Chapter Summaries

Su Ye explained the Three Realms and High Heavens, then revealed the origins of the Dark Cataclysm and the forces behind it. He left the assembled powers with the truth that their worlds were subordinate realms being harvested by dark beings.

• The Black Emperor condemned Imperial Pass and refused to protect the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, while Shi Hao realized how powerful the dog was.
• The Black Emperor asked Su Ye about his origins, and Su Ye instead challenged everyone to explain the Three Realms and the High Heavens.
• Su Ye described the Human Realm, the Longevity Realm, and the High Heavens, placing the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths in the Human Realm and the Immortal Domain in the Longevity Realm.
• Su Ye said Dark Creatures sought to devour the High Heavens and had corrupted a newly ascended Immortal Emperor in a subordinate world.
• Su Ye revealed that the lord of the Ancient Heavenly Court launched the Dark Cataclysm to obtain Immortal Emperor scriptures, while fallen Immortal Kings helped stage recurring harvests.
• Su Ye explained that four fallen half-step Immortal Emperors created two Origin Ancient Artifacts to weaken their enemies, with one failing in the Burial Ground and the other corrupting the Foreign Realm.

Su Ye arranged a one-on-one contest between Shi Hao and the Foreign Realm’s arriving prodigies, while warning that only One-Crown Kings should enter. Shi Hao killed one challenger and began fighting Chi Hong, a descendant of the Red King, whose interest in Shi Hao grew after seeing his Thunder Emperor’s Treasure Art.

• Su Ye dismissed Hei Yuan’s questions and welcomed the stronger Foreign Realm prodigies, while Hei Yuan insisted the contest remain one-on-one.
• Su Ye warned the crowd not to enter unless they had the strength of a One-Crown King, and Qi Daolin explained the title to Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao stepped forward to fight, shattered a Foreign Realm prodigy’s ordered-flame spear, and killed him with a punch.
• Chi Hong intercepted Shi Hao’s attack and identified him as a descendant of the Stone King, then revealed that his ancestor was the Red King.
• Shi Hao struck at Chi Hong and used the Thunder Emperor’s Treasure Art to break the Order Divine chains; Chi Hong recognized the art and prepared to fight seriously.

Su Ye challenged three Foreign Realm experts on the Battle Immortal Platform and fought them using his fused techniques. He defeated the Nine Phoenix but faced a metal being whose body was as tough as immortal gold.

• A Divine Fire youth revealed a damaged Reincarnation Disc and claimed to be the heir of the Immortal King of Six Paths Reincarnation, then challenged others for Divine Medicine.
• A Foreign Realm expert entered the Battle Immortal Platform and fought the Divine Fire youth.
• Su Ye offered to fight three opponents at once, and Hei Yuan sent three Foreign Realm powerhouses to face him.
• Su Ye attacked the Nine Phoenix with nine forms and a river of spacetime, then evaded its clinging crimson flames.
• Su Ye’s sword torrent struck a metal being, who declared that the attack was too weak to harm him.

Su Ye fought Nine Phoenix, the Divine Gold Spirit, and a woman empowered by the Thunder Emperor’s blood, defeating and suppressing all three with ease. He imprisoned the woman and the Divine Gold Spirit in a Heaven and Earth Furnace and began making preparations for an unknown threat.

• Su Ye traced the blood-and-thunder woman’s origins and discovered that a Foreign Realm expert had made her a vessel for Thunder Emperor’s blood and Dark Matter.
• Su Ye broke the Divine Gold Spirit’s chains and overwhelmed him with punches that threatened to grind away his innate Dao patterns.
• The blood-and-thunder woman attacked Su Ye, but he snapped her spear and punched through her chest before Nine Phoenix turned his divine beams on them both.
• Su Ye used distorted space-time to evade Nine Phoenix’s beams, then trapped Nine Phoenix with World in Palm.
• Su Ye placed the blood-and-thunder woman and the Divine Gold Spirit in a Heaven and Earth Furnace and began feeding it magic power and Order patterns.

Su Ye refined an artifact from the three slain Foreign Realm prodigies, drawing a terrifying lightning tribulation that struck it before vanishing. Hei Yuan summoned Chiqing, a direct disciple of the Red King Lineage, but Chiqing's time power had no effect on Su Ye.

• Su Ye continued refining an artifact with the three Foreign Realm prodigies' remains, and a vast lightning tribulation descended on it.
• Su Ye threw the unfinished artifact into the Thunder Sea, which vanished after the lightning struck; he then challenged Hei Yuan to send stronger prodigies.
• Hei Yuan announced that a direct disciple of an imperial clan had arrived, and Chiqing appeared on the altar.
• Chiqing identified himself as a descendant of the Red King and attacked Su Ye with fragments of time after Su Ye insulted his ancestor.
• Su Ye stood unharmed in Chiqing's temporal rain, leaving Chiqing shocked that his power had failed.

