Chapter Summaries

Shi Yongheng conquered the underground Demonfolk, advanced to the Ten-Thousand Longevity Realm, and returned to the Yuhua Sect. He secured a position as a Supreme Elder while persuading the sect to keep his identity hidden so he could remain a true disciple and cultivate in seclusion.

• Zhou Xuan entered the Great Asura's castle, where Shi Yongheng opened the treasury and absorbed its magical crystal jade to advance through several realms.
• Shi Yongheng killed a Wind and Fire Tribulation elder, broke through to the Return of All Laws to Unity realm, and condensed a Golden Core seed.
• Shi Yongheng killed a newly advanced Demon Emperor, took his territory and collections, obtained the Great Devouring Technique, and reached the Ten-Thousand Longevity Realm.
• Shi Yongheng returned to Yuhua Sect in less than a day and met Feng Baiyu, Wang Kunlun, Zhao Shenyang, Wu Mingkong, Yi Jianqiu, Chen Tianxia, and Wang Daoling.
• Shi Yongheng claimed he had reincarnated and awakened memories, and Feng Baiyu appointed him a Supreme Elder.
• Shi Yongheng asked to keep his identity hidden and continue as a true disciple on Eternal Peak, where he devoted himself to cultivation and comprehension.

Shi Yongheng gave Fang Han two cultivation manuals, then spent ten years advancing to the Grotto-Void Realm. As he completed his breakthrough, the God Race launched an attack against him.

• Shi Yongheng met Fang Han at Purple Lightning Peak and gave him a movement art and the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye cultivation method.
• Over the next ten years, Shi Yongheng explored dangerous realms and became the strongest member of the Yuhua Sect.
• Shi Yongheng opened the Gate of the Immortal World and drew in liquid immortal Qi, transforming his body and Grotto-Heaven world.
• Shi Yongheng reached the eighth level of the Eternal Life Secret Realm, the Grotto-Void Realm, and gained the power to refine supreme-grade Dao Artifacts.
• The God Race pierced the Chaotic Origin Embryo with a terrifying attack against Shi Yongheng.

Shi Yongheng fought off the God Race invasion, survived a devastating Immortal Lightning Tribulation, and broke through to the tenth level of the Eternal Life Secret Realm. After a God Venerable’s suicide blast badly injured him, he withdrew to the Taiyuan Immortal Abode to recover through Nirvana.

• Shi Yongheng killed the God Race’s tenth-level God Venerable with the Heavenly Tribulation Light and refined him, while his allies and Fang Han battled the invading forces.
• Shi Yongheng killed Sandalwood God Venerable with the Nine-leaf Sword Grass and used the Willow Tree manifestation to slay and devour God Race warriors.
• Shi Yongheng faced the Void Immortal Lightning Tribulation as three God Venerables attacked; the lightning killed them, and he refined their remains before breaking through to the tenth level of the Eternal Life Secret Realm.
• Linglong Immortal Venerable identified the God Race’s Ancestor-Sacrificing Formation as the survivors tried to escape, but Shi Yongheng’s Willow Deity manifestation closed around them.
• The God Venerable at the center of the formation exploded, dispersing the Willow Deity manifestation and leaving Shi Yongheng badly injured; Fang Han supported him as he withdrew to the Taiyuan Immortal Abode.
• Shi Yongheng crushed seized half-Immortal Artifacts for energy, placed medicinal herbs in a meteoric-iron coffin, and prepared to undergo Nirvana.

After ten thousand years of gathering techniques and cultivating across many realms, Shi Yongheng deliberately arranged to die so he could use a Supreme Immortal’s blood essence to advance. He awakened in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces with a world-sized Grotto-Heaven and faced the shocked Heavenly Venerable of Mount Eternal.

• Shi Yongheng reached Great Perfection as a Supreme Immortal, collected several Great Dao techniques, and deduced the Nirvana realm’s next stage, Yin-Yang Rotation.
• He deliberately let a colossal hand crush him, relying on the Ancestral Baleful Energy to preserve his Primordial Spirit.
• In the Sea of Death, Shi Yongheng absorbed blood essence and resources, broke into Nirvana, and expanded his Grotto-Heaven to encompass the former Immortal Ancient Secret Realm.
• Shi Yongheng realized that more than ten thousand years in the worlds he had visited had amounted to only ten years in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.
• Shi Yongheng arrived in Five Elements Province, where the Heavenly Venerable of Mount Eternal asked whether he had become a true Supreme.

