Chapter Summaries

Immortal figures gathered in Qing Province to pursue the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus, while the Ox-Riding Elder warned that the prize was tied to a looming catastrophe. The gathering ended with uncertainty over the ancient prophecy and the Elder’s prediction that the Remnant Immortal would face a bloody calamity.

• Immortals and powerful beings projected into Qing Province, where the Ox-Riding Elder arrived and questioned the Remnant Immortal, the Underworld Earth, and the distorted void about their plans.
• The Ox-Riding Elder warned that restricted zones had lit lamps and that The Weird might be involved, alarming the assembled Remnant Immortals.
• The Ox-Riding Elder offered to help the Remnant Immortal seize a lotus in exchange for borrowing the Bronze Immortal Palace, then released killing intent after the Remnant Immortal insulted him.
• The Ox-Riding Elder explained that the nine lotuses might yield only one true Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus, since its full formation could cause Star River’s origin to collapse.
• The Remnant Immortal asked whether recent changes in the Three Thousand Provinces meant the ancient prophecy was coming true, and the Ox-Riding Elder predicted that the Remnant Immortal was destined to suffer a bloody calamity.

Su Ye and his companions followed Black Feather’s plan in search of the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus and entered an ancient battlefield. There they discovered Star Venerable, the founder of Star Gate, still alive and chained to a Heavenly Pillar.

• Su Ye explained why he believed most of Black Feather’s claims but remained uncertain about the True Immortal’s identity and how Time King possessed him.
• Black Emperor admitted he wanted the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus, and Su Ye decided they should follow Black Feather’s plan; Shi Yi worried that releasing Time King could make them sinners.
• Witch arrived, and Su Ye explained the situation as the group set out together.
• The group entered the ruins of Star Gate, which Jian Qing identified as a force founded by Star Venerable, one of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ ten great Supreme Beings.
• At a Heavenly Pillar, Jian Qing recognized the chained figure as Star Venerable, and Black Emperor suggested he should be called Star Immortal.

Su Ye and his companions discovered that the chained immortals were beings reborn through the Underworld Race’s strange fusion of past selves, corpses, and new spirits. A Golden Ni explained how they had returned from the Immortal Ancient era, leaving the group with new insight into Black Feather’s plan.

• Black Emperor explained that the chained Star Venerable had a newly formed Wheel Sea and primordial spirit, making him a new life rather than a true rebirth.
• Su Ye and the others continued through the Lesser Worlds and saw many immortal beings imprisoned there.
• Black Emperor said the captives were not true immortals and urged Su Ye to question one of them.
• Su Ye woke a chained Golden Ni by slapping it and asked what the prisoners were.
• The Golden Ni explained that Time King’s disrupted spacetime had preserved them, and Senior Jian Yu later merged them with their corpses through the Three Origins into One method.

Su Ye questioned Golden Ni about the bound resurrected immortals and gave him a powerful rune to pass on. Shi Yi secretly copied it and sensed that its power seemed to surpass the Great Daos.

• Golden Ni admitted he looked down on Black Emperor, and they argued over Black Emperor’s appearance and origins.
• Jian Qing recognized Black Emperor as the dog once transformed into a True Immortal by Great Emperor Wuzhong, while Golden Ni identified him as the shameless dog beside Immortal King Wuzhong.
• Su Ye asked why Golden Ni remained bound, and Golden Ni explained that the Heavenly Pillars restrained the Dark Matter within the resurrected immortals and helped suppress the spacetime until the origin’s radiance could purify them.
• Golden Ni said the immortals would have accepted destruction with the world if the seal had not been undone, and Black Emperor confirmed that Golden Ni spoke sincerely.
• Su Ye gave Golden Ni a Chaos-wreathed rune to share with the others, but stopped Black Emperor from taking it.
• Shi Yi admitted he had finished examining the rune, revealing that he had copied it and found its power seemed to stand above all Great Daos.

