Chapter Summaries

The Little Stone Emperor destroyed the nine Innate Holy Emperor avatars, then Chang Feng overcame and refined the four emperors. As the Jiuzhou group advanced toward the final gate of the Initial Holy Land, killing intent from sixty-three emperors battered them, leaving Xiao Chen struggling to endure.

• The Little Stone Emperor defeated the nine Innate Holy Emperor avatars and refined their Great Dao origins while the four emperors attacked Chang Feng and Jiuzhou’s experts.
• Xiao Chen used the Sky Tablet Profound Method, and the present incarnations of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors fought the four emperors but were steadily worn down.
• Chang Feng unleashed overwhelming power, wounded the four emperors, and destroyed their Great Dao origins and primordial consciousnesses.
• Chang Feng refined the four emperors into masses of Great Dao origin, allowing the Jiuzhou group to enter the small world formed by the sacred treasures of the heavens.
• Sixty-three emperors’ killing intent crossed the barrier of the Unique True Realm and attacked Chang Feng’s group as they advanced toward the final gate.
• The incarnations repeatedly reformed within the Nine Lamps, while Xiao Chen struggled to withstand the intensifying killing intent and dangers.

The five Sacred Ancestors of the Otherworld broke through the Unique True Realm’s barrier and confronted Chang Feng and Little Stone Emperor, hoping to seize the advantage by drawing power from the Heavens and Myriad Worlds. Chang Feng and Little Stone Emperor stopped them and battled the wounded emperors, whose Great Dao essences began to crumble under their assault.

• The five Sacred Ancestors of the Otherworld emerged from a blood-red passage after their altar was destroyed, having paid a devastating price to cross the barrier.
• Chang Feng and the five Sacred Ancestors exchanged boasts before launching their attacks.
• Chang Feng and Little Stone Emperor cut off the Sacred Ancestors’ attempt to burn the Heavens and Myriad Worlds for power, while the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors isolated the battlefield.
• Chang Feng took eight steps to reach his peak, and Little Stone Emperor joined him as they fought the five Sacred Ancestors in a chaotic battle.
• Little Stone Emperor unleashed “Heaven and Earth Fade,” and the Sacred Ancestors’ Great Dao essences and imperial bodies began to crumble under the combined assault.

Little Stone Emperor and Chang Feng defeated the otherworld's five Sacred Ancestors, but the Five Heroes of the Chaotic Ancient Era arrived at their peak and attacked them. Chang Feng withstood their strongest assault and found his cultivation advancing under the pressure.

• Little Stone Emperor and Chang Feng destroyed the five Sacred Ancestors' Great Dao origins and left them weakened.
• Five primordial savage beasts arrived with the Five Heroes of the Chaotic Ancient Era, after trampling nine great worlds into oblivion.
• One of the Five Heroes struck with the World-Cutting Finger, shaking the sacred-treasure world and injuring Jiuzhou's cultivators, but Chang Feng and Little Stone Emperor remained before the final gate.
• The Five Heroes charged together, and Chang Feng met them head-on as their attacks threatened to shatter the sacred-treasure world.
• Chang Feng endured a direct World-Cutting Finger with only a fleeting white mark, then fought the Five Heroes and felt his cultivation nearing the emperor realm.

Chang Feng became an Emperor but was besieged by the Five Heroes of the Chaotic Ancient Era and eight Emperors of the Unique True Realm as they fought their way into the Initial Holy Land. Xiao Chen summoned the ancient Emperors back into the world, and an enormous palm sealed the door with Chang Feng and his thirteen enemies trapped behind it.

• Chang Feng became an Emperor after surviving the Five Heroes' united attack, while the Little Stone Emperor withdrew to recover.
• Eight injured Emperors of the Unique True Realm arrived and joined the Five Heroes in attacking Chang Feng, then all thirteen fought their way into the Initial Holy Land.
• Nuwa awakened as the final ancient lamp merged with her, and Xiao Chen called on the immortal ancestors to return.
• Pangu, Nuwa, Suiren, Shennong, Fuxi, the Yellow Emperor, Zhuanxu, Di Ku, Yao, and Shun appeared as true Emperors, while Chang Feng held off the thirteen ancient Emperors.
• An enormous palm erased and sealed the door, trapping Chang Feng, the Five Heroes, and the eight Emperors behind it.

