Chapter Summaries

During Jiang Li's marriage selection, Qin Yu excelled in the trials, but Jiang Fan chose Zhou Xian as his son-in-law. Tianshu and Tianhua condemned Jiang Fan's decision and exposed his ambition to become a Heavenly Venerable, leaving the gathered rulers wary.

• Tianshu said Tianque supported Qin Yu, and Jiang Fan announced the start of Jiang Li's marriage selection with eighteen candidates.
• Qin Yu passed the Ninety-Nine Layer Heavenly Stairway, gained Heavenly Venerables' gifts, and won the first trial, then lost the second spot despite building the Purple Mystic Mansion.
• After nearly thirty years of trials, Jiang Fan chose Zhou Xian over Qin Yu, and Jiang Li protested.
• Qin Yu vowed that no one would separate him from Jiang Li, prompting Tianshu to mock Jiang Fan and Tianhua to challenge him.
• Tianhua revealed that Jiang Fan hoped to become a Heavenly Venerable through Heavenly Venerable Mountain, making the Holy Emperors wary.

Tianshu and Luo Fan backed Qin Yu as he prepared to take Jiang Li, but Zhou An arrived and challenged them. The Lord of Tianque killed Zhou An with a single water drop, and Tian Sushu later shared the Years Heavenly Art with the allies who had intervened.

• Tianshu urged Qin Yu to seize the bride and promised to stop anyone who interfered, while Luo Fan agreed to help in exchange for the method of becoming a Heavenly Venerable.
• Zhou An appeared from Thunder Punishment City and threatened Tianshu, Luo Fan, Qin Yu, and their allies.
• Tianshu summoned a phantom of the Lord of Tianque, who killed Zhou An with a water drop and caused Zhou Huo and Zhou Xian to grieve helplessly.
• Qin Yu left with Jiang Li, and the God Kings and Holy Emperors were left shaken by the Lord of Tianque's power.
• Back in the Tianque Secret Realm, Tian Sushu opened the Years Heavenly Art to Luo Fan, the Blood Demon Queen, the Ethereal God King, and the Asura God King, explaining that Time Reversal led to becoming a Heavenly Venerable.

After cultivating in Hongmeng Space, Xiao Xuan returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths with power near the limit of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm. His aura stirred ancient beings across the universe, and he noticed three Startling Rainbows approaching from downstream along the River of Time and Space.

• Xiao Xuan reached Postnatal Invulnerability and considered returning from Hongmeng Space.
• Hongmeng told Linmeng and Qin Yu that Xiao Xuan was not a Controller but could move freely in Hongmeng Space, and Qin Yu learned that higher realms might exist beyond it.
• Xiao Xuan returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and found that he had advanced to the limit of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.
• The Rotten Wooden Chest and a mutilated corpse sensed Xiao Xuan's aura, while other powerful beings tried and failed to investigate it.
• Xiao Xuan noticed three Startling Rainbows approaching from downstream, including a person protected by a Great Bell.

Xiao Xuan met Ye Fan, Wu Shi, and Ruthless while crossing the River of Time and Space, then rescued the Double-Pupil Woman from a Dark King in the Boundary Sea. He took her to explore the dangerous sea, where they saw two peerless kings fighting on an island.

• Xiao Xuan encountered Ye Fan, Wu Shi, and Ruthless in the River of Time and Space, where they congratulated him on becoming a Quasi-Emperor before returning to their own eras.
• Xiao Xuan found the Double-Pupil Woman imprisoned by a Dark King and erased her captor with a casual wave.
• The Double-Pupil Woman thanked Xiao Xuan for rescuing her and agreed to explore the Boundary Sea with him.
• Xiao Xuan and the Double-Pupil Woman reached the dam and watched the immense waves made from shattered universes.
• Xiao Xuan and the Double-Pupil Woman saw two peerless kings fighting on an island deep within the Boundary Sea.

Xiao Xuan confronted the Dark Kings gathered near the island and destroyed a whole sea region with one sword, killing two Dark Kings. He collected the remaining Immortal King essence blood and gave it to the Double-Pupil Woman.

