Chapter Summaries

Xuantian restored the old Ancestral Dragon’s strength and discussed the Dragon Pearl seal and the dangers of the Dead City. The Dead City then appeared on Dragon Island amid supernatural storms, and the chapter ended with cultivators spotting an object above its gate that resembled Buddha’s legendary artifact.

• Xuantian used a purified blood crystal to extend the old Ancestral Dragon’s life and help him break through to the third heaven.
• The old Ancestral Dragon recounted the heavy losses suffered in the Dead City and warned Xuantian not to underestimate it.
• Xuantian declined to treat the Dead City as a threat, while the old Ancestral Dragon decided the Dragon Pearl’s seal should remain intact until the new Ancestral Dragon grew stronger.
• An unnatural yellow storm and rain swept over Dragon Island as the Ancient City appeared amid the Bone Sea, visible to every cultivator.
• Cultivators saw ghostly soldiers and beastly shapes within the city, then noticed an object embedded above its gate that resembled Buddha’s legendary artifact.

The Ancient City, Stone City, appeared beneath a storm of blood rain, and cultivators seeking Buddha's artifact were annihilated when the city wall turned against them. The artifact's light briefly suppressed the undead, but a howl stirred them again as the Dragon Race attacked from afar, leaving the city surrounded by death and destruction.

• Xuantian watched Xiao Chen, who had met Keke of the Heaven-Defying Family, as the Dead City appeared and the great scheme began to unfold.
• Greedy cultivators climbed Stone City's walls toward Buddha's artifact, but blood flowed from the cracks and the wall's dark light destroyed them body and soul.
• Buddha's artifact shone with peaceful light, calming the wall and causing nearby skeletons and beast remains to lie still.
• A howl from within the Ancient City roused the skeletons and giant beast remains, while roars from the forest signaled the approach of savage beasts.
• The Dragon Race's recovered divine abilities blasted the skeletal army from afar, but the dragons stayed wary and did not approach Stone City.

Xuantian reunited with Xiao Chen at the Dead City and led him and the others inside as the Dragon Race bombarded the city. The group reached the inner streets, where hidden creatures began killing and devouring cultivators, and the source of the danger remained unknown.

• Xuantian gave the old Ancestral Dragon a blood crystal and left the Dragon Race's Sacred Mountain to inspect the Dead City.
• Xiao Chen reached the city with Qin Guang King, Yama King, and the King of Samsara, found Xuantian at the entrance, and introduced him as his teacher.
• Xuantian led Xiao Chen and their companions into the Dead City as the Dragon Race attacked; a Buddhist artifact sounded from the gate tower, and Monk Yizhen rose within a giant Buddha image.
• The Dragon Race's attacks forced cultivators and the city's heavenly soldiers and underworld soldiers to flee deeper into the streets, while Xuantian calmly guided Xiao Chen's group onward.
• Xiao Chen and his companions heard screams and chewing sounds from the ancient houses, where cultivators had hidden from the bombardment and died.
• A blood-red residence opened its doors after a spirit cultivator's corpse fell nearby, revealed eerie green eyes, and pulled the corpse inside to be devoured.

Xuantian led Xiao Chen and the others through the Dead City, where they encountered ancient horrors and crossed a river of blood to reach the central plaza. There, an ancient stele crushed most cultivators with spiritual pressure, and the group searched the surrounding stone railings for clues and cultivation methods.

• Xuantian warned Xiao Chen and the others not to interfere with anything in the Dead City, while the Dragon Race intensified its attacks from the sky.
• Several lotus-marked skulls rolled to Xiao Chen's feet and crumbled, and Liu Mu explained that the skulls had belonged to destroyed Ancestor Kings.
• Xuantian and the others crossed a blood river and reached the central plaza, where more than thirty surviving cultivators had gathered.
• The enormous ancient stele released Divine Light and spiritual pressure that forced most cultivators to their knees, while Xiao Chen and those around Xuantian remained unaffected.
• A cultivator approaching the stele was reduced to bloody mush, so the others examined the tombstone-like railings instead.
• Liu Mu found carvings resembling the methods of a powerful Space Spirit Master and gained important inspiration from them.