Chang Feng endured the eternal flames in the Unique True Realm and refined the origins of all seventy-seven emperors, achieving Great Perfection in the sixth turn of Xuanhuang Immortality. After the emperors’ defeat, Xuantian and the Three Sovereigns, Five Emperors, Pangu, and Nuwa prepared to leave the realm, while Xiao Chen was urged to ascend to Hong Huang.

• The Three Sovereigns, Five Emperors, Pangu, and Nuwa transformed into divine flames to refine the Unique True Realm, while the Little Stone Emperor escaped and Chang Feng stayed behind to temper his body.
• The seventy-seven emperors attacked Chang Feng as eternal flames burned their Dao origins and gradually weakened them.
• Chang Feng endured the flames, refined all seventy-seven Dao origins, and reached Great Perfection in the sixth turn of Xuanhuang Immortality, with his Primordial Spirit advancing to the late stage of the emperor realm.
• The Three Sovereigns, Five Emperors, Pangu, and Nuwa explained that they had set the trap to curb the emperors and would establish an Ascension path to Hong Huang.
• Xuantian appeared, told Chang Feng to call him Grandpa, praised Chang Feng and Xiao Chen, and urged Xiao Chen to ascend to Hong Huang.

Shi Yongheng reached Great Perfection in the Venerable Realm and arrived in Yuantian Ancient City as the Yuantian Secret Realm gathering drew the Upper Realm’s leading young geniuses. The chapter ended with the Qin Clan’s double-boned Supreme and several renowned prodigies arriving ahead of the secret realm’s opening.

• Shi Yongheng completed his breakthrough and resolved to rely on his Thunder Dao in the Upper Realm.
• Shi Yongheng left his room and learned that the Yuantian Secret Realm would host the prefectural-city selection for the Three Thousand Prefectures Genius Battle.
• Fairy Yuechan and the young lord of the Immortal Palace arrived in Yuantian Ancient City, followed by the Lightning Prince and other famous First Generations.
• The Witch and Qin Hao arrived, drawing attention to the gathering’s central contestant.
• Lin Tong, Feng Wu, Xuan Shi, Qin Li, and Ye Zhen arrived, and the crowd traded stories about their feats.

Shi Yongheng entered Yuantian Supreme’s secret realm among three thousand outside cultivators and gathered sacred medicines by following the earth veins. The chapter left him in an ancient cave dwelling as a furious jade-green flood dragon appeared nearby.

• The factions opened three thousand entry slots and selected outside cultivators through trials, while First Generations and certain sects received direct entry.
• One hundred and eight great stars formed a gateway to the secret realm, and entrants received beast-fang life talismans before teleporting inside.
• Shi Yongheng was assigned to Lightning Prince’s territory and entered the secret realm with several other cultivators.
• After the group scattered, Shi Yongheng followed the earth veins alone and stole several sacred medicines by concealing his aura.
• As Shi Yongheng examined his medicines in an ancient cave dwelling, a jade-green flood dragon roared into the sky.

The secret realm’s vicious beasts rioted after their sacred herbs were stolen, nearly wiping out the weaker cultivators while the great sects’ Divine Fire Realm experts fought them back. As the prodigies began competing for treasures, the Fire Demon Palace’s disciples were revived outside and revealed that a powerful young man had slaughtered them.

• The enraged vicious beasts attacked across the secret realm, killing nearly all three thousand weaker cultivators before the great sects’ experts drove them back at a heavy cost.
• Shi Yongheng’s plan to wear down the beasts and the sects’ experts advanced, while the surviving prodigies remained largely unharmed.
• Several days later, the crowd outside debated which First Generation and prodigy would prevail as the secret realm’s remaining cultivators began clashing.
• The Fire Demon Palace’s disciples revived at the altar and accused their elder of sending them to a powerful young man who killed them all.
• A surviving Venerable suggested that the young man might be a First Generation, leaving the Fire Demon Palace elder horrified as the prodigies’ clashes intensified inside.

