Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan reassured the Wushi Bell about Black Emperor and persuaded it to help attack Saint Cliff and kill Undying Daoist. He traded his half of the Formation Secret for the Wushi Bell’s half, completing the secret and receiving the Wushi Array Patterns before the bell sent him out and went to check on Black Emperor.

• Ye Fan asked the Wushi Bell about Black Emperor, and its divine spirit assured him that the Undying Divine Phoenix Medicine guarded it in Purple Mountain.
• Ye Fan urged the Wushi Bell to join him at Saint Cliff to kill Undying Daoist, and the bell agreed for Great Emperor Wushi’s sake.
• Ye Fan offered his half of the Formation Secret in exchange for the Wushi Bell’s half.
• The Wushi Bell combined the two halves, completed the Formation Secret, and passed it and the Wushi Array Patterns to Ye Fan.
• The Wushi Bell opened a passage to send Ye Fan out, then vanished to check on Black Emperor.

Ye Fan found Duan De hiding in a border city and recruited him for a planned attack on a faith incarnation of the Undying Emperor. After a message caused Ye Fan to postpone the operation, he and Duan De exchanged the Movement Secret and Presence Word Secret, leaving Ye Fan with five of the Nine Secrets.

• Ye Fan tracked down Duan De, who explained that he had been hiding after a dangerous encounter while searching an ancient sage’s mausoleum.
• Ye Fan asked how many divine restrictions Duan De had unsealed on the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Bowl, then invited him to help hunt the Undying Emperor’s faith incarnation on behalf of Merak Holy Land.
• Duan De agreed to join the operation, but Ye Fan received a message about completing the Formation Secret and the Ji Family’s emperor son, so he postponed the plan.
• Ye Fan asked Duan De which of the Nine Secrets he possessed, and Duan De revealed that he had the Presence Word Secret.
• Ye Fan offered the Movement Secret in exchange, and he and Duan De traded their arts, bringing Ye Fan’s known collection to five Nine Secrets.

Ye Fan took Duan De to Saint Cliff to visit Reincarnation Lake, but the lake revealed nothing about Duan De’s origins. The story left Ye Fan’s immortal medicines established in Merak Holy Land’s newly organized gardens, where their freedom to roam fueled rumors of auspicious creatures.

• Duan De suggested the Divine Child might know the Nine Secrets, and Ye Fan considered whether Little Fatty could reveal any of them.
• Ye Fan changed course and brought Duan De to Saint Cliff to see Reincarnation Lake, despite Duan De’s fears about its deadly formations.
• Duan De gazed into Reincarnation Lake but saw nothing, then asked Ye Fan to let him keep it; Ye Fan refused and promised he could borrow it.
• Ye Fan removed his five immortal medicines and other rare medicines from spatial artifacts and replanted them in Merak Holy Land.
• The Merak Three Saints reorganized the holy land’s old medicine fields into the Immortal Medicine Garden, Divine Herb Garden, and Treasure Medicine Garden, while roaming medicines inspired rumors of auspicious creatures.

After securing the Reincarnation Lake for Merak Holy Land, Ye Fan and Old Wei Yi joined the Ji Family’s Great Saint and Ji Zi to search for the Void Emperor’s remains. Their journey led them to a vast ghost fleet from the Eternal Star Domain.

• Duan De accepted an external Dharma Protector token from Merak Holy Land and left to resume his digging.
• Old Wei Yi departed for the Ji Family at Old Madman’s request, and the Ji Family awakened the Great Saint guarding Ji Zi.
• Old Wei Yi, Ye Fan, Ji Zi, and the Ji Family’s Great Saint traveled through the void for thirty days, with Ye Fan guiding them toward the Void Emperor’s place of death.
• The group arrived at a star region filled with countless enormous, ruined warships, which the Ji Family’s Great Saint identified as the Eternal Star Domain’s void fleet.

Ji Zi and his companions discovered the Ninefold Divine Spirit Coffin at the center of the vanished Eternal Star Domain fleet and learned that the Void Great Emperor lay within. They recognized the deadly field surrounding it as the site of an ancient battle, leaving them to figure out how to retrieve the coffin without disturbing its fragile balance.