Su Ye defeated Chiqing by making him believe he was an ordinary office worker named Qingchi, shattering his Dao heart and destroying his Divine Soul. After taking Chiqing’s Precious Bone and cleansing his body, Su Ye entrusted Qingyi and the others to Black Emperor and said he would leave to cultivate for about ten years.

• Su Ye resisted Chiqing’s Way of Time and Space and told him that he was too weak.
• Su Ye used the voice of the Great Dao to make Chiqing believe he was Qingchi, an ordinary office worker, and Chiqing’s consciousness perished.
• Hei Yuan panicked over Chiqing’s death, and Su Ye revealed that he had broken Chiqing’s Dao heart and destroyed his Divine Soul.
• Su Ye revealed Chiqing’s Time-Space Beast form, extracted its Precious Bone, and cleansed its body of Dark Matter.
• Su Ye gave the Time-Space Beast to Qingyi and entrusted its Primal Precious Bone to Black Emperor, who promised to protect them while Su Ye cultivated away for around ten years.

Su Ye watched the Reception Ancient Hall seize an Immortal King and revealed that the true calamity would come from the Ultimate Ancient Land a million years later. When a mutilated Immortal Emperor appeared and questioned Su Ye’s existence, Su Ye approached him, while people across the heavens began forgetting Su Ye.

• The Reception Ancient Hall appeared across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, the Foreign Realm, and the Immortal Domain, then dragged away the descending Immortal King of the Foreign Realm.
• Su Ye told Black Emperor and the young man of Divine Fire that the true calamity would come from the Ultimate Ancient Land and the dark-invaded Immortal Emperor sealed there, a million years in the future.
• The heavens revealed the mutilated Immortal Emperor chained to a stone chair, and he addressed Su Ye, saying he could not find him in time or history.
• Su Ye mocked the Immortal Emperor and claimed his level was higher, then stepped toward him as people began forgetting who Su Ye was.
• Shi Hao noticed the memory loss and found that Big Black Dog and Qingyi still seemed to remember Su Ye.

Su Ye erased every trace of himself from the world to avoid being captured after revealing the coming catastrophe, sacrificing his cultivation and making everyone forget him. Alone, he accepted the Samsara Jade Disk’s power, and his Chaos began transforming the surrounding land and its inhabitants.

• At Celestial Academy, Shi Hao discovered that the Black Emperor, Qingyi, Feng Wu, and the others had forgotten Su Ye, then fought the Black Emperor over their promised share of Divine Medicine.
• Su Ye explained that he had faked his death by erasing himself from the world to escape the attention of powerful figures, but the act stripped away his cultivation and erased him from everyone’s memories.
• Su Ye’s Samsara Eye began evolving as the Samsara Jade Disk’s power invaded him, and he chose to stop resisting and absorb its power.
• Su Ye’s Chaos spread across ten thousand li, first withering the land and then nurturing its plants and beasts into more advanced forms; those unable to withstand it underwent Dao Transformation.

Su Ye opened his Wheel Sea using the Human Body Secret Realm System and encountered the Purple-Clad Woman within the Samsara Jade Disk. She explained the disk’s origins and warned him that the Dark Immortal Emperor and the Child of Destiny remembered him, leaving him little time.

• Su Ye abandoned the Present World Method and opened his Wheel Sea, unleashing a vast sea of Life Primordial Essence.
• The Purple-Clad Woman appeared on the Samsara Jade Disk and told Su Ye that evolution was the essence of cultivation, while warning him not to provoke the crippled Immortal Emperor.
• Su Ye realized that the book he had read before transmigrating had supplied the Heavenly Dao’s words and rules for this world.
• The Purple-Clad Woman explained that the Dark Immortal Emperor and the Child of Destiny were both transcendent beings whose fates Su Ye had disrupted, and that the Dark Immortal Emperor could still act through others.
• The Purple-Clad Woman revealed that she, Pan Qi, and Su Ye had each held the Samsara Jade Disk, and said Su Ye could not control it because he was too weak and had rejected its power.

Su Ye rejected the Samsara Jade Disk’s power and made his own Primordial Great Dao the core of his cultivation, choosing to pursue mastery through his own efforts. He rebuilt his Wheel Sea around his own body and began smelting the myriad Daos to understand them.

• Su Ye sensed the ruleless Primordial patterns in his source and chose neither Destruction nor rebirth as his core Great Dao.
• Su Ye made his Primordial Great Dao the foundation of his Wheel Sea, causing the Samsara Jade Disk to stop absorbing and remolding him.
• Su Ye told the Purple-Clad Woman that accepting the Disk’s power would make him its slave, while refusing it left him a chance to become its master.
• Su Ye merged the Primordial patterns into his flesh and blood, declaring himself his own strongest artifact and the beginning of all things.
• Su Ye displayed his mastered techniques, transformed into a Great Dao Furnace, and began smelting the myriad Daos to comprehend their essence.

