Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ruoyao told Hua Yunfei that the Golden Great Era and Emperor Road were approaching, and that the Primordial Divine Realm wanted him to compete for the Emperor Seat. Their conversation ended when Jiang Ruoyao suddenly coughed up black blood.

• Jiang Ruoyao challenged Hua Yunfei's claim that his cultivation was only in the Heavenly Human Realm, but he denied being a Quasi-Emperor.
• Jiang Ruoyao introduced herself as the Saintess of the Primordial Divine Realm and explained that Emperor Xuanhuang's suppression would weaken within ten years, while the Heavenly Dao and a Spiritual Power tide would arrive in five.
• Jiang Ruoyao said the person who recommended Hua Yunfei wanted him to tread the Emperor Road and ascend the Emperor Seat, but Hua Yunfei questioned whether that advice suited the recommender.
• Jiang Ruoyao explained that the Emperor Road could gather the world's fortune and improve one's chances of proving the Dao.
• Jiang Ruoyao suddenly began coughing, her glabella turned black, and black blood ran from her lips.

Jiang Ruoyao revealed that she and the other Primordial Inheritances were cursed and could not become Emperors, and explained how Great Emperor Xuanhuang had helped preserve the world. After learning these secrets, Hua Yunfei agreed to enter the Emperor Road and help.

• Hua Yunfei recognized the curse in Jiang Ruoyao’s black blood, but she suppressed it with a pill refined from Emperor Blood.
• Jiang Ruoyao explained that Emperor-grade prodigies from the Primordial Inheritances were cursed at birth and would die if they underwent the Emperor Tribulation.
• Jiang Ruoyao told Hua Yunfei that the universe was declining from several intertwined crises, including the Heaven Stealing Organization, and that Great Emperor Xuanhuang’s sacrifice had shortened the Age of Dharma’s End.
• Jiang Ruoyao confirmed that the Mysterious Yellow Undying Seal was with the Primordial Divine Realm and reacted with surprise when Hua Yunfei said one of his disciples possessed the Mysterious Yellow Undying Body.
• Hua Yunfei agreed to enter the Emperor Road and help, despite his reluctance to involve himself in worldly affairs.

Hua Yunfei agreed to help Jiang Ruoyao and brought her to meet his disciples, while the Martial Virtue Brick nearly ambushed her and Nangong Xiangtian fled after learning her cultivation. Jiang Ruoyao recognized Huang Xuan’s Mysterious Yellow Undying Body and asked his name.

• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao agreed that he would help her using his own methods, while the Martial Virtue Brick tried to knock her out before Hua Yunfei stopped it.
• Jiang Ruoyao asked to meet Hua Yunfei’s second disciple, and Hua Yunfei led her away from his residence.
• Nangong Xiangtian mistook Jiang Ruoyao for Hua Yunfei’s romantic partner, then hurried off after Hua Yunfei revealed she was a Quasi-Emperor.
• Hua Yunfei brought Jiang Ruoyao to the garden, where Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, Jia Duobao, Chu Qing'er, Yaya, and Jinjin were gathered.
• Jinjin tricked Yaya into trading candied hawthorns, prompting Jia Duobao and Huang Xuan to scold him.
• Jiang Ruoyao recognized Huang Xuan’s Mysterious Yellow Undying Body and asked him his name.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao discovered Heaven Stealing Organization members trying to awaken Wood Emperor from a sealed coffin. They ambushed and killed the two Black Robes, while Hua Yunfei knocked Wood Emperor unconscious, leaving him in their hands.

• Jiang Ruoyao noticed Huang Xuan’s Mysterious Yellow Undying Body and Yaya’s unusual Primordial Sacred Body, while Hua Yunfei concealed what he knew about their origins.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao sensed two Heaven Stealing Organization members near Zhengxian City and followed them into the mountains.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao found the Black Robes removing the imperial source seal from a Bronze Ancient Coffin to awaken Wood Emperor.
• Hua Yunfei struck the newly awakened Wood Emperor unconscious with the Martial Virtue Brick.
• Jiang Ruoyao beheaded the two Black Robes from behind, and Hua Yunfei destroyed their divine souls.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao killed Wood Emperor and discussed the Heaven Stealing Organization before parting ways. Three days later, the Kaoshan Sect began its return journey, where the Seven Divine Halls Master proposed a match between his son and Luo Hanyue.

