Chapter Summaries

After Ji Ning and Cult Leader Jiu Chen escaped the mysterious palace, they alerted Zhou Yu, Dominator Mangya, and others to its location. As more powerful figures moved to claim the palace, Emperor Monarch Jinge shared its location with the Dao Alliance, setting up a wider contest for its treasures.

• Ji Ning and Cult Leader Jiu Chen returned to the Yu Xing Sea and agreed to tell their allies about the mysterious palace.
• Ji Ning informed Zhou Yu, who decided to investigate despite the danger and set out with his Cang You Avatar.
• Dominator Mangya and Dominator Lan Hao examined the ruined altar, failed to trace its teleportation formation, and left to follow Ji Ning’s Time-Space Disk.
• Dominator Minglan warned Emperor Monarch Jinge that Mangya, Lan Hao, and Dominator Wind-Rain would soon reach the palace, and Jinge gave her its location.
• Emperor Monarch Jinge and Emperor Monarch Xueyu decided to enlist the Dao Alliance, and Jinge began notifying powerful Eternal Emperor Monarchs.

Zhou Yu reached the gathering in the depths of the Yu Xing Sea and confronted Emperor Monarch Jinge for trying to capture his junior. After overwhelming Jinge and his allies before numerous powerful witnesses, Zhou Yu left with his strength recognized across the Yanlong Domain.

• Emperor Monarch Tianmu informed Zhou Yu that news of the palace had spread, and Zhou Yu traveled into the depths of the Yu Xing Sea.
• Zhou Yu arrived among four Dominators and many Eternal Emperor Monarchs, who dismissed him as an ordinary Dao Lord.
• Zhou Yu confronted Emperor Monarch Jinge over his attempt to capture Zhou Yu's junior and attacked him with his Lifebound Divine Weapon.
• Zhou Yu wounded Jinge and sent Emperor Monarch Xueyu flying before Jinge's allies joined forces to hold him back.
• Zhou Yu stopped attacking and withdrew, while the gathered powers recognized his extraordinary strength and his name spread throughout the Yanlong Domain.

Zhou Yu joined Dominator Mangya and Dominator Lan Hao at a Sith Clan palace, where he tested its formidable defensive array and received intelligence from Emperor Monarch Heiyun. After tens of thousands of years passed without the array being breached, an astonishing phenomenon appeared in the Damo Eternal Realm.

• Zhou Yu agreed to join Dominator Mangya and Dominator Lan Hao in seeking treasures and learned that their combined attacks had barely affected the palace's array.
• Zhou Yu struck the array with his fiercest sword attack, but its invisible power drained the blow before it reached the palace.
• Zhou Yu began studying the array and received Emperor Monarch Heiyun's intelligence, which identified the palace as a Sith Clan wartime stronghold and described its structure.
• Zhou Yu resumed studying the array while Dominators and Eternal great powers continued trying to break it for tens of thousands of years.
• An astonishing phenomenon appeared in the Damo Eternal Realm.

Patriarch Bodhi told Zhou Yu and Ji Ning that a spectacular phenomenon had appeared in the Yibo Realm, signaling that its Dongming Jade Talisman might emerge. As Dao Lords across the Endless Territories prepared to go, their elders warned them that Daoist Lord You Cang possessed strength comparable to a Dominator.

• Patriarch Bodhi returned to the Canggan Great World as a World God and told Zhou Yu that the Yibo Realm had erupted in nine-colored radiance.
• Zhou Yu explained that he would go after the Chibo Palace Fruit himself, while Ji Ning agreed to return from the Yu Xing Sea and accompany him.
• Spies spread news of the Yibo Realm’s phenomenon throughout the Endless Territories, and Eternal Emperor Monarchs deduced that the Dongming Jade Talisman was about to emerge.
• Daoist Lord Xiao Meng’s master warned him that Daoist Lord You Cang could contend with a Dominator, but Xiao Meng still chose to explore the Yibo Realm without provoking him.
• Other Dao Lords received similar warnings, and while most still planned to go, some decided to wait and see.

Zhou Yu, Ji Ning, and Cult Leader Jiu Chen formed a powerful array while advancing through the Yibo Realm toward the Dongming Jade Talisman. After rescuing Daoist Lord Tianyi and Daoist Lord Damo, they trapped Demon Lord Chenyu, but she called on Cult Leader Suimeng and other Dao Lords for help.