Shi Hao learned that the injustice against the Sinful Blood lineage had been cleared, though powerful forces and a surviving Immortal King still stood behind its persecution. As the Three Thousand Provinces selection began, Su Ye entered the competition for a place in the Ancient Immortal Realm.

• The Black Emperor and Shi Hao questioned an elder about Imperial Pass’s limited response, and the elder explained that a surviving Immortal King and complex ties among the clans had prevented the truth from being revealed sooner.
• The elder urged Shi Hao and the Black Emperor to grow stronger before the Ancient Immortal Realm opened, and Shi Hao resolved to settle accounts with his enemies.
• The Dao Bell sounded across the Three Thousand Provinces, announcing the start of the great decisive battle.
• Su Ye helped a young man in Sin Province and took his special Bone Talisman as his competition entry ticket.
• Eight million Sin Province contestants entered the Spirit Realm, where only ten thousand would qualify for the next stage.

Ancient Freaks awakened across the Three Thousand Provinces as the selection tournament began, while Su Ye entered the Spirit Realm and used a new art that made others forget him. After a clever contestant exposed the traces he left behind, Su Ye concealed the man too and continued with him toward the trial’s finish line.

• Jun Dao, a red-haired Venerable, and a dragon-horned woman awakened as Ancient Freaks rose across the Three Thousand Provinces.
• Su Ye entered the Spirit Realm and understood that its apparent life lacked the roots and true vitality of the real world.
• Contestants slaughtered one another in the trial while Su Ye passed unseen using an art that made people forget him.
• Niu Dadan spotted Su Ye by following his footprints and threatened to expose him unless Su Ye took him along.
• Su Ye extended his concealment art to Niu Dadan, who tested it by slapping a nearby contestant without being noticed.
• Niu Dadan promised to help Su Ye claim a spot at the finish line, and Su Ye agreed.

Su Ye tested the evolved Samsara Eye’s Bestowal and Deprivation abilities by implanting memories and giving nearby geniuses a dreamlike sense of being Niu Dadan. Su Ye and Niu Dadan moved through the battlefield, while Shi Hao sensed a familiar but strange aura before being attacked.

• Niu Dadan questioned Su Ye about his Void ability, and Su Ye explained that it erased his existence from others’ memories and cognition.
• Su Ye implanted a memory in Niu Dadan, who broke free of the false feeling of closeness and confronted him.
• Su Ye revealed his new Bestowal and Deprivation abilities and bestowed memories of Niu Dadan onto nearby geniuses, making them impersonate him.
• Su Ye walked ahead through the battlefield, and Niu Dadan chose to follow him.
• Shi Hao swept through his battlefield on a Black Dragon, sensed a familiar but strange aura, and was attacked by nearby fighters.

After the battle eliminated most of the Venerables, the survivors gathered at the Supreme Altar, where powerful sects blocked the Sin Province natives and openly persecuted the Sinful Blood lineage. Shi Hao recognized the confrontation was aimed at him, and a sudden attack erupted against the Demon Dragon Daoist Sect disciples.

• The Spirit Realm sent the survivors toward the Supreme Altar as more than seven million eliminated Venerables returned to the outside world.
• Heavenly Deities and other powerful figures discussed watching the final trial and seeking the talented member of the Sinful Blood lineage so they could kill him while he was weak.
• At the Supreme Altar, the Demon Dragon Daoist Sect and Fire Cloud Cave blocked the way and drove away descendants of Sinful Blood.
• A Demon Dragon Daoist Sect disciple declared that the sect could call them sinners regardless of Imperial Pass clearing their names, and mocked them for being easy to bully.
• Shi Hao watched with an icy gaze, knowing the persecution was likely aimed at him, when someone with a spiked club attacked and blasted the blocking Demon Dragon Daoist Sect disciples into a mist of blood.

Niu Dadan and the Sinful Blood lineage attacked the Demon Dragon Daoist Sect disciples, but experts from Fire Cloud Cave arrived with the powerful Fire Cloud Ruler. Shi Hao revealed himself to stop the ruler, then heard a voice urge him to fight without holding back.

• Niu Dadan mocked the Demon Dragon Daoist Sect disciples and told them their True Immortal protector might already have been defeated by Kunpeng.
• The Sinful Blood lineage and other powers attacked the Demon Dragon Daoist Sect disciples, while Shi Hao secretly subdued several geniuses and sealed their Magic Treasures.
• Experts from Fire Cloud Cave arrived and used the Fire Cloud Ruler to shatter the attackers’ treasures and send them flying.
• Shi Hao revealed himself and used golden lotuses to block and repel the Fire Cloud Ruler, stunning the gathered Venerables.
• As Shi Hao tried to return to the crowd, an unseen voice urged him to kill without fear, and he stopped to consider its words.

