Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen overwhelmed Heaven of No Desire, but the wounded deity fled to the Heavenly Pillar and destroyed it, unleashing a catastrophe across the human realm and Sixfold Heavenly Realm. As the world sank and the Four Symbols Divine Beings failed to hold it up, a supreme deity in the final three heavens watched and called the disaster humanity’s final chance.

• Ning Chen recovered through Phoenix Nirvana, turned the battle against Heaven of No Desire, and repeatedly wounded him until his martial bones and foundation were shattered.
• Ning Chen pursued Heaven of No Desire through the heavenly realms and toward the human realm, growing increasingly uneasy about the deity’s destination.
• Heaven of No Desire changed course at the boundary and burned his divine soul and essence to crash into the Heavenly Pillar, despite Ning Chen’s attempt to stop him.
• The Heavenly Pillar collapsed, causing the human realm and Sixfold Heavenly Realm to sink as earthquakes and earthly fire spread across the world.
• Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise appeared to support the tilting world, but their bodies shattered after only a few breaths.
• A supreme deity in the final three heavens observed the catastrophe and declared that humanity had received its final chance.

The collapse of the Heavenly Pillar unleashed the Great Tribulation, and Ning Chen sought a way to repair it while helping contain the spreading catastrophe. The Demon Lord warned him that darkness had already descended upon the human realm.

• The Heavenly Pillar collapsed, and the Four Symbols Divine Beings disintegrated as cracks opened between the human realm and the Heavenly Realm; the upheaval awakened ancient memories in the Underworld King Yama.
• Hua Zhongdie went to find Ning Chen while Xia Ziyi organized the evacuation of Consort Luo, Luo Xingchen, Mu Qianshang, Qing Ling, and others, giving them ten days to rescue as many people as possible.
• Ning Chen told Hua Zhongdie that the realms might soon connect and urged her to return to the human realm when the passage opened; he also decided to seek help repairing the Heavenly Pillar and finding Xin Yu's soul.
• At the Rising Sun Divine Palace, Ning Chen helped the Moon God and the Rising Sun God stabilize the Southern Borderlands, and the Rising Sun God revealed that Chaos Earth, Chaos Fire, Chaos Water, and Chaos Wood could repair the Heavenly Pillar.
• The Demon Lord summoned Ning Chen to Buddha Mountain and warned him that darkness had descended upon the human realm.

Ning Chen learned that Darkness Power had descended and went to the Water Cloud Imperial Palace, where he found the Empress transformed by darkness and was overwhelmed in battle. As survivors fled the collapsing Heaven of No Desire, darkness struck their floating islands, showing that the Three Realms faced the tribulation together.

• Ning Chen questioned the Demon Venerable about darkness and learned that even ancient records offered no explanation for it.
• The Demon Venerable urged Ning Chen to leave the human world, but Ning Chen said he would stay until he found a safe pure land for his friends.
• After a rift opened in the northern sky, Ning Chen flew to the Water Cloud Imperial Palace and found the Water Cloud Heavenly Maidens dead and the Empress corrupted by Darkness Power.
• The Empress attacked Ning Chen, and her Darkness Power swallowed both his divine essence and demonic essence.
• Human experts and Heavenly Venerates evacuated people from the Heaven of No Desire as it collapsed, while Yin'er watched from a floating island.
• Darkness swept over another floating island, killing its inhabitants and a Heavenly Venerate as the survivors saw black currents spreading toward them.

Darkness overwhelmed the human world and possessed the Empress, forcing Ning Chen into a losing battle. After the Empress knocked him into an abyss, Ning Chen fell through a rift onto a distant star, where a woman and her child took him home as darkness continued to consume him.

• Xia Ziyi used his demonic power to hold back the Darkness Power while human cultivators escaped, but he and Consort Luo were eventually swallowed by darkness.
• Ning Chen fought the darkened Empress, and the Rising Sun God spread the power of light to briefly restore her consciousness.
• The Empress begged Ning Chen to kill her, but darkness returned and blocked his strike before she counterattacked.
• The Empress hurled a black spear toward Southern Border, severely wounding the Rising Sun God, the Moon God, and Hua Zhongdie.
• The Empress struck Ning Chen into a vast abyss, then dispersed into black currents and vanished.
• Ning Chen fell from a rift onto a star, where a woman and her child rescued him and carried him toward their city on an ox.