• Zhou Yu stayed outside the Yibo Realm and told Dominator Mangya that he did not need the Dongming Jade Talisman.
• Zhou Yu gave Ji Ning and Cult Leader Jiu Chen jade slips containing an array that combined their strength, and the three practiced it together.
• After traveling into the eighth realm, Ji Ning received a plea for help from Daoist Lord Tianyi, so Zhou Yu and the others went to his location.
• Cult Leader Jiu Chen and Ji Ning engaged Demon Lord Chenyu and three other Dao Lords while Zhou Yu trapped them with arrays and then used the trio's combined formation to overpower Demon Lord Chenyu.
• Demon Lord Chenyu rejected Zhou Yu's offer to spare her if she swore a True-Life Oath, secretly asked other Dao Lords for aid, and Cult Leader Suimeng summoned his World of Heart to help her escape.

Zhou Yu defeated Cult Leader Suimeng’s World of Heart, forced Demon Lord Chenyu and her allies to submit, and strengthened his formation while advancing his understanding of the Array Dao. After more than a hundred years, three outsiders arrived in the Yanlong Domain, hoping to investigate a rumored Sith Clan Ruins.

• Zhou Yu’s World of Heart crushed Cult Leader Suimeng’s, and Demon Lord Chenyu surrendered along with her allies.
• Zhou Yu helped Daoist Lord Tianyi and Daoist Lord Damo escape, then welcomed them aboard the Flying Boat with the others.
• Zhou Yu shared a new formation with the group, whose practice increased its power by thirty percent and brought him closer to breaking through in the Ultimate Dao of Arrays.
• Dominator Wuyang carried three travelers to the Yanlong Domain, where they left to investigate reports of Sith Clan Ruins.

Zhou Yu led his allies to seize the first Dongming Jade Talisman from King Geque, defeating King Guangming and forcing Dao Lord Yanhu to submit. After Chibo Palace appeared in the Yibo Realm, a black-cloaked outsider decided to try to take it for himself.

• Realm Spirit Pu Luo announced that the Dongming Jade Talismans would appear, and Zhou Yu killed several Dao Lords who rushed for the first one.
• King Geque took the first Dongming Jade Talisman, but King Guangming and Dao Lord Yanhu confronted him and agreed to help him escape after he swore a True-Life Oath.
• Zhou Yu lured the three into a grand array, killed King Geque and King Guangming, and spared Dao Lord Yanhu after Ji Ning and Cult Leader Jiu Chen pleaded for him.
• The second Dongming Jade Talisman appeared, but another Dao Lord claimed it before Zhou Yu's group arrived.
• Chibo Palace rose from the Tenth Realm, and a black-cloaked outsider resolved to seize it despite its being left for the Yanlong Domain.

Zhou Yu entered Chibo Palace’s dangerous trial corridor and tempered himself against waves of golden armored warriors. During the year-long battle, he broke through to the Fourth Step of the Ultimate Dao of Arrays, bringing his Dao Tree, World of Heart, and other paths to their limits.

• Zhou Yu and his group arrived at Chibo Palace, where Realm Spirit Pu Luo explained that three dangerous passages each held a Dongming Jade Talisman.
• The group split up, and Zhou Yu entered one passage alone to reach a world containing a Space Corridor guarded by golden armored warriors.
• Zhou Yu fought through the corridor for a year without using Heart Force enhancement, steadily refining his combat techniques against increasing numbers of warriors.
• Zhou Yu’s branches of Array Dao merged, and he broke through to the Fourth Step of the Ultimate Dao of Arrays, raising his Dao Tree to its Dao Lord limit.
• Zhou Yu’s Divine Power Path and Heart Force Path also broke through, expanding his World of Heart and granting him new power and abilities.

Zhou Yu used his mastery of the fourth step of the Ultimate Dao of Arrays to study Chibo Palace, secure the Fruit Tokens, and subdue or block the other Dao Lords. After all five Dongming Jade Talismans and nine Fruit Tokens were gathered, he led the group to claim the fruits.

• Zhou Yu reached Chibo Palace's third level, obtained the first, second, and ninth Fruit Tokens, and laid formations to control the other two passages.
• Ji Ning and his companions arrived after losing their passage's Dongming Jade Talisman, and Zhou Yu gave Cult Leader Jiu Chen one of his own before sending the group to retrieve tokens.
• Zhou Yu killed Cult Leader Suimeng and King Chou when Wine Saint's group attacked, then forced Wine Saint, Dao Lord Tiancan, and Dao Lord Xuehuan to surrender their treasures and swear True-Life Oaths.
• Dao Lord Tiancan and Dao Lord Xuehuan used Zhou Yu's formations to repel the other Dao Lords as Wine Saint, Cult Leader Jiu Chen, Ji Ning, and their companions collected the remaining tokens.
• After all five Dongming Jade Talismans and nine Fruit Tokens were claimed and handed to Zhou Yu, he led the group to claim the fruits.