After memorizing the Heavenly Stele Technique, Xiao Chen witnessed the Dead City transform under the Dragon Race’s assault. The Sky Tablet revealed an ancient Demon Suppression Well, which it struggled to keep sealed as the well shook violently.

• Xiao Chen memorized the Heavenly Stele Technique as new changes appeared in the Dead City.
• Monk Yizhen challenged Dugu Sword Demon to settle their cause and effect, then led him away to fight elsewhere.
• The Dragon Race unleashed a powerful spell that scattered the demonic clouds and brought sunlight onto the Dead City.
• The Sky Tablet and its phantoms formed a ring around a previously hidden ancient well, revealing inscriptions that described the tablet as eternally suppressing the Isolated Island.
• The other tablet phantoms vanished, leaving the real Sky Tablet to suppress the Demon Well as it trembled and threatened to unleash its power.

Xuantian entered the Death World through the Demon Suppression Well and encountered a half-step Stone Person who sought the power of life within him. Their first clash showed that Xuantian was far stronger than the expert expected, but the expert emerged from his Demon City to fight again.

• The Sky Tablet sealed the Demon Well as powerful weapons and the Dragon Race’s Ancestral Dragon horn and claw repeatedly struck it without effect.
• Xuantian sent Xiao Chen and the others away from Dragon Island, then descended into the Demon Suppression Well and retrieved Youchao’s corpse.
• Xuantian reached the Death World and saw more than a hundred Primordial Demon Cities, many of them empty and masterless.
• A half-step Stone Person recalled sensing Nuwa’s power of life and recognized that Xuantian carried a similar power.
• The half-step Stone Person attacked Xuantian, but Xuantian’s palm forced back his stone hand.
• The expert chose to attack again and flew out of his Demon City with both hands petrified.

Xuantian defeated a half-step stone man, studied the Stone Man King path, and discovered that Chang Feng was his grandson. He then traveled through Chaos, where extraterrestrial Ancestral Gods attacked him.

• Xuantian killed and refined a half-step stone man, learning that Nuwa had sealed Death World with her body before entering the Primordial Battlefield.
• Xuantian studied the Stone Man path for a thousand years and glimpsed the Hunyuan realm.
• Xuantian sensed a strong bloodline connection to Chang Feng, recognized him as his grandson Shi Changfeng, and watched him split his spirit to pursue two cultivation paths.
• Xuantian traveled through the Chaos Sea and encountered extraterrestrial beings, including five Ancestral Gods who surrounded him.
• An extraterrestrial Ancestral God attacked Xuantian with a hand transformed into a million divine mountains, but Xuantian used Return Ruins to destroy them and the god’s hand.

Over fifty thousand years, Jiuzhou prospered after the Otherworld disappeared, while Chang Feng repeatedly transformed between stone and flesh in pursuit of the Stone Human path. Nearing his final transformation, he went to the Heaven Realm, where its giants were searching for a lost part of the realm’s history.

• Xiao Chen endured many trials on the Longevity Continent, became an Ancestral God, and fought in Jiuzhou’s war against the Otherworld alongside Xuantian and Chang Feng.
• After the war, Xuantian sent Youchao, Suiren, Shennong, Xuanyuan, and others to the Death World for Nirvana, then resumed his travels as Jiuzhou flourished and the Otherworld vanished.
• Chang Feng spent nearly fifty thousand years transforming his body between stone and flesh, completing eight returns to flesh and beginning his difficult ninth transformation.
• Chang Feng looked into the Heaven Realm from the Death World and traveled there to pursue the final step toward becoming a Stone Human king.
• The Heaven Realm’s giants searched for a lost piece of the realm’s history after discovering clues behind the Otherworld Origin Stone Gate.

Xuantian learned that Little Stone Emperor’s tomb had appeared in the Heaven Realm, drawing its Stone King giants into a search for the ancient ruler and a path to greater power. As the tomb repeatedly surfaced in distant places and vanished before they could reach it, Purple Cloud Stone King and Lu Zhan sought the Archaic Calamity Star for help.