Shi Yongheng and the other prodigies entered a newly revealed ancient site and found rare treasures, including a group of poisonous prospective Insect Emperors. The insects were claimed amid a battle with Divine Fire Realm experts, leaving Shi Yongheng, Huang, and the man with the divine lamp under attack.

• Shi Yongheng followed the pillar of divine light to the ancient site and entered a palace, where he took an ancient pill furnace and cleared its shelves of pills.
• A rune-covered poisonous insect emerged from a small stone coffin and dissolved a man's arm with its venom.
• Eight more insects emerged from coffins, and a Divine Fire Realm elder explained that Yuantian Supreme had sealed away the prospective Insect Emperors before they could fight and produce a true Insect Emperor.
• Shi Yongheng, Huang, the man with the divine lamp, and other prodigies attacked the Divine Fire Realm experts and claimed the insects amid the chaos.
• The man with the divine lamp killed a Divine Fire Realm expert, while Shi Yongheng, Huang, and the man with the divine lamp became targets of the remaining enemies.

Shi Yongheng escaped with three Divine Fire experts’ life fangs, then found a precious pill and headed toward the Immortal Pool, where prodigies were fighting. Jin Lie, the divine son of the Sun God Vine Hall, challenged him, and Shi Yongheng launched a powerful slash as Jin Lie summoned golden vines.

• Huang used the Kunpeng Technique to kill a Divine Fire guardian and escape, while Shi Yongheng killed three more guardians with Thunder Hand and seized their life fangs.
• In a cave, Shi Yongheng examined a silkworm-like insect and found a radiant golden pill in the pill furnace, but stored it away rather than relying on pills to advance.
• Shi Yongheng traveled to the Immortal Pool, where prodigies including Lightning Prince, Xuan Shi, Qin Li, Ye Zhen, and Lin Tong fought across the lakes.
• Jin Lie attacked Shi Yongheng with a golden foot and sneered at him, while others recognized Jin Lie as a powerful First Generation and Fairy Yuechan recognized Shi Yongheng as Xuantian.
• Shi Yongheng unleashed a towering, icy palm-blade slash at Jin Lie, who formed seals and summoned golden vines amid burning Dao Fire.

Shi Yongheng defeated Jin Lie after cutting through the Sun God Vine’s divine flame, absorbing Jin Lie’s yellow-mud trump card, and blasting him into blood. Jin Lie escaped through his True Spirit, and the secret realm’s exit revealed his defeat to the waiting crowds as the first First Generation to fall.

• Jin Lie attacked Shi Yongheng with the Divine Vine Dao Flame, but Shi Yongheng’s blade severed countless vines and cut off part of Jin Lie’s rune-born black vine.
• Jin Lie released dangerous yellow mud from a stone box, but Shi Yongheng sucked it into his alchemy furnace.
• Shi Yongheng struck Jin Lie with a thunderous fist, shattered his defenses, and blasted him into a mist of blood.
• Jin Lie’s beast fang carried his True Spirit away, and he re-formed before being transported from the secret realm.
• The crowds at the realm’s exit recognized Jin Lie and reacted with shock when they learned a First Generation had fallen.
• An old sect leader asked Jin Lie who he had fought.

Shi Yongheng, posing as Xuantian, rejoined the gathered prodigies in the secret realm and killed Di Chong’s attendant Chen Qing with a single palm strike. Di Chong then challenged him, and their halberds clashed, shattering the space around them.

• Shi Yongheng greeted Di Chong, the Witch, Fairy Yue Chan, and the other cultivators, then dismissed Di Chong as a secondary body and called for his true body to fight.
• Chen Qing stepped forward to capture Shi Yongheng, but Shi Yongheng’s palm strike obliterated him; Chen Qing reappeared at the altar through his Life Talisman Beast Fang.
• Chen Qing told the gathered spectators that Xuantian had killed him, stirring speculation about a confrontation with the Immortal Palace’s young master.
• Di Chong challenged Shi Yongheng over Chen Qing’s death and attacked with the Void Battle Halberd.
• Shi Yongheng drew the Immortal-Slaying Halberd and met Di Chong’s strike, and the collision tore cracks through the surrounding space.

