Chapter Summaries

Yaya awoke after sleeping for nine years, and Hua Yunfei and the others celebrated her return while discussing her unusual lack of growth. They decided she would stay behind when the Emperor Road opened, and the chapter ended with Yaya asking Qin Yi if she could touch her chest.

• Yaya awoke in her cave mansion, and Ye Bufan was relieved that she had recovered after nine years of slumber.
• Yaya rode Jinjin toward the dining hall and asked Chu Qing'er to prepare her favorite dishes.
• Ye Bufan and the others wondered why Yaya had barely grown, and Hua Yunfei said her safety mattered more than her physical growth.
• Hua Yunfei decided Yaya could not join them on the Emperor Road because her rare physique could draw danger from the Heaven Stealing Organization.
• Huang Xuan suggested Qin Yi as someone who could look after Yaya while the others were away, and Qin Yi arrived at Dao Origin Peak.
• Yaya greeted Qin Yi as Big-Breasted Sister and asked if she could touch her chest, leaving Qin Yi speechless.

Hua Yunfei asked Qin Yi to look after Yaya while he and the others prepared to enter the Emperor Road, and Qin Yi arranged for the sect to stand ready to rescue them. After a feast of dragon meat, Lin Yang summoned True Lord Gouyuan to Kaoshan Peak for tea.

• Chu Qing'er served a banquet, including Imperial-level dragon meat, while Jia Duobao admitted he wanted to pursue Qin Yi and Hua Yunfei warned him not to force anything.
• Hua Yunfei asked Qin Yi to care for Yaya while he took Ye Bufan and the others to the Emperor Road, which would open in a year.
• Qin Yi cautioned Hua Yunfei about the Emperor Road’s dangers and promised to arrange for Ancestors to stand guard and rescue them if needed.
• Lin Yang, who had become Sect Master after True Lord Yuntian’s death, invited True Lord Gouyuan to Kaoshan Peak for tea.

Lin Yang summoned True Lord Gouyuan and True Lord Wuji to discuss establishing a Funeral Hall, prompting both elders to fear he intended to send them off. After explaining the hall’s services, Lin Yang revealed his real purpose by asking True Lord Gouyuan to meet his death, while True Lord Wuji had already fled.

• True Lord Gouyuan panicked when Lin Yang invited him for tea, and True Lord Wuji arrived and realized he had received the same invitation.
• True Lord Gouyuan dragged True Lord Wuji to Kaoshan Peak, where they saw Lin Yang reading On the Ways a Cultivator Can Die.
• Lin Yang proposed a Funeral Hall to replace worn funeral robes and provide more elaborate funeral services, and the elders reluctantly agreed.
• As True Lord Gouyuan and True Lord Wuji tried to leave, Lin Yang asked True Lord Gouyuan to meet his death, while True Lord Wuji slipped away.

Kaoshan Sect’s Funeral Hall alarmed the elders, while Mu Qingqing asked Elder Hu to meet his death. At Dao Origin Peak, Hua Yunfei explained the sect’s rules and powerful ancestors, then approved his disciples’ plans to gain experience as the Golden Great Era’s prodigies emerged across the universe.

• Kaoshan Sect disciples read the Funeral Hall’s detailed notices, and rumors spread that Lin Yang was targeting the elders.
• Mu Qingqing requested that Elder Hu meet his death, making him regret defending Lin Yang.
• Hua Yunfei told Ye Bufan and the other disciples that Kaoshan Sect’s ancestors could easily overpower him and that Peak Masters had to follow sect rules.
• Yaya caught a spirit fish, and Ye Bufan and several fellow disciples asked Hua Yunfei for permission to travel and gain experience; he approved their departure.
• News spread of powerful prodigies emerging across the universe, including the Sun Moon Divine Son, Leng Xiaojun, Li Xuange, Ye Linyuan, Ji Xiang, and Ru Yi.

Hua Yunfei received an Unlimited Region Teleportation Array and considered using it to reach the Heaven Stealing Organization’s headquarters. Meanwhile, Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, Jia Duobao, and Chu Qing’er chased a thief who had escaped from an ancient tomb, and the story left them pursuing him after he called himself Uncle De.

