Chapter Summaries

A mysterious expert from another era defeated a blue-gold armored opponent and confronted An Lan, but both sides refrained from fighting because they occupied different spacetimes. His mention of a drop of blood like his own led the Witch to suspect it was the one Shi Hao had found, while Shi Hao’s spirit wandered across time and a blurred figure appeared on his right Dao flower.

• The cauldron-walking expert killed the blue-gold armored being with the Nine Words secret technique and absorbed his corpse and blood into the cauldron.
• An Lan and Yutuo explained that a battle between beings from different spacetimes could destroy the world, and An Lan predicted he and the mysterious expert would fight in the future.
• The mysterious expert said he had found a drop of blood like his own that belonged to this epoch, and the Witch connected it to the drop Shi Hao had found in the Immortal Ancient Ruins.
• The Witch noticed Shi Hao standing motionless as his spirit wandered through different eras, and a blurred figure appeared on the Flower of the Great Dao on his right.

A mysterious drop of blood transformed Shi Hao into a being from the distant past, and he joined Xuantian, revealed as the Thunder Emperor reborn through tribulation, in battling An Lan and Yu Tuo. Xuantian secured the Imperial City and reinforced the Heavenly Abyss, then reached the Human Dao Supreme level as his lightning tribulation began.

• The drop of blood merged Shi Hao’s three figures and Samsara Seals, transforming him and letting him leave Imperial Pass to confront An Lan.
• Shi Hao attacked An Lan, while a figure identical to Xuantian emerged from the ancient coffin and fused with him, revealing the Thunder Emperor’s rebirth through tribulation.
• Xuantian erased a wisp of Yu Tuo’s divine consciousness, seized the Imperial City, and reinforced the Heavenly Abyss as Shi Hao suppressed An Lan.
• Xuantian regained control of his body, received a Samsara Seal, and broke through to the Human Dao Supreme level.
• Hundreds of millions of runes surrounded Xuantian as Supreme lightning tribulations descended.

Xuantian survived the Heavenly Tribulation and became a Supreme of the mortal dao, then warned that cultivation would decline within fifty years and taught the path of becoming an Immortal through repeated mortal lifetimes. After Shi Hao was struck by the Immortal-Severing Curse, Xuantian returned to the Nine Heavens, conquered the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, founded the Great Ming Heavenly Dynasty, and built its guards.

• Xuantian endured a month of Heavenly Tribulation, fell to the Blood Moving Realm, then rose back to the Supreme Realm and became a Supreme of the mortal dao.
• Xuantian told Meng Tianzheng and the others that cultivation decline would arrive within fifty years, and explained how cultivators could pursue immortality through nine lifetimes as Supremes of the mortal dao.
• Xuantian and Shi Hao killed most Foreign Realm Supremes who attacked Imperial Pass, while Shi Hao became able to contend with Supremes.
• After Shi Hao was ambushed and struck by the Immortal-Severing Curse, Xuantian killed the Immortal Palace Remnant Immortal, destroyed the Immortal Palace, and crushed the sects that had watched over Sin Province.
• Xuantian renamed Sin Province Wasteland Province, founded the Great Ming Heavenly Dynasty, and brought the Three Thousand Dao Provinces under its rule.
• Xuantian recruited one hundred thousand cultivators below the Venerable level and organized them into city, patrol, and elite guards according to their abilities.

After enduring the Boundary Sea’s baptism and living through ages of upheaval, Xuantian kept the Great Ming Heavenly Dynasty standing while Shi Hao became an immortal, died, and was buried. Five hundred thousand years after Shi Hao’s death, Xuantian sensed him returning from the Burial Ground.

• Xuantian’s Great Ming Heavenly Dynasty grew powerful as Shi Hao established the Heavenly Court, then Xuantian entered Dam World to cultivate.
• Xuantian spent three hundred years undergoing the Boundary Sea’s baptism, reaching the limit of the Supreme Realm before returning to check on his forces.
• Shi Hao became an immortal through Red Dust, but three Immortal Kings stopped his advance toward the Immortal King Realm, and the world believed him dead.
• After Shi Hao’s death and the Heavenly Court’s collapse, Xuantian survived through successive lives and kept the Great Ming Heavenly Dynasty secure through centuries of chaos.
• Five hundred thousand years after Shi Hao’s death, Xuantian sensed Shi Hao emerge from the Myriad Things Soil in the Burial Ground.

