Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan and Wang Bo fought across the Cosmic Frontier, and Ye Fan won without completing his transformation into a Chaos Body. Years later, Wang Bo’s rematch with Ye Fan triggered his breakthrough, and he became a Chaos Great Emperor without interference from Hunyuan Heavenly Emperor’s Great Dao.

• Ye Fan stopped his transformation into a Chaos Body and defeated Wang Bo, who accepted the loss and promised to fight him again before either became an emperor.
• The Undying Emperor watched their battle and resolved to keep cultivating toward the Battle Immortal path.
• On Mount Sumeru, Xixi drove Fang Yang’s Wuling Emperor Car recklessly until its artifact spirit stopped her, and Jue Youqing made her reflect on her actions.
• Fang Yang considered the universe’s expectations and the prodigies who might eventually challenge Hunyuan Heavenly Emperor.
• At the Cosmic Frontier, Ye Fan and Wang Bo began their promised rematch, but their first clash pushed Wang Bo into attaining the Dao as a Chaos Great Emperor.

After Wang Bo became the Chaos Great Emperor, Fang Yang defeated him in a brief test and explained the paths to immortality. Wang Bo shared Fang Yang’s teachings on the Future Dharma Network, provoking reactions from Forbidden Zone Supremes, the Undying Emperor, and Duan De.

• Wang Bo announced his new imperial title and challenged Fang Yang outside the Big Dipper Star Domain.
• Fang Yang stopped Wang Bo’s Chaos Emperor Fist with his Five Elements secret art, and Wang Bo conceded.
• Fang Yang described the paths to immortality, including the Path to Immortality, the Red Dust Immortal Path, and the Battle Immortal path.
• Wang Bo decided to pursue the Red Dust Immortal Path and asked Fang Yang about its practitioners, including the Underworld Emperor, the Undying Emperor, and the Ruthless Empress.
• Wang Bo published Fang Yang’s immortality advice on the Future Dharma Network, prompting a Forbidden Zone Supreme to weigh the Path to Immortality and the Undying Emperor to reconsider the Red Dust Immortal Path.
• Duan De learned that Wang Bo had exposed his identity as the Underworld Emperor, while the Corpse Emperor joined the Harm-Elimination Society.

Fang Yang explored the Virtual Universe Company's exchange list, then revealed his talent by passing the ninth level of the Universe Heavenly Bridge and became the Chaos City Lord's registered disciple. After receiving a Golden Horned Giant Beast egg and gaining a slight increase in his physical origin, he arrived at Yuhua Ancient Star to awaken the Yuhua Great Emperor.

• Cao Yusheng condemned Duan De in the Harm-Elimination Society chat, and the group welcomed Chaos Great Emperor before Cao Yusheng insisted their cause was righteous rather than profit-seeking.
• Fang Yang reviewed the Virtual Universe Company's exchange list and planned to raise his Genetic Level by reaching World Lord and hunting special lifeforms.
• After learning that Bolan had passed the sixth level of the Universe Heavenly Bridge, Fang Yang went to the bridge and passed its ninth level, displaying balanced comprehension of the Time and Space Laws.
• The Chaos City Lord met Fang Yang, praised his performance, and accepted him as a registered disciple, giving him a Golden Horned Giant Beast egg.
• Fang Yang's Swallowed Star Other Self refined the egg, and Fang Yang sensed a slight growth in his physical origin before going to awaken the Yuhua Great Emperor at Yuhua Ancient Star.

Fang Yang mediated between Yuhua Great Emperor and the Ruthless Empress, then brought her into the River of Time to witness her past. The Empress tried and failed to reach her dying brother, but accepted Fang Yang’s healing pill and chose to continue traveling upstream.

• Yuhua Great Emperor met Fang Yang and the Ruthless Empress, then gave her treasures to settle the Yuhua Divine Dynasty’s past grievances.
• Fang Yang brought Yuhua Great Emperor into the Future Dharma Realm and granted him permissions and the Heaven-Mending Art.
• Fang Yang took the Ruthless Empress to the Desolate Forbidden Zone and began guiding her upstream along the River of Time.
• Fang Yang and the Ruthless Empress witnessed the histories of several Great Emperors before seeing the Empress’s brother in the past.
• The Ruthless Empress reached toward her brother but the River of Time stripped the flesh from her hand, and Fang Yang healed it with a Flat Peach Immortal Pill.
• The Ruthless Empress indicated that Fang Yang should continue taking her farther into the past.

