Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao escaped with Shi Hao using Ye Qingxian’s boundary-breaking talisman, then traveled to the Desolate Ancient Plain to cultivate. He broke through to the True One Realm and formed his first strand of immortal qi into a blooming Flower of the Great Dao.

• Qin Hao and Shi Hao escaped their pursuers with Ye Qingxian’s boundary-breaking talisman, and Shi Hao thanked Qin Hao before leaving to temper himself.
• Qin Hao traveled to the Desolate Ancient Plain and sent out a Venerable-level spiritual body to explore the Hundred Rivers Converging at Sea.
• Qin Hao decided he could no longer suppress his cultivation and began a breakthrough based on his Five Elements Dao.
• Qin Hao entered the True One Realm, and his first strand of immortal qi condensed into a Flower of the Great Dao.

Qin Hao reunited with Xiao Xuan, and their fusion brought him to the peak of the True One Realm as he began attempting the dangerous Saint Sacrifice realm. His breakthrough triggered a Chaos World-Destroying Tribulation that drew attention across the Three Thousand Dao Prefectures, and the lightning assault continued.

• Xiao Xuan told Qin Hao that the Xiao Clan and its allies were secure, then joined his Primordial Spirit and blood essence with Qin Hao.
• Their fusion merged their bodies and Primordial Spirits, created three flowers, and formed two unbloomed flower buds as Qin Hao held back from becoming a Heavenly God.
• Dark clouds and a Chaos World-Destroying Tribulation spread across the Three Thousand Dao Prefectures, alarming the Double-Pupil Woman, the Old Celestial, the golden-robed elder, and Qin Changsheng.
• Xiao Xuan reached the limit of the True One Realm and prepared to enter Saint Sacrifice, a dangerous realm of unstable cultivation.
• Lightning formed giant bronze gongs that tried to crush Xiao Xuan, then a swamp and Crocodile Ancestor that swallowed him; he shattered the lightning and escaped.
• A flock of dazzling, sunlike birds descended from the sky as the tribulation continued.

Xiao Xuan survived a fierce Lightning Tribulation, broke through an inner shackle, and escaped the powerful figures drawn to his breakthrough. In the Cloud Realm, cultivators gathered for the final battle of the Immortal Ancient Era, where Xiao Xuan declared that he had come to challenge prodigies and temper himself.

• Xiao Xuan battled Golden Crows and thunder during his tribulation, replenished his fading strength with pills and Sacred Fruits, and broke through an inner shackle as his God Blood transformed.
• Xiao Xuan left through the void before Qin Changsheng and powerful ancestors from Sin Prefecture could find him at the tribulation site.
• Dao Master Qi invited Xiao Xuan to join the Supreme Dao Field, but Xiao Xuan attacked him with One Finger Suppresses Mountains and Rivers and escaped.
• In the Cloud Realm, hundreds of thousands of cultivators gathered around a bloodstained arena as a Hell Three-Headed Dog and a Golden Yaksha began fighting.
• Shi Hao asked Xiao Xuan why he had come to the Cloud Realm, and Xiao Xuan said he wanted to fight prodigies and temper himself, adding that he had killed many First Generations, including the Seven Crown King.

Shi Hao, Shi Yi, Qin Hao, Tian Zi, and Zhe Xian battled in the grand melee, where Qin Hao revealed that he was fighting with a spiritual body while his true body had reached the peak of the Heavenly God Realm. After the contest ended, Xiao Xuan spent ten years cultivating at the Stone King's Ruins, reached the peak of the Severing Self Realm, and prepared to complete his dojo.

• Shi Yi, Shi Hao, Qin Hao, Tian Zi, Zhe Xian, and hundreds of thousands of cultivators fought in a grand melee until only the five young Supremes remained.
• Qin Hao revealed that the Qin Hao on the arena was a spiritual body and that his true body had reached the peak of the Heavenly God Realm and planned to establish the Hall of Gods in Sin Prefecture.
• Qin Hao was eliminated when his spiritual body dispersed, and Hundred Rivers Converging at Sea concluded with the geniuses gaining their own opportunities.
• Xiao Xuan found the Stone King's Ruins, cultivated there for ten years, and returned to the peak of the Severing Self Realm while shaping his dojo.
• Xiao Xuan used a contingency left by the Stone King to shatter a giant hand threatening Sin Prefecture, then refined and stored an Immortal King-grade palace.