Shi Hao returned after killing the Red King, reestablished the Heavenly Court, and reunited with old friends after five hundred thousand years apart. He then led them to the Imperial City to see how Xuantian’s path to immortality was progressing.

• Shi Hao broke into the King Realm, suppressed Tai Shi and two other Immortal Kings, reestablished the Heavenly Court, and purged the Forbidden Zones.
• Shi Hao entered the Foreign Realm through West Heaven's Gate, killed the Red King, and returned seated atop the Golden-Haired Hou with another undying king's head.
• The Lunar Jade Rabbit greeted Shi Hao and told him how his friends had mourned his disappearance; Shi Hao promised to find Cao Yusheng and bring him into the Immortal Domain.
• The Ten Crown King, Zhe Xian, Da Xu Tuo, Phoenix Maiden, and Princess Yao Yue reunited with Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao took his old companions to the Imperial City to see Xuantian, and they entered the great hall at its center.

After more than a million years of Red Dust cultivation, Xuantian endured an immense Immortal Ascension Tribulation and broke through to the supreme Immortal King Giant level. He suppressed his power afterward, as the Heavenly Abyss began to form a physical body from countless runes.

• Xuantian discussed the Dao with Shi Hao and the others, then left an avatar behind and traveled to the Border Wasteland to temper himself in battle.
• Xuantian spent hundreds of thousands of years cultivating through successive lifetimes, while Xuan Shi, Qin Li, Ye Zhen, Lin Tong, Phoenix Maiden, Tian Zi, and the Heavenly Horned Ant reached immortal realms.
• After entering the Boundary Sea and nearly losing his way, Xuantian returned to the Realm Grave and gathered power for his breakthrough as Shi Hao guarded him.
• Xuantian's Immortal Ascension Tribulation destroyed the surrounding Star Region, and twelve Dao Fruits fused into one chaos-colored Dao Fruit.
• Xuantian rose through the True Immortal and Quasi-Immortal King realms to become a supreme Immortal King Giant, then compressed his aura back to the Immortal King Giant level.
• The Border Wasteland and Heavenly Abyss shook as runes emerged from the abyss and condensed into a physical body.

After absorbing the Thunder Emperor's corpse, Xuantian reached the Emperor-Light Immortal King realm alongside Shi Hao. The two invaded the Foreign Realm, slaughtered or suppressed its kings, and gathered their weapons before Shi Hao departed to forge a Supreme Treasure.

• Xuantian absorbed the Thunder Emperor's corpse and, after three thousand years, became an Emperor-Light Immortal King.
• Huang congratulated Xuantian, and the two set out to eliminate the Foreign Realm's kings.
• Xuantian and Shi Hao defeated and killed numerous Immortal Kings and giants, forcing the survivors to flee.
• Xuantian and Shi Hao collected the fallen kings' weapons and treasures after the battle.
• Shi Hao said he would return to forge his own weapon from the gathered King-level artifacts and immortal materials.

Xuantian plundered the Immortal King's cave abode and hunted Dark Immortal Kings in the Boundary Sea to build up his foundation and forge the Heaven-Burying Coffin. After a devastating dark invasion and another hundred thousand years of cultivation, he reached the limit of the Immortal King with Emperor Light and stood one step from becoming a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

• Xuantian gave Shi Hao more than a dozen Immortal King weapons, then entered the Boundary Sea to hunt Dark Immortal Kings and seize their collections and insights.
• After a hundred thousand years of hunting, Xuantian refined the ancient coffin with the captured Immortal King artifacts and named it the Heaven-Burying Coffin.
• Xuantian absorbed the insights of nearly fifty kings, perfected the Ten Extremes Heaven Art, and then fought off a host of dark creatures that tried to surround and kill him.
• The dark army invaded the Boundary Sea and Immortal Domain, causing heavy losses to the Great Ming Heavenly Dynasty and Heavenly Court and killing many of Xuantian's former comrades.
• After another hundred thousand years, Xuantian reached the limit of the Immortal King with Emperor Light, and his ten cave heavens had evolved into ten minor chiliocosms.