• The Double-Pupil Woman watched the battle and recognized the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art as King Jie’s technique.
• A Dark Giant arrived, threatened Xiao Xuan, and challenged him over the Kings he had slain.
• Xiao Xuan unleashed a sword strike that erased a sea region and killed the Dark Giant and another Dark King.
• King Jie and Zhen Wang greeted Xiao Xuan as a Peerless Giant after sensing the Dark Kings’ auras vanish.
• Xiao Xuan collected the Immortal King essence blood from the embankment and gave it to the Double-Pupil Woman.

Xiao Xuan returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths with the Double-Pupil Woman, reunited with Shi Hao and the Heavenly Court, and warned them about the darkness’s powerful leaders. He then traveled to Wushuang City in the Immortal Domain, where his furious outburst at Demon King Pu shook the surrounding realms and alarmed nearby Immortal Kings.

• Xiao Xuan brought the Double-Pupil Woman to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and learned that Xiao Yao had moved the Desolate Ancient Plain and Ancient God Peak into the Immortal Domain.
• Shi Hao welcomed Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Court, where Xiao Xuan warned him and the others about a Dark Emperor and four Quasi-Emperors in the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• The Double-Pupil Woman told Shi Hao that Daoist Qin had rescued her from a Dark King while traveling the Boundary Sea.
• Xiao Xuan left the Heavenly Court and arrived at Pan Wang City before heading toward Wushuang City, which Xiao Yao had established around the Ancient God Peak.
• Xiao Xuan roared at Demon King Pu and unleashed the Dou Character Art, shaking the Immortal Domain and drawing shocked reactions from Pan Wang and the Yuanchu Immortal King.

Xiao Yao destroyed Demon King Pu after the Foreign Realm harmed Ye Xian, and Xiao Xuan prepared to make the Foreign Realm pay. He then told Xiao Wu he would enter long-term seclusion for a final breakthrough, leaving the Hall of Gods under his son's care and directing him to seek help from his uncle if needed.

• An ancient Great Tomb and several powerful figures sensed the aura of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor and reacted with surprise.
• Xiao Yao overwhelmed and annihilated Demon King Pu while Xiao Xuan watched from the Hall of Gods.
• Xiao Yao and Xiao Xuan discussed Ye Qingxian's avatar and agreed that the Foreign Realm's kings needed to be eliminated.
• Xiao Wu asked why Xiao Xuan was furious, and Xiao Xuan explained that something had happened to Ye Xian.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Wu that Xiao Yan, Ling Dong, and Mu Chen had left the Hall of Gods to make their own way in the Immortal Domain.
• Xiao Xuan announced that he would enter seclusion for a final breakthrough and instructed Xiao Wu to contact his uncle if the Hall of Gods faced trouble.

After a million years in seclusion, Xiao Xuan began breaking through toward the Immortal Emperor realm, drawing the attention of Shi Hao and kings across the Boundary Sea. His newly condensed Dao Fruit faced the River of Time’s trial, and Shi Hao watched, confident that Xiao Xuan had followed a path of his own.

• Xiao Xuan sealed the corpses of Red King and Ancestor Mole Cricket, then asked Shi Hao to guard the Hall of Gods while he entered seclusion.
• Xiao Xuan studied the corpses and used spacetime laws to cultivate Xiao Li and Xiao Yao as his past and future bodies while he remained the present body.
• A million years passed as Xiao Xuan cultivated the past, present, and future into a single Dao Seed; meanwhile, the Foreign Realm weakened and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths invaded it.
• Xiao Xuan manifested three flowers, vanished inside a golden sphere, and began breaking through as Dao Divine Chains appeared around him.
• Xiao Xuan condensed an Immortal Emperor Fruit, summoning the true River of Time to test and attempt to destroy it.
• Shi Hao recognized the Immortal Emperor Tribulation and watched as the River of Time began tempering Xiao Xuan’s Dao Fruit.

Xiao Xuan endured the River of Time and advanced toward becoming an Immortal Emperor while Shi Hao shielded him from an attack by a damaged hand from the Ultimate Ancient Land. His breakthrough brought him to the Great Dao’s Exile Land, where he met a long-trapped Immortal Emperor who could no longer remember how long he had been there.