Xiao Xuan returned to the Lower Realm, shared an Upper Realm formation with the Heaven Mending Pavilion and Shi Kingdom, and reunited with Shi Hao and their family. Nine years later, Yun Xi gave birth to Shi Hao’s child, and Shi Hao destroyed the heavenly laws gathering around the newborn to prevent them from influencing the child’s path.

• Xiao Xuan reviewed the techniques and Divine Abilities he had developed, including the Emperor Xuan Finger, the Four Symbols Heavenly Art, and the Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Technique.
• Xiao Xuan’s Divine Sense clone visited the Heaven Mending Pavilion and Shi Kingdom, giving Xia Youyu and Shi Qingfeng keys to formations leading to the Upper Realm.
• Xiao Xuan reunited with Shi Hao and their family, learning that Shi Ziling and Shi Zhongtian had reached the True One Realm, Qin Yining had reached the Heavenly God Realm, and A Man had begun the path of Saint Sacrifice.
• Shi Hao brought Fire Ling’er, Yun Xi, and Yue Chan to the Desolate Ancient Divine Mountain, where Xiao Xuan revealed that Yun Xi was pregnant before returning to seclusion.
• Nine years later, Yun Xi gave birth, and Shi Hao shattered the heavenly laws and Great Dao radiance gathering around the child, explaining that he did not want the heavens to shape the newborn’s path.

Xiao Xuan arranged for Xiao Xuan to raise Yun Xi’s extraordinary son, Shi Fan, then entered the Boundary Sea to train. After nearly seven hundred years, he broke through to Supreme and continued exploring the Boundary Sea while developing the Nine Secrets.

• Yun Xi gave birth to an extraordinary child, and Xiao Xuan named him Shi Fan, with the pet name Little Stone.
• Xiao Xuan recalled an avatar to the Hall of Gods to teach Little Stone and left his true body for the Boundary Sea.
• Xiao Xuan spent nearly seven hundred years gathering medicines, fighting immortal imprints, and comprehending the Dao without finding a path to Supreme.
• Xiao Xuan entered a strange transformation and endured purple light that attacked his primordial spirit before breaking through to Supreme.
• Xiao Yao and Xiao Li also reached Supreme through their connection to Xiao Xuan, who left the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths in their care.
• Xiao Xuan continued roaming the Boundary Sea and developed parts of the Nine Secrets, including the Weapon Secret.

Xiao Xuan refined seven secret arts while cultivating for centuries, reaching the peak of the Supreme Realm without finding a way to break through. After returning to the transformed Hall of Gods, he reunited with Shi Fan and encouraged him to pursue his own Dao.

• Xiao Xuan preliminarily deduced the seven secret arts of Weapon, Healing, Jie, Number, Formation, Premonition, and Xing.
• Over several centuries, Xiao Xuan strengthened his cultivation, resolved hidden dangers, and reached the peak of the Supreme Realm, but could not find a path to break through.
• Xiao Xuan used the Secret of Xing to return to Huang Prefecture, where Xiao Yao, Xiao Li, Shi Hao, and Shi Yi had brought the stubborn clans and other former enemies to heel.
• More than a thousand years after Xiao Xuan’s departure, the Hall of Gods had grown into a vast, tiered city of palaces with realm-based residences and Scripture Depositories.
• Xiao Yao sensed Xiao Xuan’s return, and Shi Fan arrived to greet his Second Uncle, explaining that he preferred living at the Hall of Gods.
• Xiao Xuan praised Shi Fan’s progress and offered to place his secret arts in the highest Scripture Depository, advising him to learn from them and forge his own path.

