Chapter Summaries

Xia Jiuyou drove off a Five Elements Palace disciple, while Ye Fan and the Black Emperor encountered the Purple Mansion Holy Maiden, Zixia, whose Innate Dao Fetus made her central to the Black Emperor’s plan. Zixia remained determined to pursue the Emperor’s path herself, leaving her future choice unresolved.

• Xia Jiuyou confronted the Five Elements Palace disciples, who recognized him and left in disgrace.
• The Black Emperor pointed out Zixia to Ye Fan and urged him to consider joining with her, but Ye Fan refused and walked away.
• Zixia sensed Ye Fan and the Black Emperor nearby and recognized Ye Fan as the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body.
• The chapter revealed that Zixia had secretly become the Black Emperor’s disciple and had learned part of Great Emperor Wushi’s inheritance.
• After hearing the Black Emperor’s account of the coming upheaval and the plan to create an Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus, Zixia resolved to rely on herself and contend for the Emperor’s path.

At the gathering, Ye Fan reunited with allies and warned the Eastern Wasteland demon kings about a deadly trap in Ruthless Empress's Dojo. Yan Ruyu declared her devotion to him and gave him Purple-Gold Divine Iron, which Little Fatty fused into the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi.

• Ji Haoyue, Ji Ziyue, Ji Biyue, Jiang Yifei, and the Jade Lake Holy Maiden arrived and greeted Ye Fan.
• Green Flood Dragon King and Peacock King met Ye Fan and respected his decision to abandon the Yan Xi identity and give Yan Ruyu the Demon Emperor's inheritance.
• Green Flood Dragon King warned Ye Fan that Tu Tian and Li Heng sought the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar Lid, and Ye Fan urged the two kings to stand ready to revive the Great Emperor's sacred weapon and escort Yan Ruyu away from a trap.
• Yan Ruyu confessed that she would stay with Ye Fan, said she aimed to stand alongside a First Generation Emperor's Son, and gave him Purple-Gold Divine Iron.
• Little Fatty woke when the Purple-Gold Divine Iron struck him, cursed Ye Fan, and fused the immortal material into the cauldron.

Ye Fan and the Black Emperor entered Ruthless Empress's Dojo after its treasures had already been looted, then followed the crowds to its empty altar. A fragmentary Great Emperor formation activated there and began slaughtering the cultivators as they searched for a way to escape.

• The Eastern Wasteland prodigies offered their essence blood to open the entrance to Ruthless Empress's Dojo, and cultivators rushed inside.
• Duan De left after Little Fatty helped him unseal six more layers of his Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Bowl.
• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor entered the dojo, where the cultivators discovered that its treasures and relics had already been taken.
• Ji Haoyue and Ye Fan confronted cultivators who accused the major physiques of secretly looting the dojo, then the crowd climbed the steps toward the altar.
• A fragmentary Great Emperor formation shaped like the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar appeared and killed cultivators, including the Myriad Tribulations Sect's vice sect master and the Heavenly Demon Physique's protector.

Ye Fan and the Black Emperor endured the Emperor-killing array while Ye Fan helped the Jiang Family and watched the array target special physiques to steal their origins. The remaining geniuses unleashed their treasures and abilities to resist, while Ye Fan’s cauldron burned through its source and the Black Emperor suspected the array used methods of the Ruthless Empress Lineage.

• Ye Fan asked the Black Emperor about Great Emperor Wushi’s array patterns, but the Black Emperor refused to share what little it knew.
• After the Jiang Family’s replica Hengyu Furnace shattered and a Supreme Elder was badly wounded, Ye Fan sent Jiang Yifei the Li Fire Divine Furnace, restoring the family’s morale.
• The Emperor’s array patterns formed spatial cages that attacked special physiques, killing several and gathering their origins into Golden Divine Liquid.
• Ji Haoyue, Jiang Yifei, the Purple Mansion Holy Maiden, Yao Yuekong, and other surviving special physiques used their treasures and powers to resist the cages.
• The Black Emperor recognized signs of the Ruthless Empress Lineage’s origin-stealing methods, while Ye Fan worried that the cauldron’s million jin of source was nearly spent and Little Fatty remained asleep.