• Ji Zi identified the wreckage as the Eternal Star Domain fleet that had mysteriously vanished over a hundred thousand years earlier.
• Ye Fan pointed out four Great Saint-level motherships binding a mysterious ancient coffin with divine-gold chains.
• Ji Zi and the two human Great Saints recognized the coffin as a Ninefold Divine Spirit Coffin, and the group understood that the fleet had been destroyed after trying to open it.
• Ji Zi sensed the Void Great Emperor's aura inside the coffin, and he and the Ji Clan Great Sage knelt in reverence.
• Ji Zi, Ye Fan, Old Man Wei Yi, and the Ji Clan Great Sage discussed retrieving the coffin and recognized the surrounding field as the site of a battle between the Void Great Emperor and two Ancient Emperors.

Ji Zi, Ye Fan, and the two Great Sages agreed to divide the Eternal Star Domain’s Invincible Fleet before using the Void Mirror to alter the balance of the imperial laws. After inventorying the enormous Divine Treasury, the factions settled their shares and summoned their forces to the starry battlefield.

• The Ji Family Great Sage proposed using the Void Mirror to activate the Void Dao and compress the two ownerless imperial laws, while Elder Wei Yi urged both sides to divide the Invincible Fleet first.
• The Ji Family and Merak Holy Land sent out divine power avatars to inventory the fleet, discovering warships, ancient sage remains, mecha, and evolution fluids.
• The two Great Sages argued over how to divide the Divine Treasury, then congratulated each other once they finalized the plan.
• The Ji Family Great Sage opened an extraterritorial star gate, while Old Wei Yi used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to create a passage to Merak Holy Land’s ancestral court.
• The Ji Family’s sealed ancient powerhouses arrived, followed by Old Madman and Grandmother Yao, reuniting the Merak Three Saints.

Human Saints used the Void Mirror and Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to contain the Emperor battle’s rampaging laws and recover the Ninefold Divine Spirit Coffin. As the coffin opened and ancient imperial auras emerged, cultivators sensed that the battle from over a hundred thousand years ago was reaching its end.

• Elder Wei Yi, the Ji Family's elder Great Saint, and two newly arrived human Great Saints divided up the Ghost Fleet and cleared the starfield around the Ninefold Divine Spirit Coffin.
• Old Madman used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to create an isolation barrier around the Emperor battle site.
• The Ji Family's elder Great Saint awakened the Void Mirror, which stirred the Void Great Dao and provoked the other two imperial laws.
• Guided by the Void Mirror, the Void Great Dao overwhelmed the other laws and compressed the deathly domain into the Ninefold Divine Spirit Coffin.
• The coffin emitted three pillars of light, then opened its final layer as ancient Great Emperor and Primordial Emperor auras emerged.

The Ninefold Divine Spirit Coffin revealed the ruined bodies of Wind Thunder Ancient Emperor and Prajna Ancient Emperor, whose final thoughts faded and whose imperial weapons shattered. Ji Zi found the Great Emperor’s coffin empty and was left grieving over the possibility that his father was gone.

• Wind Thunder Ancient Emperor and Prajna Ancient Emperor roared against the Void Great Emperor before their lingering thoughts vanished and their bodies crumbled into the origin of the world.
• Ye Fan used his ancient Dao cauldron to collect fragments of Eternal Blue Gold, while the Ji Family gathered the Divine Mark Purple Gold with the Void Imperial Mirror.
• Ji Zi rushed to the imperial coffin and found it empty, leaving the Ji Family and other cultivators baffled about the Void Great Emperor’s whereabouts.
• Ye Fan recalled that the Void Great Emperor’s corpse had once become Xuanyuan, the Yellow Emperor, after emerging from the Ninefold Divine Spirit Coffin.
• Ji Zi asked whether his father might still be alive, but the Ji Family’s eldest Great Sage said the proud Great Emperor would never extend his life through shameful means.
• Ye Fan privately considered telling the Ji Family that Void had lived a second life and gained a Reincarnation Mark, and thought about returning to Earth.

