Chapter Summaries

After devouring the starry cosmos and perfecting his inner world, Shi Yongheng joined the others in the seventeenth level of hell, where Chen Zhan fought to reclaim his sealed head. Shi Yongheng protected Chen Nan from the Chen Family’s ancestors and helped Chen Zhan break the seals, but his head remained petrified and required Chen Nan’s blood.

• Shi Yongheng completed the devouring of the starry cosmos, then hurried with the others toward a demonic disturbance in the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Chen Zhan nearly refined Sword Master Jingtian, but Sword Master Luo Tian intervened and gave Jingtian a chance to escape.
• Chen Zhan recognized Chen Nan as his son and sent him away to keep him safe, but the Fifth Ancestor tried to pull Chen Nan back into the battle.
• Shi Yongheng stopped the Fifth Ancestor, revealed his overwhelming strength by wounding Chen Da and Chen Er, and defended Chen Nan against the Chen Family.
• Chen Zhan destroyed the seal around his buried head and found it petrified, so Shi Yongheng threw Chen Nan toward him, explaining that Chen Nan’s blood could release it.
• Shi Yongheng struck the Fourth Ancestor aside and accused Chen Da of plotting to devour Chen the Demon’s soul.

Shi Yongheng defeated the Fifth Ancestor while Chen Zhan restored his head and fought the Chen Family ancestors. The Demon Lord arrived and, with Dugu Xiaoxuan's help, refined the hostile soul shadow containing Dugu Baitian's fragmented soul into Extinction.

• Shi Yongheng withstood the Fifth Ancestor's Deadly Return to the Ruins and defeated him with Immortal Strike.
• Chen Zhan's head returned to his body, and he warned Chen Nan to flee before his madness took hold.
• Chen Zhan fought the Fourth and Fifth Ancestors, then used Eternal Emptiness to reduce them to children, and Chen Nan placed them in his inner world.
• The finger bone and its soul shadow arrived, followed by Ridelau and the Demon Lord, who battled the soul shadow as the General-Appointment Platform attacked the finger bone.
• Feng Xing Tian identified Dugu Baitian as part of the soul shadow, and Dugu Xiaoxuan gave the Demon Lord nine drops of her father's True Demon Blood.
• The Demon Lord and Dugu Baitian's fragmented soul used the True Demon Blood to refine the soul shadow's other fragment into Extinction.

The Demon Lord and Dugu Baitian exiled nearly all Heaven-rank experts from the Heaven and Human Realms to the Third Realm to prepare for the coming turmoil. Shi Yongheng cultivated there, then escaped through the realm’s barrier and sought an opportunity beyond it.

• The Demon Lord summoned the Divine Demon Diagram and, with Dugu Baitian, declared that uncertain factors would be exiled to the Third Realm.
• Shi Yongheng was exiled first, while Dugu Baitian’s faction and the other gathered experts accepted their fate.
• Dugu Baitian entered Chen Zhan’s body and used the Divine Demon Diagram to gather and exile Heaven-rank experts from the Heaven and Human Realms.
• Shi Yongheng cultivated in the Third Realm for half a year, but failed to break through to the Heaven-Defying rank and decided to seek Blue Heaven’s Second Incarnation.
• Shi Yongheng used four steps through yin-yang, illusion and reality to pass through the Third Realm’s barrier, prompting the Demon Lord to recognize that it could not hold him.

At Fengdu Mountains, Shi Yongheng defeated a Heavenly Ghost and uncovered an ancient stone stele before striking something buried beneath the earth. A colossal tentacle and the legendary World-Annihilating Hand emerged and attacked him.

• Shi Yongheng used Solar True Fire to draw out a Heavenly Ghost formed from ten million military souls.
• He cleaved the Heavenly Ghost apart with the Heavenly Traversing Sword and overwhelmed it with God Annihilation.
• When the Heavenly Ghost begged to submit, Shi Yongheng instead split the mountains and exposed an ancient stone stele bearing one blurred character and one resembling “Heaven.”
• Shi Yongheng saw a smiling young man in the Gods and Demons Cemetery and unleashed Dao-Slaying into the earth.
• Azure blood and a terrifying aura erupted underground as the mountains collapsed and rose anew.
• A gigantic tentacle and the azure-scaled World-Annihilating Hand emerged and swept toward Shi Yongheng.