After millennia of wandering, Xiao Xuan collected a universe and fused it with Xuan Prefecture’s secret realm, allowing its strongest inhabitants to discover the wider world. At the Primitive Imperial Pass, a mysterious war chariot appeared and an Immortal King struck at the city.

• Xiao Xuan traveled through the Three Thousand Dao Prefectures, the Immortal Domain, and the Boundary Sea, growing powerful enough to face Quasi-Kings.
• Xiao Xuan found a familiar universe and collected it with Universe in the Sleeve, then passed it to Xiao Li through their connection.
• Xiao Li fused the universe with Xuan Prefecture’s secret realm and left tokens that let its inhabitants enter the outside world.
• Xiao Wu, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong explored the wider world and speculated that their ancestor had reached it before them.
• At the Primitive Imperial Pass, Xiao Yao, Shi Hao, Zhe Xian, Shi Yi, Tian Zi, and other experts battled the Foreign Realm army until an ancient war chariot appeared.
• An Immortal King extended a hand from the war chariot and struck toward the Primitive Imperial City.

A mysterious future expert arrived through the Time Gate and killed a powerful foe before confronting An Lan at the Imperial Pass. Xiao Yao and Xiao Li fused into one, entering the Quasi-King realm and challenging An Lan with a new heavenly art.

• The defenders of the Imperial Pass rallied to fight as the Heavenly Abyss opened onto the River of Time.
• A bloodied man riding a tripod emerged from the Time Gate, pursued and killed his opponent with a nine-character secret art.
• The tripod rider ignored An Lan and said the future might not be hopeless, while Ye Qingxian watched him with tears and worry.
• Xiao Li arrived and fused with Xiao Yao, causing their combined aura to rise into the Quasi-King realm.
• Xiao Yao challenged An Lan and prepared to demonstrate his heavenly arts, beginning with Five Elements Metal.

Xiao Yao and Shi Hao joined forces to defeat An Lan, forcing the Foreign Realm Army to withdraw from Imperial Pass. After the victory, Xiao Yao confronted Ye Qingxian about her connection to the mysterious man and urged her to grow strong enough to shape her own future.

• An Lan recognized Xiao Yao and threatened to kill him, but Shi Hao arrived and joined the fight.
• Xiao Yao used the Four Symbols Heavenly Art, while Shi Hao manifested multiple powerful figures and artifacts to battle An Lan.
• The four experts wounded An Lan, struck him with their weapons, and collected some of his Immortal King blood as he retreated.
• The Foreign Realm Army withdrew, and Imperial Pass celebrated its victory before Shi Hao and Xiao Yao returned to their normal forms.
• Xiao Yao asked Ye Qingxian whether she came from the future and knew the mysterious man, then encouraged her to become strong enough to make anything possible.

Xiao Yao brought Shi Hao to the Samsara Ancient Tree so they could cultivate in seclusion, while four powerful natives of the Xuanji Secret Realm decided to join the Hall of Gods after being defeated by an outside expert. The chapter ended with Shi Fan welcoming them and arranging for a Supreme to guide their cultivation.

• Xiao Yao took Shi Hao to the Samsara Ancient Tree, where the two began meditating in seclusion.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Xiao Wu, and the others discussed rebuilding their cultivation after suffering a costly defeat against an outside expert.
• Ten years later, the four arrived at the Hall of Gods, where Shi Fan recognized their strength and accepted them as members.
• Xiao Yan explained their origins and their wish to learn the outside world's cultivation system, and Shi Fan offered them residences and cultivation records.
• A Man arrived and said that an elderly Supreme would guide the newcomers.

After countless cycles of reincarnation beneath the Ancient Tree, Xiao Yao refined his understanding of the Great Dao and broke through a bottleneck by integrating Yin-Yang and the Five Elements into his body and spirit. He then tested his transformation through the True Phoenix and Kunpeng forms.

