Eternal back into the Upper Realm with a blow that severely injured him.

The Willow Deity defeated Upper Realm attackers, reclaimed the incomplete Samsara Disk, and severed the passage between the Lower and Upper Realms. Shi Hao later attended a gathering of heavenly geniuses at Crane-Cry Mountain and refused Fairy Lan Yu’s invitation to travel the Ascension Road.

• The Willow Deity killed a Daoist who attacked her, then seized his two-tiered pagoda as other visitors fled the Lower Realm.
• A great figure wielding the incomplete Samsara Disk was destroyed, while Red Dust reclaimed the disk and sent it to Ling Tian in the Upper Realm.
• The Willow Deity explained that Red Dust was an ancient, immensely powerful being and said another Samsara Disk fragment would help Ling Tian grow stronger.
• Shi Hao received an invitation to a gathering of heavenly geniuses and traveled to Crane-Cry Mountain, where he learned about the legendary Pup Demon Tree.
• Bigu and Fairy Lan Yu greeted Shi Hao, and Fairy Lan Yu invited him to accompany her along the Ascension Road.
• Shi Hao declined Fairy Lan Yu’s invitation because he would not abandon his people and responsibilities.

After ten years in the Upper Realm, Shi Hao returned to Shi Village gravely wounded by Immortal Palace’s Immortal-Severing Curse. The True Dragon told him the curse could become an opportunity if he endured it himself.

• Shi Hao passed the throne of Shi Kingdom to Qingfeng and went to Three Lives Mountain to prepare for ascension, while heavenly lightning destroyed formations and struck major powers across the realms.
• An elusive patriarch secretly emptied the Treasure Pavilions of seven powers and sent their stolen resources to Xiang Beidou, who followed his orders and welcomed Jun Huang and Ling Tian into Seven Star Sacred Hall after they passed the Ascension Road.
• Shi Hao ascended to the Upper Realm with Gegu and Qin Hao, cultivated through several academies and secret realms, fought at Imperial Pass, and was betrayed into the Foreign Realm.
• Over ten years, Shi Hao reached the Dunyi Realm, while many other prodigies reached the Severing Self Realm and Gegu entered the Heavenly God Realm.
• After Immortal Palace planted the Immortal-Severing Curse in him, Shi Hao returned to Shi Village with Yun Xi and told the True Dragon he would endure the curse himself.

Red Dust partly suppressed Shi Hao’s Immortal-Severing Curse and urged him to temper himself before seeking the Supreme Realm. After marrying Yun Xi, Shi Hao spent decades training and experiencing ordinary lives, but he still could not break through.

• Red Dust told Shi Hao that Ling'er had been saved and was cultivating under an expert, then partly released the Immortal-Severing Curse to help him adapt to its power.
• At Qin Yining’s urging, Shi Hao married Yun Xi a few days later.
• Shi Hao obtained the True Phoenix Precious Technique and trained in Chaos and the Void God Realm for ten years, reaching the limits of the Dunyi Realm without advancing.
• When Shi Hao sought guidance, Red Dust slapped him away and told him that he needed to experience worldly life and temper his heart before becoming a Supreme.
• Shi Hao spent ten years living under different identities, but he still failed to advance, then spent another ten years traveling and observing without cultivating.
• Shi Hao returned after those years of wandering, still unable to become a Supreme.

After setting aside cultivation to free himself from his obsession with becoming a Supreme, Shi Hao entered a cocoon-like transformation in Shi Village and successfully reached the Supreme realm before age five hundred. His breakthrough coincided with the arrival of the Age of Dharma Decline, while the energy gathering around him nourished the people of Shi Village.

• Shi Hao followed True Dragon's advice, withdrew from cultivation, and received Yun Xi's quiet support as he let go of his fixation on becoming a Supreme.
• Several years later, Great Dao laws gathered around Shi Hao in Shi Village, wrapped him in a cocoon, and signaled that he was nearing the Supreme realm.
• As Shi Hao underwent his transformation, the continents of the Upper Realm began shifting and signs of the Age of Dharma Decline appeared.
• Red Dust said Shi Hao had become a Supreme before age five hundred, but warned that Supremes would now live only ten thousand years.
• Vast streams of starlight and cosmic essence poured into Shi Village, nourishing its inhabitants as Shi Yunfeng observed the changes in the village.

Shi Hao endured the heavenly trials as the Age of Dharma Decline struck the Upper Realm, killing or crippling cultivators and draining the power from medicines. A year later, the world had stabilized somewhat but continued to worsen, while Shi Hao swept across the Upper Realm and Red Dust reflected on the calamity.