Ning Chen recovered his cultivation while living quietly with the woman and child who had saved him, but the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth began tearing through the Purple Star Starfield. After the Heavenly Venerates recognized him as the Grand Elder Realm Lord, Ning Chen left for the Immortal Realm, determined to confront the calamity and uncover its secrets.

• Ning Chen helped the woman with household chores and shared a peaceful meal with her and her child while suppressing the dormant Darkness Power.
• Ning Chen decided to leave the next day as his cultivation had nearly recovered, while the Great Tribulation opened a spreading rift at the edge of the Purple Star Starfield.
• Ancient Sun Venerable and the human experts struggled to contain the calamity until Ning Chen's sword light stabilized the collapsing starry sky.
• Ning Chen calmed the earthquake in the small city and told the woman that the people there were the human realm's final hope.
• The human realm's Heavenly Venerates bowed to Ning Chen, confirming his identity as the Grand Elder Realm Lord, and he departed toward the Immortal Realm.

Ning Chen traveled to the ruined Eastern Immortal Realm to investigate the Great Tribulation and the Darkness Power. In an Azure Coffin, he discovered that Darkness Power had appeared when immortals ascended, and entered its starry-sky world to learn more.

• Ning Chen warned the Human Realm's venerables that the Great Tribulation and an unknown Darkness Power threatened them, then set out alone for the Four Great Immortal Realms.
• Ning Chen crossed Demon Wheel Sea and entered the ruined Eastern Immortal Realm, seeking answers about its former lord and the darkness.
• Ning Chen found that only one of the three Azure Coffins remained and wondered who had taken the coffin containing a bloodstained white garment.
• Ning Chen opened the remaining Azure Coffin and saw its world unfold through the ancient era, where black aura appeared around an immortal undergoing tribulation.
• Ning Chen recognized the aura as Darkness Power, concluded it originated from ascended immortals, and entered the coffin's starry-sky world to investigate further.

Ning Chen observed the origins and growth of the Darkness Power inside the Azure Coffin, but the Eastern Immortal Lord erased it before he could learn how it returned in later ages. As Ning Chen’s vitality dwindled, the Great Tribulation struck the Three Realms, and Hua Zhongdie charged at the All Heavens Divine Demons threatening the human realm.

• Ning Chen watched the human realm’s accumulated evil thoughts form the Darkness Power, which gained faint consciousness before the Eastern Immortal Lord’s sword scattered it.
• Ning Chen observed a gifted young man ascend to the Immortal Realm, become the Northern Immortal Lord’s disciple, and gradually seize control through ambition and purges.
• Ning Chen suspected something was wrong with the young man but could sense no darkness in him, while seventy thousand years in the Azure Coffin left Ning Chen close to collapse.
• The Great Tribulation broke the barrier between the human realm and Heavenly Realm, and descending Gods and Devils plunged the Three Realms into turmoil.
• Hua Zhongdie, Luo Xingchen, and their allies slew more than a hundred Sixfold Heavenly Realm powerhouses, then learned from Ancient Sun Venerable that Zhiming was safe and seeking a way to face the tribulation.
• The All Heavens Divine Demons gathered over the Purple Star Divine Realm, and Hua Zhongdie drew Burial Flower and charged at them.

Hua Zhongdie slaughtered the gods threatening the Purple Star Divine Realm as Ning Chen watched the ancient war between humanity and the Primeval Demonic Realm unfold. He discovered the Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm at a tomb, where a little white flower began the chain of reincarnation, and the chapter ended with the blue-clad young man devouring the origins of immortals and demons.