Shi Yongheng defeated and devoured Blue Heaven's Second Incarnation, then underwent a transformation and reached the Heaven-Defying Level. He shared breakthrough insights with Li Ruolan and Little Zhuque as they prepared to advance further.

• Shi Yongheng fought Blue Heaven's Second Incarnation, severing her regenerating limbs with the Heavenly Traversing Sword.
• Shi Yongheng used Five Steps of Eternal Haste to shrink Blue Heaven's Second Incarnation into Origin Energy and swallow her.
• Shi Yongheng's flesh and Primordial Spirit exploded into particles and reassembled as he transformed into a Heaven-Defying Level being.
• Shi Yongheng tested his new Immortal Divine Power and reflected that the Heaven-Defying Level was still not enough.
• Li Ruolan and Little Zhuque greeted Shi Yongheng after reaching the God King Level, and he sent them insights for reaching God Emperor and the Heaven Tier.

Shi Yongheng reached the Heaven-Defying King rank as upheaval spread across the Six Realms, then saw Heiqi arrive in the Human Realm and clash with Chen Nan. Chen Nan held his own by borrowing the power of the eight Chen family souls, leaving Shi Yongheng to question how the battle would unfold.

• Shi Yongheng entered the Third Realm and defeated Xuan Huang, freeing Dugu Xiaoxuan and the others from the Heaven-Earth Profound-Yellow Banner Formation.
• After returning to the Human Realm, Shi Yongheng spent ten years cultivating in the Kunlun Mountains, killed another Taishang, and reached the Heaven-Defying King rank.
• Strange phenomena and renewed conflicts erupted throughout the Six Realms as forbidden lands reopened and sealed Heaven-rank powerhouses escaped.
• Heiqi crossed into the Human Realm, and Chen Nan followed, fighting him with the Fangtian Painted Halberd.
• Shi Yongheng realized Chen Nan was matching Heiqi by fusing with the eight souls of the Chen family, rather than by reaching the Heaven-rank himself.

Shi Yongheng stopped Heiqi from destroying the Kunlun Mountains, then joined Dugu Baitian and the Demon Lord to bring the ancient gods back through the Samsara Gate. After the gods were hidden inside to prepare for the War Against Heaven, Shi Yongheng returned to a Human Realm devastated by the Great Destruction.

• Chen Nan fought Heiqi until Shi Yongheng intervened to protect the Kunlun Mountains and sent Heiqi flying into another realm.
• Shi Yongheng answered Dugu Baitian’s call and joined him and the Demon Lord at the Samsara Gate.
• The Demon Lord opened a spacetime passage, and more than a hundred ancient gods emerged from it.
• Dugu Baitian ordered the ancient gods to remain inside the Samsara Gate, taught them the Zhoutian Star Dou Formation, and left them to prepare for the War Against Heaven.
• Shi Yongheng returned to the Human Realm with Dugu Baitian and the Demon Lord and found it in ruins after the Great Destruction.

After the Great Destruction left the Six Realms in darkness and ruins, Shi Yongheng waited for Dugu Baitian’s planned War Against Heaven. When the second batch of Primordial Gods returned and the final battle began, the allied powerhouses attacked Chaos King’s forces, and Demon Lord revealed that the previous war had helped him break through to a higher level.

• The Great Destruction ended the era, destroying the Six Realms and leaving fewer than one in ten living beings alive.
• Dugu Baitian told Shi Yongheng that the War Against Heaven would begin within a hundred years, and Demon Lord said Human King Yu Xin had gone to repair the Welcoming Gate.
• Shi Yongheng spent decades cultivating in Kunlun Mountains, then joined Demon Lord when the second batch of Primordial Gods returned and launched the War Against Heaven.
• At the Ninth Heaven, Shi Yongheng met Dugu Baitian’s allies, including newly advanced Chen Zhan and Chen Nan, and learned that the Spacetime God had stolen five thousand years’ worth of power from Heaven for Chen Nan.
• Dugu Baitian, Ghost Lord, and the Spacetime God used the Little Six Paths to trap Chaos King’s forces while Demon Lord summoned the Blood Sea’s dead and the corpses from the Gods and Demons Cemetery to wound them.
• Chaos King recalled that Demon Lord had nearly died in the previous war, but that ordeal had completed his transformation and let him reach a higher level.