• Hua Yunfei discussed delaying his breakthrough to the Great Emperor Realm until he perfected his Quasi-Emperor foundation and worried about undergoing an Emperor Tribulation before the entire universe.
• The system awarded Hua Yunfei an Unlimited Region Teleportation Array, which could take him to the Heaven Stealing Organization’s headquarters.
• Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, Jia Duobao, and Chu Qing’er broke into a Quasi-Emperor’s tomb after three months of excavating tombs under Jia Duobao’s lead.
• A figure dashed out of the tomb, evaded Ye Bufan and Huang Xuan’s binding technique, and fled while the four pursued him.
• Jia Duobao noticed that the fleeing man also carried a Bronze Compass, and the man cursed at them for following him and called himself Uncle De.

Jia Duobao discovered that someone else in Sun Moon Holy City carried a Bronze Compass, while its mysterious owner enlisted Gu Tianqiu to help him approach Chu Qing'er. The chapter ended as Gu Tianqiu and five companions barged into Ye Bufan’s private room and focused on Chu Qing'er.

• Jia Duobao told Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, and Chu Qing'er that his Bronze Compass had sensed another one nearby in Sun Moon Holy City.
• The Dao-robed youth, who also possessed a Bronze Compass, decided he wanted to take Jia Duobao’s compass but sought help because he was outnumbered.
• The Dao-robed youth showed Gu Tianqiu an image of Chu Qing'er and persuaded him to pursue her, warning him to bring several companions.
• Gu Tianqiu gathered five young men and entered Ye Bufan’s private room, then ignored Ye Bufan and asked Chu Qing'er for her name.

Gu Tianqiu tried to force Chu Qing'er to accompany him, but she injured his companion and refused to back down. The Sun Moon Divine Son killed one of Gu Tianqiu's allies and warned Gu Tianqiu to apologize, leaving him realizing Chu Qing'er and her senior brothers had a powerful connection.

• Gu Tianqiu demanded that Chu Qing'er go with him to Drunken Moon Terrace, and she refused before Ye Bufan encouraged her to fight if necessary.
• Chu Qing'er struck the Yellow-robed youth and sent him crashing through the restaurant wall, revealing that her apparent Divine Infant Realm cultivation was misleading.
• Gu Tianqiu and his remaining companions released their Lin Dao Realm auras, but Chu Qing'er told Ye Bufan and the others to let her handle them.
• The Sun Moon Divine Son arrived, and Gu Tianqiu explained that Chu Qing'er had refused him and injured his friend.
• After the Purple Clad Youth insulted Chu Qing'er, the Sun Moon Divine Son beheaded him and warned Gu Tianqiu to apologize if he wanted to live.

The Sun Moon Divine Son agreed to kill Gu Tianqiu and his companions after Ye Bufan revealed that he wanted them dead. He slaughtered the group outside Sun Moon Holy City, dismissed a Gu Family elder’s plea, and Gu Tianqiu’s death awakened an ancient Gu Family powerhouse who vowed revenge.

• Ye Bufan told the Sun Moon Divine Son that he wanted Gu Tianqiu and his companions dead, and the Divine Son agreed to handle it.
• Ye Bufan and his companions suspected Uncle De had sent Gu Tianqiu’s group to test their strength and went to confront him.
• Gu Tianqiu led his companions to an ancient forest outside Sun Moon Holy City and arranged an ambush while contacting elders for support.
• The Sun Moon Divine Son arrived at night and killed Gu Tianqiu’s five companions before mortally wounding Gu Tianqiu.
• A Gu Family elder’s phantom pleaded for Gu Tianqiu’s life, but the Sun Moon Divine Son refused and a Sun Moon Divine Cult expert dispelled the phantom.
• Gu Tianqiu died cursing Immoral, and an ancient Gu Family existence awakened in the Ancient Dao Star Domain and demanded the Sun Moon Divine Cult return his grandson’s life.