• Chang Feng entered the Heaven Realm and began looking for opportunities, while Xuantian listened to cultivators discuss Little Stone Emperor’s newly discovered tomb.
• Xuantian reflected that the tomb’s appearance confirmed an ancient history had been buried in the Heaven Realm and drew Stone Kings seeking a path to the Unique True Realm.
• Xuankong Patriarch searched for the tomb after his disciples escaped it, but he found no trace as more powerhouses gathered.
• Purple Cloud Stone King told Lu Zhan that Little Stone Emperor came from an era he knew little about and suggested finding the Archaic Calamity Star, who might know the emperor.
• Lu Zhan and Purple Cloud Stone King agreed to join the search and began looking for the Archaic Calamity Star.
• The tomb appeared twice more in different places, but vanished before the Heaven Realm’s giants could reach it.

Chang Feng identified the old Daoist as Little Stone Emperor and followed him to witness his transformation. When the tomb appeared for the thirteenth time, seven or eight Heaven Realm giants trapped it and attacked its gate, provoking a response from within.

• Chang Feng told the old Daoist he was Little Stone Emperor after noticing seven star-like marks on his palm, though the old Daoist insisted he was only the Emperor's descendant.
• Chang Feng kept his divine sense fixed on Little Stone Emperor, hoping to witness how he would attain Emperor status.
• The Grindstone Beast tried to pin down the moving tomb, but its counterattack forced the Stone King to retreat and call for help.
• Xuankong Ancestor, Shan Jun, Purple Cloud Stone King, Lu Zhan, the Stone Crow, and other giants joined forces to seal the tomb in place.
• The Stone Crow rushed to attack the tomb gate, followed by the other Stone Kings, but seven black stars shot out toward them as Chang Feng, the old Daoist, Xuantian, and Xiao Chen watched from hiding.

Seven Stone Human Kings breached Little Stone Emperor’s tomb, where they found his ancient phantom and the Three Emperors Mirror. Xuantian appeared before the assembled kings, and Little Stone Emperor revealed that Xuantian’s arrival had helped complete his plan for enlightenment.

• Stone Crow cursed Little Stone Emperor’s seven Demon Stars, but the seven Stone Human Kings joined forces and broke into the tomb.
• Lu Zhan warned Purple Cloud King and Stone Crow to watch for Xuantian as the kings rushed into the vast world inside the tomb.
• Stone Crow recoiled at Little Stone Emperor’s phantom, while the kings recognized that it was not his living body.
• Little Stone Emperor used the Three Emperors Mirror to repel the kings’ attacks, then summoned seven corpse shadows to discuss the Great Dao.
• Little Stone Emperor sensed Xuantian and identified him as an Emperor, astonishing Xiao Chen and the kings.
• Xuantian said he had helped bring about Little Stone Emperor’s plan, and Little Stone Emperor welcomed his unexpected role in his path to enlightenment.

Xuantian and the kings gathered in Little Stone Emperor’s tomb to debate their Daos, with Little Stone Emperor rewarding those who impressed him. Xiao Chen and Xuantian revealed paths beyond the emperor realm, and Xuantian began recounting the rise of an extraordinary cultivator.

• Little Stone Emperor invited the kings and corpses to explain their Daos, promising a treasure to whoever enlightened him.
• A corpse shadow and Lu Zhan presented their Daos, but Little Stone Emperor judged them conventional or mediocre while still giving them treasures.
• Little Stone Emperor asked Xiao Chen and Chang Feng to speak; Xiao Chen explained his understanding of the Nine-Turn Heavenly Art and Xuanhuang Immortality, while Chang Feng described his dual cultivation paths, and both received treasures.
• Xuantian’s Dao sounds revealed a vision of Chaos and its cycles, prompting Little Stone Emperor to praise Xuantian and Xiao Chen’s paths as leading beyond the emperor realm.
• Xuantian explained that worlds existed within higher worlds and began telling of a cultivator who created his own system, became an immortal, surpassed the emperor realm, and severed the River of Time and Space to protect his world.