Su Ye explained the danger of the rune and revealed the truth about the Heavenly Venerable Chaos Lotus and Star River’s purpose. He persuaded Black Emperor to help investigate, and the group continued deeper into Star River.

• Shi Yi used the rune Su Ye had copied and felt it consuming him, so Su Ye warned him that it could erase anything, including its user.
• Su Ye distributed the six Heavenly Venerable Chaos Lotus imprints and revealed that only one fully formed Longevity Medicine existed, while the other nine plants were Divine Medicines.
• Black Emperor explained that the true Heavenly Venerable Chaos Lotus would draw a lightning tribulation, and Su Ye concluded that Black Feather had a separate plan.
• Su Ye explained that Star River imprisoned beings tainted by Dark Matter to prevent dark turmoil, and that those who left would soon die.
• Su Ye asked Black Emperor to investigate the supreme treasure, and Black Emperor agreed in exchange for Su Ye’s promise of future help.
• Su Ye led the group deeper into Star River with Black Emperor’s help.

In Qing Province, powerful figures watched Time King's weakening power bring exiled beings closer to returning, while the Ox-Riding Elder said the returning heroes would head to the Border Pass. In the Land of Immortal Remains, Su Ye prepared to destroy Time King's Imperial Dao-ized skull with the Samsara Jade Disk, leaving Shi Yi and Jian Qing shocked by his Unique Heavenly Passage.

• A colossal being descended through the stars as powerful figures discussed Time King's fading power and the return of the exiled.
• The Ox-Riding Elder said the returning heroes would go to the Border Pass rather than remain in the Three Thousand Provinces.
• Black Emperor revealed Time King's Imperial Dao-ized skull on an ancient altar and explained its nature to Shi Yi.
• Black Emperor told Su Ye to destroy the skull so the chaotic space-time in the Star River World could return to normal.
• Su Ye opened his Chaos Heavenly Passage and drew on the Samsara Jade Disk, astonishing Black Emperor, Shi Yi, and Jian Qing.

Su Ye destroyed the Crystal Skull, causing the Star River World’s distorted time and space to collapse, while the Black Emperor moved to protect those inside. Outside, Time King confronted the Sword Immortal and began asserting control over the future.

• The Black Emperor identified Su Ye’s heavenly passage as a Chaos Heavenly Passage and privately resolved to seize Su Ye’s supreme treasure to break his dependence on it.
• After Su Ye erased the Crystal Skull’s remaining Longevity Substance and Immortal Dao patterns, the Black Emperor manifested his power and Su Ye urged everyone to escape the collapsing world.
• The destroyed skull’s loss of power caused the Star River World’s disordered time and space to be corrected as its planets and realms shifted and collapsed.
• Time King appeared before the Sword Immortal and explained that he had hidden his primordial spirit and origin in the past to evade attacks that killed only his future possibilities.
• Time King observed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and the descendants of the Seven Kings, while the Sword Immortal challenged his account of the future.
• Time King claimed the present was already real and spread his power to make the surrounding future manifest.

Sword Immortal broke Time King's attempt to exile him through time and killed him in the present. Su Ye traced the past and revealed that Sword Immortal had stayed to defend Qing Province against the invading Foreign Realm forces.

• Time King showed Sword Immortal a vision of the Foreign Realm conquering the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and claimed it was the future.
• Sword Immortal rejected Time King's temporal exile, shattered time and space with his sword, and returned to the present.
• Sword Immortal pierced Time King through the brow, killing the Immortal King.
• Witch, Shi Yi, Jian Qing, and Su Ye discussed how the events differed from the legend that Sword Immortal and Time King had died together.
• Su Ye traced the past and saw Sword Immortal face several Foreign Realm True Immortals alone, burn his origin, and fight to prevent Qing Province from falling.

Su Ye explained that the Time King and allies had engineered the Sword Immortal’s downfall, risking Jian Qing’s ancestor being branded a traitor. As ancient beings forced their way into the present and faced deadly tribulations, the Black Emperor appeared and swallowed an advancing wave of darkness.