After Gu Tianqiu’s death, Old Ancestor Gu Feng and the Gu Family head devised a plan to demand compensation from the Sun Moon Divine Cult and seek revenge against the Sun Moon Divine Son on the Emperor Road. Gu Feng then led representatives of five other clans toward the Big Dipper Star Domain, believing someone else may have ordered Gu Tianqiu’s death.

• Old Ancestor Gu Feng awoke after Gu Tianqiu’s Spirit Tablet shattered and vowed to avenge his grandson by making the Sun Moon Divine Son pay.
• The Gu Family head warned that attacking the Sun Moon Divine Cult directly could start a devastating war between the two powers.
• The Gu Family head proposed demanding compensation and later killing the Sun Moon Divine Son on the Emperor Road, where his death could be attributed to the struggle for supremacy.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng revealed that his remnant soul had seen evidence that someone else may have ordered the Sun Moon Divine Son to kill Gu Tianqiu.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng contacted the families of Gu Tianqiu’s five fallen companions and led their powerful figures aboard a flying ship toward the Big Dipper Star Domain.

Hua Yunfei learned that the Gu Family might retaliate against the Sun Moon Divine Cult and discovered signs of a second Bronze Compass near Jia Duobao. Outside Sun Moon Holy City, Ye Bufan and his companions cornered Uncle De, but after he escaped by teleportation, a white-clad young man appeared carrying him unconscious.

• Hua Yunfei told the Sun Moon Divine Cult to respond to the Gu Family as it saw fit and said he would handle the consequences.
• Hua Yunfei traced a heavenly secret linked to the Bronze Compass and found it near Jia Duobao, suggesting another fragment was nearby.
• Ye Bufan, Jia Duobao, Huang Xuan, and their companion confronted Uncle De and demanded his Bronze Compass.
• Uncle De pretended to surrender, then escaped on a teleportation platform despite Ye Bufan and Huang Xuan blocking him.
• Before Jia Duobao could use the Bronze Compass to track Uncle De, a white-clad young man emerged from a rift carrying the unconscious Dao-robed youth.

Hua Yunfei examined Jia Duobao’s Bronze Compass alongside the one taken from a Dao-robed youth and glimpsed a mysterious golden building and a bloodied woman in a hidden realm. He concluded that more compasses were needed to uncover their secret, and Jia Duobao planned to search for them when the Emperor Road opened.

• Hua Yunfei reunited with Ye Bufan and the others after subduing the Dao-robed youth, and Jia Duobao searched the prisoner’s belongings.
• Jia Duobao found the Dao-robed youth’s wealth and a second Bronze Compass in his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven.
• Hua Yunfei studied the two Bronze Compasses and sensed that they contained supreme Dao principles beyond his ability to trace.
• Hua Yunfei infused the compasses with his Dao principles, triggering a vision of a blurred golden building and a woman covered in blood before the Chaos Qi drove his consciousness away.
• Hua Yunfei told Jia Duobao that more Bronze Compasses were needed, and Jia Duobao resolved to seek them among cultivators entering the Emperor Road in seven months.

Yaya's glowing belly released a powerful force, prompting Hua Yunfei to return to the sect while Ye Bufan and the others continued their travels. Three days later, Old Ancestor Gu Feng confronted the Sun Moon Divine Cult over his grandson's death and demanded the Divine Son's life in compensation.

• Yaya's belly glowed in the Hundred Herbs Garden, and Qin Yi and the sect's elders suppressed the mysterious power it released.
• Qin Yi comforted Yaya and informed Hua Yunfei, who decided to return to check on her while Ye Bufan and his companions stayed out to gain experience.
• Hua Yunfei warned the four disciples against recklessness and tomb robbing, then left the Dao-robed youth in their hands.
• Jia Duobao kept the youth to learn his tomb-robbing techniques, Huang Xuan placed a Slave Seal on him, and the youth woke to find his treasures gone.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng arrived at the Sun Moon Divine Cult with five companions and demanded the Sun Moon Divine Son's life as compensation for his grandson.