After the Heavenly Dao’s forces were defeated, the Starry Sky Battle Soul joined the alliance and contributed his battle puppets. The Heavenly Dao awakened and prepared to destroy the survivors and devour their power, beginning the final battle.

• Shi Yongheng ordered Chen Nan to lead ancient gods against the Chaos Clan while the others fought the Chaos King and his allies.
• Shi Yongheng killed the Chaos King, and Chen Nan returned after wiping out the Chaos Clan.
• Shi Yongheng revealed that the Starry Sky Battle Soul had been secretly observing them, and the newcomer explained that he had collected battle souls to protect himself.
• The Starry Sky Battle Soul agreed to fight the Heavenly Dao and summoned more than a hundred battle puppets.
• The Heavenly Dao awakened and declared that it would destroy the alliance and devour their power to become complete.

Dugu Baitian and the ancient gods led the fallen battle souls in a war against the Heavenly Dao, while Shi Yongheng and Chen Nan helped destroy it. Shi Yongheng plundered thirteen portions of its essence but returned most of it to prevent the Tomb World from collapsing, and the survivors prepared to reshape heaven and earth.

• Dugu Baitian and the ancient gods summoned fallen battle souls and formed killing formations to attack the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao unleashed the World Annihilation Millstone, but the attackers destroyed it after suffering enormous losses.
• Shi Yongheng briefly restrained the Heavenly Dao, allowing Chen Nan to unleash the power and consciousnesses within his origin world.
• Shi Yongheng plundered the weakened Heavenly Dao's essence until its consciousness collapsed, then stopped when the Tomb World began to collapse.
• Shi Yongheng returned most of the stolen essence, leaving thirteen portions, and the survivors celebrated the Heavenly Dao's destruction.
• Dugu Baitian called on everyone to reshape heaven and earth.

After helping establish the Human Realm, Immortal Realm, and Saint Realm, Shi Yongheng failed to break through to the Immortal Emperor level and sensed a dark invasion beginning in the Boundary Sea. Shi Hao and the kings fought to stop the invading darkness as the war spread across the sea.

• Shi Yongheng proposed dividing the reshaped world into three realms, and the gods agreed on a plan that took a hundred years to establish.
• Over the following hundred thousand years, Little Zhuque reached the Heaven Tier and the Seven-Absolute Heavenly Maiden advanced to the Heaven-Defying King level, while Shi Yongheng failed to surpass that realm.
• Shi Yongheng returned to his original body and entered the Boundary Sea, where he sensed a dark invasion as black mist and waves surged toward the dike.
• Immortal kings and their armies gathered at the dike, and Shi Hao entrusted its defense to them before entering the Boundary Sea.
• Fallen Immortal Kings and king beasts attacked, and Shi Hao destroyed the altar that was fueling the Resentful Immortal Curse.
• Butcher killed a fallen titan before another titan with emperor light challenged him as the Boundary Sea fractured into countless worlds.

Shi Yongheng arrived at the Boundary Sea dam and used his Emperor’s power to destroy the fallen creatures besieging it. He then traveled deeper into the Boundary Sea, where he found the remains of a Stone Clan king and reached another, darkness-eroded dam.

• Shi Yongheng appeared on the battlefield and killed fallen creatures with two strikes of the Spacetime Divine Sword, forcing the survivors to flee.
• The kings of the Boundary Sea rallied and pursued the retreating fallen creatures as Shi Yongheng vanished into the depths of the Boundary Sea.
• Shi Yongheng found a darkened Stone Clan king’s ship and collected the king’s empty body after his imperial aura removed the dark runes.
• He crossed regions filled with deadly dark storms, Quasi-Immortal Emperor runes, and the bones of kings who had died at sea.
• Shi Yongheng reached another dam, where Supreme Giants watched and wondered whether he could set foot upon it.

