Chapter Summaries

After Fang Yang killed the Golden Crow Emperor, the universe reacted to the fall of the shortest-reigning Great Emperor while Fang Yang considered his next moves and helped a young Tyrant Body. At Green Lotus Hall, Qi Qi carved and roasted the emperor’s corpse, gaining insight that let her break through the Eight Forbidden Domain, and Fang Yang praised the meal.

• The Golden Crow Emperor’s death shook the universe, and many prodigies cheered while recognizing Fang Yang as the strongest contender for the throne.
• The Stone Emperor acknowledged Fang Yang’s strength, while the Dragon Emperor of Ten Thousand considered teaming up with him to pursue the Path to Immortality.
• The Golden Crow Crown Prince fled Huosang Planet in fear, and the two Great Completion Tyrant Bodies worried about their losses and Fang Yang’s possible retaliation.
• Fang Yang gave refined Great Completion Tyrant Blood to a bug with an atavistic Tyrant Body, hoping to watch its future struggle with an atavistic Sacred Body.
• The Dragon Empress Daughter heard the Dragon Emperor of Ten Thousand’s wishes through the Ten Thousand Dragon Bell and decided to convey them to Fang Yang.
• At Green Lotus Hall, Qi Qi used Fang Yang’s Supreme Blade to carve and roast the Golden Crow Emperor’s corpse, gaining the insight needed to enter the Eight Forbidden Domain before Fang Yang praised the meat.

Fang Yang announced that he would attain the Dao and become an Emperor within a month, then sent Ye Fan to collect compensation from the Life Forbidden Zones that had aided the Golden Crow Emperor. After refining ten Flat Peach Immortal Pills and drawing a powerful Golden Crow art from the Card Pool, Fang Yang began studying it while Ye Fan confronted Stone Emperor at Undying Mountain.

• Fang Yang told Green Lotus Hall that he expected to attain the Dao within a month and explained that he planned to kill three more Life Forbidden Zone Supremes to strengthen his Great Dao.
• Fang Yang gave Ye Fan the Dao Tribulation Gold Cauldron and ordered him to collect the Enlightenment Tea Tree, Primordial Destiny Stone, and Flat Peach Undying Tree from the Life Forbidden Zones.
• Fang Yang refined ten Flat Peach Immortal Pills, stored them away, and drew the rainbow-grade Heaven-Enveloping Immortal-Burning Art from the Card Pool.
• Fang Yang began comprehending the Golden Crow Progenitor's Immortal King art as Ye Fan arrived at Undying Mountain and demanded its Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• Stone Emperor appeared and attacked Ye Fan, despite the protection of the Dao Tribulation Gold Cauldron.

Fang Yang mastered the Golden Crow's Cry—Emperor Fall Years and fought the Stone Emperor in the Cosmic Frontier. Immortal Granny and the Spirit Emperor joined the battle to seize Fang Yang’s Immortal Blood, but Fang Yang killed the Stone Emperor while they attacked him.

• Fang Yang comprehended the Heaven-Enveloping Immortal-Burning Art and unleashed the Golden Crow's Cry—Emperor Fall Years, then heard the Stone Emperor challenge him.
• Fang Yang met the Stone Emperor at the Undying Mountain and followed him to the Cosmic Frontier, where the Stone Emperor began his Ultimate Sublimation.
• Fang Yang fought the Stone Emperor, endured his attacks, and studied his Holy Spirit imperial Dao while steadily gaining the advantage.
• Immortal Granny and the Spirit Emperor completed their Ultimate Sublimation and came to the battlefield, but the Stone Emperor refused to let them join his fight.
• Immortal Granny and the Spirit Emperor attacked Fang Yang as the Stone Emperor weakened, and the Stone Emperor prepared to harvest lives to replenish his essence.
• Fang Yang struck the Stone Emperor with a Hunyuan Fist, piercing his chest and killing him while Immortal Granny and the Spirit Emperor were occupied attacking Fang Yang.

Fang Yang killed the Stone Emperor, Spirit Emperor, Immortal Granny, and Golden-Winged Peng Emperor, then refined their Imperial Dao Laws until he began preparing to prove the Dao. As his tribulation gathered, the Corpse Emperor considered stopping him, but the Dragon Emperor of Ten Thousand revealed Fang Yang was his son-in-law and dared the Supremes to interfere.