• Hua Zhongdie used Funeral Blossom to trap and slaughter All Heavens Divine Demons, restoring temporary peace to the Purple Star Divine Realm.
• Ning Chen watched the young man in blue seize control of much of the Northern Immortal Realm and suspected he was connected to the darkness.
• The Primeval Demonic Realm's ten Devil Lords invaded humanity, and the Four Great Immortal Realms suffered a crushing defeat before the Queen Mother of the West blocked the demonic army with a celestial river.
• Ning Chen searched for the missing Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm across humanity and the Heavenly Realm, then found him standing before a tomb in the void.
• After the Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm departed, a pure white flower sprouted from the tomb and drifted into humanity to enter reincarnation, while Ning Chen later forgot her.
• The Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm returned to humanity, slew nine Devil Lords, and helped end the war, after which the blue-clad young man began devouring the origins of immortals and demons.

After seventy thousand years in the Azure Coffin world, Ning Chen recovered as the Immortal Divine Tree renewed his life force and witnessed the Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm send his wife’s memories through reincarnation. The Lord and the Underworld King Yama eventually entered reincarnation themselves, while Ning Chen watched a youth, a maiden, and others begin to meet in the mortal world.

• Ning Chen’s life force recovered when the Immortal Divine Tree awakened and nourished him.
• The Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm sent reflections of his memories with his deceased wife into the mortal world, where they entered a woman’s womb.
• The woman’s daughter lived several short lives, each ending before she reached thirty, as the reflections gradually gained spirituality and life force.
• The Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm and the Underworld King Yama entered reincarnation to seek the truth of it.
• In the mortal world, a youth met a maiden and a woman in red, while a beautiful girl watched the youth with admiration.

The Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm watched the youth and the woman in white repeat their fatal entanglement across nine lives, while the red-clad woman waited for him through each cycle. After the youth emerged from seclusion to find the girl who had saved him dead, he confronted Taishang, but a rift in heaven and earth swallowed him as an impossible tenth life began.

• The youth returned victorious from war, but a foreign princess in white assassinated him and then killed herself, binding them in karmic ties.
• Across successive reincarnations, the woman in white hunted and killed the youth, while the woman in red watched and grieved.
• In the ninth life, the youth defeated the woman in white during his tribulation but failed to ascend and fell into the mortal world.
• A young girl saved the wounded youth and stayed beside him as he cultivated anew, then died while he was in seclusion.
• After emerging to find the girl dead, the youth ascended through the thunder and stopped Taishang's attack, snapping her sword.
• A vast rift opened in heaven, and the Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm tried to hold back the collapsing space-time before a vortex swallowed him.

In his tenth life, the Immortal Lord was born as Qingsheng, Crown Prince of the embattled Qing Dynasty, and went to war after his father fell in battle. Qingsheng died defending his soldiers from the Jurchens, while the Immortal Lord returned to halt the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.

• Qingsheng came of age as the Jurchens renewed their invasion, and the Qing Dynasty Emperor left to lead the army.
• During Qingsheng and Ji Hui’s wedding, General Yun reported that the Emperor had fallen in battle, so Qingsheng took a horse and rode to the front lines.
• Qingsheng led reinforcements against the Jurchens and clashed with the Jurchen Eldest Princess, a woman in white.
• The Jurchen army surrounded Qingsheng, and archers killed him with a rain of arrows as Ji Hui arrived in her red wedding gown.
• The Immortal Lord’s memories of ten lives rewound as the Great Tribulation descended, and he returned to halt it; the Lord of the Northern Immortal Realm emerged from seclusion while a young man in azure robes watched coldly.

Ning Chen learned how the ancient Great Tribulation unfolded and concluded that humanity needed to see hope again to weaken the Darkness Power. He began moving the ruined Eastern Immortal Realm toward the stars to rebuild it, with Hua Zhongdie joining him.

• Ning Chen watched the ancient Great Tribulation in the Azure Coffin world and saw the Lord of the Eastern Immortal Realm sacrifice himself to repair the Heavenly Pillar and repel the darkness.
• Ning Chen determined that overcoming the calamity required mending the heavens, repairing the Heavenly Pillar, and slaying the darkness, and that restoring hope could weaken the Darkness Power.
• Ning Chen left the Azure Coffin world, summoned eight dragons, and pushed the ruined Eastern Immortal Realm toward the starry sky.
• Hua Zhongdie and the others saw Ning Chen moving the Immortal Realm, and Hua Zhongdie flew over to ask what he intended.
• Ning Chen said he planned to rebuild the Immortal Realm, and Hua Zhongdie agreed to help by anchoring her sleeves into its land.