The Black Emperor realized the Ruthless Empress Lineage was collecting unique physiques to create a Chaos Physique, but the lineage’s trap fell apart when the Eastern Wasteland demons and Northern Region bandits escaped with their Ultimate Dao weapons. Ye Fan and the Black Emperor stole the gathered divine liquid and captured a wounded cultivator, leaving Ye Fan to search his memories for the Immortal Heavenly Art.

• The Black Emperor guessed that the Ruthless Empress Lineage was gathering physique origins to create a Chaos Physique, and Ye Fan confirmed the guess.
• The Peacock King and Green Flood Dragon King used the Green Emperor’s Weapon to escort Yan Ruyu and the Eastern Wasteland demons out through a passage.
• Tu Tian and Li Heng activated the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, stabilizing the escape route and leading the Northern Region bandits out as other survivors fled.
• The Black Emperor used the Wu Shi Killing Array to expose and wound one of the Ruthless Empress Lineage’s hidden cultivators.
• A Saint’s remains seized the Golden Divine Liquid and escaped, while the Ruthless Empress Lineage’s remaining cultivators were left unable to identify their attackers.
• Several hundred miles away, Ye Fan and the Black Emperor emerged in a Black-Yellow Cauldron with the wounded cultivator, and Ye Fan asked the Black Emperor to search his memories for the Immortal Heavenly Art.

Ye Fan learned that the Ji Family possessed Void Immortal Gold and traded the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art with Jiang Yifei for the Immortal Heavenly Art. He then secluded himself to refine the origins of five unusual physiques and prepare to advance his cultivation.

• The Black Emperor found no trace of the Immortal Heavenly Art in the captured Ruthless Empress Lineage cultivator, and Ye Fan killed him and took his origin.
• Jiang Yifei told Ye Fan that the Ji Family's Void Hall enshrined Void Immortal Gold, which Ye Fan might obtain through a trade.
• Ye Fan privately revealed that he cultivated the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art and exchanged it with Jiang Yifei for the Immortal Heavenly Art.
• The Black Emperor left to refine the captured cultivator's origin, while Ye Fan entered a cave to refine the origins of five unusual physiques.
• A world-shaking imperial formation surrounded the Ruthless Empress's Dojo, and reports of numerous deaths spread across the Eastern Wasteland.

Ye Fan and the Black Emperor infiltrated the snowy mountains to steal Source Dragon Fruits and search for the sealed Myriad Dragon Nest. After breaking through the ice sealing a cavern beneath the mountains, they descended into it.

• Ye Fan told the Black Emperor that the Myriad Dragon Nest, home of the Myriad Dragon Emperor, lay sealed beneath the mountains, and persuaded the reluctant dog with the promise of the True Dragon Immortal Medicine.
• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor found Source Dragon Fruits guarded by snow apes, and the Black Emperor drew the apes away while Ye Fan picked the fruit.
• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor split the Source Dragon Fruits and followed the dragon-shaped earth vein toward a cavern in the mountain.
• Ye Fan shattered the profound ice sealing the cavern, destroying the frozen old snow ape within, and he and the Black Emperor leaped inside.

Ye Fan and Black Emperor found the True Dragon Undying Medicine growing atop one of the Ruthless Empress’s incarnations in Myriad Dragon Nest. Ye Fan used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar Lid to draw the medicine to him, intending to use its dragon energy to cultivate the Dragon Transformation realm, and offered Black Emperor only three drops of its Immortal Divine Fluid.

• Ye Fan and Black Emperor entered Myriad Dragon Nest, where Black Emperor explained its history and its connection to the Ruthless Empress and Great Emperor Wushi.
• The pair discovered a vermilion coffin containing one of the Ruthless Empress’s incarnations and the True Dragon Undying Medicine growing atop it.
• Black Emperor tried to seize the medicine, but Ye Fan stopped him and revealed the Ruthless Empress Killing Array beneath the coffin.
• Ye Fan activated the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar Lid, whose empress phantom drew the True Dragon Undying Medicine into its embrace.
• Ye Fan refused Black Emperor’s demand for nine drops of Immortal Divine Fluid and offered him three, keeping the medicine to aid his cultivation in the Dragon Transformation realm.