• Shi Yi saw that the Heavenly Tribulation destroying ancient beings offered no chance of survival, and Su Ye explained that reversing spacetime defied heaven and earth.
• Su Ye told Jian Qing that she needed to undergo Heavenly Tribulation to cleanse the power within her that belonged to another age.
• Jian Qing challenged Su Ye’s claim that the dead Time King was behind events, but Su Ye argued that the Sword Immortal had been framed by schemers from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and the Immortal Domain.
• Su Ye explained that the Sword Immortal had killed the Time King’s True Immortal guide, been overwhelmed by Dark Matter, and devoured the Time King’s power before losing himself.
• The Black Emperor strode along the River of Time and swallowed the darkness threatening the world, protected from Dark Matter by Su Ye’s Samsara Rune.

Su Ye explained the Dark Evolution spreading through Chaos as sword beams and thunder destroyed its creatures. As the Black Emperor devoured Dark Matter in the Star River, powerful figures argued that he should be watched or killed, and the Ox-Riding Elder challenged Remnant Immortal over the Dark Matter on his own body.

• Su Ye explained that the Dark Evolution creatures were failed forms, while sword beams and thunder wiped them out in Chaos.
• In Qing Province, the Ox-Riding Elder insisted that returning people should remain in their homeland, and the Remnant Immortal asked who would kill the already-dead Time King.
• The Black Emperor charged into the Thunder Sea, devoured Dark Creatures and lightning, and spread countless dog clones across the world.
• The Remnant Immortal and other powerful figures called for the Black Emperor to be monitored or executed because he was consuming Dark Matter.
• The Ox-Riding Elder pointed out that Remnant Immortal and his companions had fought in the Foreign Realm and asked whether the Dark Matter on them had been cleansed.
• Remnant Immortal argued that the Black Emperor would be safe because the Dark Matter was not genuine, he showed no abnormal changes, and he had the Wuzhong Bell.

The battle for the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotuses erupted as powerful experts fought to seize them. Su Ye explained that he and his companions would wait until the lotuses fused and failed their Immortal Tribulation, while the Black Emperor fought Dark Fallen Ones and a Remnant Immortal discovered he could refine Dark Matter into Chaotic Matter.

• Xu Wujin and Fu Daozi both tried to take the same Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus and clashed, prompting other experts to begin fighting for the remaining lotuses.
• Su Ye told Shi Yi and the Witch that they would wait for the fused lotus to fail its Immortal Tribulation, and said the fighting experts were sacrifices accelerating its fusion.
• The Black Emperor joyfully fought the Dark Fallen Ones, killing powerful enemies with his secret techniques.
• A Remnant Immortal used the double pupils to examine the Black Emperor and saw that his runes refined Dark Matter into Chaotic Matter.

The Black Emperor used a massive Dao Burial Array to bury the region consumed by Dark Matter, while the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus began transforming amid the disruption to the Heavenly Dao. Su Ye suspected the lotus might become a pseudo-immortal medicine, drawing the greed of the gathered experts.

• The Ox-Riding Elder believed the Black Emperor’s rune came from Immortal King Wuzhong and hoped to obtain it for Imperial Pass.
• The Remnant Immortal used his Double Pupil to spy on the Black Emperor, who sensed him and struck the Bronze Immortal Palace with his power.
• The Black Emperor gathered his clones and activated the Dao Burial Array, summoning a Millstone Phantom that made Dark Matter and Heavenly Dao power tremble.
• The Ox-Riding Elder recognized the array’s destructive power but held back from intervening because it was focused on the Dark Matter.
• The Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus gathered sacred immortal energy as a peaceful thundercloud formed above it, exciting the powerful experts watching.
• Witch asked Su Ye whether the lotus would transform, and Su Ye suggested the Black Emperor’s array might let it become a pseudo-immortal medicine.