• Spirit Emperor and Immortal Granny unleashed their strongest attacks against Fang Yang, but he endured them and refined their Imperial Dao Laws while fighting.
• Spirit Emperor returned his body and Primordial Spirit to heaven and earth, while Fang Yang killed Immortal Granny and cultivated with the three fallen Supremes’ Dao laws and Spirit Emperor’s Ancient Scripture.
• Seven days later, Fang Yang challenged the Golden-Winged Peng Emperor, killed him, and took his body; the Golden-Winged Little Peng King watched and accepted that he could not catch up with Fang Yang.
• Fang Yang’s aura shook the universe as he prepared to prove the Dao, prompting Dao Yi, Wang Xi, the Corpse Emperor, and other powerful figures to react.
• The Corpse Emperor considered joining the Supremes to kill Fang Yang before the Path to Immortality opened, but the Dragon Emperor of Ten Thousand defended him and disclosed that Fang Yang was his son-in-law.

Fang Yang endured a vast Heavenly Tribulation, defeated eighty-one ancient imprints and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s imprint, and ascended as the Great Emperor Primordial Emperor. The Forbidden Zone Supremes accepted that the Path to Immortality was real and began organizing against him, with Corpse Emperor offering a lead on the Lingbao Sword Formation.

• The Forbidden Zone Supremes decided not to attack Fang Yang during his tribulation, while the Dao Tribulation Gold Cauldron arrived and suppressed the opening lightning.
• Fang Yang fought and defeated eighty-one ancient supreme figures, then battled the manifestations of the Undying Divine Medicines as the Primal Unity Cauldron advanced into an Extreme Emperor Weapon.
• After forty-nine days, Fang Yang confronted and defeated the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s imprint, then attained Great Emperor and declared himself Primordial Emperor.
• Ye Fan watched Fang Yang’s tribulation, felt discouraged by the gap between them, and resolved to achieve great completion with his Sacred Body.
• Corpse Emperor and the other Forbidden Zone Supremes concluded that Desolate Heavenly Emperor had likely become an immortal and began forming a coalition against Primordial Emperor.
• Corpse Emperor proposed finding the Lingbao Sword Formation as a weapon against Primordial Emperor and planned to trade the lead for a large share of Fang Yang’s blood essence.

Fang Yang reunited with his elders at Green Lotus Hall and refused to establish a new faction, then opened the ancient coffin carried by Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin. The Ruthless Empress appeared and joined him inside, where she asked for the Dao-Merging Flower.

• Fang Yang returned to Green Lotus Hall, announced a three-day feast of Golden-Winged Peng, and welcomed Li Daoming, Li Daoqing, Wang Zheng, and the others.
• Fang Yang shared a feast with his elders and declined Li Daoqing's proposals to establish a new faction, saying he sought immortality rather than descendants.
• Fang Yang followed Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin, opened its smaller coffin, and discovered a small Immortal Domain left by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• The Ruthless Empress emerged from the Desolate Forbidden Zone and entered the massive bronze coffin instead of fighting Fang Yang.
• Fang Yang tried to awaken the Ruthless Empress with the Heart Sutra, and she told him that the Dao-Merging Flower was hers.

Fang Yang used the Card Pool of the Heavens to enter the Battle Through the Heavens world through an identity card and became Xiao Yan at the start of the story. After exploring his new body and memories, he began considering how to grow stronger and reach Dou Di.

• The Ruthless Empress refused the Dao-Merging Flower and asked Fang Yang to give it to Ye Fan once his Sacred Body was complete, then shared her Red Dust Immortal Path scriptures with him.
• Fang Yang discussed cultivation with the Ruthless Empress, assessed his strength, and considered how to reach the Legend Realm and become a Battle Immortal.
• The Card Pool of the Heavens revealed world cards, and Fang Yang spent Fate Points to draw an identity card for Xiao Yan.
• After several days, Fang Yang and the Ruthless Empress left Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin, and Fang Yang secluded himself on a desolate star before crossing into the Battle Through the Heavens world.
• Fang Yang awoke as Xiao Yan in Wutan City, received a third-stage Dou Qi assessment, and recognized that he had Xiao Yan's memories and an ordinary body.
• Xiao Family members mocked Xiao Yan as he left the testing area, while Xiao Mei greeted him and he considered how to advance quickly and sever his bloodline connection to the family.

Fang Yang strengthened his soul, consumed the Xiao clan bloodline to rise to eight-star Dou Ling, and went to meet the Misty Cloud Sect guests. He threw the Second Elder from the hall, revealing that his strength had returned just as Nalan Yanran prepared to end their engagement.