• Groups of Shi Village children broke through, while Shi Hao left the village and endured crimson and violet beams sent by heaven and earth.
• The Age of Dharma Decline arrived, and Heavenly Will Like a Blade struck every cultivator, killing a tenth and causing another tenth to lose much of their cultivation.
• Over the following days, aged cultivators died and the world’s losses rose to twenty percent as the Great Dao drained essence from heaven and earth.
• Three months after the changes began, divine and spirit medicines lost their power and spirituality, and a year later all divine medicines had degenerated.
• Shi Hao swept across the Upper Realm and killed several Supreme experts, while immortal Red Dust wondered whether an even greater cosmic calamity would leave the untranscended helpless.

Willow Deity broke through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and joined the battle against the Four Dark Emperors, helping force them to retreat after ten thousand years of fighting. Di Tianfeng then warned her that a true emperor might be sleeping in the Ultimate Ancient Land, making the source of darkness an even greater threat.

• Willow Deity sensed a battle in the Boundary Sea, broke through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, and went to join the fight.
• A gray hand attacked Willow Deity, but she countered and then took on Cang Emperor as the four Dark Emperors fought Di Tianfeng, Red Dust, and the Lord of Life and Death.
• Willow Deity fought Cang Emperor for ten thousand years while Di Tianfeng faced Emperor Hong and Destruction Elder and the Lord of Life and Death suppressed Yu Emperor.
• The defenders drove back the Four Dark Emperors, and Di Tianfeng and the Lord of Life and Death congratulated Willow Deity on her breakthrough.
• Di Tianfeng warned Willow Deity that a true emperor might be sleeping in the Ultimate Ancient Land and that the battle could awaken him.

Shi Hao spent 490,000 years in the Di Luo Era, surviving through nine lives before returning to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths as a Red Dust Immortal and creating a new cultivation method. His rise provoked the Immortal Kings, but a mysterious power strengthened the barriers protecting his world and prevented them from invading.

• Di Tianfeng, the Lord of Life and Death, and Willow Deity discussed the coming Emperor and the extraordinary young man they expected to become one.
• Shi Hao endured the Di Luo Era's suppression and repeated trials, cultivating through nine lives until he returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths as a Red Dust Immortal.
• Shi Hao named the Wheel Sea, Dao Palace, Four Extremities, Transforming Dragon, and Immortal Platform realms, then endured a century of tribulation to establish his cultivation method.
• Immortal Kings, including An Lan and Red King, recognized Shi Hao and prepared to cleanse the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• A mysterious power reinforced the Heavenly Abyss and concealed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, making the Immortal Kings fear the consequences of crossing over.

As Shi Hao attempted to become an Immortal King amid the Age of Dharma Decline, Ao Sheng attacked him at his most vulnerable moment. The World Tree and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone’s group intervened, but Shi Hao still faced deadly tribulation and an overwhelming enemy.

• The Willow Deity and the Lord of Life and Death learned from Di Tianfeng that he was Human Emperor Primordial Beginning and that the emperor fire belonged to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor slain by four enemies.
• Shi Hao watched his parents and old companions grow frail and die, then began attempting to attain the Immortal King rank after reaching the pinnacle of the Quasi-King realm.
• Shi Hao endured the Great Dao’s judgment, repeatedly rebuilding his shattered body, but the assault on his Primordial Spirit left him gravely wounded.
• Ao Sheng sent an enormous hand through an Immortal Gate to attack Shi Hao during his breakthrough, destroying a starry expanse and nearly annihilating him.
• The golden-haired woman and the World Tree tried to stop Ao Sheng, but he overwhelmed them and sent them flying.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone, the Crystal Skull, the Golden Bone Palm, and the bleeding eyeball appeared to block Ao Sheng’s hand, while Shi Hao feared they could not save him.

Ao Sheng moved to kill Shi Hao while other Immortal Kings and forbidden-zone experts blocked potential rescuers and sought Ye Qingxian’s artifact spirit. Shi Hao fought desperately as Ye Qingxian lost the weapon soul, until a mysterious gray-robed woman appeared and condemned the Immortal Kings’ actions.

• Ao Sheng confronted Shi Hao, while the True Dragon returned and Pan Wang was kept from intervening by the Yuanchu Immortal King and Immortal King Tai Shi.
• Ao Sheng attacked Shi Hao, who resisted despite the crushing laws of his breakthrough, and Ye Qingxian arrived to help him with the weapon soul of the Immortal King Wuzhong.
• Ye Qingxian revealed that she came from another era, while a forbidden-zone expert used the Bell Corpse to seize the artifact spirit from her.
• Shi Hao unleashed He Transforms into Freedom and charged against Ao Sheng and Tai Shi as the battle spread across the field.
• A mysterious gray-robed woman froze the battle, condemned the Immortal Kings for attacking an Immortal King seedling, and appeared beside the golden-haired woman.