Shi Yongheng crossed the dam and found Shi Hao battling the Cang Emperor in the dark realm. He joined Shi Hao’s attack, then they discovered the dying Willow Deity sheltered among the remains of a fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperor as the Cang Emperor warned that reinforcements were coming.

• Shi Yongheng stepped onto the dam, destroyed the Quasi-Immortal Emperor storm with his Emperor aura, and sent the Kings who had warned him back to the Boundary Sea.
• Shi Yongheng reached the dark realm and found Shi Hao fighting the gray-haired Cang Emperor across the River of Time.
• Shi Yongheng struck the Cang Emperor from the shadows and joined Shi Hao in a fierce assault.
• Shi Hao pierced the Cang Emperor’s forehead, but the Quasi-Immortal Emperor survived and continued fighting.
• Shi Hao recognized the near-destroyed Willow Deity among the remains of a fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperor, whom the Cang Emperor identified as a being from the era of Di Luo.
• Shi Yongheng and Shi Hao pressed their attack, seeking to suppress the Cang Emperor before his reinforcements arrived.

Shi Hao found Huo Ling'er and other old acquaintances imprisoned in the Receiving Ancient Hall and fought the three emperors to rescue them. He suppressed the wounded Cang Emperor while Shi Yongheng gathered the rescued primordial spirits, but Shi Hao was pierced by Yu Emperor's spear as the battle continued.

• Emperor Hong summoned Yu Emperor to join Cang Emperor against Shi Hao and his companion.
• Shi Hao found Huo Ling'er in a cage, awakened her, and promised to take her home.
• Emperor Hong attacked Huo Ling'er, but Shi Hao's companion rescued her and asked Shi Hao to hold off the other two emperors.
• Shi Hao used lightning and his Heaven's Hand to grievously wound Cang Emperor and suppress him in the Ten Directions Heavens Spacetime Tower.
• Shi Hao sent several rescued primordial spirits, including Meng Tianzheng, to Shi Yongheng, then was pierced by Yu Emperor's spear while protecting Meng Tianzheng.
• Shi Hao agreed to let Huang fight Yu Emperor while he continued facing Emperor Hong.

Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, the Willow Deity, and Little Pagoda fought the three Quasi-Immortal Emperors across the Chaos Sea and the dark land. They suppressed Yu Emperor and Emperor Hong, but the battle left the Immortal Domain devastated and its people grieving heavy losses.

• Shi Yongheng injured Yu Emperor with the Time-Space Prison and creation power, while Cang Emperor remained suppressed.
• The Willow Deity returned from Nirvana, and Shi Yongheng sent it to his inner universe with Little Pagoda to recover and prepare for the battle.
• Shi Hao overwhelmed Emperor Hong with his dharma wings and fist seal, forcing him to flee as their battle continued for a hundred years.
• Shi Yongheng, the Willow Deity, Little Pagoda, and the Di Luo Era Emperor's will battled Yu Emperor in the dark land and beyond the dam.
• Shi Yongheng trapped Yu Emperor with Heavenly Tomb, and the Willow Deity and Little Pagoda struck him before the Ten Directions Heavens sealed him inside the Spacetime Tower.
• Shi Hao suppressed Emperor Hong within the Unique Heavenly Passage, ending the battle with the Immortal Domain suffering grievous losses.

After the dark army devastated the Immortal Domain and claimed many lives, Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, the Willow Deity, and Little Pagoda led the kings to victory. Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, and the Willow Deity then confronted Destruction Elder, who restored his missing limbs and descended into the Boundary Sea.

• The Heavenly Horned Ant told Shi Hao that Cao Yusheng had died, Lord Bird and Grandpa Jingbi were near death, and the Dark Willow Deity might have fallen.
• A Dark Giant killed Pan Wang, and the Butcher avenged him by killing the attacker.
• Shi Yongheng gathered the kings at the Boundary Sea dam, where he, Shi Hao, the Willow Deity, and Little Pagoda wiped out the dark army in a day.
• Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, and the Willow Deity set out to confront Destruction Elder, while Little Pagoda stayed behind to guard the Immortal Domain and the Nine Heavens.
• Destruction Elder recovered his missing arm, leg, and foot, then descended into the Boundary Sea and argued that the Quasi-Immortal Emperors should not fight one another.
• Shi Hao rejected Destruction Elder’s plea, condemning him for abandoning his humanity.