After emerging from a secret realm ten years later, Shi Yongheng learned of Shi Hao’s trials and visited Heavenly God Academy before setting out for the ruins beneath Cross Yin-Yang Land. He entered a dangerous ancient path where colliding laws and a mysterious field slowed his advance.

• Shi Yongheng asked Qin Changsheng about Shi Hao and learned of his achievements, the Immortal-Severing Curse, and Huo Ling’er’s capture by a Foreign Realm Immortal King.
• Shi Yongheng dismissed the curse as no threat to Shi Hao, then left Qin Changsheng and traveled to Heavenly God Academy in Boundless Heaven.
• At Heavenly God Academy, Shi Yongheng reunited with Tian Zi, Zhe Xian, Shi Yi, Yue Chan, the Witch, and Feng Wu, but declined to join the Academy for now.
• Shi Yongheng reached Cross Yin-Yang Land and used Yin-Yang energy to reveal a hidden ruin and the gate between the Taiyin River and the Sun River.
• Shi Yongheng entered the ancient path, where shifting space, colliding laws, and immense resistance prevented him from moving quickly.

Shi Yongheng reached the Forbidden Zone in the Eight Regions and met its master after surviving the path’s final trial. The master welcomed him as a potential peer, and Shi Yongheng realized the woman accompanying him might be a True Immortal.

• Shi Yongheng emerged from the ancient road into a desert and recognized the Eight Regions, where the fragrance of an immortality medicine led him to an ancient medicinal garden.
• Shi Yongheng announced himself at the Forbidden Zone, and its master recognized him as the Ancestor Sacrificial Spirit's disciple before inviting him inside.
• Shi Yongheng crossed the wooden bridge over the medicinal fields and entered the Forbidden Zone’s hills, where grand palaces and simple thatched cottages stood.
• Shi Yongheng crossed the Universe Lake, enduring the loss of his flesh before his body regenerated on the far shore.
• The man in white welcomed Shi Yongheng, invited him to tea, and introduced the final trial’s passage as proof that Shi Yongheng could become one of them.

Shi Yongheng drank the Lord of the Forbidden Zone’s tea and learned that eight exceptional youths who had drunk it before him all died after pursuing a dangerous path. The Lord said Shi Yongheng was the eleventh person to drink the tea and promised not to force him to follow that path, leaving his future choice open.

• Shi Yongheng learned that the Lord of the Forbidden Zone’s ordinary bitter tea had been served to only nine people before him, all extraordinary young talents from past eras.
• The Lord recalled that all eight youths from the Immortal Ancient Era died after drinking the tea and setting out on a certain path.
• Shi Yongheng drank the rest of his tea and saw the Lord’s memories of Augu, Jin Zhen, Ruo Feng, Qing Yue, and the other dead disciples, each of whom had received a different great art.
• Shi Yongheng said he did not want to follow the dead youths’ footsteps, and the Lord replied that he would not force him to take that path.

Shi Yongheng saw the Boundary Sea and learned that the Lord of the Forbidden Zone had survived crossing the dam, then left the desolate life forbidden zone with a jade tablet and returned to the Lower Realm. He reached the Desolate Region and found the village from his youth still standing.

• The man in white showed Shi Yongheng the Boundary Sea, where many Immortals had died and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone had returned gravely wounded.
• Shi Yongheng vowed to enter the Boundary Sea to find his teacher, the Ancestor Sacrificial Spirit, and accepted a jade tablet from the man in white.
• Shi Yongheng discovered that the cottage and its wonders had vanished, leaving only skulls, bones, and ruined remains.
• Shi Yongheng escaped the forbidden zone through chaotic spacetime and learned he was in the Heaven Region.
• Shi Yongheng crossed the regions to the Desolate Region and found his old village, where a huge black tortoise lay at the entrance.

