Chapter Summaries

Li Kuanglan explained that Perfect World was nearing its end and that he planned to continue the story with a Shrouding the Heavens arc. He announced that updates would drop from four per day to two for about half a month while he prepared the next volume.

• Li Kuanglan said Perfect World had reached 260 chapters and 530,000 words, and he expected to finish it at just over 300 chapters.
• Li Kuanglan planned to continue the story with a Shrouding the Heavens fanfic without opening a new book, despite not having read the original yet.
• Li Kuanglan said he would reduce updates from four a day to two while reading the original and preparing the new volume.
• Li Kuanglan hoped readers would follow the Shrouding the Heavens arc and said he might continue afterward with the World of Immortals and Divine Grave arcs.

Shi Hao accepted King Pan’s invitation to the Flat Peach Grand Assembly, and Willow Deity decided to accompany him to settle old grudges and reclaim former Immortal King abodes. Their Divine Court army entered the Immortal Domain, where its battle-worn guards revealed traces of darkness that alarmed the defenders of Purple Gold Immortal City.

• Willow Deity gave Shi Hao King Pan’s invitation to the Flat Peach Grand Assembly, and Shi Hao considered holding a Heavenly Immortal Feast of his own.
• Willow Deity explained her ties to King Pan and Azure Heaven, then said she would bring Xuanwu, Azure Heaven, and Chi Yang to reclaim their former Immortal King abodes and settle old scores.
• Shi Hao’s army entered the Immortal Domain through its gates and approached Purple Gold Immortal City, a fortress guarding a passage to the outside world.
• The Immortal Domain kings’ inspection purged clouds of darkness from the Iron-Blooded Army, alarming the city’s defenders, while Imperial Dragon Qi shielded Shi Hao’s chariot.
• Meng Tianzheng told Shi Hao that the guards had recently rotated in from the front lines and had not yet been purified with a Sacred Ancient Artifact.

Shi Hao arrived at King Pan City for the Flat Peach Grand Assembly, where Yue Chan drew the attention of the Immortal Domain’s True Immortals as the likely reincarnation of the Green Moon Immortal Maiden. As Immortal Domain prodigies sized up Shi Hao, Ao Gan approached Yue Chan to discuss the Dao.

• The Heavenly Emperor’s carriage passed through Purple Gold Immortal City and traveled to King Pan City, where King Pan’s grandson welcomed Shi Hao.
• Immortal King Giants and members of powerful families gathered at King Pan’s residence as the Flat Peach Grand Assembly approached.
• Shi Hao took his seat with Yue Chan, whose Green Moon radiance and knowledge of the previous era led True Immortals to treat her as the returned Green Moon Immortal Maiden.
• Immortal Domain prodigies debated Shi Hao’s rapid rise, comparing him with descendants of Immortal Kings such as Pan Yi, Ao Gan, and Hun Tian.
• Ao Gan introduced himself to Yue Chan and invited her to discuss the Dao, offering to use an Immortal King’s True Scripture.

At King Pan’s gathering, Immortal King Ao Sheng opposed inviting the Divine Court into the Immortal Domain, while King Pan argued that the Immortal Domain needed its strength against the Foreign Realm. Yuan Chu tried to provoke the Undying Immortal King over his descendant, but the Undying Immortal King erupted in anger and accused the kings of leading that descendant into disaster.

• Immortal King Ao Sheng objected to King Pan inviting the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit and the Divine Court’s representatives into the Immortal Domain.
• King Pan argued that the Immortal Domain needed the Divine Court as an ally against the Foreign Realm, and most of the gathered Immortal Kings supported his position.
• Immortal King Yuan Chu tried to provoke the Undying Immortal King by recalling that the Divine Court had killed his True Immortal descendant.
• The Undying Immortal King dismissed the descendant as one among countless heirs and recalled how the descendant had schemed against the Seven Kings of the Border Wasteland and Kunpeng.
• Immortal King Yuan Chu mocked the Undying Immortal King, who unleashed his aura and accused Yuan Chu and his allies of inciting his descendant to commit crimes.