Ye Fan and Black Emperor reached the Chaos Dragon Nest, where they found Ruthless Empress’s fourth incarnation buried in an ancient coffin. When an Immortal Treasure Map emerged from the coffin, Ye Fan claimed it, discovering that it contained the coordinates of the Immortal Domain.

• Ye Fan gave Black Emperor three drops of Immortal Divine Fluid from the True Dragon Immortal Medicine.
• Ye Fan and Black Emperor ventured deeper into Myriad Dragon Nest and found the Chaos Dragon Nest and Ruthless Empress’s fourth incarnation.
• Black Emperor failed to take the Chaos Dragon Nest because Ruthless Empress’s Imperial corpse guarded it.
• A hazy treasure flew from the coffin, and Ye Fan used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar Lid to draw it into his hands before Black Emperor could seize it.
• Black Emperor attacked Ye Fan, but Ye Fan endured his bites with the Divine-Demon Body Refinement Art.
• The treasure revealed itself as an Immortal Treasure Map containing the coordinates of the Immortal Domain.

Ye Fan and Black Emperor searched the slumbering Myriad Dragon Nest for treasures and discovered the sealed Ancient Human Demon. Ye Fan took the demon away inside his cauldron, and he and Black Emperor left the snowy mountain without being noticed.

• Black Emperor left Ye Fan to hunt for treasures alone, carrying the Undying Divine Emperor Token.
• Ye Fan used his source arts to open divine source blocks and collect their treasures while avoiding the Myriad Dragon Nest ancestor kings.
• Black Emperor found a sealed Ancient Human Demon in a massive divine source block and called Ye Fan over.
• Ye Fan recognized the demon, and Black Emperor explained how his cultivation of both imperial scriptures had driven him mad and led to his suppression.
• Ye Fan stored the demon and his source block in the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi, and he and Black Emperor quietly departed the mountain.

Ye Fan traveled to the Central Region after learning that the Merak Holy Land had been rebuilt by the Heavenly Jade Three Elites. He reached its ancestral court and saw its restored splendor, though its small number of descendants left its strength limited.

• Ye Fan learned that Jiang Taixu had returned and killed the Dark Night King, while the Heavenly Jade Three Elites had rebuilt the Merak Holy Land.
• Ye Fan discovered that Hua Yunfei had faked his death to escape the Ruthless Empress Lineage and decided to visit the Mystic Gate someday.
• Ye Fan set out for Merak, hoping to meet Old Madman and seek his help with unsealing the ancient human demon.
• Ye Fan arrived at Merak's ancestral court and saw major forces returning treasures and paying homage to the restored holy land.
• Ye Fan observed that the Heavenly Jade Three Elites had recovered only several hundred cultivators and three thousand young disciples, with no Immortal Platform cultivators among them.

Ye Fan visited the rebuilt Merak Holy Land and met Old Madman, Wei Yi, and Grandmother Yao, the Heavenly Jade Three Elites. They decided to make him Merak’s Holy Son, and Ye Fan accepted after being tempted with powerful inheritances.

• Ye Fan announced himself at Merak’s mountain gate and was escorted into the holy land to meet Old Madman.
• Ye Fan met Old Madman, Wei Yi, and Grandmother Yao, who praised his cultivation and Sacred Body.
• Old Madman told Ye Fan that Merak had chosen him as its Holy Son and accepted him as a disciple on behalf of the former Holy Lord.
• Wei Yi explained that Merak needed a chief disciple and that joining the holy land would benefit both Ye Fan and Merak.
• Old Madman forced Ye Fan to his knees, and the three elders offered him their martial arts and inheritances until he knelt willingly.

Ye Fan met Merak Holy Land’s three saints and asked them to help free the Ancient Human Demon sealed in divine source. After revealing the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar Lid, he and the elders prepared to suppress the demon when it emerged.