• Jiang Ruoyao destroyed Wood Emperor's soul and Dao Platform, and Hua Yunfei burned his body to ashes with Seven-colored Karma Fire.
• Hua Yunfei erased all traces of their actions before leaving the mountain with Jiang Ruoyao.
• Jiang Ruoyao told Hua Yunfei the Emperor Road would open in ten years and invited him to bring his disciples; she then departed.
• Three days later, the Kaoshan Sect set off for Kaoxian City, and Ancestor Yin Xue carried the group through the sky.
• The Kaoshan Sect encountered the Seven Divine Halls, whose master recognized Luo Hanyue's Ice Spirit Mysterious Body and proposed her as a match for his son, who had the Fire Spirit Mysterious Body.

The Seven Divine Halls’ Hall Master proposed that Luo Hanyue cultivate with Duan Wuming, but Kaoshan Sect rejected the offer and drove the Seven Divine Halls away. When the Hall Master complained to Ancestor Qingyuan, she agreed that the Arid State belonged to Kaoshan Sect.

• The Hall Master of the Seven Divine Halls suggested that Luo Hanyue and Duan Wuming cultivate together, but True Lord Xiaxuan and Kaoshan Sect’s leaders threatened him, and Luo Hanyue refused.
• Duan Wuming urged his father to leave and said he would find his own path, while the Hall Master argued that Kaoshan Sect had no right to rule the Arid State.
• True Lord Tianji provoked the Hall Master, who backed down after Duan Wuming warned him that the Seven Divine Halls could not win a fight.
• True Lord Yuntian departed with Kaoshan Sect, and Ancestor Yin Xue injured the Seven Divine Halls’ Golden Eagle as they passed.
• The Hall Master complained to Ancestor Qingyuan about Kaoshan Sect, but she replied that the Arid State belonged to Kaoshan Sect and saw no problem with that.

After Ancestor Qingyuan warned the Seven Divine Halls not to provoke Kaoshan Sect, Duan Wuming persuaded his father to apologize publicly at the Kaoshan Sect Holy Son’s wedding. Kaoshan Sect’s newly revealed Quasi-Emperor status had transformed its standing across the Eastern Domain, while its guardians joked that such strength was perfectly ordinary.

• Ancestor Qingyuan warned the Seven Divine Halls that provoking Kaoshan Sect would be fatal, and Duan Wuming convinced his father that they should apologize publicly at the Holy Son’s wedding.
• The Hall Master of the Seven Divine Halls accepted that Kaoshan Sect might be far stronger than they knew and agreed they needed to make amends.
• News of Kaoshan Sect’s Quasi-Emperor, its destruction of Tianming Sect, and its place among the Nine Great Immortal Sects caused an uproar across the Eastern Domain.
• Sect guardians and senior staff on Gouyuan Peak discussed how Kaoshan Sect had revealed more power than the Sect Master had called for.
• The Keeper of the Scripture Repository and Qin Yi insisted that producing a Quasi-Emperor was normal for Kaoshan Sect.

Kaoshan Sect celebrated True Lord Yuntian and the others’ return after defeating Tianming Sect and claiming sixth place among the immortal sects. At the banquet, Huang Xuan asked Hua Yunfei whether Jiang Ruoyao had met Great Emperor Xuanhuang, and the chapter ended before he finished his next question.

• Kaoshan Sect’s senior figures agreed to leave the visiting forces waiting and decided to let the elders handle them after True Lord Yuntian returned.
• The Scripture Repository Master noticed the group arriving through the hidden domain gate, and Kaoshan Sect gathered to welcome them.
• Jinjin and Yaya emerged first, followed by Dao Wuxu, True Lord Yuntian, Hua Yunfei, and the others, and the sect held a celebratory banquet.
• True Lord Yuntian told True Lord Gouyuan to have a familiar elder meet the visiting forces so they would feel more at ease.
• Huang Xuan asked Hua Yunfei whether Jiang Ruoyao had met Great Emperor Xuanhuang, and Hua Yunfei confirmed that she had.
• Huang Xuan began asking whether Jiang Ruoyao knew something more, but the chapter ended before he finished.