• Over a hundred years, the four rebuilt their foundations and returned to the Dunyi Realm through the Immortal Ancient Era system, while Xiao Yao and Xiao Li continued their cycles of reincarnation beneath the Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Yao concluded that cultivation methods ultimately led back to comprehending the laws of the Great Dao, and that advancement required seeking a suitable method rather than remaining constrained by old assumptions.
• Xiao Yao manifested Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, guided their runes into every particle of his body and spirit, and formed an Innate Dharma Seal.
• The Yin-Yang and Five Elements transformation erased the bottleneck holding Xiao Yao back, and he broke through as his body and spirit sublimated into particles of energy and matter.
• Xiao Yao transformed into a True Phoenix, wielded the True Phoenix Precious Technique and its Undying Divine Flame, then changed into a Kunpeng and split the Void with sword qi.

Xiao Yao survived an Immortal Ascension Tribulation lasting a century and became a Red Dust Immortal in the Age of Dharma Decline. His breakthrough shook the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, and a hazy figure opened his eyes as others recognized him as a father and ancestor.

• Xiao Yao demonstrated the Kunpeng Precious Technique and other perfected precious techniques before returning to his Innate Dao Body.
• Xiao Yao broke through to immortality in the Boundary Sea, while the light of his ascension astonished the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Xiao Yao endured a century of lightning and fire, survived the tribulation, and attained the immortal Dao Fruit.
• A demonic lotus opened a passage from the darkness, and Xiao Yao destroyed it with a punch.
• The Hall of Gods recognized Xiao Yao as its Lord of Gods, while Shi Fan and the Double-Pupil Woman celebrated his breakthrough.
• A hazy figure opened his eyes, prompting someone to call him Father and another to call him Ancestor.

Xiao Yao explained his reincarnation as Qin Hao, while Shi Hao began an Immortal Tribulation after a thousand years of cultivation. Immortal Kings Ao Sheng and Tai Shi moved to block the immortal gates and stop Shi Hao from attaining Immortal Fruit Status as his tribulation continued.

• Xiao Yao told Shi Zhongtian, A Man, Yue Chan, and Shi Fan that he had reincarnated as Qin Hao and was truly both Qin Hao and their Xiao Yao.
• Da Hong and Jin Hong mourned Shi Hao, believing he had died during seclusion, but Xiao Yao told them Shi Hao was still comprehending the Dao.
• After another thousand years of refining his Dao and techniques, Shi Hao underwent an Immortal Tribulation beneath the Samsara Ancient Tree, and news of it spread through the Immortal Domain.
• Immortal King Ao Sheng covered an immortal gate with his hand, and Immortal King Tai Shi covered another, intending to stop Shi Hao from reaching Immortal Fruit Status.
• Shi Hao continued enduring the tribulation, covered in blood as his aura strengthened and gates opened within his body.

Shi Hao’s breakthrough was interrupted by Immortal King Ao Sheng, who attacked him and Xiao Yao as other powerful figures were prevented from intervening. Ye Qingxian and Xiao Xuan arrived to help, and Xiao Xuan absorbed his avatars to surge into the King Realm.

• Xiao Yao and Xiao Li confronted Ao Sheng’s giant hand but were badly wounded, while Ao Sheng declared he would kill them.
• Yuanchu Immortal King blocked Pan Wang, and Immortal King Tai Shi intercepted the Lord of the Forbidden Zone and the others from aiding Shi Hao.
• Ye Qingxian joined the fight and revealed that she came from another era to witness events important to her time.
• Xiao Xuan returned from the Boundary Sea as a Quasi-King, condemned the Immortal Domain’s inaction, and merged with his two avatars to enter the King Realm.

Xiao Xuan wounded Ao Sheng with a single strike, then helped Shi Hao through his tribulation and welcomed him into immortality. After returning to the Hall of Gods, Xiao Xuan dismissed the importance of knowing the future and ventured into the Boundary Sea, where a great road appeared before him.

• Xiao Xuan pierced Ao Sheng’s giant hand and seriously wounded him, warning the kings that he would face them in the next great battle at the Imperial Pass.
• The kings recognized the faint radiance around Xiao Xuan as Emperor Light, while he encouraged Shi Hao and gave him purified blood essence from several Remnant Kings to temper his body during the tribulation.
• A hundred years later, Shi Hao survived the great tribulation and attained immortality, and Xiao Xuan, his avatars, Shi Hao, and Ye Qingxian returned to the Hall of Gods.
• Xiao Xuan offered Ye Qingxian a safe place in the Hall of Gods and told her he cared more about the present than any possible future.
• After Shi Hao returned to the Heavenly Court, Xiao Xuan traveled into the Boundary Sea, where a great road appeared through the darkness.