After a mysterious Dominator attacked Zhou Yu, Ji Ning, and the other Dao Lords, Zhou Yu escaped into Chibo Palace’s hidden fourth-level space. He awakened Emperor Monarch Yibo, who agreed to help him use the palace’s formations against their pursuer.

• Dominator Mangya arranged to receive priority for the Cold Flame Dinghua Fruit, while Dominator Lan Hao prepared to send his Dharma body to Chibo Palace.
• Zhou Yu, Ji Ning, and the others left Chibo Palace with its fruits, and a black-cloaked Dominator attacked them outside the Yibo Realm.
• Zhou Yu used his formation to resist the Dominator’s palm, then moved the group back into Chibo Palace to escape capture.
• The black-cloaked Dominator entered Chibo Palace and searched its first- and second-level spaces for Zhou Yu.
• Zhou Yu reached the hidden fourth-level space, where Emperor Monarch Yibo’s dormant consciousness awakened and agreed to help him use Chibo Palace’s formations.

Zhou Yu took control of Emperor Monarch Yibo’s Mystic Realm Space-Locking Array and used it to trap Dominator Fire Demon. He fought Fire Demon with his array techniques and powerful divine body, but found that Fire Demon’s Dominator-level Undying Body made him extremely difficult to kill.

• Dominator Fire Demon was trapped in the Mystic Realm Space-Locking Array after the Chibo Palace Array Spirit interfered with his search for Zhou Yu.
• Zhou Yu took control of the array and used Heart Force to greatly strengthen its suppression, limiting Fire Demon’s divine sense and weakening him.
• Emperor Monarch Yibo identified the trapped Dominator as Fire Demon from Qilan Domain and explained that killing him would be difficult.
• Zhou Yu attacked Fire Demon, endured his Universe Treasure strike, and revealed techniques strong enough to surprise the Dominator.
• Zhou Yu used the array to merge into it and launch repeated sneak attacks, forcing Fire Demon to repeatedly use his Undying Body.
• Zhou Yu realized Fire Demon’s Undying Body had reached the Dominator level and had not yet found a way to injure him.

Zhou Yu revealed that he had trapped Dominator Fire Demon in Chibo Palace and persuaded Yanlong Domain’s Emperor Monarchs to unite with him. After three thousand years, Zhou Yu combined their strength and launched an attack powerful enough to injure Fire Demon, leaving his survival uncertain.

• Dominator Mangya and Emperor Monarch Jinyu discussed the attack on Dao Lord Ganyu as Yanlong Domain’s leaders and Emperor Monarchs gathered outside the Yibo Realm.
• Zhou Yu’s Second Primal Spirit revealed that he had trapped Dominator Fire Demon and demonstrated his formidable Array Dao by fending off Emperor Monarch Tianmu.
• Zhou Yu offered to help break the Sith Clan Ruins’ grand array if the gathered cultivators helped him kill Fire Demon, and they agreed to test his ability to unite their powers.
• Zhou Yu spent three thousand years maintaining the array around Fire Demon while the other two Dominators from Qilan Domain wondered what had happened to him.
• Zhou Yu led twenty-two Holy City Lord-level cultivators in forming a grand array and amplified their combined power with Heart Force.
• Zhou Yu’s array struck Fire Demon repeatedly, overcoming his Undying Body and leaving him shocked that the attacks could injure him.

Zhou Yu used the grand formation to kill Dominator Fire Demon after rejecting his offer to become a follower, while Dominator Tianyun and Dominator Moyu gave up on rescuing him. After dividing Fire Demon’s remaining treasures among the formation’s participants, Zhou Yu left Chibo Palace as Emperor Monarch Yibo anticipated a meeting with him when his true body returned.

• Dominator Fire Demon secretly summoned Dominator Tianyun and Dominator Moyu for help, and they set out for Yanlong Domain.
• Dominator Mangya, Dominator Wind-Rain, and Dominator Minglan intercepted Tianyun and Moyu and showed them Zhou Yu’s formation overwhelming Fire Demon.
• After learning that Dao Lord Ganyu led the formation of twenty-one Eternal Emperor Monarchs, Tianyun and Moyu departed without trying to rescue Fire Demon.
• Fire Demon begged for mercy and offered to become Zhou Yu’s follower, but Zhou Yu unleashed over a thousand sword strikes and annihilated his remaining divine power.
• Zhou Yu collected Fire Demon’s remaining treasures and divided them into twenty-two portions among himself and the twenty-one Eternal Emperor Monarchs.
• Emperor Monarch Yibo said his true body might soon return to discuss matters with Zhou Yu, who then left Chibo Palace.