Fang Yang traveled back through the River of Time, then began forging the Zodiac Immortal Disk into the Reincarnation Disk with Anlan's Shield. He raised a Golden Horned Beast clone to World Lord Level and took it to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, where it killed a Monster Race Immortal and gained Fate Points.

• Fang Yang followed the River of Time into the early Mythological Era before turning back under the pressure of the past.
• Fang Yang used Anlan's Shield to refine the Zodiac Immortal Disk and named the weapon the Reincarnation Disk.
• Fang Yang chose to raise a Golden Horned Beast clone to World Lord Level and sent it to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield to hunt powerful enemies for Fate Points.
• After nine days without finding an Immortal, Fang Yang let a black serpent ambush his spaceship, then killed the Monster Race Immortal with a blade flash and gained 10 Fate Points.

Fang Yang entered Strange World through the Path to Immortality and met Daoist Piaomiao, who sought the Immortal Domain Repair Method. Fang Yang offered to exchange the inheritance for valuables, while Daoist Piaomiao considered what he could provide.

• Fang Yang concluded that killing powerful beings could earn Fate Points and set out to hunt a nearby Monster Race imperial clansman.
• Wang Bo continued comprehending the Chaos Great Dao and reflected on the gap between his strength and the Heavenly Emperor's.
• Ancestor Zhu Huang left Huang Tiannv's instruction after Fang Yang summoned him.
• Fang Yang opened the gateway of the Path to Immortality on Yinghuo Ancient Star and entered Strange World with Zhu Huang.
• Daoist Piaomiao appeared before Fang Yang and asked about Desolate Heavenly Emperor's inheritance.
• Fang Yang offered to exchange the Immortal Domain Repair Method for Immortal Source, divine medicines, or rare treasures of sufficient value.

Fang Yang killed Daoist Piaomiao, gave his Dao palace to Zhu Huang, and then visited Great Emperor Wushi with an Ancient Mirror. The mirror awakened Wushi’s memories as Immortal King Wuzhong, and he vowed to settle his old debts with the Exotic Domain.

• Fang Yang saw through Daoist Piaomiao’s killing intent, shattered his star-powered formation, and killed him with the Great Five-Element Annihilation Hand Seal.
• Fang Yang gave Daoist Piaomiao’s Dao palace to Zhu Huang and ordered him to guard the Strange World, promising him a Flat Peach Immortal Fruit if he raised his cultivation.
• Great Emperor Wushi sensed Fang Yang’s arrival and let him into his cave abode, where Fang Yang offered him an Ancient Mirror in exchange for the Wuzhong Immortal Scripture.
• Great Emperor Wushi looked into the mirror and recovered memories of his past life as Immortal King Wuzhong.
• Great Emperor Wushi vowed to settle his old debts with the Exotic Domain.

Great Emperor Wushi recovered memories of his past life as Immortal King Wuzhong and exchanged Dao insights with Fang Yang. Later, Fang Yang traded the Buddha's Palm General Outline with Meng Qi for the Great Dao Tree, then accompanied him to the True Martial Tomb, where Fang Yang cleared the evil spirits and they found the Yuanyang Ruler.

• Great Emperor Wushi gave Fang Yang the Wuzhong Immortal Scripture, and they discussed the Dao together.
• Fang Yang advised Ruan Yushu to strengthen her cultivation before contemplating the Buddha's Palm General Outline, while Meng Qi arrived at the Ruan family pavilion.
• Fang Yang and Meng Qi exchanged the Withered-and-Glorious Bodhi for the Great Dao Tree carrying the true meaning of Dao Spreads Throughout the Universe.
• Fang Yang and Meng Qi traveled to the True Martial Tomb, where Fang Yang used the Life-Destruction Sword to destroy the surrounding zombies and malevolent ghosts.
• Fang Yang entered the tomb with Meng Qi and discovered the Yuanyang Ruler, which Meng Qi recognized as an Other Shore Divine Weapon.

Fang Yang received the Yuanyang Ruler from the True Martial Emperor in the True Martial Tomb and let Meng Qi choose several other divine weapons. After entrusting the ruler to Ruan Yushu to awaken, Fang Yang met Qi Zhengyan, who revealed that he was the Demon Lord's heir.