Ji Zi and the Ji Family bid farewell to the Void Great Emperor’s coffin, then negotiated with Merak over restoring their degraded bloodline evolution fluid. Grandmother Yao secured the Divine Mark Purple Gold fragments in exchange for restoring two portions to eighth rank.

• Ji Zi stopped the Ji Family’s elder Great Saint from retrieving the Void Great Emperor’s coffin and watched it drift into the void.
• Old Madman learned that the Ji Family could restore its degraded eighth-rank evolution fluid only to fifth rank, while Merak could guarantee seventh rank and hoped to restore it fully.
• Grandmother Yao vouched for Merak’s alchemical ability and persuaded Ji Zi and the elder Great Saint to entrust her with the evolution fluids.
• Grandmother Yao asked for the Prajna Ancient Emperor’s imperial weapon fragments and all the Divine Mark Purple Gold in return for restoring the fluids.
• The Ji Family agreed on the condition that two degraded eighth-rank portions be returned to eighth rank, and Grandmother Yao accepted the materials and fluids.

Ye Fan and Ji Zi finalized the Immortal Gold exchange, and Ye Fan returned to the Celestial Pivot Ancestral Court to fuse the last two Immortal Golds into his cauldron. The Divine Child agreed to oversee the cauldron’s advancement, hoping to use it to break through to the Saint King Realm.

• Grandmother Yao agreed to restore the Ji Family’s evolution fluids within a year, while Ye Fan planned to use the perfect eighth-grade fluid for himself and Yan Ruyu.
• Ye Fan secretly sealed the Divine Mark Purple Gold and Eternal Blue Gold in his cauldron, completing his collection of all nine Immortal Golds.
• Ye Fan gave Ji Zi a year’s supply of Enlightenment Tea leaves, and the two sides agreed to meet at Saint Cliff in half a month to hunt the undead.
• After returning to the Celestial Pivot Ancestral Court, Ye Fan unsealed the two Immortal Golds for the final fusion.
• The Divine Child emerged from the cauldron and offered to manage its advancement, hoping to reach the Saint King Realm; Ye Fan accepted.

Ye Fan learned that Divine Child knew three Nine Secrets, but all three overlapped with secrets Ye Fan already had, before they oversaw the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi's advancement. Half a month later, Jiang Taixu, Yang Yi, and Duan De arrived at Saint Cliff for the gathering, while Ye Fan had yet to appear.

• Ye Fan asked Divine Child which Nine Secrets he knew, then learned that all three—Movement, All-Word, and Fighting Word—overlapped with his own.
• Ye Fan angrily struck the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi with a hand seal, and Divine Child retreated into its inner world.
• Divine Child fused the nine supreme immortal metals into the cauldron, while he and Ye Fan comprehended the Great Dao and advanced their realms.
• Jiang Taixu arrived first at Saint Cliff and examined the Investiture of the Gods, then Yang Yi arrived carrying the Western Emperor Pagoda.
• Duan De arrived with the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Bowl and introduced himself as Ye Fan's close friend, while worrying that the others might steal his treasure.

Ye Fan gathered allies for the hunt against the Undying, including the Eastern Wasteland demon clan, whose small delegation revealed how badly the Green Emperor’s lineage had declined. Yan Ruyu explained that past slaughter, lost reserves, and the absence of an imperial weapon had left her the sole pure-blooded descendant, protected by only a Dragon Transformation servant.

• Ye Fan introduced the newly arrived Ji Family Great Saint and Ji Zi to the other gathered experts.
• Yan Ruyu arrived with five aging Immortal Platform demon kings, and Ji Zi dismissed their strength as unimpressive.
• Yan Ruyu clung to Ye Fan’s arm after noticing Ji Zi looking at her, while Ye Fan joked that Ji Zi was not a frivolous man.
• Ye Fan and the others wondered why the Green Emperor’s lineage had so few powerful reserves and no sealed imperial descendant.
• Yan Ruyu told Ye Fan that a mysterious enemy had slaughtered the lineage’s giants more than eight thousand years earlier and that the Green Emperor had taken his imperial weapon into his Mausoleum.
• Yan Ruyu explained that the lineage had dwindled until she was its only pure-blooded descendant, guarded by a Dragon Transformation servant and relying on outside allies.