Shi Yongheng and Di Chong escalated their duel from clashes of powerful physical techniques to supreme divine abilities. Shi Yongheng broke through Di Chong’s Human Immortal Seal with his Thunder Fist, and Di Chong summoned the Bronze Immortal Palace for a final assault.

• Di Chong used the White Tiger Arm, Qilin Leg, and True Dragon Claw against Shi Yongheng, but Shi Yongheng matched them with lightning and sword techniques and forced Di Chong back.
• Shi Yongheng challenged Di Chong to use the Immortal Palace’s sect-defending abilities, and the two prepared their supreme techniques as the watching prodigies focused on their battle.
• Di Chong summoned the Human Immortal phantom with the Human Immortal Seal and struck at Shi Yongheng.
• Shi Yongheng comprehended the true meaning of lightning and unleashed the Thunder Fist, piercing through the Human Immortal Seal and sending his attack toward Di Chong.
• Di Chong summoned the Bronze Immortal Palace and gathered the Qilin Leg, White Tiger Arm, Phoenix Wing, and True Dragon Claw around himself.

Shi Yongheng defeated Di Chong’s secondary body with a Thunder Finger, and the gathered prodigies postponed further fighting to seek Yuantian Supreme’s inheritance. As cultivators searched the mountains, the Immortal Pool appeared, with Di Chong and Fairy Yue Chan already standing beside it.

• Di Chong unleashed the Human Immortal Seal, but Shi Yongheng shattered it and pierced Di Chong’s chest with his Thunder Finger.
• Di Chong’s secondary body reappeared at a distance and said he hoped to fight Shi Yongheng again with his true body; Shi Yongheng claimed at least seven people present could defeat the secondary body.
• Fairy Yue Chan and the Witch exchanged challenges, while the gathered prodigies agreed to meet again at the inheritance site and began leaving.
• Shi Yongheng heard reports that Huang had been hunting powerful cultivators and that clues to the Immortal Pool had led into the mountains.
• Crimson light and blood qi rose from a pool in the mountains, and Shi Yongheng saw Di Chong and Fairy Yue Chan standing beside it.

Cao Yusheng and Shi Hao faced attacks from their enemies near the Immortal Pool, but their actions helped trigger a violent eruption of treasures and open the gate to the inheritance ground. As the gathered prodigies rushed for the rewards, Shi Tianyu and several others claimed blood crystals.

• The Sacred Feather Clan's First Generation and another First Generation attacked Cao Yusheng, who dodged them and revealed the Third Killing Formation to deter Di Chong from approaching the Immortal Pool.
• Shi Hao fought Qin Hao and then held off Divine Fire Realm experts from the Qin Clan and Fire Demon Palace with the cursed Heavenly River water in his pill furnace.
• Shi Hao drew lightning from the Heavenly River water and struck the Immortal Pool, causing an explosion that sent divine materials and Supreme blood essence flying.
• A gate of light to the inheritance ground appeared, and the gathered cultivators rushed toward the Immortal Pool to seize the treasures.
• Shi Tianyu, the man with the golden lamp, Xuan Shi, Qin Li, Ye Zhen, and Lin Tong each seized blood crystals and divine materials.

Shi Yongheng and the other strongest cultivators fought off a mass siege in the inheritance grounds while their opponents were killed and sent back to Yuantian Ancient City. Qin Hao challenged Shi Yongheng with the aid of the Changsheng Battle Garment, but was injured and stopped by a Qin Clan deity.