Willow Deity and her allies resolved to kill Ao Sheng, Yuan Chu, and Taishi for betraying the Seven Kings of the Border Wasteland. At the Flat Peach Feast, Fairy Yuechan used Shi Hao to fend off Ao Gan, stirring playful jealousy between Shi Hao’s consorts, before Ao Sheng challenged Shi Hao to a fight.

• Immortal King Hunyuan calmed the Undying Immortal King while Yuan Chu, Ao Sheng, and Taishi worried about confronting Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit.
• Willow Deity declared that she would kill the Three Kings, and Red Sun King and White-Clad God-Man backed her while King Pan warned that some Immortal Kings opposed the execution.
• Fairy Yuechan rejected Ao Gan by claiming that she loved Shi Hao and was carrying his child, prompting the Phoenix Maiden and Yun Xi to tease Shi Hao.
• Ao Sheng recovered from Yuechan’s rejection and challenged Shi Hao to demonstrate his famed battle prowess.
• The chapter recounted how Shi Hao’s True Dragon Body led the Heavenly Palace Guard and slew three Undying Ones during a Foreign Realm invasion.

True Dragon Ge Gu challenged Ao Sheng after Ao Sheng’s boasts about subduing the Ten Fiends were exposed, and the two fought a fierce duel in the Pan Clan’s Immortal Dao Arena. Ao Sheng won by two moves, and Pan Yi then entered the arena to seek a challenger.

• True Dragon Ge Gu called out Ao Sheng for disparaging the Ten Fiends, and Ao Sheng accepted his challenge.
• A True Immortal of the Pan Clan summoned an Immortal Dao Arena for the duel.
• Ao Sheng and True Dragon Ge Gu exchanged supreme arts in a battle that lasted more than a day and impressed the gathered races.
• Ao Sheng defeated True Dragon Ge Gu by two moves, and Ge Gu publicly conceded.
• Pan Yi of the Pan Clan entered the arena and invited someone to offer him pointers.

The Divine Court’s prodigies challenged the Immortal Domain’s young elites at the Flat Peach Grand Assembly, where Shi Qingfeng ultimately won the competition. He claimed the Longevity Immortal Fruit and planned to save it for his great-grandfather, Shi Jian'an.

• Shi Yi fought Pan Yi of the Pan Clan to a draw, then Qin Hao also drew with Hun Tian after a grueling battle.
• Ten Crown King Son of Heaven challenged Di He, descendant of the Undying Immortal King, and steadily suppressed him.
• The Grand Assembly became a series of contests between Divine Court and Immortal Domain cultivators, with the Divine Court suffering more defeats overall but matching the Immortal Domain’s top prodigies.
• After two months of battles, Shi Qingfeng rose to the summit and won the Flat Peach Grand Assembly.
• Shi Qingfeng accepted the Longevity Immortal Fruit and sealed it away for his great-grandfather, Shi Jian'an.

Shi Hao and the Divine Court kings entered the Heaven-Reaching Land and found the Thunder Spirits mourning their dead king, the Thunder Emperor. Willow Deity said he could not be revived, leaving the Thunder Spirits devastated.

• Black Tortoise King offered Immortal King blood to open a passage into the Heaven-Reaching Land, and the Divine Court party entered.
• Shi Hao and the kings followed the sound of sobbing to a cave where hundreds of Thunder Spirits gathered around the Thunder Emperor's corpse.
• The Thunder Spirit leader recognized Willow Deity and begged her to revive their king.
• Willow Deity explained that the Thunder Emperor had lost his Primordial Spirit, blood essence, and life force, making revival impossible.
• The Thunder Spirits wailed in grief after learning their king could not be brought back.

The Divine Court’s kings found a Thunder Spirit preserved for the new generation of Ten Fiends and met Mo Xuanjun, the black dog who had tried to resurrect Immortal King Wuzhong. Mo Xuanjun explained that his efforts had failed, while Black Tortoise King recalled Wuzhong’s studies of time and reincarnation.