Ye Fan and the gathered forces prepared to confront the Undying Daoist sealed beneath Saint Cliff, while the Wushi Bell arrived and awakened the Investiture of the Gods. The chapter ended with the Investiture questioning why the Wushi Bell had left Great Emperor Wushi’s mausoleum.

• The demon race princess asked Ye Fan about increasing her Emperor Blood concentration, and Ye Fan kept the Grade Eight Bloodline Evolution Fluid as a future surprise.
• Ye Fan said the six assembled ultimate forces had to wait for one more guest, and Great Emperor Wushi’s Wushi Bell arrived from Purple Mountain.
• The Wushi Bell told Ye Fan that the Black Emperor had reincarnated and swallowed the Demon God Flower, but had lost its cultivation and stayed behind.
• The seven ultimate forces gathered at Saint Cliff, where Ye Fan asked the Wushi Bell to awaken the Investiture of the Gods against the Undying Daoist sealed within the mountain.
• The Investiture of the Gods awakened Wushi’s Dao and asked the Wushi Bell why it had left Great Emperor Wushi in his imperial mausoleum.

The Investiture of the Gods persuaded Wushi Bell to join it in hunting the Undying Daoist, then revealed and seized his imperial body as the battle began. Undying broke free of his divine-source prison and repeatedly charged the Investiture, only to be smashed back to earth.

• The Investiture of the Gods convinced Wushi Bell to accompany it across the Big Dipper in search of the Great Emperor's traces.
• The Investiture of the Gods loosened its seal on Saint Cliff, prompting the Undying Daoist to howl as the mountain split open.
• The Investiture of the Gods took the Undying Daoist's stone coffin and imperial body into the world within its list, preventing him from reclaiming it.
• The Undying Daoist gathered his scattered Primordial Spirit fragments and burst out of the supreme divine source to attack.
• The Investiture of the Gods repeatedly struck the Undying Daoist out of the sky and into the ground, drawing gasps from the onlookers.

The Undying Daoist burned his Primordial Spirit to restore his ancient Imperial Dao Fruit and fight to the death at Saint Cliff. As his battle with the assembled forces intensified, Merak revealed the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and its Empress phantom, while the Eastern Wasteland demon race prepared to join the fight.

• The Undying Daoist burned his Primordial Spirit, began ultimate sublimation, and unleashed a black-and-white torrent as the Investiture of the Gods withdrew and awakened Great Emperor Wushi's formations to seal Saint Cliff.
• The Old Madman and the other Merak Three Saints attacked to stop the Undying Daoist's revival, but he summoned a monstrous beast from his torrent.
• The Merak Three Saints awakened the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, whose Empress phantom shattered the divine sea and struck the Undying Daoist, interrupting his rising momentum.
• The gathered powers realized Merak Holy Land had obtained the Ruthless Empress's Dao weapon, and they suspected the Merak Holy Son was behind the hidden transfer from Tu Tian.
• The demon princess spread her arm, intensifying the green radiance in her palm as the Eastern Wasteland demon race prepared to act.

The demon race princess, the Ji Family's old Great Sage, and other allies joined the battle against Undying Daoist, who began striking back with terrifying immortal light. Duan De risked his Celestial Venerable treasure blood to awaken the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Bowl, just as an unfamiliar ultimate immortal weapon entered the field.

• The demon race princess and the five great demon kings revived the Green Emperor's Weapon, which rooted itself in Undying Daoist and drained his origin.
• The Sun Divine Furnace and Western Emperor Pagoda revived and attacked Undying Daoist, while the Ji Family's old Great Sage broke his seals and regained his youthful strength.
• Five imperial weapons and the gathered saints and demon kings overwhelmed Undying Daoist, but he found an opening and unleashed Flying Immortal Light at the Merak Three Saints.
• Duan De offered several drops of Celestial Venerable treasure blood to the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Bowl, breaking four more divine restrictions and restoring its battered exterior.