• As Xiao Xuan’s breakthrough stirred ancient beings across the River of Time, Shi Hao realized his preparations were unnecessary and sensed danger from the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• A damaged hand reached for Xiao Xuan, and Shi Hao cut it off from the era with a sword slash that severed the Boundary Sea and disrupted the River of Time.
• Xiao Xuan gathered his true spirit imprints from across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds, transformed his Dao Fruit into a Dao lotus, and unified his true self.
• Xiao Xuan’s divine sense entered the Great Dao’s Exile Land, where he saw Immortal Emperor-level figures floating in a desolate river.
• A young-looking man in deep-blue robes welcomed Xiao Xuan to the Exile Land and admitted he could no longer remember how long he had been trapped there.

Xiao Xuan learned how endless boredom drove the exiled Immortal Emperors toward self-annihilation, then escaped Exile Land with the Heavens Mirror. Back in the Immortal Domain, he completed his breakthrough to Da Luo and began to steady himself after the transformation.

• The man in blue robes eagerly welcomed Xiao Xuan’s news, then lay in the dim river and fell asleep so he could imagine what happened next.
• Xiao Xuan reflected on how Exile Land’s absolute nothingness and endless isolation could drive Immortal Emperors toward self-annihilation and self-degradation.
• Xiao Xuan summoned the Heavens Mirror, which enveloped his primordial spirit in light and removed him from Exile Land.
• Xiao Xuan’s primordial spirit returned to his body in the Immortal Domain as purple qi and auspicious energy spread across the heavens.
• Xiao Xuan’s life level transformed as he attained Da Luo, and he suppressed his excitement while recognizing that he still needed to consolidate his realm.

Xiao Xuan became an Immortal Emperor, destroyed the damaged Emperor who tried to stop his breakthrough, and welcomed the Kings who gathered to congratulate him. After sharing his cultivation insights, he told those who stayed behind that his primordial spirit had visited a terrifying place where even Immortal Emperors could meet extinction.

• Xiao Xuan declared his ascension to Emperor and struck down the damaged Emperor in the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• The Heavenly Court, Hall of Gods, and other Kings gathered to congratulate Xiao Xuan, who discussed their progress and warned that the Immortal Emperor realm might not be the limit.
• Xiao Xuan explained the origins of the contaminated Emperor and the threat posed by the black blood, prompting Shi Hao to consider seeking a battle in the Boundary Sea.
• Xiao Xuan spent a hundred years explaining cultivation realms and his breakthroughs, urging the Kings to find their own paths rather than imitate him.
• After most guests left, the Burial Master, Butcher, Chicken Farmer, and Fake Medicine Seller stayed, and Xiao Xuan revealed that his primordial spirit had visited a place capable of bringing even Immortal Emperors to extinction.

Xiao Xuan gathered the kings’ resources to create a time-accelerating formation, giving them centuries of outside time to cultivate while risking dissolution into the Dao. After the survivors emerged stronger, six Quasi-Immortal Emperors ventured into the Boundary Sea, and one returned as an Immortal Emperor.

• Xiao Xuan offered to use the kings’ resources to build a formation that would accelerate their cultivation, and the kings agreed to contribute.
• Xiao Xuan completed the formation beneath the Samsara Ancient Tree, and the kings, Shi Hao, and the Willow Deity entered to cultivate.
• Over a thousand years, seven beings dissolved into the Dao; the Willow Deity, Shi Hao, and other survivors emerged with major advances in cultivation.
• Within twenty thousand years, the Burial Master, Chicken Farmer, Butcher, Fake Medicine Seller, and Willow Deity reached the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.
• The six Quasi-Immortal Emperors entered the depths of the Boundary Sea and returned victorious, with one having ascended to Immortal Emperorhood.

After leaving their family in Shi Village, Shi Hao and Xiao Xuan traveled beyond the Ultimate Ancient Land into Above the Heavens, where they crossed the Blood Sea for ten thousand years. They opened a passage to the Soul River and began investigating the vast, corrupted realm.