• Xiao Mei passed her Dou Qi test at the seventh stage, while Xiao Xun'er ignored the test and left with Fang Yang.
• Fang Yang cultivated the Heart Sutra, strengthened his soul, and discovered Yao Lao hiding in the black ring.
• Fang Yang used the Blood-Burning Fate-Reversal Art to consume his faint Xiao clan bloodline, reaching eight-star Dou Ling and creating the Fire Emperor Art.
• Steward Mo summoned Fang Yang to the main hall, where Nalan Yanran and other Misty Cloud Sect guests had arrived.
• Fang Yang threw the Second Elder out of the hall and sat in his place, shocking the Xiao Family and the guests.
• Xiao Zhan realized Fang Yang's strength had returned, but Nalan Yanran remained determined to annul their engagement.

Fang Yang revealed that his talent had recovered, then overwhelmed Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye when she came to break their engagement. After showing his family that he had reached the Dou Spirit realm, he advanced to Dou King and confronted Yao Lao, who admitted to absorbing his Dou Qi for three years.

• Fang Yang told Xiao Zhan that his illness had been cured, and Ge Ye announced that Nalan Yanran wanted to end her engagement with him.
• Fang Yang struck Ge Ye down, rebuked Nalan Yanran, crippled her cultivation, and sent her away with a letter of repudiation.
• Fang Yang displayed Dou Spirit-level Dou Qi shaping, and the Xiao Family's First Elder urged him to seek protection at Jia Nan Academy.
• Fang Yang walked with Xiao Xun'er, then cultivated with three flames and broke through from Dou Spirit to Dou King.
• Yao Lao appeared and admitted that he had absorbed Fang Yang's Dou Qi for three years, so Fang Yang ordered him to run errands for three years as punishment.

Fang Yang made Yao Chen his servant and accelerated his cultivation with the pills Yao Chen refined. Yun Yun visited the Xiao Family to apologize for Nalan Yanran, but she and Gu He were shocked when Fang Yang instantly refined a Dou Spirit Pill and grew stronger.

• Fang Yang told Yao Chen he was the reincarnation of a Great Emperor, taught him the Future Buddha Flower-Gesture Teaching Visualization, and ordered him to refine pills.
• Yun Yun learned that Nalan Yanran had been injured by Fang Yang and resolved to heal her and send her beyond the Jia Ma Empire rather than risk fighting him.
• Yao Chen refined six Blood Soul Pills, which Fang Yang swallowed to rise from a one-star to a six-star Dou King.
• Yun Yun and Gu He visited the Xiao Family, where Yun Yun apologized on Nalan Yanran's behalf and offered Fang Yang a Dou Spirit Pill and cultivation techniques.
• Fang Yang swallowed the Dou Spirit Pill and refined it within moments, astonishing Yun Yun and Gu He as his aura surged.

Fang Yang settled his grudge with the Misty Cloud Sect by demanding a costly list of materials, then told Xiao Xun'er that he was the reincarnated Primordial Emperor and drew closer to her. Nalan Yanran vowed to grow stronger after losing her Dou Qi, while Fang Yang approached Gu He about studying under a renowned alchemist.

• Fang Yang gave Yun Yun a list of materials as the price for settling the Misty Cloud Sect's past offense, and Yun Yun agreed to deliver them within half a month.
• Ling Ying told Xiao Xun'er that Fang Yang had discovered him, and Xiao Xun'er later visited Fang Yang and asked about his sudden transformation.
• Fang Yang told Xiao Xun'er that he remembered his past life as the Primordial Emperor Fang Yang, then took her hand and asked her to call him Brother Fang Yang.
• Nalan Yanran failed to cultivate because her Dou Qi kept burning away, and after Yun Yun left to gather Fang Yang's demanded materials, Nalan Yanran resolved to become stronger and seek revenge.
• Yun Yun and Gu He delivered the materials to Fang Yang, who asked Gu He whether he wanted to study under the alchemist behind the Blood Soul Pill and Ice Heart Pill formulas.

Fang Yang recruited the Little Fairy Doctor and used her Woeful Poison Body to advance both their cultivation before refining spirit-bearing pills. He and the Little Fairy Doctor reached the Snake-People Tribe’s territory, where Fang Yang knocked down a snake-person Dou King who challenged them.