Shi Yongheng returned to Shi Village after ten years away, reunited with Shi Hao, and shared cultivation techniques and advice as both prepared to pursue the Supreme realm. He then strengthened the defenses of Heaven Mending Pavilion and the imperial city before traveling across the eight regions.

• Shi Yongheng reached Shi Village, reunited with Yun Xi and the villagers, and reassured them that Shi Hao could overcome the Banished Immortal Curse.
• Shi Yongheng restrained Gegu, the True Dragon’s son, then released him and explained that he had returned to temper himself before reaching the Supreme realm.
• Shi Hao returned to the village bonfire celebration, and he and Shi Yongheng exchanged cultivation techniques and discussed how to advance.
• Shi Yongheng advised Shi Hao to return to the Red Dust rather than rush toward cultivation, and the two agreed to compete to reach the Supreme realm and slay an immortal through the human path.
• Shi Yongheng visited Heaven Mending Pavilion, Mysterious Heaven King’s Manor, and the imperial palace, strengthening the protective formations at Heaven Mending Pavilion and the imperial city.
• Shi Yongheng traveled through the Desolate Region and the other seven regions for several years.

Shi Yongheng studied the Lord of the Forbidden Zone’s many scriptures and perfected the Yin-Yang Cycle Realm before entering a dangerous transformation on the path to Supreme. As the heavens poured cosmic essence into the Forbidden Zone and Shi Hao joined him in meditation, a crimson trial descended to test Shi Yongheng.

• Shi Yongheng explained his cultivation method to the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, who shared numerous scriptures and manifested a Library Pavilion for him to study.
• Shi Yongheng spent ten years in the Forbidden Zone and, with the Lord of the Forbidden Zone’s guidance, perfected the Yin-Yang Cycle Realm.
• Shi Yongheng’s laws formed a cocoon around him as he underwent a strange transformation toward the Supreme realm.
• The Forbidden Zone shook nine times as cosmic essence and starlight gathered around Shi Yongheng, and Shi Hao entered to meditate nearby.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone explained that heaven and earth were cleansing Shi Yongheng and blessing the Seven Kings’ descendants.
• A blood-red beam descended toward Shi Yongheng, and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone warned that it was heaven and earth’s interrogation.

Shi Yongheng endured the crimson and purple lights and karmic fire, then broke through into a formidable Supreme realm with an unprecedented cultivation path. Just as he sensed his new power, an ominous presence made the route back grow gray and oppressive.

• Crimson light struck Shi Yongheng, followed by purple light that nearly destroyed his primordial spirit before he realized both were testing different aspects of his body.
• Shi Yongheng endured the karmic fire, which burned his flesh before his body recovered with golden light and a Supreme aura.
• Shi Yongheng manifested 1,296 heavenly passages, and Shi Hao and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone discussed his ambition to cultivate 129,600 passages into worlds within his body.
• Shi Yongheng sensed that his power had increased enormously and that he surpassed the Supremes at Heavenly God Academy.
• Shi Yongheng felt an ominous warning and stepped forward through the dim, oppressive void, wondering why the route back had changed.

Shi Yongheng faced the Supreme Path’s final trial, enduring the abyss, death qi, and chains of obsession as he fought to reach the cliff. The chapter left him nearly reduced to ashes, still struggling to rise toward the sky.

• Shi Yongheng realized the Supreme Path was an imprint of past Supremes’ failures and stepped into the abyss to complete his own path.
• He fought through the darkness, resisted death qi with the True Phoenix Immortal Technique, and survived ten days and nights of deadly trials.
• Shi Yongheng reached the cliff but was bound and pierced by chains representing his obsessions, which burned his body and primordial spirit.
• He declared that he would attain the Dao through obsession and struggled upward, despite his body and spirit nearing collapse.

Shi Yongheng endured the Great Dao’s assault and successfully broke through to become a Supreme, emerging with strength comparable to some Immortals. He discussed his new realm with Shi Hao and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, then warned that powerful hidden figures might lie in the depths of the Boundary Sea.