• Shi Hao and Xiao Xuan said farewell to their family in Shi Village, left avatars behind, and sent their true bodies away to investigate the continuing Dark Turmoil.
• The two emperors entered a hole in the Ultimate Ancient Land and emerged on a small reef surrounded by a vast Blood Sea and Great Tombs.
• Shi Hao placed the smallest coffin of the Three-Life Bronze Coffin on the scarlet river, and he and Xiao Xuan traveled inside it for ten thousand years without escaping the Blood Sea.
• Shi Hao and Xiao Xuan observed the Soul River, its polluted waters, countless trapped souls, and Immortal Emperor imprints across the River of Time.
• Shi Hao and Xiao Xuan opened a passage to the Soul River, causing the Blood Sea to surge as the river's dark waves and polluted beings began to emerge.

After crossing the Blood Sea, Xiao Xuan studied Heaven’s evolutionary paths and advanced to the peak of the Immortal Emperor realm while Shi Hao made a name for himself through battle. Xiao Xuan then sent an avatar to a lower plane, where it entered the Primitive Star as a Domain Lord.

• Xiao Xuan and Shi Hao crossed the Blood Sea, then agreed to pursue their different paths, with Xiao Xuan studying evolution and Shi Hao seeking battles with Heaven’s emperors.
• Xiao Xuan gave Shi Hao the perfected Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Art before Shi Hao left.
• Over a million years, Xiao Xuan studied nearly a hundred evolutionary paths, reached Tyrannosaurus Level, and named his own realm system the Mysterious and Golden Realms.
• Xiao Xuan learned that Shi Hao had gained renown across high-level spaces and fought his way to the late Immortal Emperor realm, then sent a memory-cleared primordial spirit avatar to a lower plane using the Heavens Mirror.
• The avatar spent a thousand years in Yan Kingdom’s universe, reached Domain Lord Peak, and won first place in the Universe Genius Battle.
• The avatar entered the Primitive Star when it opened and observed its land and plants, which could not be taken away.

Xiao Xuan spent a thousand epochs cultivating in seclusion on a Primitive Star and comprehended the eight great origin laws before breaking through to Immortality. As the Primal Universe Will’s World-Annihilation Lightning Tribulation descended, it was mysteriously thwarted, and Xiao Xuan received the origin laws’ recognition.

• Xiao Xuan hid deep inside a planet on a Primitive Star and focused on comprehending the Great Dao instead of competing for treasures.
• Yuan learned Xiao Xuan had vanished after being last seen on Yan Star, then announced his intention to risk possessing the Primal Universe despite Giant Axe and the others urging him to reconsider.
• After another five hundred epochs, Xiao Xuan had comprehended the eight great origin laws and advanced his understanding of Time and Space, but realized he needed to become Immortal to progress further.
• Xiao Xuan began his breakthrough as the Primitive Stars neared closing, drawing the origin laws’ attention and shocking the powerful beings who sensed their descent.
• An eight-colored droplet entered Xiao Xuan’s dantian black hole, and he gained recognition from all eight great origin laws as a World-Annihilation Lightning Tribulation spread across the starfields.
• The lightning tribulation roared but did not strike, while an eight-colored mark appeared between Xiao Xuan’s brows and the laws in his sea of consciousness broke through their shackles.

Xiao Xuan reached beginner-stage Fusion Laws and a perfect life gene level, then wandered the Universe Ocean for nearly ten thousand epochs and became a feared lone wanderer. He arrived at Qingfeng Mountain and dismissed the hidden experts there as failures who had missed their chance at Transcendence.

• Xiao Xuan fused the origin laws, transformed his Sea of Consciousness, and reached beginner-stage Fusion Laws and a perfect life gene level.
• Xiao Xuan escaped the watchers at the Primitive Star with a powerful burst of will and learned that Original Ancestor remained suppressed by the Primal Universe Will.
• Xiao Xuan wandered the Primal Universe and then the Universe Ocean, becoming a Universe Master and raising his life gene level to ninety thousandfold.
• Xiao Xuan became notorious in the Universe Ocean as the strongest lone wanderer after killing powerful True Gods, including a ninth-tier True God from the Eastern Emperor Holy Land Universe.
• Xiao Xuan stood in Qingfeng Mountain's Water Domain and declared that those who had failed to achieve Transcendence were no longer worthy of his regard.