• Yao Lao accepted Gu He as his nominal disciple and had him help refine pills for Fang Yang.
• Fang Yang reached eight-star Dou Emperor, went to Qingshan Town, and offered to control the Little Fairy Doctor’s Woeful Poison Body.
• Fang Yang used purified poisons to help the Little Fairy Doctor advance to Dou King while absorbing most of the resulting Dou Qi and reaching three-star Dou Ancestor.
• Fang Yang and the Little Fairy Doctor gathered magical-beast materials, and Fang Yang refined nine eighth-rank pills that took the form of Golden Crows.
• Fang Yang and the Little Fairy Doctor traveled to the Snake-People Tribe’s ancestral land, where Fang Yang sent a challenging snake-person Dou King crashing to the ground with spatial power.

Fang Yang forced Queen Medusa to guide him to the Green Lotus Core Flame, then absorbed it in the magma beneath the Tagor Desert. After three days, he emerged having broken through to Dou Venerate, leaving Medusa stunned and bowing her head.

• Fang Yang punished Mebas for offending him, then took the Ink Serpent chief to the Snake-People Tribe and ordered Queen Medusa to locate the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Queen Medusa agreed to guide Fang Yang to the flame, but he refused to let her evolve first and promised to help her only after he absorbed it.
• Fang Yang, the Little Fairy Doctor, and Medusa found a magma passage, and Fang Yang descended alone while the others waited above.
• A Two-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent showed Fang Yang where the Green Lotus Core Flame lay, and Fang Yang swallowed it without difficulty.
• Three days later, Fang Yang emerged from the magma after breaking through to Dou Venerate, and Queen Medusa bowed her head in shock.

After reaching Dou Zun, Fang Yang prepared to enter the Gu Clan with Xiao Xun'er and reclaim the Xiao Clan’s lost inheritances, resources, and Heavenly Tomb quotas. When Gu Qian and Gu Xu attacked him on arrival, he killed them instantly, provoking a powerful figure to step forward.

• Fang Yang spent two days refining his spatial abilities and Heavenly Eyes before taking Little Fairy Doctor and Medusa to Wutan City.
• Fang Yang told Xiao Xun'er he planned to visit the Gu Clan and asked for her hand; Xiao Xun'er promised to stand against anyone who made trouble for him.
• Fang Yang and the others reached Ancient Sacred City, where he identified himself as Xiao Yan, a descendant of the Xiao Clan, and the commander opened the spatial gate after seeking permission.
• Xiao Xun'er returned to the Gu Clan with Fang Yang, but Gu Qian and Gu Xu accused him of impersonating a Xiao Clan descendant and attacked him.
• Fang Yang crushed Gu Qian and Gu Xu with a single palm strike, and an immense presence emerged as the massacre drew the attention of the Gu Clan's experts.

Fang Yang killed Gu Shan and three Gu Clan Dou Saints after they challenged him, then forced Gu Yuan to agree to his demands for Xun'er’s betrothal, Xiao Clan resources, and entry to the Heavenly Tomb. A month later Fang Yang advanced to Dou Saint, and Gu Yuan gave him the tomb’s key and told him to seek Xiao Xuan’s bloodline there.

• Gu Shan attacked Fang Yang with the Great Annihilation Finger, but Fang Yang killed him with a single blade strike.
• Three Gu Clan Dou Saints confronted Fang Yang, so he set them ablaze and refused to spare them or their descendants even after Gu Yuan arrived.
• The three Dou Saints died, and Gu Yuan agreed to Fang Yang’s demands rather than risk further losses to the Gu Clan.
• Fang Yang refined the three Dou Saints’ origins and Xiao Clan resources, then broke through Nine Turns Dou Zun and Half-Saint to become a Dou Saint.
• Gu Yuan gave Fang Yang the Heavenly Tomb key and explained that Xiao Xuan’s tomb might hold bloodline power for the Xiao Clan.

Fang Yang absorbed Xiao Xuan’s remaining Xiao Clan bloodline power and reached the Half-Emperor realm, then opened a passage to Origin Qi and refined it. After strengthening the Xiao Family through their bloodline, he gathered the Tuoshe Ancient Jade and arrived at Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s abode, where he spotted a half-dead young dragon and a prattling soul body.

• Fang Yang entered the Heavenly Tomb, met Xiao Xuan, and absorbed the Xiao Clan’s remaining Dou Emperor bloodline power.
• Fang Yang advanced to peak nine-star Dou Saint and Emperor Realm soul power, reaching the Half-Emperor realm.
• Fang Yang opened a passage to the Great Thousand World and drew Origin Qi into his body after Gu Yuan was repelled from the entrance.
• Xiao Zhan’s cultivation surged to six-star Dou Saint, and he gathered the Xiao Family to ask why he had suddenly become so powerful.
• Fang Yang defeated Soul Heavenly Emperor, took the Gu Clan’s piece of the Tuoshe Ancient Jade, and set out to collect the remaining pieces.
• Fang Yang reached Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s abode and saw a half-dead young dragon beside a soul body.