Xuantian revealed that the world was only one of countless realms beneath Eternal Hong Huang, and Chang Feng awakened immense sealed power before discovering his parents and the powerful Shi family behind him. The chapter ended with Xuantian and Chang Feng's mother discussing the family's fifth generation and its young descendants.

• Xuantian explained Hong Huang's realms and said the world's Emperors were only at the Taiyi level there.
• Chang Feng's two bodies merged, his power surged to Little Shi Emperor's level, and his advance toward Emperor stalled under a seal.
• Xuantian deduced that Chang Feng came from Hong Huang and that his parents had sealed his innate Dao Fruit to temper him in this world.
• Chang Feng's mother appeared in a mysterious space, greeted Xuantian, and told Chang Feng that his family had watched over him.
• Xuantian called Chang Feng the foremost member of the Shi family's fifth generation, and Chang Feng's mother named several talented younger relatives.

Little Stone Emperor revealed that he had killed himself to pursue the pinnacle and arranged for his reincarnation to reunite with his past body. After trapping the seven Heaven Realm Stone Kings, he returned to life and began his final great enlightenment.

• Xuantian and Chu Xi discussed how Grandpa had placed Ye Zhen and Shi Tong in a vast world to temper them, while the kings later found their memories of the encounter fading.
• Little Stone Emperor trapped the seven Heaven Realm Stone Kings in vortices and announced that he would expound the imperial Dao.
• Little Stone Emperor revealed that he had killed himself in the past to seek the pinnacle and intended to return to life in the present age.
• Stone Crow recognized the ragged old Daoist as Little Stone Emperor reincarnated, and the Daoist thanked Chang Feng before entering Little Stone Emperor's corpse.
• Little Stone Emperor's past body and present soul merged, and he told the trapped kings that he needed ten thousand years for his final great enlightenment.

Little Stone Emperor completed his transformation and became an emperor after ten thousand years in the tomb, while Chang Feng and Xiao Chen advanced through witnessing his path. Unable to remain in their world, Little Stone Emperor entered the Void, became Shi Xiao’s first disciple, and was sent to study at the Ancestral Land Academy.

• Little Stone Emperor used the Seven Kings, seven corpses, and the Heaven Realm’s sun to complete his Dao, revealing the ninth Sky Tablet Profound Method to Chang Feng and Xiao Chen.
• After ten thousand years, the Seven Kings emerged from the tomb, and Little Stone Emperor awakened with an emperor’s flesh-and-blood body.
• Little Stone Emperor’s incompatible Dao began to destroy him, and he entered a Void passage after telling Chang Feng and Xiao Chen that he would wait for them.
• Little Stone Emperor met Shi Xiao in a mysterious space, accepted him as his master, and learned that Xuantian was a wisp of Shi Xiao’s father’s incarnation.
• Shi Xiao brought Little Stone Emperor to the Ancestral City and ordered him to study at the Ancestral Land Academy for ten thousand years.

After bringing the Little Stone Emperor to Ancestral City, Shi Xiao’s family welcomed their new disciple. Xuantian then preached the Great Dao in Jiuzhou for five thousand years, leaving its strongest cultivators greatly advanced and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors close to awakening.

• Shi Xiao introduced the Little Stone Emperor to his wife and two younger sisters, revealing that they were powerful Dominators and promising a family gathering.
• Xuantian traveled to Jiuzhou, where returning Ancestral Gods and other experts gathered as the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors moved toward awakening.
• Ten years later, Xuantian began preaching the Great Dao, and countless Jiuzhou cultivators listened as their cultivation advanced.
• The Martial Ancestor reached Great Perfection as a Supreme Ancestral God, while Keke’s father, the Heaven-Defying Family’s holy maiden, and Keke each made major progress.
• Xiao Chen reached Great Perfection as a Supreme Ancestral God while already a Stone Person King, bringing him close to the emperor realm.
• Suiren, Youchao, and the other Ancestral Gods neared awakening as the Great Dao of their imperial selves began to coalesce within them.