• Ye Fan greeted Old Madman, Wei Yi, and Grandmother Yao, and Old Madman asked whether he had seen the Central Region forces returning Merak’s stolen treasures.
• Old Madman suggested several potential marriage partners, but Ye Fan declined, saying he was focused on the Dao.
• Ye Fan brought out the sealed Ancient Human Demon and asked the three saints to help release and restrain him.
• Grandmother Yao used an ancient azure artifact to shield Merak’s core divine land, while Ye Fan revealed the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar Lid.
• Grandmother Yao offered to steal the jar’s missing half from a Northern Region bandit lord, but Ye Fan refused to harm Tu Fei’s grandfather.
• Old Madman and the others readied themselves as the jar’s imperial pressure rose and its ghost-face imprint awakened.

The Ancient Human Demon awakened at Merak Holy Land and revealed that he had survived by cultivating both the Sun and Lunar scriptures, though their imperfect fusion drove him mad. He gave Ye Fan the scriptures and, after seeing Ye Fan’s Taiji diagram, glimpsed a path to the Quasi-Emperor realm.

• Old Madman opened the divine source, and the Ancient Human Demon emerged and absorbed sun and moon essence to restore his strength.
• Old Madman used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to conceal the spectacle and open a passage for the Ancient Human Demon to absorb extraterrestrial essence.
• The Ancient Human Demon identified himself as Dongfang Taiyi, and Wei Yi shared humanity’s history with him.
• Ye Fan asked Dongfang Taiyi for the Sun Emperor Scripture and Lunar Emperor Scripture, and Dongfang Taiyi imparted the incomplete Solar-Lunar Divine Formula.
• Ye Fan drew a black-and-white Taiji diagram, and Dongfang Taiyi realized that its principles could help him fuse the Lunar and Solar powers and reach the Quasi-Emperor realm.

Ye Fan joined Merak Holy Land, where he cultivated amid a gathering of Dao wisdom and gained several powerful inheritances. After three months, the Ancient Human Demon entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough, while Ye Fan completed the first transformation of the Dragon Transformation secret realm.

• Ye Fan explained the Taiji Diagram to the Ancient Human Demon, and Wei Yi invited him to cultivate at Merak Holy Land.
• The Ancient Human Demon agreed to stay, then discussed the Dao with Old Madman, Wei Yi, and Grandmother Yao as Merak sealed its mountain and disciples gathered to listen.
• Ye Fan cultivated amid the sacred gathering and began the Dragon Transformation secret realm with the aid of the True Dragon Immortal Medicine.
• After three months of discussion, the Ancient Human Demon entered seclusion, and Merak's disciples and auspicious beasts paid their respects as he departed.
• The Merak sages named Ye Fan their Holy Son and taught him the Reincarnation Fist, source arts notes, the Nirvana Immortal Scripture, and alchemy; Ye Fan later entered seclusion to study his gains.
• Ye Fan woke after completing the first transformation of Dragon Transformation, with a tiny golden dragon appearing around his neck before burrowing into his body.

Ye Fan ended his seclusion and decided to go to Beautiful Prefecture after Duan De asked him for help escaping Wu Dao, hoping to obtain clues about the Movement Secret and extort Duan De’s Wu Shi Imperial Jade. Before leaving, Wei Yi gave Ye Fan Bright Immortal Gold from the Merak Divine Treasury to improve his Life-Bound Dao Weapon.

• Duan De contacted Ye Fan, saying Wu Dao was pursuing him after he dug up the bandit's ancestral grave and stole a King-level divine weapon.
• Ye Fan initially refused to help Duan De, then reconsidered because the ancient family’s burial site might hold clues to the Movement Secret and Duan De had Wu Shi Imperial Jade.
• Ye Fan emerged from seclusion and respectfully greeted Wei Yi, who noted that Ye Fan’s Dragon Transformation secret realm had stabilized.
• Wei Yi gave Ye Fan a fist-sized piece of Bright Immortal Gold for his Life-Bound Dao Weapon and encouraged him to visit Beautiful Prefecture to investigate the Nine Secrets.