• The True Martial Emperor appeared from the Yuanyang Ruler, gave it to Fang Yang, and then vanished.
• Fang Yang let Meng Qi choose half the tomb’s remaining treasures, and Meng Qi selected a saber, a sword, and a replica of the Heaven-Earth Black-Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.
• Fang Yang and Meng Qi returned to Ruan Yushu, who learned about their gains and accepted the Yuanyang Ruler and a piece of music to help awaken it.
• Fang Yang told Ruan Yushu she could study the Heaven-Severing General Outline within the ruler as payment, then departed.
• In a desolate wilderness, Qi Zhengyan met Fang Yang and declared that he was the Demon Lord’s heir.

Fang Yang gave Qi Zhengyan three ways to resist the Demon Lord’s demonic inheritance, and Qi Zhengyan chose the perilous path of subduing it by force. Fang Yang then created a demonic body in another world and awakened twelve Other Selves, strengthening his Legend traits.

• Fang Yang told Qi Zhengyan he could choose reincarnation, severing a demonic body, or forcibly refining his demonic thoughts, and Qi Zhengyan chose the third method.
• Fang Yang sent a demonic body bearing the Demon Emperor Canon to a distant world to test its cultivation, then shared insights from the Seven Heaven-Severing Swords with his One-Life Other Self.
• Fang Yang contemplated Dao Spreads Throughout the Universe in the True Martial Hall and sent thirteen sword lights to awaken Other Selves across other worlds.
• In the Tang World, Fang Yang returned through the Jujube Wood Sword, gave Daoist Yin Xuan a life-extending pill, and killed the hostile infiltrators in the Louguan School.
• Fang Yang fully assimilated twelve awakened Other Selves, strengthening his Omnipresent Legend trait and gaining the trait that he could not die while a projection endured.

After awakening from years of enlightenment, Fang Yang learned of the upheavals in the True World and resolved to pursue the Other Shore Realm and settle the Cause and Effect of his mysterious seclusion. He called for the Yuanyang Ruler, while Gu Erduo secretly rebuilt his strength in the Longevity Heaven Realm.

• Fang Yang sensed that Daoist Chonghe had died fighting Gu Erduo, Su Wuming had attained a Dharma Body, and Demon King White Marsh had escaped, then wondered who had guided him to Dao Leaves a Thread.
• Fang Yang decided to endure the schemes of the powerful until he could reach the Other Shore Realm, and called, “Come, ruler!”
• At the Langya Ruan Clan, Meng Qi and his companions discussed Chonghe’s death, their dangers under the Lord of Six Paths Reincarnation, and Fang Yang’s ongoing seclusion.
• Ruan Yushu’s Yuanyang Ruler responded to Fang Yang’s call and flew away, startling the gathered friends and making Zhang Yuanshan uneasy about the True Martial Sect’s standing.
• In the Longevity Heaven Realm, Gu Erduo used the Azure Heavenly Pearl and the Heaven-Execution Axe to rebuild his Dharma Body, expecting to return to the Earth Immortal realm within ten years.

Fang Yang confronted Gu Erduo in the Longevity Heaven Realm, restrained the Heaven-Execution Axe, and used Dao Destruction and Dao Creation to kill him. The realm and its inhabitants were restored, while the axe escaped and crashed into Han Guang’s hidden abode.

• Fang Yang crossed the grasslands and discovered Han Guang’s hidden abode, but continued onward without attacking him.
• Fang Yang found the Longevity Heaven Realm, where Gu Erduo was trying to possess the Azure Heavenly Pearl and make the realm his own.
• Gu Erduo attacked Fang Yang with the Heaven-Execution Axe, but Fang Yang blocked and restrained it with the Yuanyang Ruler and Dao Leaves a Thread.
• Gu Erduo offered the Cangtian World-Destruction Art and urged Fang Yang not to risk harming the realm’s inhabitants, but Fang Yang said he would avenge Chonghe.
• Fang Yang struck the Longevity Heaven Realm with Dao Destruction and Dao Creation, killing Gu Erduo as the Azure Heavenly Pearl shattered and restored the realm and its inhabitants.
• The Heaven-Execution Axe broke free of the Yuanyang Ruler and crashed into Han Guang’s hidden abode.

Han Guang claimed the Heaven-Execution Axe while Fang Yang left the ruined Longevity Heaven Realm and returned to the True Martial Sect. After the Sky Ranking named Fang Yang first, he advanced to Earth Immortal, but realized reaching Heavenly Immortal would take at least fifteen or sixteen years.