Shi Hao crossed the Boundary Sea after leaving Quasi-Immortal Emperor footprints on the dam, while Xuantian stayed behind to cultivate. Thousands of years later, the Immortal Domain remained quiet as Cao Yusheng and the Little Puppy returned from their transformation and surveyed its ruins.

• Shi Hao told Xuantian he would cross the Boundary Sea to seek the Willow Deity, then departed despite Xuantian urging him to wait.
• Shi Hao left faint footprints on the dam, leading the kings to realize that the earlier footprints had also belonged to a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Xuantian entered seclusion, and several thousand years passed without major disturbances in the Immortal Domain or Boundary Sea.
• Cao Yusheng and the Little Puppy emerged after transforming as burial cultivators and found the Immortal Domain more ruined than before.

Cao Yusheng and his companions mourned the dead at the ruins of the Heavenly Court, then built temples honoring Shi Hao across the Immortal Domain. More than two hundred thousand years later, Shi Hao fought the three Quasi-Immortal Emperors and their forces as Shi Yi and other allies joined the desperate battle, which continued with Shi Yi sacrificing himself.

• Cao Yusheng visited the graves of Tuo Gu Yulong, Da Xu Tuo, Lan Xian, and the old soldiers, grieving for his fallen companions.
• Cao Yusheng, Little Puppy, and the Heavenly Horned Ant built temples containing statues of Shi Hao across the Immortal Domain.
• Over two hundred thousand years passed as people across the Immortal Domain worshipped the Huang Heavenly Emperor, while Shi Hao battled Emperor Hong, Cang Emperor, and Yu Emperor.
• Little Stone and the old soldiers fought fallen Immortal Kings, while Shi Hao wounded Cang Emperor and tore off one of Yu Emperor's wings.
• Shi Yi arrived, stopped Little Stone and Qin Hao from sacrificing themselves, rescued Qin Hao's blood and soul, and then sacrificed himself.
• The Heavenly Horned Ant, the Ten Crown King, and Lin Tong joined the fighting against the Dark Kings.

Xuantian emerged at the Half-Step Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and joined Shi Hao in fighting the three Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors, while another mysterious emperor appeared to confront a resurrected old man. As the battle escalated, three powerful beings arrived from downstream in the River of Time and declared that they had come to kill Huang and Xuan.

• Xuantian broke through and used Ten Directions Annihilation to kill nearly a hundred Dark Kings and countless True Immortals, then attacked Cang Emperor, Yu Emperor, and Emperor Hong with his Five Elements Avatars.
• Xuantian tore off Yu Emperor's wing and battered him as Cang Emperor and Emperor Hong were also overwhelmed.
• A mutilated old man reconnected with his arm from the Land of Darkness, while an unfamiliar young emperor appeared in the Boundary Sea to block him.
• After ten years, Xuantian and his Five Elements Avatars suppressed the three emperors in Thunder Cave Heaven, and Shi Hao recovered before joining Xuantian against the old man.
• Three powerful beings—two men and a woman—arrived from downstream in the River of Time, attacked the battlefield, and revealed that they had come to kill Huang and Xuan.

Xuantian, Shi Hao, and Chang Feng defeated the invading Quasi-Immortal Emperors, and Chang Feng gave them a living branch of Willow Deity. After they spent thousands of years recovering and refining their enemies, a storm of Great Dao runes swept across the realms, shattering the Immortal Domain into countless fragments.

• Xuantian and Shi Hao fought alongside Chang Feng and future visitors including Wu Shi to suppress Destruction Elder and the three other Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• Chang Feng gave Shi Hao and Xuantian a willow branch that still carried a trace of life, and they returned to recuperate and refine their enemies.
• Over the following millennia, Shi Hao gained fragments of the future invaders' memories, while Xuantian stabilized his half-step Immortal Emperor cultivation.
• The surviving cultivators gathered in the Immortal Domain's Heavenly Court, but a storm of Great Dao runes swept in from beyond the Boundary Sea.
• The storm shattered the Immortal Domain into more than a thousand drifting fragments and began collapsing the Burial Ground, Foreign Realm, and other realms as well.