• Shi Yongheng revived with the True Phoenix Immortal Technique and other arts, severed the chains binding him, and fought the Great Dao through repeated attacks.
• Shi Yongheng declared himself the root and burned the Dao, enduring the Great Dao’s assaults until it withdrew and he reached the Other Shore.
• Shi Yongheng recovered in the Forbidden Zone and told Shi Hao that he had succeeded, though his breakthrough trial differed from those of cultivators who advanced step by step.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone sensed Shi Yongheng’s power and described him as an emperor of the human path, while Shi Yongheng wondered about the immortal path.
• Shi Yongheng explained that he needed time to refine his cultivation method, then speculated that legendary beings might be hidden in the depths of the Boundary Sea.

Shi Hao studied three ancient scriptures before returning to Shi Village to continue his path toward Supreme, while Shi Yongheng stabilized his cultivation and came to guard the village as Shi Hao’s breakthrough began. Shi Yongheng believed Shi Hao was a fixed fate destined to become a great variable, and the chapter ended with Supreme Dao laws gathering around Shi Hao.

• Shi Yongheng told Shi Hao that the Library Pavilion held the Dragon-Subduing Heavenly Art, the Immortal-Slaying Technique, and the Undying Scripture, and Shi Hao went to study them.
• Shi Yongheng explained to the Lord of the Forbidden Zone why he believed Shi Hao might surpass him, calling Shi Hao the greatest fixed fate and himself the greatest variable.
• After two years, Shi Hao left the Library Pavilion for Shi Village, and Shi Yongheng spent ten years stabilizing his cultivation and developing his foundations.
• Shi Yongheng sensed a faint Supreme aura near Shi Village and arrived to protect it from Shi Hao’s lightning tribulation, bringing Shi Qingfeng and others to witness the opportunity.
• Shi Hao’s breakthrough began as powerful Dao laws surrounded him in a courtyard, turning it into a forbidden ground.

Shi Hao survived his Supreme tribulation and returned to Shi Village, while his breakthrough coincided with the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths beginning to merge and the Age of Dharma Decline taking hold. As Shi Hao, Cao Yusheng, and Little Puppy observed the upheaval, Little Puppy warned that cultivators’ lifespans would plummet and that a past Age of Dharma Decline had wiped them out entirely.

• Shi Hao’s laws formed a cocoon around him as he prepared to attain the Supreme realm, and the Upper Realm’s ancient continents began drifting toward one another.
• The Great Dao’s blessings strengthened Shi Village’s residents, especially its children and the descendants of the Seven Kings of the Border Desolation.
• Shi Hao returned alive from the Chaos region after more than ten days, and his family, Yun Xi, Shi Yunfeng, and the villagers welcomed him.
• Shi Yongheng learned that dark beings controlled half the Three Thousand Prefectures and that the Age of Dharma Decline was causing the Great Dao to recede and spiritual energy to dry up.
• Shi Hao, Cao Yusheng, and Little Puppy discussed the calamity, and Little Puppy explained that it would shorten cultivators’ lifespans and had previously caused cultivators to disappear completely.

Shi Yongheng advanced to the late stage of the Supreme Realm while the Age of Dharma Decline began and Shi Hao’s return shook the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. After meeting the little puppy, Shi Yongheng learned of the Land Connecting Past and Present and planned to return to Tianyun Academy.

• The fusion of two heavens brought the Age of Dharma Decline, and Shi Yongheng continued traveling and killing Dark Supremes.
• Shi Yongheng cultivated for more than half a year, devoured Dark Supremes, and broke through to the late stage of the Supreme Realm.
• Shi Hao’s return and battles against powerful enemies unsettled the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths as the dark creatures retreated.
• Shi Yongheng sensed the ancestral baleful energy in his sea of consciousness and found that his journeys to another world had become less frequent.
• Shi Yongheng met Shi Hao and the little puppy, who described the Land Connecting Past and Present as a possible source of answers.
• The little puppy left to seek the Immortal King Wuzhong, while Shi Yongheng reassured Shi Hao and said he would return to Tianyun Academy.

Shi Yongheng chose to remain in the mortal world and temper himself rather than enter the Immortal Domain, while Shi Hao also resolved to seek immortality there. As the Age of Dharma Decline devastated ancient cultivators and weakened medicines, Shi Yongheng spent fifty years training and deepening his Dao.