• Han Guang took the Heaven-Execution Axe and departed without fighting Fang Yang, who let him go and left the Longevity Heaven Realm behind.
• The Sky Ranking recorded Gu Erduo's death and placed Fang Yang first, prompting Meng Qi, Su Wuming, and Tai Li to consider his achievements and the shifting balance among the races.
• Fang Yang returned to the True Martial Sect and began cultivating toward Earth Immortal as the Final Tribulation approached.
• Fang Yang opened Grotto-Heavens throughout his acupoints and attained Earth Immortal, then estimated that reaching Heavenly Immortal would take at least fifteen or sixteen years.

Vajra Temple’s dying Fangzhang appointed a successor and set out for the True Martial Sect with Vajra Illumination and the Blood Saber Divine Weapon, hoping to exchange the Buddha’s Palm form for a chance to study Buddha’s Palm General Outline. Meng Qi visited Fang Yang, who saw a deep thread of Cause and Effect and warned him that bloodshed loomed over him.

• Vajra Temple’s Fangzhang lamented that he could not master Vajra Illumination or attain the Dharma Body, while his young disciple urged him to seek Buddha’s Palm General Outline from Fang Yang.
• Vajra Temple’s Fangzhang appointed the young grandmaster as his successor, and several experts entered closed-door cultivation as they attended the patriarch’s memorial tablets.
• Vajra Temple’s Fangzhang and his successor traveled to the True Martial Sect with the Blood Saber Divine Weapon and the treasure bearing Vajra Illumination.
• Meng Qi arrived at the True Martial Sect to visit Zhang Yuanshan and Fang Yang, and Zhang Yuanshan escorted him to the True Martial Hall.
• Fang Yang examined Meng Qi’s Cause and Effect and warned him that bloodshed loomed over him.

Meng Qi left True Martial Mountain after Fang Yang warned him about the Demon Buddha, while Fang Yang traded the Buddha's Palm General Outline for Vajra Illumination and continued gathering the art's moves. Ten years later, Fang Yang met a gray-robed monk at a ruined temple, where their reunion was interrupted by two newcomers who recognized the young Daoist as the Overlord Saber.

• Meng Qi learned from Fang Yang that he would have to sever his ties to the Demon Buddha himself, then invited the Vajra Temple Fangzhang to meet Fang Yang before leaving True Martial Mountain.
• Fang Yang exchanged the Buddha's Palm General Outline for Vajra Illumination and planned to use the complete set to develop a Reverse Buddha's Palm for his demonic-path avatar.
• Meng Qi disappeared from the martial world after Gu Xiaosang's death, while Qi Zhengyan founded the Red Heart Sect and defeated a Huanhua Sword Sect Grandmaster without killing him.
• The Vajra Temple Fangzhang comprehended the General Outline, attained the Great Vajra Dharma Body, and mastered Vajra Illumination.
• Ten years later, Liang Jiuzhou and Mu Yunle entered a ruined Buddhist temple with an injured companion, where a young Daoist met a gray-robed monk who called him Senior.
• Two figures appeared at the temple and one cried out in horror upon recognizing the young Daoist as the Overlord Saber.

Fang Yang spared Shao Changge and Ying Ning, sent Liang Jiuzhou to deliver a sword token to Su Wuming, and met with Qi Zhengyan before the two departed in different directions. Meanwhile, Han Guang gathered demonic-path Dharma Bodies and Demon King Tai Li to plot an attack on Fang Yang, with Tai Li demanding the true meaning inheritance of All Things Attaining Dao as his reward.

• Meng Qi asked Fang Yang to spare Shao Changge, and Fang Yang ordered her and Ying Ning to stay and repair the temple.
• Fang Yang gave Liang Jiuzhou a transformed iron sword to deliver to Su Wuming at the Sword Washing Pavilion, and Liang left with Mu Yunle and their companion.
• Liang Jiuzhou and Mu Yunle encountered the supposedly dead Qi Zhengyan at the mountain foot, and Qi let them pass before walking toward the temple despite his injuries.
• Qi Zhengyan entered the temple, then Fang Yang and Qi Zhengyan departed in opposite directions while Ying Ning tried to persuade Shao Changge to escape.
• Han Guang convened demonic-path Dharma Bodies and Demon King Tai Li, proposed killing Fang Yang, and heard Tai Li demand the true meaning inheritance of All Things Attaining Dao in return.

Meng Qi broke free of Demon Buddha’s control by forging the Indestructible Primordial Body and severing his ties to the other Lords of Six Paths Reincarnation. In the Six Paths space, Fang Yang acquired a Buddha’s Palm inheritance and accepted Lu Ya’s offer to erase names from the God-Sealing List in exchange for killing Han Guang, then wondered what Lu Ya was really pursuing.