Hua Yunfei revealed Jiang Ruoyao’s extraordinary identity and past connection to Great Emperor Xuanhuang, then reassured Huang Xuan that his master would protect him. At the Kaoshan Sect celebration, True Lord Yuntian urged everyone to match their cultivation realms to the sect’s newfound standing, leaving a young elder stunned by the proposed increase.

• Hua Yunfei told Huang Xuan that Jiang Ruoyao had been the Saintess of the Primordial Divine Realm, possessed a Primordial Divine Body, and had fought alongside Great Emperor Xuanhuang.
• Hua Yunfei assured Huang Xuan that he would protect his disciples, and the Dao Origin Peak group toasted together as Chu Qing'er praised the Kaoshan Sect.
• True Lord Yuntian declared that the Kaoshan Sect had reached the Eastern Domain’s summit and urged its members to uphold the Survival Dao.
• The masters of the Scripture Repository and Myriad Treasures Pavilion hinted that True Lord Yuntian’s speech had a deeper purpose.
• True Lord Yuntian asked disciples and elders to reveal enough strength for their cultivation realms to match the sect’s status, then told a young elder that the Heavenly Human Realm would be appropriate.
• The young elder replied that he was only in the early Divine Infant Realm.

True Lord Yuntian reassured the Kaoshan Sect elders that they could reveal their cultivation, while Daoist Xuanhe prepared to return to the Ancestral Land and break through to the Sage Realm. At the sect gate, Elder Shi confronted a black-robed intruder, who challenged the sect and drew its two supreme battle puppets into a fight.

• True Lord Yuntian told the elders they could reveal their cultivation and said the Great Elder would post breakthrough standards.
• Daoist Xuanhe told True Lord Yuntian he would enter seclusion in the Ancestral Land to break through to the Sage Realm.
• Hua Yunfei sensed an intruder approaching the Kaoshan Sect's main gate.
• Elder Shi warned the black-robed man to leave, then summoned Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme.
• The black-robed man dismissed the battle puppets and prepared to fight, intending to make the Kaoshan Sect submit to his organization.

Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme challenged the black-robed middle-aged man beyond the domain, where he overwhelmed them in battle. Back at Kaoshan Sect, Hua Yunfei remained confident, and a woman secretly returned to attack the black-robed man as the two Supremes began to falter.

• Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme took the black-robed middle-aged man into the outer void to fight after he mocked them as failures.
• Onlookers in Kaoshan Sacred City feared that the black-robed man might be an enemy from Aragami Holy Land and reconsidered seeking Kaoshan Sect’s protection.
• True Lord Yuntian reassured the Kaoshan Sect disciples, while Hua Yunfei told him to let everyone keep celebrating.
• Hua Yunfei noticed a woman stealthily returning to the outer starry sky to launch a sneak attack on the black-robed middle-aged man.
• After half an hour of fighting, the black-robed middle-aged man had badly wounded Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme.

Jiang Ruoyao ambushed and killed a powerful black-robed man who had nearly defeated Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme, then reunited with Hua Yunfei. Hua Yunfei invited her to his sect’s banquet, where dog meat soup and grilled peng meat awaited.

• The black-robed man prepared to kill Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme, but Jiang Ruoyao ambushed him with her Blood-colored Killing Sword and the Martial Virtue Brick.
• Jiang Ruoyao destroyed the black-robed man’s soul and burned away his remains, while the Martial Virtue Brick flew off without answering her questions about its master.
• Hua Yunfei arrived, healed Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme, and sent them away.
• Jiang Ruoyao told Hua Yunfei she had been hunting the Heaven Stealing Organization’s lackeys, and he teased her about becoming skilled at ambushes.
• Hua Yunfei invited Jiang Ruoyao to his sect’s banquet, and she eagerly accepted the offer of dog meat soup and grilled peng meat.