After leaving the Yibo Realm, Zhou Yu and the others confirmed that the Dominator who attacked them had been killed, then visited the Dao Alliance to exchange treasures. Zhou Yu explained his Ultimate Dao to the gathered experts, while Ji Ning departed with Dominator Lan Hao and Cult Leader Jiu Chen to obtain Black Fire-Sinking Stone.

• Zhou Yu released Ji Ning, Cult Leader Jiu Chen, and the others from his Cave Heaven Treasure after leaving the Yibo Realm, and told them he had joined forces with Eternal Emperor Monarchs to kill the Dominator.
• Dominator Mangya, other Dominators, and Eternal Emperor Monarchs arrived, and Emperor Monarch Jinyu invited Zhou Yu and Ji Ning to exchange treasures at the Dao Alliance Treasury.
• While Zhou Yu and Ji Ning entered the Dao Alliance Immortal Palace, Zhou Yu's Second Primal Spirit explained that the Ultimate Dao stood above the four commonly known levels of Dao.
• Zhou Yu and Ji Ning traded for treasures, and Dominator Lan Hao offered to take Ji Ning to the Demon Statue Stone Wall to obtain Black Fire-Sinking Stone.
• Zhou Yu sent Ji Ning and Cult Leader Jiu Chen off with Dominator Lan Hao, while he remained behind.

Zhou Yu’s true body broke the formation around the Sith Clan Ruins, beginning a fierce contest for its treasures while his other bodies searched the palace and advanced their cultivation. The chapter ended with Zhou Yu’s Second Primal Spirit locating Ji Ning and Cult Leader Jiu Chen, while his Dao of Space reached the Holy City Lord level.

• Zhou Yu devised a method to weaken the Sith Clan Ruins’ formation, allowing the first group of cultivators to enter while Eternal Emperor Monarchs and Dominators Tianyun and Moyu followed.
• Dominator Heimu and two other Dominators joined Tianyun and Moyu, and the five broke through the layered formations to enter the palace.
• The cultivators spread through the palace to search its many spaces, and Zhou Yu obtained the Body of the Black-Clad Emperor Monarch as the treasure contest intensified over three months.
• Zhou Yu’s true body studied the formation protecting the Body of the Gold-Clad Emperor Monarch while his You Cang Avatar searched for the palace’s core and watched Dominator Heimu.
• Ji Ning and Cult Leader Jiu Chen entered the Hubei Warship, learned about Emperor Monarch Ganyu, and chose to lie low rather than provoke him.
• Zhou Yu’s Second Primal Spirit advanced his Dao of Space nearly to its ultimate limit, reaching the level of a Holy City Lord, then located Ji Ning and Cult Leader Jiu Chen and went to meet them.

Ji Ning and Cult Leader Jiu Chen met Zhou Yu, who offered them a chance to observe Supreme Bolin’s Dao, while the struggle over the Sith Clan ruins’ Stone Palace drew powerful figures together. Under attack, Zhou Yu broke through his Ultimate Dao of Time and Space and killed Dominator Shenqiao, leaving the battle for the palace unresolved.

• Ji Ning and Cult Leader Jiu Chen agreed to guide Zhou Yu outside in exchange for a chance to visit the Beast Cave Heaven and observe Supreme Bolin’s Dao.
• Dominator Heimu divined that the abyssal gorge concealed the palace core, but Dominator Mangya found the entrance and entered first.
• Dominator Heimu and his allies confronted Dominator Mangya at the Stone Palace, and their clash drew Zhou Yu, Dominator Lan Hao, and numerous other powerful figures.
• As the gathered fighters battled and tried to refine the Stone Palace, Zhou Yu’s true body quietly took control of its internal restrictions.
• Dominator Shenqiao and Dominator Tianyun attacked Zhou Yu’s You Cang Avatar, prompting Zhou Yu to break through his Ultimate Dao of Time and Space.
• Zhou Yu’s nine avatars attacked Dominator Shenqiao from different points in time and space, shattering his divine body and killing his true body.

Zhou Yu’s Cang You Avatar killed Dominator Shenqiao, subdued Dominator Tianyun, and collected treasures from the other powerful figures at the ruins. After discovering a Domain Flying Boat and other valuable relics, Zhou Yu sought information about the Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower, and news of his strength and reward began spreading across the Chaos Universe.