• Meng Qi severed his past and future lives, formed the Indestructible Primordial Body, and cut his causal ties to the other Lords of Six Paths Reincarnation.
• Fang Yang exchanged karma points for Universal Salvation and several other portions of supreme arcane arts, but the ninth style of Buddha’s Palm and other inheritances were unavailable.
• Lu Ya appeared before Fang Yang with the Slaying Immortals Flying Dagger and explained that powerful samsara travelers were bound by the God-Sealing List.
• Lu Ya offered to remove one person’s name from the list for each task Fang Yang completed, and Fang Yang agreed to kill Han Guang.
• Back at the True Martial Sect, Fang Yang questioned why Lu Ya wanted Han Guang dead and whether the task was meant to test the wielder behind the Heaven-Execution Axe.

Meng Qi returned to the martial world as Emperor Yuan, while Fang Yang completed his breakthrough to the Heavenly Immortal realm and learned of an approaching opportunity tied to Jin'ao Island. The chapter left Su Daji inviting someone to a winter-solstice banquet on the island.

• Meng Qi visited the True Martial Sect, reunited with Zhang Yuanshan, and sensed that Fang Yang was about to break through.
• Fang Yang gathered his Other Selves and the Yuanyang Ruler, then formed a true Grotto-Heaven and entered the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Fang Yang traced a connection to Jin'ao Island, where Yuan Hong, Su Daji, and descendants of Yin Shang were gathered, and chose to consolidate his cultivation before traveling to antiquity.
• Su Daji arrived by tower ship at a mountain hall and invited its unseen occupant to a winter-solstice banquet on Jin'ao Island.

Fang Yang converted Su Daji and uncovered Yuan Hong’s scheme to control the Golden Ao Banquet, but a battle in Biyou Palace and the Qingping Sword’s bell sent him upstream to Middle Antiquity. He arrived amid a riverside festival just as a Flood Dragon attacked.

• Su Daji came to True Martial Mountain to invite Fang Yang to the Golden Ao Banquet, but Fang Yang used Questioning the Heart to convert her and learned about Yin Shang and Jin'ao Island’s plans.
• Yuan Hong met with the Dharma King of Crossing the World in secret, intending to use the banquet to copy Dharma Body cultivators’ powers and replace them with his avatars.
• The Green Emperor entered Yuan Hong’s chamber, prompting the Dharma King of Crossing the World to flee, while Fang Yang watched the cultivators gathered on Jin'ao Island without being detected.
• A fierce battle erupted in Biyou Palace, and its aftershocks forced Fang Yang to flee with Su Daji as the island and palace began to collapse.
• Fang Yang saw the Qingping Sword and the dark mass trapped beneath it before a bell from Biyou Palace sent him into a deep sleep.
• Fang Yang awoke in Middle Antiquity, where a Flood Dragon burst from a river and scattered the people gathered on its bank.

Fang Yang followed Sage Monk Great Wisdom to Cold Cicada Temple after killing the Red-Gold Flood Dragon, whose rampage Great Wisdom had apparently arranged. When Great Wisdom and Sage Monk Great Knowledge tried to seize Fang Yang and force him to surrender the Seven Heaven-Severing Swords, Fang Yang countered their attack with Vajra Illumination.

• Fang Yang killed the Red-Gold Flood Dragon before it could devour fleeing civilians, then learned that the arriving monk was Sage Monk Great Wisdom.
• Sage Monk Great Wisdom invited Fang Yang to Cold Cicada Temple, and Fang Yang accepted despite suspecting the monk had caused the Flood Dragon's rampage.
• On the way to the temple, Sage Monk Great Wisdom explained that Cold Cicada Temple held five forms of Buddha's Palm, including Vajra Illumination, All Things Are Impermanent, and Pure Nirvana.
• Fang Yang revealed that he cultivated the Seven Heaven-Severing Swords, prompting Sage Monk Great Wisdom to plot with Sage Monk Great Knowledge to capture him and take his inheritance.
• At Cold Cicada Temple, Sage Monk Great Knowledge attacked Fang Yang with Flower Blossoms, I Appear; I See Him, while Sage Monk Great Wisdom admitted they planned to convert Fang Yang and exploit his sword inheritance.
• Fang Yang endured Sage Monk Great Knowledge's attack and formed an illusory Tathagata Golden Body, countering with Vajra Illumination.