As Ning Chen searched for the Northern Immortal Realm with Hua Zhongdie, the other experts reunited the Eastern, Western, and Southern Immortal Realms in the Purple Star Starfield. Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie remained trapped in a vast fissure, where a Black Cocoon was nearing completion as humanity’s darkness grew stronger.

• Ning Chen sent allies to locate and move the Western and Southern Immortal Realms, then set out with Hua Zhongdie to find the Northern Immortal Realm and search for Ziyi and Consort Luo.
• Ning Chen explained that human beings’ negative emotions were the source of Darkness Power as he and Hua Zhongdie entered the ruined Myriad Phenomena Star Domain.
• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie crossed into a vast Mark of Heaven fissure after finding no way around it.
• The Moonlit Tower Master, Luo Xingchen, and their allies moved the Western Immortal Realm, while Qing Ling and the others moved the Southern Immortal Realm toward the Purple Star Starfield.
• The Eastern, Western, and Southern Immortal Realms merged in the Purple Star Starfield, while the assembled experts worried that Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie had not returned.
• A Black Cocoon drifted deep inside the fissure, growing stronger as darkness in human hearts increased and its emergence drew near.

Ning Chen sacrificed himself to send Hua Zhongdie out of the void world, but Death God Mingyuan defeated him and had him taken to the Nether Prison. As the Nether King declared the mortal world doomed and God insisted it still had hope, Ning Chen awakened in the prison and began expelling the Darkness Power.

• As darkness engulfed the route to the other shore, Ning Chen used the Immortal Severance Sword to send Hua Zhongdie out and stayed behind to face the darkness taking human form.
• The woman, Death God Mingyuan, overwhelmed Ning Chen with her Death Scythe and Darkness Power, then seized him and swallowed him in darkness.
• Hua Zhongdie sensed Ning Chen's aura vanish and left to seek the Northern Immortal Realm; in the Purple Star Starfield, A'man felt Ning Chen's life flame fading and disappeared.
• Mingyuan ordered a Nether general to take Ning Chen to the Nether Prison as a sacrifice, where Consort Luo and Xia Ziyi were also being held.
• The Nether King declared that the mortal world had reached its end, while God appeared in a divine sun and said the mortal world would not be destroyed.
• In the Nether Prison, the Heavenly Tome of Creation drove Darkness Power from Ning Chen's body, and he opened his eyes and stood up.

Ning Chen awakened in the Underworld Prison and tried to escape with Xia Ziyi and Consort Luo, but Death God Mingyuan and Plague God attacked him. The two Dark Kings overwhelmed him, leaving Plague God’s hand plunged through his chest as darkness consumed the Three Realms.

• Ning Chen awakened in the Underworld Prison and found Xia Ziyi and Consort Luo still trapped in darkness.
• Ning Chen heard imprisoned Gods and Devils beg for rescue, but Mingyuan appeared and crushed them before he could act.
• Ning Chen tried to flee, but Mingyuan blocked his path and Plague God tore off one of his Phoenix Wings.
• Ning Chen blocked Mingyuan’s scythe, severed his corroding left arm, and regenerated it with his Undying Demonic Body.
• Mingyuan and Plague God joined forces and drove Ning Chen back, wounding him repeatedly.
• Plague God drove his hand through Ning Chen’s chest as darkness descended upon the human world.

Ning Chen fought Mingyuan and the Plague God inside Nether Prison, using a newly formed chaos flame to break through their darkness and escape. Though Mingyuan’s spear pierced him as he fled, Hua Zhongdie caught him, and they set out to return.

• Ning Chen fused his phoenix, demonic, and immortal flames into a chaos flame to resist Mingyuan and the Plague God.
• Mingyuan and the Plague God unleashed their powers together, forcing Ning Chen to enter the Divine Domain and burn his body with the backlash.
• Ning Chen summoned two immortal swords and struck both Dark Kings, opening a flaw in their killing trap.
• Ning Chen transformed the chaos flames into wings and escaped the World of Darkness, but Mingyuan’s black spear pierced him.
• Hua Zhongdie caught the falling Ning Chen and told him they would return.