The Destruction Elder’s battle against Shi Hao, Shi Yongheng, and the Willow Deity was interrupted when three Quasi-Immortal Emperors arrived from the future to kill Huang and Xuan. Wu Shi emerged from downstream in the River of Time to stop them, and the three future experts turned their assault toward him.

• The Destruction Elder attacked Shi Hao, Shi Yongheng, and the Willow Deity as the Boundary Sea boiled around them.
• Three Quasi-Immortal Emperors arrived from the River of Time, recognized Shi Hao and the others, and attacked them.
• The woman in golden armor revealed that the newcomers had come to kill Huang and Xuan, while the old man with the Heaven-Measuring Ruler suffered backlash when he tried to explain why.
• Shi Hao fought two of the newcomers, the Willow Deity engaged the woman, and the Destruction Elder turned his attention to Shi Yongheng.
• Wu Shi arrived from downstream with a Great Bell and attacked the three future experts to protect Huang and Shi Yongheng.
• The woman ordered her companions to join forces and suppress Wu Shi.

Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, and their allies defeated the Destruction Elder and three enemies from the future, then refined their captured Quasi-Immortal Emperors. Shi Yongheng unified his past, present, and future in his Dao Fruit, became an Immortal Emperor, and stood above the River of Fate.

• Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, and their allies attacked and destroyed the Destruction Elder’s body and Faxiang, then Shi Hao suppressed and shattered his escaping primordial spirit.
• The future reinforcements and Willow Deity killed the three enemies from the future, after which Shi Hao and Shi Yongheng entered seclusion to refine their captives.
• A thousand years later, the Yu Emperor and Cang Emperor fell, and their memories, cultivation arts, and systems nourished Shi Yongheng.
• Shi Yongheng’s Dao Fruit gathered his imprints from the past, present, and future, making time singular and his power impossible to regress.
• Shi Yongheng became an Immortal Emperor and looked down upon the River of Fate and the beings within it.

Shi Yongheng and Shi Hao returned to the Heavenly Court after defeating the dark armies and discussed their techniques, artifacts, and the Immortal Emperor at the end of the Boundary Sea. After explaining the higher world and the source of darkness, Shi Yongheng sealed his memories and cultivation to experience mortal life.

• Shi Yongheng returned to the Heavenly Court, where Shi Hao soon joined him after killing Emperor Hong and the Destruction Elder.
• Shi Yongheng explained his past, true, and transcendent bodies, then discussed his artifacts and artifact refinement with Shi Hao, the Willow Deity, and Little Pagoda.
• Shi Yongheng told them the first Immortal Emperor had been corrupted by a higher-world existence and was blocking a passage to that world at the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• Shi Yongheng revealed that he had learned of the Emperor from records and said the Emperor might have awakened after the recent battle.
• Shi Yongheng decided to seal his memories and cultivation to live as an ordinary mortal, then vanished beyond Shi Hao's ability to locate.

After sealing her memories, the Willow Deity lived as Feng Ling alongside Shi Yongheng, who had become Feng Xing Tian, and they grew close over a long mortal life. When they died at age 130 and regained their memories, Feng Ling understood the flaws in mortal faith while Shi Yongheng faced her teasing glare.

• The Willow Deity sealed her memories and began experiencing mortal life in the shattered Nine Heavens, while Shi Yongheng lived on Illusory Star as Feng Xing Tian.
• Feng Xing Tian rescued a beaten orphan girl, named her Feng Ling, and brought her to his home in a shabby temple.
• Feng Xing Tian and Feng Ling supported each other, built a successful business, and gradually developed romantic feelings as they grew older.
• Shi Hao found the pair together, extended their lifespans with streams of life force, and left their relationship to unfold naturally.
• Feng Xing Tian and Feng Ling lived to age 130 and died, then regained their memories; Feng Ling awoke and explained how mortal hardships had taught her why impure faith could not be fully absorbed.
• Feng Ling confronted Shi Yongheng about his past, and he nervously tried to explain himself.