Shi Hao and the others investigated the Ultimate Ancient Land, where they found the final chapter of the Original True Explanation and encountered a force carrying Immortal Emperor power. The Rotten Wooden Chest warned them to retreat, then shattered under a blast of black radiance and revealed an ancient wooden temple.

• After three hundred thousand years of cultivation, Butcher, Chicken Farmer, Burial Master, and Fake Medicine Seller became Emperor Light Immortal Kings, while twelve others reached supreme Immortal King overlord level.
• Willow Deity awakened and advanced to the middle stage of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm after merging with Dark Willow Deity.
• Shi Hao, Chang Feng, Xuantian, and Willow Deity traveled to the Ultimate Ancient Land using the Receiving Ancient Hall and found the final chapter of the Original True Explanation on a bone stele.
• The Rotten Wooden Chest flew into the grandest Receiving Ancient Hall, and a voice from within it warned the group to leave as black mist and Immortal Emperor power emerged.
• The chest identified itself as a lost wandering soul and warned the group that the power would corrode them, but black radiance struck it and caused it to explode.
• An ancient wooden temple appeared where the Rotten Wooden Chest had been, emitting chaos and immeasurable power.

Shi Hao and his companions encountered a damaged Immortal Emperor corpse whose dark obsession had awakened, while a remnant soul in the ancient temple revealed their shared origin. The corpse reclaimed the remnant and unleashed the Da Luo Sword Embryo on Shi Hao, leaving him badly wounded as the sword repeatedly struck him despite his attempts to escape.

• Shi Hao and his companions found a remnant soul in the ancient temple and a dark, mutilated corpse that claimed the authority of an emperor.
• The corpse attacked them with Dark Matter, and the remnant soul warned that the creature might not be fully dead.
• The corpse dragged the remnant soul into its body, and the two explained that darkness had corrupted the being after he first entered the Immortal Emperor realm.
• The corpse revealed that the Da Luo Sword Embryo belonged to it and sent the sword after Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao repeatedly fled across the Void, but the sword kept appearing before him and cut him with severe wounds while Xuantian and the others tried to intervene.

Shi Hao recovered from Corpse Immortal Emperor’s attack, defeated and refined him, then sealed the breach leading to Above the Heavens. The darkness was eradicated, but over the following ages Shi Hao and other powerful figures departed for Above the Heavens, where a greater danger awaited.

• Corpse Immortal Emperor split Shi Hao apart with the Da Luo Sword Embryo, but Shi Hao reassembled and regained his peak strength.
• Shi Hao overwhelmed Corpse Immortal Emperor, suppressed him, and refined him over ten thousand years.
• Shi Hao destroyed the stone chair, discovered a breach leading to the Supreme Land Above the Heavens, and sealed it with the ancient coffin.
• Shi Hao, Xuantian, and their companions returned to the Immortal Domain, where the Double-Pupil Woman recognized their victory over the darkness.
• The Emperors taught at the Heavenly Court ruins, and Shi Hao departed for Above the Heavens three hundred thousand years later.
• Chang Feng, Xuantian, Willow Deity, and many others eventually followed toward Above the Heavens as they advanced in cultivation.

Xuantian and the others reached Above the Heavens and crossed its endless sea of blood in the Heaven-Burying Ancient Coffin. After destroying the Immortal Emperor imprints that guarded the River of Time, Xuantian traveled into the past, discovered the Soul River, and returned after learning its nature.

• Xuantian and the others removed the Heaven-Burying Ancient Coffin and passed through the sealed opening to Above the Heavens, where they found a vast sea of blood and countless grave-like mounds.
• Xuantian and his companions sailed the sea of blood for ten thousand years and saw that the River of Time held the history of an immense, ancient slaughter between living beings and dark beings.
• Xuantian and Qin Li led their allies in destroying the Immortal Emperor imprints watching over the River of Time.
• An End of the Road being in the Weird Ancient Land noticed that his imprint had been destroyed, and other beings there discussed completing the Black Grand Sacrifice themselves.
• Xuantian entered the ancient past and learned from a rotting being that the pitch-black current was the Soul River, formed from countless souls and Weird Substance.
• Xuantian returned from the past, and the rotting being crumbled into dust.