Hua Yunfei brought Jiang Ruoyao back to the Kaoshan Sect, where their fellow cultivators mistook them for a couple and shared a lively banquet. Jiang Ruoyao left with food the next day, the Great Elder posted predictions of everyone’s breakthrough times, and an elder was horrified by what he read.

• Hua Yunfei brought Jiang Ruoyao to the Kaoshan Sect, where Elder Shi and the disciples teased them about being a couple.
• True Lord Yuntian welcomed Jiang Ruoyao, and Hua Yunfei led her to the Dao Origin Peak seats as Jia Duobao prepared dog meat vermicelli soup and grilled peng meat.
• Qin Yi joined them, and she and Jiang Ruoyao traded bold remarks about Qin Yi’s figure, embarrassing the banquet guests.
• Jiang Ruoyao loved Jia Duobao’s cooking, praised Hua Yunfei’s skills, and spent several hours eating and drinking before leaving with food packed to take home.
• The next day, the Great Elder posted predictions of when each disciple, elder, and Peak Master would break through, and an elder reacted with a curse after reading them.

Kaoshan Sect’s disciples and elders discovered the cultivation targets True Lord Yuntian had assigned them, and many scrambled to avoid revealing their hidden strength. The next morning, the mourning bell rang, leaving the sect to prepare for another death.

• Elders and disciples found their targets daunting, and several feared the Sect Master had seen through their true cultivation.
• The masters of the Scripture Repository and Myriad Treasures Pavilion faked cultivation mishaps and claimed their realms had plummeted.
• Qin Yi sealed the Hundred Herbs Garden and planned to obey the target while making failed breakthroughs seem plausible.
• Zhen Xing planned to visit the Sect Master at midnight with Enlightenment Tea, while True Lord Tianji welcomed the chance to enter the Ancestral Land.
• True Lord Dishén protested that his new target was to reach the Lin Dao Realm, and the next morning the mourning bell rang three times.

Kaoshan Sect’s disciples discovered that the elders were departing one by one, so the sect held a funeral every day for an entire year. After the last elder’s funeral, Hua Yunfei led Ye Bufan and the others back to Dao Origin Peak, complaining about the year of funeral feasts.

• The disciples gathered in mourning clothes and wondered which elder had died, while Ye Bufan gave Chu Qing'er a set of mourning clothes and explained that the funerals were a sect custom.
• Chu Qing'er went to wake Yaya and Jinjin, and Jinjin emerged from the Cave Mansion leering after seeing her change, so Ye Bufan, Jia Duobao, and Huang Xuan beat him unconscious.
• Hua Yunfei announced that Elder Liu of Gouyuan Peak had died, and Elder Wang explained that he had come to the funeral because his grief over his childhood companion would make him die the next day.
• The funeral bell rang each day as Kaoshan Sect mourned a different elder, continuing the daily funerals for an entire year.
• After the final elder’s funeral, Hua Yunfei led Ye Bufan and the others back toward Dao Origin Peak and complained that the funeral feasts had left his mouth close to blistering.

After a year of funeral feasts, Hua Yunfei told his disciples that Lin Yang’s wedding would be used to dispel Kaoshan Sect’s evil miasma. When the wedding date arrived, factions across the Big Dipper Star prepared to attend, and Kaoshan Sacred City began expanding for the influx of guests.

• Jia Duobao, Huang Xuan, Chu Qing’er, Ye Bufan, and Jinjin complained about Kaoshan Sect’s endless funeral feasts and warned each other not to attract True Lord Yuntian’s attention.
• Hua Yunfei said Lin Yang’s wedding was a month away and that True Lord Yuntian planned to use the celebration to disperse the evil miasma.
• After recovering, Ye Bufan and the others entered the Space-Time Divine Realm and cultivated in earnest.
• As the wedding date was announced, the Nine Great Immortal Sects, other major human factions, and Primordial Races declared that they would attend and bring gifts.
• The Primordial Divine Realm announced that it would attend Lin Yang’s wedding, drawing attention across the Big Dipper Star.
• The city lord of Kaoshan Sacred City began expanding and renovating the city as the wedding day approached.