Su Ye and the others witnessed powerful remnants emerge in the Star River to seize the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus, while Jian Qing fought a past version of herself. An Immortal King's eyeball fell from the sky and drew the great figures into a struggle, leaving the battlefield crowded with powerful contenders.

• Su Ye used his Unique Heavenly Passage and Chaos Radiance to protect himself and the Witch from a Remnant Immortal's aura, then explained that fallen immortals sought the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus to remain in the present age.
• Shi Yi recovered from the aura's pressure, while Jian Qing and Su Ye saw a sword-wielding woman with Jian Qing's appearance confront a bird-headed, winged phantom.
• Jian Qing fought the birdman as their clash devastated the region and left the assembled experts feeling powerless.
• An enormous eyeball fell from the sky, radiated Strange Radiance, and erased both Supreme Being-level fighters.
• Black Emperor rushed to claim the eyeball, but the Remnant Immortal's Bronze Ancient Palace descended to suppress it as other powerful figures entered the struggle.

Su Ye and the Witch reached the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus’s hidden space-time and began comprehending its Great Dao. Jian Qing and Shi Yi also arrived, leaving Su Ye to make use of the lotus before the other powerful figures forced their way in.

• Su Ye used his lotus mark to guide the Witch through chaotic space-time, where decaying worlds and a broken bell threatened them.
• When the space-time began targeting them, Su Ye discovered a Silver Egg containing a True Phoenix aura in his Lesser World and used their remaining pass to proceed.
• Su Ye and the Witch reached the sacred realm of the fully formed Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus and began studying its patterns.
• Jian Qing arrived through a rift in space-time, and Su Ye noticed her torn clothing before the Witch challenged his attention to her.
• Shi Yi appeared and began absorbing the lotus’s power, having reached the realm before Su Ye.

Su Ye and his companions absorbed the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus’s energy and began evolving, while the Black Emperor negotiated with the Ox-Riding Elder during the battle outside. The Black Emperor obtained the purified Immortal King's Eyeball, then left as another possessed eyeball appeared and the elder warned that time was short.

• Su Ye, the Witch, Shi Yi, Jian Qing, and the Silver Egg were enveloped in cocoons as the lotus’s energy helped them evolve, and Su Ye sensed he could break his limits.
• The Black Emperor realized Su Ye and the others had entered the lotus’s space and decided to follow, but the Ox-Riding Elder stopped him and asked to trade for his Dark Matter-refining Rune.
• The Black Emperor agreed to give the Rune if the Ox-Riding Elder brought him the Immortal King's Eyeball, and the elder seized it from the sky.
• The Ox-Riding Elder purified the eyeball of Dark Matter, and the Black Emperor swallowed it before handing over the Rune.
• A second eyeball possessed someone and spread an evil aura, so the Black Emperor asked the elder to seize it too, but the elder refused and warned that time was short.
• The Black Emperor left, suspecting the Ox-Riding Elder was connected to Black Feather.

Su Ye broke through his limits with the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus and explored the ancient world, while the Black Emperor devoured the lotus for its energy. Outside, the Ox-Riding Elder persuaded the Remnant Immortal to leave the Bronze Immortal Palace and help connect the two realms.

• Su Ye emerged from his breakthrough, and the Black Emperor pounced on the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus and began chewing it.
• Su Ye considered the power of the Ancient Freaks and explored the small world, noting that its Immortal Ancient laws could help Huo Ling'er cultivate.
• The Ox-Riding Elder demanded the Bronze Immortal Palace and explained that he intended to use it to reach the Immortal Domain.
• The Remnant Immortal realized the Ox-Riding Elder had used him to suppress the eyeball, but agreed to cooperate after hearing he might reconnect with his old ancestor.
• The Remnant Immortal left the Bronze Immortal Palace for the first time since the end of the Immortal Ancient Era, startling the crowd with his youthful appearance.

Black Feather warned Su Ye and the others to flee before an Immortal King from the Immortal Domain arrived, then explained that the Sword Immortal had fallen to darkness. The Black Emperor revealed that the Sword Immortal might still be saved because Black Feather carried a fragment of his remnant soul.