Ye Fan returned the Bright Immortal Gold to Merak Holy Land, where it strengthened his Black-Yellow Cauldron. He then arrived in Beautiful Prefecture as major factions gathered over rumors of a Nine Secret, drawing attention as Merak’s Holy Son.

• Elder Wei Yi decided Merak Holy Land would use the Bright Immortal Gold to strengthen Ye Fan rather than reforge an extreme-dao rough embryo.
• Ye Fan added the Bright Immortal Gold to the Black-Yellow Cauldron, whose spirit carefully took it and gained its fifth immortal material.
• Ye Fan left Merak Holy Land and traveled to the Northern Region through its black jade platform.
• Major Eastern Wasteland factions gathered near Li City in Beautiful Prefecture to search for a suspected Nine Secret.
• Wu Dao arrived seeking Duan De, who had escaped his pursuit despite the help of Heavenly Secrets Elder.
• Ye Fan appeared above the gathering with the Black-Yellow Cauldron, and the factions recognized him as the Human Sacred Body and Merak Holy Son.

Ye Fan found Duan De disguised as Daoist Zhengqing among the crowds gathered at the ancient tombs and helped him escape notice. Duan De paid Ye Fan four pieces of Wu Shi Imperial Jade for protection, while the Black Emperor suddenly appeared and attacked him.

• Ye Fan arrived as the Merak Holy Son, and the crowd recognized the Root of All Things Mother Qi in his cauldron, prompting covetous onlookers to consider attacking him.
• Ye Fan approached Duan De, who was disguised as Daoist Zhengqing, and exposed his identity by threatening to summon the Fifth Bandit.
• Ye Fan and Duan De left the crowd for an unnamed mountain, where Duan De thanked Ye Fan for coming to help him escape Wu Dao.
• Ye Fan demanded four pieces of imperial jade as his travel fee, and Duan De reluctantly handed over the four Wu Shi Imperial Jades.
• Ye Fan agreed to help Duan De get safely out of Beautiful Prefecture and noticed Tu Tian nearby with the other half of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• The Black Emperor leaped out of the void and lunged at Duan De's calf.

The Black Emperor reunited with Ye Fan and Duan De, then revealed that an immortal girl named Yinyin was likely the incarnation of a Great Emperor’s Dao Fruit. Ye Fan recognized her as the Ruthless Empress’s childhood-memory incarnation and learned she was staying at an inn in Yan Land.

• The Black Emperor arrived while Ye Fan and Duan De were together, and the trio argued about their recent searches and pieces of Wu Shi Imperial Jade.
• The Black Emperor concealed their plans for the Wu Shi Imperial Formation from Duan De and changed the subject to a mysterious girl he had found in Yan Land.
• The Black Emperor described the girl’s recurring memory loss, long history, and immunity to harm, then suggested she was an Emperor’s Dao Fruit incarnation.
• Ye Fan recognized the girl as Yinyin, the Ruthless Empress’s Dao Fruit incarnation, and realized she might help him summon the other half of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• The Black Emperor said Yinyin was staying at an inn he had arranged and offered to take Ye Fan and Duan De to see her after their current matter was settled.

Ye Fan negotiated with Black Emperor over the Demon God Flower and traded its location for two pieces of Wu Shi Imperial Jade. As Black Emperor prepared to pursue its plan to rebuild its foundation, Yan Ruyu arrived with a group of demons.

• Black Emperor offered Ye Fan a small sum for the Demon God Flower, but Ye Fan refused and explained its immense value to Duan De.
• Black Emperor revealed its plan to erase its cultivation, return to an infant state, and use the Demon God Flower to establish a supreme foundation.
• Black Emperor agreed to trade two pieces of Wu Shi Imperial Jade for the flower’s location, and Ye Fan told it the Demon God Flower lay in Feathered Immortal Valley in the Southern Region.
• Black Emperor said it would finish its current business, retrieve the final piece of Wu Shi Imperial Jade, and then seek the flower; Ye Fan noticed Yan Ruyu arriving with great demons from the Eastern Wasteland.