Zhou Xian destroyed Guishui City, but a mysterious rain restored the city and its people before punishing him. In a hidden realm, Xiao Xuan reflected on the million years he had spent cultivating in the God Realm and the immense power he had attained.

• Zhou Xian shattered Guishui City and killed nearly all its inhabitants while fighting a young man in black.
• A strange rain reversed the destruction, restored the city and its people, and advanced the wounded young man in black.
• The rain wounded Zhou Xian despite his divine power, leaving him barely alive before the sky cleared.
• Jiang Lan watched from the Turbulent Star Sea and suspected Tianque had intervened.
• Xiao Xuan awoke in a secret realm after a million years of cultivation and assessed his mastery of time, space, and the Great Dao.

Xiao Xuan sent Tianhua to the Immortal-Demon-Monster Realm to protect the Dao of a young man whose fate could not be calculated. In Hongmeng Space, two overseers discovered that the man had independently broken through to the Heavenly Venerable Realm, but neither could deduce anything about him.

• Xiao Xuan reflected that this universe’s path to higher realms centered on space and time, but he refused to create a world and become constrained.
• Tianshu returned with her disciple Tianhua, and both admitted they had yet to master their cultivation goals.
• Xiao Xuan offered Tianhua the chance to protect the Dao of a fate-void young man in the Mortal Universe, and Tianhua agreed to go.
• Xiao Xuan sent Tianhua to the Immortal-Demon-Monster Realm and urged him to help preserve the Tianque lineage.
• In Hongmeng Space, the two overseers examined the Hongmeng Golden List and learned that someone had forced his way into the Heavenly Venerable Realm through his own cultivation.
• The black-robed overseer said the man had founded Tianque and sent a disciple to protect the Dao of someone with a void fate.

Tianhua rescued Qin Yu, Hou Fei, and Hei Yu from a group of Immortal Emperors and befriended them. Meanwhile, Xiao Xuan advanced to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, found a passage into Hongmeng Space, and was met by Linmeng.

• Xiao Xuan sensed that someone was watching him and returned to the secret realm's ten-thousandfold Time Acceleration formation to continue cultivating.
• Tianhua intervened when Immortal Emperors surrounded Qin Yu, Hou Fei, and Hei Yu, then transported them to a desolate ancient star.
• Tianhua introduced himself, explained that he had saved them to make friends, and invited them to ask him about cultivation.
• After tens of millions of years of accelerated cultivation, Xiao Xuan advanced his Dao of Spacetime and Dao of Five Elements to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level.
• Xiao Xuan discovered a black hole passage into Hongmeng Space and used its chaotic airflow to temper his body.
• Linmeng addressed Xiao Xuan as a fellow Daoist from beyond.

Xiao Xuan met Hongmeng and Linmeng in Hongmeng Space, then stayed to contemplate the Dao and temper his body. Nearly ten thousand years later, Qin Yu attended Jiang Li’s marriage selection in Piaoxue City, where Tianque’s God Kings arrived and drew the gathered rulers’ attention.

• A young man in black approached Xiao Xuan, and Linmeng introduced him as Hongmeng’s younger brother.
• Xiao Xuan followed Linmeng to Hongmeng, who welcomed him and asked him to share a way to reach the outside world.
• Xiao Xuan found a place in Hongmeng Space to contemplate the Dao and temper his body.
• After nearly ten thousand years of cultivation, Qin Yu reached the Upper Heavenly God realm and entered the hall for Jiang Li’s marriage selection.
• The Holy Emperors and leaders of the three great ascender factions arrived at the Imperial Palace.
• God King Tianshu and Tianhua arrived from Tianque, and Jiang Fan asked whether Tianque planned to enter the world.