• Black Feather appeared in the Secret Realm and urged Su Ye and the others to leave before an Immortal King from the Immortal Domain reached them.
• Su Ye asked Black Feather how the Sword Immortal had succumbed to darkness, and Black Feather brought up the Origin Ancient Artifact.
• Su Ye directed Black Feather to ask the Black Emperor about reversing the corruption, and Black Feather knelt and offered him a lotus petal for help.
• The Black Emperor explained that partial corruption could be reversed but complete corruption could not, even by a Heavenly Emperor.
• Black Feather said he carried a wisp of the Sword Immortal's remnant soul, which the Sword Immortal had entrusted to him before Black Feather was reborn.

Black Feather and Black Emperor arranged a limited resurrection path for the Sword Immortal, then Su Ye and the others left the sealed lotus chamber. As they parted ways, Immortal King Ao Sheng descended into Qing Province, stirring the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and drawing the attention of its forbidden powers.

• Black Emperor urged Black Feather to use the Sword Immortal's primordial spirit and Immortal Medicine to forge a new body, and Black Feather accepted that as the only practical resurrection method.
• Black Feather gave each person a lotus petal from the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus and opened a passage, allowing Su Ye and the others to leave before the seal weakened.
• Black Emperor departed to refine his heavenly medicine, while Shi Yi left and Jian Qing said goodbye to Su Ye before going to explore the current era.
• The Witch teased Su Ye about Jian Qing, and Su Ye took the Witch away with him.
• The Ox-Riding Elder used the Bronze Immortal Palace to open the Boundary Wall of the Immortal Domain and draw down Immortal King Ao Sheng's radiance over Qing Province.
• The forbidden powers of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths watched Ao Sheng's descent, as the account recalled how he and other Immortal Kings had suppressed returning war veterans and how Kunpeng had been ambushed and killed.

Su Ye discovered a mysterious silver egg in his world, gave the Witch Immortal Medicine to deliver to Ling'er and the others, and returned to Celestial Academy. There, he denied being the reincarnation of the Immortal King of Six Paths Reincarnation and confronted Feng Wu for revealing his identity to Qi Daolin.

• Su Ye and the Witch examined a silver egg that bore the Dao charm of a True Phoenix, and he suspected it might belong to the Witch rather than Yue Chan.
• Su Ye gave the Witch refined Immortal Medicine for Ling'er and the others and chose not to teleport them, fearing powerful figures were watching them.
• Su Ye returned to Celestial Academy, where Feng Wu asked to become his disciple and flirted with him while trying to raise the subject of his rumored identity.
• Su Ye told Feng Wu he was not the reincarnation of the Immortal King of Six Paths Reincarnation and explained that someone was spreading the rumor to put him in danger.
• Feng Wu admitted she had asked on Qi Daolin's behalf, and Su Ye revealed he knew she had disclosed his identity before warning her that he was disappointed.

Su Ye confronted Feng Wu after believing she had revealed his identity, but learned that Qi Daolin had uncovered it himself and apologized for misjudging her. Qi Daolin tried to force Su Ye into his sect, but Su Ye resisted, and Qi Daolin ultimately decided not to accept him as a disciple.

• Su Ye pressured Feng Wu over how Qi Daolin had learned his identity, and Feng Wu explained that Qi Daolin had approached and coerced her.
• Su Ye realized he had misunderstood Feng Wu, apologized, and explained why Qi Daolin had wanted to verify whether he was the Immortal King of Six Paths Reincarnation.
• Qi Daolin appeared and attacked Su Ye for refusing to claim he was the Immortal King's reincarnation, then declared that Su Ye was his disciple.
• Su Ye resisted Qi Daolin's pressure and warned that forcing him into the Supreme Dojo could get them both killed.
• Qi Daolin reconsidered and left, deciding that Su Ye was too dangerous to accept as a disciple.