Shi Hao’s Sinful Blood awakened the authority to judge the heavens, and Su Ye explained the origin of the Sin brand to Niu Dadan. As Shi Hao confronted the disciples of several major powers, his power forced them to kneel, leaving the clash poised to continue.

• Su Ye stopped Niu Dadan and explained that the Sin character embodied an Immortal King dao once entrusted to the Shi Clan, whose authority to punish defectors made them enemies after their side lost the Immortal Ancient battle.
• Niu Dadan noticed that the people who heard Su Ye’s account gradually forgot their questions and feared Su Ye’s ability.
• Shi Hao slaughtered the disciples blocking his path as the Sin character rose above him, and Su Ye judged that he still had not caught up to the multi-crowned kings.
• Disciples from Luofu True Valley, the Demon Dragon Daoist Sect, and Fire Cloud Cave recognized Shi Hao as a Sinful Blood descendant and gathered to confront him.
• Shi Hao declared that Sin was glory and that his will was the will of the Heavenly Dao, summoning a vision of ancient supreme beings that forced the gathered disciples to kneel.

Shi Hao crushed the disciples of several great sects at the Supreme Altar and vowed to keep them from reaching it. He then set off across the altar to block the other paths, while many cultivators remained unaware he was coming.

• The disciples of Luofu True Valley, the Demon Dragon Daoist Sect, Fire Cloud Cave, and other powers attacked Shi Hao with powerful secret treasures, but he destroyed their weapons and killed them.
• Shi Hao killed the red-clothed expert from Fire Cloud Cave and drove lightning spears through the remaining disciples.
• Shi Hao reached the ancient altar and declared that the great sects’ disciples would not be allowed to ascend.
• Shi Hao used a divine sword from his brow to kill more disciples hiding among the crowd, then leaped toward another path to hunt those approaching from the other directions.
• Niu Dadan asked Su Ye who was stronger, and Su Ye’s smile frightened him into saying Su Ye seemed more terrifying.
• The cultivators realized Shi Hao was crossing the enormous altar to attack the other paths, though many had not yet noticed his approach.

Su Ye climbed the altar and easily defeated followers of the Six-Crown King who attacked him, then continued upward despite the mounting pressure. When he reached the eighth level, Shi Hao sensed a familiar aura and climbed up to find out who he was.

• Su Ye stepped onto the altar and swiftly climbed to the fourth level, where six followers of the Six-Crown King confronted him.
• The white-clad followers declared that the Six-Crown King wanted Su Ye dead, and Su Ye crushed their attack with his Dao Manifestations, killing most of their followers.
• The six men tried to fuse their Jade Bones into a pseudo Six Paths Supreme String, but Su Ye seized and crushed the weapon, causing them and their companions to vanish.
• Su Ye climbed past the fifth, sixth, and seventh levels and reached the eighth, breaking a record that had stood for more than thirty thousand years.
• Shi Hao sensed a familiar aura from the figure on the altar, leapt to the eighth level, and continued toward the ninth to see who it was.

Su Ye and Shi Hao reunited on the Supreme Altar’s ninth level, where Shi Hao engraved “Sin” on the Glorious Divine Stele and reclaimed his ancestors’ honor. Su Ye gave Shi Hao the Supreme Liquid, and Shi Hao shared it with Niu Dadan.

• Su Ye reached the ninth level and exchanged a single punch with Shi Hao before warning him that Six-Crown King Ning Chuan was formidable.
• Shi Hao engraved the Rune “Sin” on the Glorious Divine Stele instead of writing his name.
• Su Ye explained that he could not leave his name because his high profile had made his situation dangerous.
• Niu Dadan reached the ninth level and complained that the tremors caused by Su Ye and Shi Hao had knocked him down during each of his previous three climbs.
• Su Ye took the bowl of Supreme Liquid and gave it to Shi Hao, who drank half and shared the rest with Niu Dadan.

Shi Hao retaliated against the factions that tried to sabotage his entry into Immortal Ancient, while Su Ye studied the altar’s Immortal Runes. Shi Hao battled the attackers as Su Ye copied the teleportation patterns into his body.

• Su Ye seized the forbidden treasures sent to attack him and turned them back toward their distant attackers.
• Shi Hao charged into the viewing area and attacked the factions that had tried to interfere with the assessment.
• Shi Hao killed a True God with a Soul-Extinguishing Needle and fought the major factions that retaliated.
• Shi Hao transformed into a giant, crushed numerous opponents, and sent Spirit Bodies to attack the survivors.
• Niu Dadan questioned Shi Hao’s confidence, while Su Ye explained the incomplete Great Dao and copied the altar’s Immortal Runes into his body.