Xuantian and his allies attacked the Soul River but were overwhelmed by a Sacrificial Dao expert, and Shi Hao rescued the badly wounded Xuantian. After learning the Eerie Clan’s strength, they established the Heaven Alliance and began preparing for the war ahead.

• Xuantian opened a passage to the Soul River, and he and the others advanced into it, destroying its eerie waters and creatures.
• A red-furred hand struck from beyond an ancient gate, scattering the group; Xuantian suffered severe injuries while fleeing and later woke ten years afterward.
• Shi Hao explained the Eerie Clan’s forces and strongholds, then proposed forming an alliance to resist them.
• Chang Feng, Corpse Immortal Emperor, Luo Tianxian, and Meng Hai joined Xuantian and Shi Hao, and Shi Hao established the Heaven Alliance with himself as its leader.
• The alliance members recuperated and pursued further cultivation as the Eerie Clan repeatedly attacked; Willow Deity battled its Dao Ancestors and returned through Nirvana, while the six Immortal Emperors won every clash.

Xuantian reached Sacrificial Dao during his battle with a white-haired ancestor, while Shi Hao and Chang Feng also fought two other ancestors. Xuantian destroyed the white ancestor’s chance of revival, leaving it to die in eternal silence.

• Xuantian sacrificed his Dao Fruit amid battle and forcibly reached Sacrificial Dao after his body was shattered.
• Meng Tianzheng and the others learned that Xuantian had reached Sacrificial Dao, and Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai explained what had happened.
• Xuantian battled the white-haired ancestor, while Shi Hao drove back the red-furred ancestor and Chang Feng pierced the black-haired ancestor.
• Shi Hao used the He-Transforming Free Art to create four copies and cleave the red ancestor apart, severely damaging its origin.
• Xuantian used destructive lightning to erase the white ancestor’s past and destroy the Plateau’s power of revival.
• Xuantian told the annihilated white ancestor to enter eternal silence.

Xuantian annihilated the White Progenitor, but the Eerie Clan’s surviving Progenitors launched a grand sacrifice and forced the Heaven Alliance to disperse while its leaders fought on. After millions of years of stalemate and the Willow Deity’s rise to the Sacrificial Dao, Xuantian returned to the Heavens and saw a flourishing world.

• Xuantian destroyed the White Progenitor and shattered the Plateau’s power, while Chang Feng, Shi Hao, and others also sent two Eerie Progenitors into Eternal Silence.
• Seven Eerie Progenitors surrounded Xuantian, Shi Hao, and Chang Feng, and the Heaven Alliance dispersed its Dao Progenitors to hide and pursue the Immortal Emperor path.
• The Eerie Clan’s grand sacrifice devastated the myriad worlds, but Xuan Shi, Lin Tong, Ye Zhen, Little Stone, and Qin Li became Supreme beings of the Heavens over the next million years.
• Five million years later, the Willow Deity entered the Sacrificial Dao and joined the battle, helping Xuantian, Shi Hao, and Chang Feng hold off the Eerie Progenitors for millions more years.
• Xuantian crossed the Boundary Sea and returned to the Heavens, where he found the worlds thriving and the Boundary Sea serving as a cultivation ground for True Immortals and Immortal Kings.

Xuantian explained Heaven’s vastness and its war against the Eerie Clan, then offered to take willing Immortal Kings there while requiring those who stayed to aid the worlds below. After his Dao exposition strengthened living beings across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds, he led a group across the Boundary Sea to the Other Shore on the way to Heaven.

• Xuantian described Heaven, the Sacrificial Sea, and the Eerie Clan’s threat to the Immortal Kings gathered before him.
• Xuantian invited willing Immortal Kings to join him in Heaven and ordered those who stayed to enlighten living beings and support Heaven when needed.
• Xuantian arranged for Immortal Emperor statues throughout the Heavens and Myriad Worlds to expound his Dao, helping many beings advance.
• Xuantian led Immortal Kings, True Immortals, and Supremes across the Boundary Sea to the Other Shore, where ancient kings recalled their earlier failed attempt to ascend the embankment.