Old Ancestor Gu Feng and five others demanded the Sun Moon Divine Son’s life in retaliation for their slain juniors, but the Sun Moon Cult Master used the cult’s home-ground advantage to make them back down. The six left without compensation, while the Sun Moon Divine Cult celebrated their retreat.

• Old Ancestor Gu Feng demanded the Sun Moon Divine Son’s life, and the Sun Moon Cult Master summoned him and offered him up.
• The Sun Moon Cult Master challenged Old Ancestor Gu Feng to strike, knowing the six were inside the Sun Moon Divine Cult and could be trapped there.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng proposed compensation in resources, but the Sun Moon Cult Master insisted on a life for a life and left the Sun Moon Divine Son exposed before the six.
• The Yellow-robed Middle-aged Man attacked the Sun Moon Divine Son, but Old Ancestor Gu Feng stopped his blow and warned that none of them would escape if they fought.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng led the five others away, and the Sun Moon Cult Master waved them off as the cult’s disciples laughed at their retreat.

Old Ancestor Gu Feng tracked the Kaoshan Sect disciples to an ancient tomb and attacked Ye Bufan and his companions, blaming them for his grandson’s death. Ye Bufan’s master emerged from his ring and killed Gu Feng with a single strike, leaving the other elders facing an overwhelming foe.

• Old Ancestor Gu Feng and five Gu Family elders investigated Gu Tianqiu’s death in Sun Moon Holy City and learned that Kaoshan Sect disciples had been involved in the dispute.
• Gu Feng failed to find the disciples in the city and led the group toward Kaoshan Sect, searching for them as they traveled.
• Beneath an ancient mountain range, Jia Duobao obtained the first volume of Immoral’s treasure-hunting secret art, while Immoral kept the second volume hidden.
• Gu Feng and the five elders found Ye Bufan and his companions in an ancient tomb, accused them of provoking the Sun Moon Divine Son, and attacked without allowing them to explain.
• Ye Bufan’s white-robed master emerged from his ring, shattered Gu Feng’s attack, and cut Gu Feng’s body into eight pieces.

Hua Yunfei defeated Old Ancestor Gu Feng and forced the surviving attackers to submit. After killing one man who threatened Kaoshan Sect, he collected the group’s treasures and let them leave, while a mysterious power clung to their souls.

• Hua Yunfei’s overwhelming power left Old Ancestor Gu Feng in pieces and forced the five remaining attackers to kneel.
• Ye Bufan mocked Old Ancestor Gu Feng’s defeat, and the old man meekly agreed to call it a public fart.
• Hua Yunfei killed the Green-robed Middle-aged Man when he boasted about his faction, then marked the others with a special power.
• Hua Yunfei demanded the group surrender their valuables or die, and Old Ancestor Gu Feng and the others handed over their treasures before departing.

After Immoral and the Kaoshan Sect disciples took the treasures from their defeated enemies, Ye Bufan neared the Sage Realm and prepared for a dangerous tribulation tied to the Primordial Sacred Body. Hua Yunfei and the sect’s old ancestors began gathering support, while the defeated clansmen fled under a warning not to threaten the Kaoshan Sect.

• Hua Yunfei let Ye Bufan, Jia Duobao, Huang Xuan, and Chu Qing'er divide the treasures, while Jia Duobao promised Immoral a share if he found three Great Emperors’ mausoleums.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng warned his companions not to speak ill of the Kaoshan Sect because Hua Yunfei had tampered with their souls, and they continued toward the Ancient Dao Star Domain in silence.
• Five months later, Ye Bufan began approaching the Sage Realm, and his companions warned that the Primordial Sacred Body’s tribulation could kill him.
• Hua Yunfei told Ye Bufan to wait beyond the outer realm and asked Lin Yang to bring capable old ancestors to guard the tribulation.
• Lin Yang and True Lord Yuntian opened the Ancestral Tomb with ten old ancestors, then decided to summon additional people from the Ancestral Temple for safety.

True Lord Yuntian and the other elders summoned ancestors from the Ancestral Tomb to protect Senior Brother Bufan during his tribulation. Dozens of ancestors emerged, and Lin Yang told them the disciple was waiting beyond the domain.