• Azure Heaven Immortal King asked whether the Thunder Spirit Clan had a candidate for the new generation of Ten Fiends, and the clan leader revealed a gifted Thunder Spirit sealed away until the next era.
• Azure Heaven Immortal King told the Thunder Spirit leader to wait and later return to the Divine Court with the kings, the Thunder Emperor, and the sealed Thunder Spirit.
• The kings followed a sound of weeping deeper into the Immortal Cave and found a small black puppy grieving over Immortal King Wuzhong.
• Black Tortoise King called the puppy Mo Xuanjun, who recognized the kings and said that the Wuzhong Bell fragment and Wuzhong’s blood had shown no sign of life.
• Black Tortoise King described Wuzhong’s research into the Great Dao of Time and his belief that uniting its beginning and end could let him become an Emperor.

Little Puppy accompanied the kings to the deepest part of the Heaven-Reaching Land, where Shi Hao used the Dao Flowers of his Past Self to uncover visions of his repeated lives across countless eras. The kings departed to pursue their own tasks while Mo Xuanjun waited for Shi Hao to return, and Black Tortoise King led Azure Heaven and Red Sun King toward the descendants of Nine-Leaf Sword Grass.

• The kings told Little Puppy that people who reincarnated existed in the current era and invited him to investigate at the Divine Court; Shi Hao recovered the Wuzhong Bell and preserved Immortal King Wuzhong's blood essence inside it.
• Willow Deity directed Shi Hao to sit beneath the unusual wall in the stone chamber, and Shi Hao's Past Self carried his true body into it.
• The wall showed Shi Hao cultivating through countless eras, defeating the young Butcher, reaching the pinnacle of the human path, and repeatedly being reborn after reaching his limits.
• Three years later, Little Puppy recognized that Shi Hao was pursuing his own opportunity, and the kings split up, with Mo Xuanjun staying behind to await him.
• Willow Deity departed alone, while Black Tortoise King divined the location of the descendants of Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and led Azure Heaven and Red Sun King toward them.

Willow Deity attacked Ao Sheng Immortal City and fought Immortal Kings Ao Sheng, Yuan Chu, and Taishi. After defeating Yuan Chu and Taishi and cornering Ao Sheng, Willow Deity moved to finish him, but Ao Sheng transformed into the Great Dao to survive.

• Willow Deity smashed through Ao Sheng Immortal City's defenses and confronted Ao Sheng, Yuan Chu, and Taishi beyond the heavens.
• Willow Deity struck Ao Sheng hard, forcing him to defend himself with his Light Sword Wings as the three kings launched their strongest attacks.
• Willow Deity countered Yuan Chu and Taishi with willow branches and leaves, then pressed Ao Sheng with the Dragon-Phoenix Combined Annihilation Technique.
• The battle continued for more than a month, and Willow Deity subdued Yuan Chu and Taishi and destroyed their life-bound Immortal King Artifacts.
• Willow Deity sealed Ao Sheng's universe and thrust a transformed willow branch at the weakened Ao Sheng.
• Ao Sheng invoked the Indestructible Light Scripture and turned himself into Great Dao Runes, becoming light that endured alongside the Dao.

Willow Deity defeated Ao Sheng, Yuan Chu, and Tai Chu, then confronted six Immortal King Giants before Qi Yu summoned her to discuss an alliance. Three hundred years later, the search for a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass seed succeeded, while Shi Hao traveled downstream through time to the Immortal Ancient Era.

• Willow Deity broke Immortal King Ao Sheng’s technique and suppressed him, then swept Yuan Chu and Tai Chu into her Grotto-Heaven as six Immortal King Giants arrived.
• Willow Deity rebuffed the six giants’ demands to release the three kings and accused them of opposing the greater good.
• Qi Yu ordered the six giants not to interfere and invited Willow Deity to meet with ancient Immortal Domain figures about an alliance.
• Willow Deity collected the three kings’ Cave Abodes and gained five Longevity Immortal Medicines, while the three Black Tortoise Kings found a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass seed and brought it to her.
• Shi Hao continued proving the Dao across eras, then abandoned the present and traveled downstream along the River of Time to the Immortal Ancient Era.