• Shi Yongheng and the strongest cultivators were besieged by prodigies and First Generations inside the inheritance grounds.
• A resurrected First Generation told his ancestor that Xuantian, Demon King Huang, the young lord of the Immortal Palace, the man with the divine lamp, Xuan Shi, Lin Tong, Qin Li, and Ye Zhen had slain many cultivators.
• News of the bloody battle spread through Yuantian Ancient City as more defeated cultivators emerged from the secret realm.
• After a day of fighting, some besiegers fled, and Qin Hao approached Shi Yongheng wearing the Changsheng Battle Garment.
• Shi Yongheng defeated Qin Hao in their exchange of blows, and a deity of the Qin Clan stopped Qin Hao from continuing.

After the secret realm closed, Xuantian escaped the gathered clans and sects by having withdrawn early, then traveled to Sophora City to rest and cultivate. He deepened his understanding of many techniques and the Dao of life and death before a handsome young man arrived and sensed his presence.

• The surviving geniuses emerged from the secret realm, and the gathered powers learned that Xuantian and Huang had withdrawn early and escaped their pursuit.
• Cultivators dispersed and carried news of Huang and Xuantian’s deeds across the great regions.
• Xuantian traveled to Sophora City and spent two months living quietly, studying techniques he had gained in the Yuantian Secret Realm.
• Xuantian entered enlightenment on a mountain peak, contemplating the Thunder Emperor Method and the relationship between life and death.
• Xuantian formed a black-and-white Dao diagram representing life and death, then resolved to combine the strengths of his techniques into forbidden methods.
• A handsome young man entered Sophora City, sensed Xuantian’s familiar aura, and recognized him.

Shi Yongheng reached the inheritance ground and fought his way to a divine hall containing Yuantian Supreme's cultivation insights. He began studying the inheritance while battles raged around the nine mountains.

• Qin Hao abandoned his plan to confront another young Supreme and headed deeper into the inheritance ground.
• Shi Yongheng crossed a dangerous abyss on a rune-covered bridge and reached the nine divine mountains, where cultivators were fighting over the halls.
• An azure wyrm attacked Shi Yongheng, but he endured its lightning and killed it with a single punch.
• Intimidated by Shi Yongheng's strength, the cultivators on his mountain let him pass to the summit.
• Shi Yongheng entered the divine hall and began comprehending Yuantian Supreme's lifelong cultivation insights.

Shi Yongheng absorbed Yuantian Supreme’s cultivation insights, reached the Dao platform, and secretly obtained the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique before joining the others in the struggle over the inheritance Bone Scripture. After Shi Yongheng and his companions left, the remaining contenders agreed to study the scripture together.

• Shi Yongheng spent five days studying Yuantian Supreme’s life and cultivation insights before entering an ancient hall.
• Shi Yongheng climbed the Dao platform while Shi Hao and his companions fought the other arrivals to hold them back.
• Shi Yongheng activated the prayer mat with lightning, freed a hidden golden sheet containing the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique, and hid it in his cave heaven.
• Shi Yongheng pretended to attack the Bone Scripture, learned Shrinking Earth to an Inch, and told Shi Hao that the scripture could not leave the space.
• Divine Fire Realm experts loosened the restriction, and the contenders battled over the Bone Scripture until Shi Hao and his companions withdrew with their gains.
• Shi Yongheng, the Great Demon God, and Huang left together, and the remaining contenders decided to study the inheritance collectively.

Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, the Great Demon God, and the Demon Blood Ghost God Tree uncovered and studied the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique before the tree led them toward the Yuantian Secret Realm’s exit. Shi Hao emerged near the altar and taunted the powerful figures waiting outside for him.

• The Demon Blood Ghost God Tree offered to guide Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, and the Great Demon God out of the secret realm in exchange for studying the golden paper, and they accepted.
• The golden pages absorbed immortal aura and revealed the Thunder Emperor Palace, where a vision showed two terrifying figures battling near the ruins.
• Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, the Great Demon God, and the Demon Blood Ghost God Tree studied the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique and memorized its runes.
• The Demon Blood Ghost God Tree led the group east toward the exit, where they heard that Qin Changsheng and other powerful figures were waiting for Shi Hao and Xuantian.
• Shi Hao appeared near the altar and brazenly taunted the crowd, while Qin Changsheng calmly warned him that he would eventually have to come out.