• Zhou Yu’s Cang You Avatar killed Dominator Shenqiao and severely wounded Dominator Tianyun, who surrendered his treasures and swore to follow Zhou Yu for one hundred Chaos Cycles.
• Zhou Yu demanded treasures from Dominator Moyu, Dominator Heimu, the other departing Dominator, and Emperor Monarch Jinge, who also promised to apologize to Beiming.
• Zhou Yu asked Emperor Monarch Heiyun to spread word through the Dao Alliance that he would reward anyone who provided accurate information about the Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower.
• Zhou Yu’s true body finished refining the Stone Palace, and Dominator Mangya and Dominator Lan Hao declined to claim its treasures.
• Zhou Yu found the Gold-Clad Emperor Monarch’s intact treasures, including a Domain Flying Boat and a powerful chain, though the palace’s heavily protected treasury was empty.
• Master Fuxing and a black-robed Dominator discussed reports that Zhou Yu could kill a Dominator in one move, as news of his reward spread across the Chaos Universe.

Zhou Yu killed City Lord Feixue, took control of Feixue Holy City, and established Ganyu Holy City while rumors spread about his origins. After spending over a million years studying Supreme Qi’s techniques, Zhou Yu entered the Blue Flower Abode’s final hall and began preparing to perfect the Nine-Fold Space technique and strengthen his chances of Daomerge.

• City Lord Feixue sensed a Domain Flying Boat component and attacked Zhou Yu, but Zhou Yu’s golems and empowered spatial domain killed Feixue, Emperor Monarch Blood Cloud, and their allies.
• Zhou Yu ordered his golems to capture Cultivators burdened with great sins, and Ganyu Holy City was established at the site of Feixue Holy City.
• The Yanlong Domain’s powerful figures speculated that Emperor Monarch Ganyu’s origins were connected to the opportunities of Dao Lord Ganyu and Daoist Lord You Cang, while Zhou Yu’s true body departed with the repaired Domain Flying Boat.
• After more than a million years studying Supreme Qi’s techniques, Zhou Yu received eleven Ultimate Dao Lord Daos and Supreme Qi’s own Dao from the Spirit of the Blue Flower Abode.
• Zhou Yu sat on the Supreme Stone Platform in the final hall and learned that he had to create ten Holy City Lord-level techniques to obtain the Stone Fire Pearl and help perfect Nine-Fold Space.

Zhou Yu created ten Holy City Lord-level techniques and received the Stone Fire Pearl before traveling to the Heaven Mirror Realm. There, he met Dominator Qiongwu, Emperor Monarch Black Rain, and Heart Sword Emperor Monarch, then spent eighty million years deciphering a secret art that could reveal a way out.

• Zhou Yu gave the Spirit of the Blue Flower Abode ten Holy City Lord-level techniques, including techniques in time, destruction, life, and the Five Elements.
• The Spirit of the Blue Flower Abode gave Zhou Yu the Stone Fire Pearl and the Heart of Eternity, whose ninety-nine restrictions tested mastery of Nine-Fold Space.
• Zhou Yu entered the Heaven Mirror Realm and became lost while exploring its tangled spatial structure.
• Zhou Yu encountered Dominator Qiongwu, Emperor Monarch Black Rain, and Heart Sword Emperor Monarch, who explained that the nine mountain peaks concealed a secret art that could help them escape.
• Zhou Yu studied the peaks and the others' insights for eighty million years before forming a complete method and finding a chance to merge his paths of the Dao of Space.

Zhou Yu reached the Dominator Level in the Dao of Space and used his breakthrough to guide his companions through the Heaven Mirror Realm. They found an Alien Universe that Emperor Monarch Black Rain claimed as his homeland, but his attempt to force Zhou Yu into serving him ended in Black Rain’s destruction.

• Zhou Yu fused every direction of the Dao of Space, reached the Dominator Level, and shared the method he had comprehended with Dominator Qiongwu, Heart Sword Emperor Monarch, and Emperor Monarch Black Rain.
• The four discovered an ownerless Alien Universe, but Emperor Monarch Black Rain refined it and revealed that it was his homeland; Dominator Qiongwu and Heart Sword Emperor Monarch agreed to celebrate with him.
• At a banquet inside the Alien Universe, Emperor Monarch Black Rain described how he had eliminated potential rivals and demanded that Zhou Yu swear loyalty in exchange for access to the Alien Universe Origin.
• Emperor Monarch Black Rain used the Alien Universe Origin to suppress the others, but Heart Sword Emperor Monarch broke through the suppression and tried to lead them out.
• Zhou Yu unleashed a powerful Space Sword that pierced the Alien Universe Origin’s defenses and annihilated Emperor Monarch Black Rain’s Second Primal Spirit.