Shi Hao completed countless lifetimes of cultivation in the Immortal Ancient Era and returned to the Divine Court as a True Immortal. After his return, the Divine Court welcomed him, and he established a recurring assembly offering a Heavenly Immortal Fruit to its greatest prodigy.

• Shi Hao concealed his strength in the Immortal Ancient Era, sought guidance from the kings at the Primitive Imperial Pass, and later sacrificed himself to help the Seven King Lineages’ descendants escape, perishing with a Foreign Realm Quasi-King.
• After three hundred years, Shi Hao awakened from his reincarnations and the Four Kings congratulated him on proving the Dao as a True Immortal.
• Shi Hao returned to the Divine Court, where Mo Xuanjun and Cao Yusheng quarrelled as their past-life selves had.
• The Divine Court gathered nine of its new generation’s Ten Fiends, while the Mantis Clan remained aligned with the Foreign Realm.
• Eight hundred years later, Shi Hao ordered the Heavenly Immortal Assembly to be held, with the victor receiving a Heavenly Immortal Fruit and the event recurring every three thousand years.

After the Heavenly Immortal Feast, Shi Hao prepared to enter the Foreign Realm through an ancient passage to target the weakened Red King and investigate the enemy. The Willow Deity also revealed that the Mantis Ancestor had secretly defected as a spy, and asked Shi Hao to contact him if possible.

• The Fake Medicine Seller returned as a Supreme Giant, gave Shi Hao the depleted Second Immortal Root, and agreed to join the Divine Court.
• The Divine Court celebrated its growing strength as the Heavenly Immortal Feast ended with the Ten Crown King victorious and Shi Hao recruited talented young cultivators.
• Shi Hao told the Willow Deity he planned to scout the Foreign Realm through an ancient passage leading to the Red King Clan's Ancestral Land, where he hoped to seize the weakened Red King's Dao Fruit.
• The Willow Deity asked Shi Hao to leave his True Dragon Body behind to guard the Divine Court while he traveled.
• The Willow Deity revealed that the Mantis Ancestor had defected on the orders of Six Paths Reincarnation and asked Shi Hao to contact the hidden spy in the Foreign Realm.

After learning more about Mantis Ancestor, Shi Hao cultivated for two hundred years and traveled to the Red King Clan’s ancestral land to find Red King’s hidden rebirth. He killed Red King’s guard, learned Red King’s location, and set off in disguise to reach him.

• Willow Deity explained that Mantis Ancestor had hidden his true strength from the Foreign Realm, while Shi Hao recalled how he later killed three traitors and two Immortal Kings.
• Shi Hao cultivated for two hundred years, advanced both secondary bodies into the Immortal Dao Domain, and traveled to Yu Yu Heaven.
• Shi Hao reached the Red King Clan’s ancestral land, found the Nine-Turn Resurrection Grass, and disguised himself as a Divine Mantis Clan member.
• Shi Hao lured the undying guard into an ambush, killed him with the Kunpeng Body, and seized control of his memories.
• Shi Hao used the guard’s memories to seal the valley, disguised himself as a Time Beast, and headed toward Red King’s hiding place.

Shi Hao infiltrated the Red King Lineage’s Ancestral Land and ambushed Red King while he was undergoing nirvana in the form of a young Time Beast. Shi Hao killed Red King, sealed his Dao Fruit, and prepared to take it back to the Divine Court.

• Red King had entered nirvana after damaging his foundations while attempting to break into the Emperor Realm.
• Shi Hao passed through the Red King Lineage’s Ancestral Land and found Red King hiding beneath a declining branch’s city.
• Shi Hao, disguised as Chilian, told Red King that the Nine-Turn Resurrection Grass had been dug up.
• Shi Hao struck Red King’s Primordial Spirit with the Peace-Quelling Art and used three powerful artifacts to overwhelm him.
• Shi Hao used the Daluo Immortal Sword to kill Red King and Wuzhong Bell to seal his Dao Fruit.

Shi Hao’s Fearless Lion disguise destroyed the Foreign Realm’s gathering at Enlightenment Mountain and stole the Enlightenment Tea Tree, drawing a growing Immortal pursuit. Meanwhile, his Kunpeng Body reached the ancestral land of the Fallen Blood Phoenix Clan with a stick of ancient incense called “World Annihilation.”