On Lin Yang and Mu Qingqing’s wedding day, Hua Yunfei and his disciples welcomed guests and presented the couple with gifts. The festivities began with Long Zaitian’s arrival and a bottle of Thunder Dragon Essence Blood that stirred Lin Yang’s heart.

• Hua Yunfei led Ye Bufan and the others to Kaoshan Sect’s main gate to greet wedding guests and record their gifts.
• Lin Yang welcomed Hua Yunfei’s group, and the disciples gave him wedding presents, including Yaya’s Dao Tribulation Gold bracelet.
• Hua Yunfei gave Lin Yang a pair of matching rings that symbolized their union and could protect them with his divine soul.
• Long Zaitian arrived and praised Lin Yang before presenting him with a bottle of Thunder Dragon Essence Blood.
• Lin Yang’s heart began pounding when he saw the blue blood, and Hua Yunfei recognized it as Thunder Dragon Essence Blood.

At Lin Yang and Chu Qing’er’s wedding, Long Zaitian gave Lin Yang precious Thunder Dragon essence blood, while the Yaoguang Holy Land and Sun Moon Divine Cult offered extravagant gifts. Their generosity left the gathered factions baffled and revealed that both powerful groups were trying to appease Hua Yunfei.

• Long Zaitian presented Lin Yang with Thunder Dragon essence blood and went into the Kaoshan Sect to confront True Lord Yuntian about Hua Cangqiong and Long Yanyue’s deaths.
• The Yaoyue Palace arrived, and Chu Qing’er welcomed her master and fellow disciples before leading them into the sect.
• Holy Lord Yaoguang offered a Supreme Weapon and a vast collection of other treasures; Hua Yunfei accepted and publicly called the Yaoguang Holy Land a friend of the Kaoshan Sect.
• The Sun Moon Divine Cult arrived and offered even more weapons and spirit stones, leaving Holy Lord Yaoguang to realize that it too had fallen on hard times under Hua Yunfei.

Kaoshan Sect received lavish wedding gifts from powerful factions, while Hua Yunfei and Lin Yang welcomed their leaders and guests. Jiang Ruoyao arrived with a Supreme Tier Thunder Battle Body skeleton for Lin Yang and teased Hua Yunfei about his strength.

• The War Clan arrived and presented a Supreme Weapon, nine Quasi-Emperor Pills, and three hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones, leaving its Great Elder stunned by Yaoguang Holy Land's even more extravagant gift.
• The Jiang Family Clan Leader arrived and gave Lin Yang a Nine-Whisker Virility Ginseng, prompting embarrassed reactions from the groom and his companions.
• Hua Yunfei sent Jia Duobao to escort the visiting factions inside as the wedding gifts continued to arrive.
• Jiang Ruoyao arrived on behalf of the Primordial Divine Realm, congratulated Lin Yang, and asked Hua Yunfei about his increased strength.
• Jiang Ruoyao gave Lin Yang a ring containing the skeleton of a Supreme Tier Thunder Battle Body.

Lin Yang received a Supreme Tier Thunder Battle Body skeleton from Jiang Ruoyao, who then joined the Kaoshan Sect’s banquet as a Saintess of the Primordial Divine Realm. When a guest insulted a man from the Demon Realm and challenged Jiang Ruoyao’s defense of him, Hua Yunfei ordered the guest to leave, and the man’s furious retort left the banquet in stunned silence.

• Lin Yang inspected Jiang Ruoyao’s gift and found the bones of a Supreme Tier Thunder Battle Body inside a ring containing a small world.
• Jiang Ruoyao entered the Kaoshan Sect with Lin Yang while factions waiting outside failed to realize that the Primordial Divine Realm had arrived.
• At the banquet, Hua Yunfei told Long Zaitian that Jiang Ruoyao was the Primordial Divine Realm’s Saintess and declined his offer to find him a match.
• A refined middle-aged guest smashed a table and insulted a man from the Demon Realm, prompting Jiang Ruoyao to explain that the Demon Realm’s Devil Race had aided Great Emperor Hengyang.
• Hua Yunfei invited the insulted man to sit with him and ordered Elder Yunju to see the refined guest out; the guest called Hua Yunfei a worthless Heavenly Human Realm cultivator and challenged his authority.