Xiao Xuan returned to the Primal Universe, met Mountain Sitting Guest, and settled in Chaos City, where he created four Chaos Steles. He later brought Hongmeng and his two companions from Hongmeng Space to the Land of Heaven, where they sensed the Eerie Plateau and powerful beings.

• Xiao Xuan returned to the Primal Universe and surprised Mountain Sitting Guest with his cultivation and rapid rise.
• Xiao Xuan introduced himself to Mountain Sitting Guest and said he planned to settle in Chaos City.
• Xiao Xuan opened Xiao Garden in Chaos City, lived as a bar owner, and created the Time and Space, Five Elements, Light and Dark, and Thunder Chaos Steles.
• Xiao Xuan used the Heavens Mirror and the River of Time and Space to bring Hongmeng and his two companions to the Land of Heaven.
• Hongmeng sensed the Eerie Plateau and many powerful Controllers, so he suggested that the three companions first learn about their surroundings.

Corpse Immortal Emperor met Hongmeng, Linmeng, and Qin Meng, then brought them to Shi Hao’s gathered allies to strengthen their resistance against the Eerie Clan. When they learned Xiao Xuan might have reached the Sacrificial Dao, the chapter revealed that he had long surpassed it and was exploring the Saint Level.

• Hongmeng, Linmeng, and Qin Meng attacked the Eerie Clan’s pursuers and rescued Corpse Immortal Emperor, who explained Heaven and the conflict to them.
• Corpse Immortal Emperor brought the three brothers to Shi Hao and the other gathered Immortal Emperors and Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• Qin Yu said Xiao Xuan had helped the brothers reach Heaven and that his hidden true body might be a Sacrificial Dao expert.
• Shi Hao and Xiao Wu concluded that Xiao Xuan had reached the Sacrificial Dao, while Shi Hao suspected he might have gone further.
• Xiao Xuan, cultivating in the myriad worlds, was revealed to have long reached the peak of his Semi-Saint Level and to be seeking the Saint Level beyond the Sacrificial Dao.

Xiao Xuan abandoned his search for a breakthrough beyond the Sacrificial Dao and continued cultivating until he mastered the perfect gene structure. His divine body reached the 100,000-Fold Life Gene Level, and his Divine Kingdom expanded as he advanced beyond True God toward Void True God, astonishing the Universe Ocean’s observers.

• Xiao Xuan rejected the Sacrificial Dao as his only possible path and continued cultivating while searching for answers about the strange source and the era before the current one.
• After spending trillions of eras studying genes under nearly 100,000-fold Time Acceleration, Xiao Xuan comprehended the perfect gene structure and transformed in the Universe Ocean’s No Man’s Land.
• Xiao Xuan’s divine body reached the 100,000-Fold Life Gene Level, and golden light spread across the Primal Universe and beyond.
• A Void passage poured chaotic currents into Xiao Xuan’s Divine Kingdom, causing it to expand rapidly and form further passages.
• Eastern Emperor Ancestor and other experts were stunned when Xiao Xuan’s Miniature Universe appeared at one billion light-years across and began expanding again.
• Mountain Sitting Guest realized Xiao Xuan had leapt past True God toward Void True God and regretted that the Sector Beasts had not yet appeared.

Xiao Xuan broke through directly to the Void True God realm, and his miniature universe expanded to an unprecedented 50.5 billion light-years before he returned to the Chaos Galaxy. He later visited the Virtual Universe's Original Ancestor, who recognized him and was surprised he had survived.

• Xiao Xuan's miniature universe expanded past the Holy Land Universes and reached a diameter of 50.5 billion light-years, astonishing observers across the Universe Ocean.
• The Will of the Origin allowed Xiao Xuan to remain in the Primal Universe for another year, and he considered his new Void True God realm and path toward controlling Chaos.
• Xiao Xuan concealed himself from the probing divine consciousnesses and returned to the Chaos Galaxy, where Yuntian and other beings welcomed him as Father God.
• Xiao Xuan left Yuntian a secret realm containing his laws and cultivation insights, then departed the Chaos Galaxy.
• Xiao Xuan saw the statue of Original Ancestor in the Virtual Universe, and Original Ancestor recognized him and said he had thought Xiao Xuan had fallen.