• True Lord Yuntian told Lin Yang to wait outside while he and the other elders entered the Ancestral Tomb.
• The Purple-robed Middle-aged Man emerged, followed by the white-robed middle-aged man, who kicked him out of the doorway.
• The green-gowned woman emerged and urged the two men to mind their conduct in front of the juniors.
• Dozens of ancestors came out of the Ancestral Tomb, eager to protect the disciple undergoing tribulation and explore the outside world.
• Lin Yang told the ancestors that Senior Brother Bufan was waiting beyond the domain.

Ye Bufan began his Sage Realm tribulation, enduring a vast barrage of lightning while the Primordial Sacred Body’s curse emerged. As hostile forces stirred and an unseen voice declared that the Sacred Body’s path could not be continued, Hua Yunfei answered with a challenge.

• In a mysterious region beyond the Primordial Universe, ancient beings discussed stopping Ye Bufan and destroying the forces that supported the Sacred Body’s path.
• Hua Yunfei arrived on a Dead Star and told Ye Bufan that he had secured the area for his tribulation.
• Ye Bufan released his restraints, entered the Sage Realm threshold, and used the Thunder Emperor Scripture to absorb and fight through increasingly powerful lightning tribulations.
• Nine Nether and Yixiantian stirred as Ye Bufan’s tribulation began.
• An eerie mark appeared on Ye Bufan, triggering the Sacred Body’s curse and leaving him badly wounded by a nine-colored bolt.
• An unseen voice declared that the Sacred Body’s path could not be continued, and Hua Yunfei challenged it before a scream rang out.

The ancestors subdued two strange figures connected to the Life Forbidden Zones as they investigated an Immortal aura sensed in Nine Netherworld and Yixiantian. After the threat near Ye Bufan was dealt with, the rune cursing him faded and his strength returned, while three powerful figures decided to explore the forbidden zones.

• The white-robed middle-aged man, the palace-robed woman, and the Purple-robed Middle-aged Man sensed an Immortal aura within Nine Netherworld and discussed the secrets of the Life Forbidden Zones.
• A strange figure from Yixiantian approached Ye Bufan during his tribulation, but the Kaoshan Sect ancestors surrounded and beat him.
• The ancestors found mysterious matter and black blood in the strange figure, and the Purple-robed Middle-aged Man discovered that the figure was a corpse animated as if alive.
• The three powerful figures agreed to enter the Life Forbidden Zones after settling matters, using their avatars to investigate.
• The strange rune on Ye Bufan faded after the two figures were subdued, restoring his strength as Hua Yunfei wondered whether a bloodline curse prevented Great Accomplishment Sacred Bodies from becoming Great Emperors.

Ye Bufan battled twelve Great Emperor Laws bodies during his heavenly tribulation while Hua Yunfei and the Kaoshan Sect ancestors watched. After the ancestors protected the area from intruders, three forefathers revealed they planned to enter the Life Forbidden Zone to find a way to protect Ye Bufan, and Hua Yunfei lent them his imperial weapons.

• Ye Bufan fought through the nine-colored tribulation and drew twelve Great Emperor Laws bodies, including Great Emperor Xuanhuang’s, while Sun Moon Holy Emperor recognized Hua Yunfei and Jia Duobao.
• The Kaoshan Sect ancestors complained that too few enemies had come to obstruct the tribulation, and the Tianji Peak ancestor killed two Heaven Stealing Organization Quasi-Emperors who approached.
• Ye Bufan fought the twelve Laws bodies as Sun Moon Holy Emperor repeatedly self-destructed and persuaded other Great Emperors to do the same.
• Hua Yunfei left the tribulation area and greeted the Kaoshan Sect ancestors, where the Dao Origin Peak ancestor kicked the Tianji Peak ancestor away.
• The three white-robed forefathers announced that they would enter the Life Forbidden Zone to seek a solution to the danger surrounding Ye Bufan’s tribulations.
• Hua Yunfei gave the forefathers his imperial weapons, and the Purple-robed Middle-aged Man put on the Sky Breaking Battle Armor before setting out.