A thousand years later, the Ten Sacred Relics gathered and opened a path to the Initial Place of the Unique True Realm, while Jiuzhou's experts revealed that the gathering was a trap for the emperors. As the kings rushed toward the mysterious world, destructive divine light cut off the path and nine hazy figures appeared above the Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

• The kings gathered as Lu Zhan opened the stone gate at the Ninety-Nine Steps, and a demonic shadow began to condense behind it.
• Xiao Chen uncovered the Source of All Evil and two levels of the Five Emperors Pagoda, causing the Ten Sacred Relics to gather and form a path to the Unique True Realm.
• Lu Zhan claimed that the path led to the realm's source, and the kings charged toward it while Jiuzhou's experts killed him.
• The kings crossed the Ninety-Nine Steps, Tongtian Death Bridge, and Chaotic Land Grand Palace, while those below king level were destroyed by the steps.
• Jiuzhou's experts stayed behind as the Three Emperors and Five Emperors' ancient scheme was revealed: the path was meant to lure emperors into a trap.
• Destructive divine light descended from the nine heavens, blocked the path, and gathered into nine hazy figures.

The nine Innate Holy Emperors appeared as incarnations and attacked Jiuzhou’s experts, prompting Xiao Chen and Chang Feng to fight back. As the emperors gathered power for another strike, the Void Emperor arrived and challenged them.

• The nine Innate Holy Emperors appeared and declared their intent to seize the Initial Place and rule the Heavens and Myriad Worlds.
• Pangu explained that the figures were Emperor-level incarnations, while Xiao Chen and the Martial Ancestor condemned the emperors’ disregard for living beings.
• The nine Innate Holy Emperors attacked Lu Yi and the others with divine laws and threatened to use their primordial spirits as Kindling Fire.
• Xiao Chen and Chang Feng joined forces to smash the emperors’ attack, shocking the nine incarnations.
• The nine Innate Holy Emperors gathered power for another strike, but the Void Emperor arrived and confronted them as the only true Emperor of the era.

Chang Feng confronted the four newly arrived Emperors and nine Innate Holy Emperors' incarnations, revealing power that surpassed the Emperor level. After clashing with the four Emperors' Origin Great Daos, he remained standing while they were wounded and weakened.

• Three Emperors emerged from the land of nothingness and joined the Void Emperor in a plan to suppress the nine Innate Holy Emperors' incarnations and seize the Initial Holy Land.
• Chang Feng declared that he would kill all the Emperors and their incarnations, provoking them to attack him together.
• Chang Feng's folding fan entered his body, and his power surged beyond the Emperor level to its peak.
• The Void Emperor used Eternal Illusion while the other three Emperors unleashed their Dao origins against Chang Feng's world-creating power.
• Chang Feng emerged from the clash still standing, while the four Emperors bore wounds and their auras had weakened.

The Four Emperors and the nine incarnations of the Innate Holy Emperors pressured Chang Feng, while the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors sacrificed the Ancient Lamps to help him. Little Stone Emperor returned from the Death World, destroyed the Great Dao sword, and struck down the nine incarnations, whose Emperor bodies began to recover.

• The Four Emperors fought Chang Feng inside the path formed by the sacred objects of the heavens and claimed his power was fading.
• Suiren, Youchao, Shennong, the Yellow Emperor, Di Ku, Emperor Yao, Emperor Shun, and Yu shattered eight Ancient Lamps and joined their flames to battle the Four Emperors.
• The nine incarnations of the Innate Holy Emperors formed a Great Dao sword and slashed toward Chang Feng as the experts of Jiuzhou watched in despair.
• Little Stone Emperor emerged from the Primordial Battlefield, caught the Great Dao sword, and crushed it in his palm.
• Little Stone Emperor formed a world-bearing meteor that shattered the nine incarnations' bodies, and they reassembled their Emperor bodies.