As Hua Zhongdie fought twelve experts of Darkness while carrying the unconscious Ning Chen toward the Purple Star Starfield, A'man arrived and revealed a power capable of killing one of their merged foes. The battle ended with the first victory for the forces of light against Darkness.

• Hua Zhongdie fought off twelve experts of Darkness as she dragged the shattered continent of the Northern Immortal Realm toward the Purple Star Starfield, while Ning Chen's sword intent helped her land a blow.
• The twelve experts restored their wounded companion by sharing their vitality, and Hua Zhongdie burned her blood and demonic essence to increase her strength.
• The twelve experts merged into one and attacked Hua Zhongdie with a black halberd, but A'man arrived and blocked a lethal strike with the Sword of Original Heart.
• A'man reassured Hua Zhongdie that Ning Chen was safe, then met the merged expert's renewed attack with her blue ancient sword.
• A'man severed the black halberd and inflicted an unhealable wound on the expert of Darkness, killing him and giving light its first victory.

Ning Chen returned to the human realm with the restored Northern Immortal Realm and set about reopening the Four Great Immortal Realms. With Little Gourd’s help, he revived life across the lands, then called on the Rising Sun God and the Moon God to create a sun and moon for them.

• Hua Zhongdie moved the Northern Immortal Realm toward the Purple Star Starfield while A'man protected the unconscious Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen awoke, reunited with Yin'er and the human realm’s experts, and confirmed that he would reopen the Immortal Realm.
• Ning Chen summoned the will of heaven and earth from the Green Cauldron and asked Little Gourd to bring life back to the barren lands.
• Little Gourd’s blood caused greenery to spread, and Ning Chen joined the four shattered lands and expanded life across the Immortal Realm.
• The Rising Sun God and the Moon God answered Ning Chen’s request and created a sun and moon above the restored Immortal Realm.

Ning Chen rebuilt the Immortal Realm and sought the Four Symbols Divine Beings’ origins to help it thrive, despite his worsening injuries. As he struggled to preserve a refuge for humanity, Nether Abyss brought the Nether Prison and Darkness Power into the human world.

• Ning Chen restored vitality to the Immortal Realm, while Qing Ling wondered whether A'man was an ancient immortal reincarnated.
• The Moon God and Rising Sun God created the sun and moon, and Ning Chen decided to seek the Four Symbols Divine Beings’ origins to strengthen the Immortal Realm.
• Ning Chen called for the Vermilion Bird and sent Mu Qianshang to invite the descendants of the Black Tortoise and Water God Tian Wu.
• Ning Chen’s injuries worsened as he continued rebuilding the Immortal Realm, determined to leave a refuge for humanity.
• A majestic voice ordered Nether Abyss to destroy the human world and reclaim the Four Immortal Slaying Swords, and Nether Abyss obeyed.
• The God of Death and the Nether Prison appeared in the Myriad Phenomena Star Domain, where Darkness Power engulfed countless living beings.

Ning Chen and the Human Realm's experts completed the Immortal Realm, but Death God Mingyuan attacked as Ning Chen faced the heavenly tribulation. A'man held Mingyuan off until Ning Chen intervened, drawing on the Immortal Realm's power to drive back the darkness.

• Ning Chen welcomed the Vermilion Bird after defeating her in eleven moves, and she joined the Four Symbols Divine Beings in completing the Immortal Realm's laws.
• The Four Symbols perfected the Heavenly Dao, and Ning Chen went beyond the Immortal Realm to block the greater world's lightning tribulation.
• Darkness threatened the Immortal Realm, so A'man left to hold it back while Ning Chen continued resisting the tribulation.
• Death God Mingyuan appeared and attacked Ning Chen, but A'man blocked her and was wounded as she fought to protect him.
• Ning Chen stopped Mingyuan's Death Scythe and drew power from the Immortal Realm, bringing light back to the starry sky.