• Shi Hao and his Kunpeng Body escaped after killing Red King, avoiding his two suspected quasi-Immortal King attendants.
• The Fearless Lion attacked Enlightenment Mountain, killed most of the gathered Foreign Realm prodigies, and uprooted the Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• Foreign Realm Immortals arrived to find the mountain in ruins and pursued the departing Fearless Lion.
• Shi Hao laid formations to hinder his pursuers as he fled, relying on skills he had cultivated across a hundred reincarnations.
• The Kunpeng Body reached the Fallen Blood Phoenix Clan’s ancestral land and took out the ancient incense called “World Annihilation.”

The Kunpeng Body used World Annihilation to open a passage from the Boundary Sea, and its army destroyed Blood Phoenix Mountain and killed the Fallen Blood Phoenix Lineage. As the Foreign Realm’s ancient progenitors awoke to face the invasion, the chapter revealed that the Divine Court had already refined Demon Willow King’s soul into a supreme Immortal Pill.

• The Kunpeng Body lit the World Annihilation incense and sent it toward Blood Phoenix Mountain, opening a rift to the World Behind the Dam.
• An army from the Boundary Sea poured through the rift and slaughtered the descendants at Blood Phoenix Mountain.
• The surviving Fallen Blood Phoenix fought a former Immortal King from the Boundary Sea and was overwhelmed by dozens of giants.
• Shi Hao, disguised as the Fearless Lion, recognized the Kunpeng Body’s success and escaped into the Void.
• An Lan awakened after recovering with the supreme Immortal Pill that the Foreign Realm had meant to use to resurrect Demon Willow King.
• The chapter revealed that the Divine Court had captured Demon Willow King’s soul and refined it into a supreme Immortal Pill.

Shi Hao met Mantis Ancestor in the Foreign Realm and revealed that he had come on the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit’s orders. After confirming Shi Hao’s account of his recent attacks and the Red King’s death, Mantis Ancestor helped strengthen the seal on the Red King’s corpse.

• An Lan was wounded by Blade King as Foreign Realm and Boundary Sea giants clashed across the universe.
• Shi Hao was taken to Mantis Ancestor, who learned that the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit had sent him and broke down with relief at being recognized as no traitor.
• Shi Hao told Mantis Ancestor that he had killed the Red King, destroyed Blood Phoenix Mountain, and helped bring about the Boundary Sea invasion.
• Shi Hao showed Mantis Ancestor the Red King’s corpse and sealed Dao Fruit beneath Wuzhong Bell.
• Mantis Ancestor used his command of time to encase the Red King’s corpse in layers of divine crystal and reinforce its seal.

Shi Hao learned that the Mantis Ancestor was secretly an Immortal King and accepted his sealed grandson as the Mantis Clan’s future Ten Fiend. The Mantis Ancestor escorted Shi Hao back to Yu Yu Heaven, while the Foreign Realm reeled from the losses and failed to uncover who had caused them.

• Shi Hao told the Mantis Ancestor that the Divine Court planned to counterattack the Foreign Realm only after it had strengthened its foundations and allied with the Immortal Domain and Ancient Burial Zone.
• The Mantis Ancestor revealed that he had concealed his complete Immortal King Dao Fruit by disguising himself as having a damaged origin.
• The Mantis Ancestor presented his grandson, whom he had sealed away after the young man fought the Dark Beings on the Border Wasteland, and Shi Hao stored the crystal coffin for the Divine Court’s future Ten Fiends.
• The Mantis Ancestor escorted Shi Hao through the Red King’s territory back to Yu Yu Heaven and erased every trace of their passage.
• The Foreign Realm’s Boundary Sea invaders were defeated, but the Fallen Blood Phoenix Lineage was wiped out, two Immortal Kings fell, five were gravely wounded, and An Lan was forced into slumber again.
• The Foreign Realm discovered that the Red King had vanished, the Enlightenment Tea Tree had been stolen, and most of its young geniuses had died, but diviners could not identify the culprit.