Duan De and the ultimate imperial weapons overwhelmed the Undying Daoist, while Ye Fan's perfected cauldron was observed from afar. As the battle neared its end, the Investiture of the Gods entered the fight and unleashed the Great Emperor Wushi's Dao laws, freezing time and space and suppressing every other law.

• Duan De revived the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Bowl and attacked the Undying Daoist as the Wushi Bell struck from behind and healed the allies while deepening the enemy's Dao wounds.
• The seven ultimate imperial weapons joined forces, leaving the Undying Daoist's spirit disordered and turning the battle into a crushing assault that devastated Saint Cliff.
• Ji Zi concluded that victory was decided and examined Ye Fan's perfected Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi, which had been forged from precious materials, divine materials, and immortal gold.
• The nearly depleted Undying Daoist failed to reverse the battle as the saints and supreme divine beings pressed their attack.
• The Investiture of the Gods entered the battle and released the Great Emperor Wushi's Dao laws, which resonated with the Wushi Dao Bell, froze time and space, and suppressed all other laws.

The Saints killed the Undying Daoist at Saint Cliff and claimed his ancient emperor Dao fruition before departing. Ye Fan returned to the Merak Three Saints’ ancestral grounds, where he assessed his spoils and planned to use a soul-splitting technique to send an incarnation back to Earth.

• The Investiture of the Gods and Wushi Array Patterns helped the Saints destroy the Undying Daoist and erase his escaping remnant soul.
• The Saints intercepted the Undying Daoist’s Dao fruition, celebrated their victory, and left Saint Cliff with their respective gains.
• Ye Fan spoke with the Green Flood Dragon King about the ancient Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, then entrusted Yang Yi with a secret for the Jade Lake Patriarch.
• The Merak Three Saints returned to their ancestral grounds and entered seclusion to refine the imperial fragments.
• Ye Fan discovered that he had obtained the Number Secret, the Nine Deaths Indestructible Scripture, and a soul-splitting technique from the Undying Daoist.
• Ye Fan planned to use the technique with the remains of a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body to create an incarnation that could return to Earth.

Ye Fan prepared to return to Earth after ten years in the Big Dipper, planning to visit his parents and bring back Little Pine and Hua Hua. He also intended to find Earth’s powerful ancient figures and recruit them as allies, and left a newly formed External Incarnation to begin the journey.

• Ye Fan decided to return to Earth to visit his parents and bring Little Pine and Hua Hua back with him.
• Ye Fan considered the many powerful figures connected to Earth, including reincarnated Great Emperors, Heavenly Venerables, and near-Dao achievers, and resolved to seek their help against future dark turmoil.
• Ye Fan concluded that the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin could carry a Human Sacred Body from the Ancient Forbidden Land back to Earth.
• Ye Fan used the soul-splitting method to place a strand of consciousness in a Sacred Body husk, forming a compatible External Incarnation powered by an Azure Lotus projection.
• The External Incarnation took up its Golden Dao Bell and blue-gold war halberd, then headed toward the Southern Region.

After nearly half a year in seclusion, Ye Fan remained absent while Merak Holy Land flourished and its ancient medicine gardens filled with rare plants. Yinyin slipped into the guarded Immortal Medicine Garden, where she caught the True Dragon Immortal Medicine in its living form.

• Ye Fan entered closed-door cultivation to absorb insights from the imperial battle.
• Merak Holy Land’s elders and Golden Crow Daoist guarded its medicine gardens as the sect’s cultivation ranks grew.
• Yinyin entered the Divine Herb Garden, and Golden Crow Daoist pretended not to notice her.
• Yinyin passed through the imperial killing formation protecting the hidden Immortal Medicine Garden.
• The five divine medicines fled when Yinyin arrived, but she caught the Golden True Dragon, revealing it to be the True Dragon Immortal Medicine.