Fang Yang safely ascended to the Legend Realm through his Card Pool, gaining new traits and a means of surviving through his Other Self in another world. He visited the Ruthless Empress to discuss reviving her elder brother and asked her for the immortal sword.

• Fang Yang freed Zhu Kun and Zhu Yan from Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode, took the Proto-Emperor Pill and Tuoshe Legacy, and later returned to the Shrouding the Heavens World.
• Fang Yang ascended toward the Legend Realm, sensed the danger of the infinite heights, and used his Card Pool to complete the breakthrough instead.
• Fang Yang gained Legendary traits and Other Self imprints, reclaimed power from his Dou Emperor self, and realized that his other-world self could let him revive if he died.
• The Ruthless Empress seized some of Fang Yang's purple qi and recognized that it belonged to another cultivation system.
• Fang Yang told the Ruthless Empress that reviving her elder brother required greater power, promised to help if he reached the necessary realms, and asked for the immortal sword.

Fang Yang sent Other Selves into several worlds while preparing to advance his plans in Shrouding the Heavens. He built a universe-spanning network with Mount Sumeru’s faith power, then killed the Lord of God Ruins and extorted Divine Source Liquid from the forbidden zones to fund it.

• Fang Yang sent Other Self marks into The Return of the Condor Heroes, Naruto, and Douluo Continent while continuing to refine the immortal sword’s laws.
• In The Return of the Condor Heroes, Fang Yang killed a Daoist who approached a helpless woman and released her acupoints from afar.
• In Naruto, Fang Yang’s Other Self kept a low profile, refined chakra, and developed a cultivation path using natural energy.
• In Douluo Continent, Fang Yang witnessed Tang San and Tang Hao die at Nuoding Academy, then headed toward a forest to study the world’s rules.
• Fang Yang used Mount Sumeru’s faith power to create a magical treasure whose network would cover the universe, then demanded one million cubic meters of Divine Source Liquid from the Lord of God Ruins and killed him when he refused.
• Fang Yang took the Flat Peach Divine Tree, collected five million jin of Divine Source Liquid from forbidden zones, and returned to Mount Sumeru while the Supremes suspected he and Ruthless Empress were allied.

Fang Yang established the Future Dharma Network and opened the Future Dharma Realm, offering living beings a chance to cultivate. The Corpse Emperor tested its merit system and benefited from its pills, while Fang Yang continued working to combine the Nine Secrets into an Immortal Dao secret art.

• Fang Yang used the Karma Prayer Beads to announce that anyone who recited the Future Buddha's name could enter the Future Dharma Network and gain a chance to cultivate.
• Living beings across Earth and the Eternal Main Star heard Fang Yang's announcement, and the Golden-Winged Peng King entered the Future Dharma Realm and received cultivation resources.
• Ye Fan browsed the merit catalog, while the Corpse Emperor took offense at the low ranking of his scripture and tested the network by submitting methods and buying pills.
• The Corpse Emperor used an Enlightenment Pill to improve his Dao laws and revise the Corpse Emperor Scripture, then submitted the revised scripture for merit.
• Fang Yang observed that only a few small fish had taken the bait and began trying to fuse the Nine Secrets into an Immortal Dao secret art.

The Future Dharma Realm gave prodigies and Supremes a way to earn merit through battles and spectacles. The Corpse Emperor and Golden Ancient Emperor arranged public events to raise merit for Flat Peach Immortal Pills, and their promised revelations drove more ordinary people to begin cultivating.

• The Sacred King and Tyrant Overlord fought to a draw in the Martial Arts Arena and earned over two hundred thousand merit from spectators.
• The Tyrant Overlord considered exchanging merit for the Self-Slaying Artifact-Nurturing Method, but the Sacred King refused to cut away his Sacred Blood; they learned the art cost nine hundred and ninety thousand merit.
• The Corpse Emperor persuaded the Golden Ancient Emperor to ally with him to obtain Flat Peach Immortal Pills, despite the Golden Ancient Emperor's suspicions about his ruthlessness.
• The Corpse Emperor and Golden Ancient Emperor announced a series of arena battles, guidance sessions, and revelations about ancient emperors and Great Emperors.
• Their announcements stirred billions of cultivators, and the number of ordinary people opening their Bitter Seas rose noticeably.