• Shi Yongheng told the Double-Pupil Woman that he would stay in the mortal world to become the strongest War Immortal, while Shi Yi would eventually protect Tianyun Academy.
• At Mount Eternal, Shi Yongheng urged Qin Hao to master and then discard his two bones, and Qin Hao left for the Immortal Domain with Qin Changsheng.
• Shi Hao said he would pursue immortality in the mortal world, then agreed with Shi Yongheng to exchange insights and cultivate together.
• The Age of Dharma Decline killed most cultivators who had lived over a million years and caused divine and spiritual medicines to lose their power.
• Shi Hao entered seclusion to become a flawless Supreme, while Shi Yongheng sought the Lord of the Forbidden Zone's guidance and trained through battles in shattered worlds and the Void God Realm.
• Shi Yongheng spent fifty years cultivating, growing more powerful as he drew the essence of the sun, moon, and stars into himself.

Shi Hao created a new cultivation method with four secret realms and endured a devastating tribulation before shattering his Supreme body to cultivate anew. He returned to the Supreme Realm in his new system, broke the Immortal-Severing Curse, while Shi Yongheng emerged from seclusion after deducing the World Immortal Realm.

• Shi Yongheng reached the limit of the Supreme Realm, while Shi Hao also rose to its peak by fighting war souls and dark creatures.
• Shi Hao developed the Sea of Wheels, Dao Palace, Four Extremities, and Dragon Transformation secret realms, then identified the primordial spirit as the final realm.
• Shi Hao faced a nine-year heavenly tribulation in Chaos and recovered after another year in a blaze that formed a furnace.
• Shi Hao shattered his Supreme body to eliminate the hidden dangers in his cultivation, then journeyed through the mortal world and rebuilt his cultivation with his own method.
• Shi Hao returned to the Supreme Realm when he was over two hundred years old and broke the Immortal-Severing Curse.
• Shi Yongheng returned from fifty years of seclusion, having experienced fifty thousand years elsewhere and deduced the World Immortal Realm.

Shi Yongheng traveled to the Dam World to temper himself and spent decades studying the mysterious sea beyond the dam. After ninety years, he continued to watch as Immortals died in the sea and the Immortal Tomb drew closer.

• Shi Hao left Shi Village with eight hundred young warriors as the Age of Dharma Decline shortened cultivators’ lifespans.
• Shi Yongheng studied the Heavenly Court’s collection for a century, then asked the Lord of the Forbidden Zone to help him reach the Dam World.
• Shi Yongheng crossed the dangerous sand and climbed onto the dam, where he saw a vast sea filled with shattered Ancient Realms and Great Dao ripples.
• Shi Yongheng watched the sea for ten years and saw islands, wounded travelers, a lantern-bearing man, and a Great Tomb resembling the Immortal Tomb on Demon Island.
• Shi Yongheng watched for another ninety years as Immortals perished in the sea and the Immortal Tomb continued drawing closer.

After a thousand years of cultivation, Shi Yongheng used the Boundary Sea to temper his body until it entered the immortal dao domain, then explored the sea and studied ancient King-level runes. He left the dam and traveled to the Tongtian Land, where he entered a newly appeared crack and found himself crossing vast starfields toward a hazy ancient cave.

• Shi Yongheng spent centuries cultivating and studying the imprints of immortal dao creatures while Shi Hao also came to temper himself with others.
• After a thousand years, Shi Yongheng used the Boundary Sea’s waters to temper his flesh until it shed its impurities and transformed.
• The Eye of Heaven and Earth appeared above the dam and unleashed a half-month lightning tribulation, which Shi Yongheng endured until his flesh attained the immortal dao domain.
• Shi Yongheng studied King-level corpses and runes, then ventured into nearby Boundary Sea realms to explore and temper himself.
• Shi Yongheng left through a teleportation formation, traveled from the Lower Realm to the Upper Realm, and reached the Tongtian Land.
• Shi Yongheng entered a newly appeared crack on a withered star and crossed vast starfields along a vanishing path toward an ancient cave spewing Chaos and immortal energy.