Chapter Summaries

The Demon Emperor welcomed the Demon Emperor as his Second Brother and discussed the Immortal Spirits, the Demon Court’s position, and the Golden Crow egg. Their gathering ended with Sun Wuxuan drinking all the Lunar Brew, while the Demon Emperor continued hosting him with another wine.

• The Demon Emperor warmly received the Demon Emperor and Sun Wuxuan, then ordered Kun Yu to bring out the treasured Lunar Brew.
• The Demon Emperor and Sun Wuxuan drank the wine as the Demon Emperor spoke of the new age and his plans to unify the Immortal Realm.
• The Demon Emperor warned that Immortal Spirits had infiltrated the major factions, and the Demon Emperor explained their nature and the suspected Immortal Venerable behind them.
• The Demon Emperor described how the other factions constrained the Demon Court, and the Demon Emperor learned about the shifting balance of power in the Heavenly Realm.
• The Demon Emperor assured the Demon Emperor that he was seeking a way to retrieve the Golden Crow egg, while Sun Wuxuan finished all the Lunar Brew.
• The Demon Emperor had another immortal wine brought out and continued drinking with the Demon Emperor.

Jiang Changkong visited the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, where he learned that Immortal Spirits had recruited members and that the alliance’s Immortal Emperors sent cultivators into dangerous relic sites in exchange for half the gains. He joined Sun Li and Sun Qing’s planned expedition, whose mission was dangerous enough to threaten even an Immortal Emperor.

• Jiang Changkong used his rogue cultivator jade token to enter the alliance’s divine star and met Northern Devil, who showed him his palace.
• Jiang Changkong named his palace the Judicial Divine Hall and asked Northern Devil to summon Sun Li and Sun Qing.
• Sun Li and Sun Qing arrived, and Jiang Changkong noted their rapid advancement to the Immortal King stage.
• Sun Li and Sun Qing explained that Immortal Spirits had traded them a relic site for a wisp of divine artifact origin and recommended them to join the alliance.
• Sun Li and Sun Qing told Jiang Changkong that the alliance offered access to genuine, perilous relic sites in exchange for half the treasures, and invited him to join their dangerous mission.

Jiang Changkong, Sun Li, and the others explored a dangerous relic said to be connected to the phoenix, but its divine mountains held mostly ordinary immortal artifacts. After sensing the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King nearby, Jiang Changkong led the group toward the Heavenly Court immortals.

• Jiang Changkong allowed Northern Devil to join the group, and Northern Devil said the relic might be connected to the phoenix.
• Jiang Changkong brought the group through a golden vortex into a space filled with ninety-nine divine mountains and dangerous immortal formations.
• Jiang Changkong passed over occupied mountains and took two of five superior sixth-grade immortal artifacts from an unoccupied hall, leaving three for Sun Li and the others.
• Jiang Changkong and Sun Li questioned why the relic contained only modest treasures despite its danger, and Northern Devil suggested the mountains might be a cover.
• Jiang Changkong sensed the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King and led the group toward the Heavenly Court immortals, who recognized him.

Jiang Changkong joined the Moon Goddess and the Heavenly Court party in opening a ruin tied to the Golden-Winged Roc. The group reached a divine mountain in a vast experimental ground, where Guangxuan took the golden road ahead and challenged Jiang Changkong to follow.

• Jiang Changkong refused Immortal Emperor Guangxuan's demand to return to the Heavenly Court, but the Moon Goddess stopped them from fighting and proposed they open the ruin together.
• The Moon Goddess explained that the Heavenly Dao had given the four major factions access to ruins, while Jiang Changkong learned that the Heavenly Realm, Immortal Realm, and mortal world were experimental grounds.
• Guangxuan opened the formation with a pattern taught by the Heavenly Emperor, revealing a golden passage into the ruin.
• Jiang Changkong and the others followed the Moon Goddess through the passage to a divine mountain surrounded by chaos, where a Golden-Winged Roc appeared.
• Guangxuan used a golden feather to form a golden road and led the Heavenly Court immortals across it, leaving Jiang Changkong behind with a disdainful challenge.

Jiang Changkong and his companions entered the divine mountain, where hidden spatial attacks cut down Heavenly Court immortals and wounded the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King. The group learned Immortal Emperor Guangxuan had continued onward in search of an artifact origin, while the source of the dangerous spatial power remained unknown.

• Jiang Changkong tore open the immortal formation and entered the divine mountain with the Moon Goddess, Sun Li, and Northern Devil.
• The Moon Goddess recalled a golden passage, and the group followed it through a corridor lined with Golden-Winged Roc murals.
• An unseen spatial attack split Northern Devil in two, but Jiang Changkong expelled the spatial power and treated his wounds.
• Jiang Changkong and his companions found Heavenly Court immortals slain by spatial power and discovered the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King badly wounded beside a shattered vessel and a dead Space Beast.
• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King told Jiang Changkong that Immortal Emperor Guangxuan had gone farther ahead to seek an artifact origin.

Jiang Changkong and his companions reached the mountaintop, where the Immortal Palaces concealed Chaos beasts and the Moon Goddess recovered memories of someone altering them. Seven Chaos beasts emerged, and Jiang Changkong realized the spatial force they had encountered earlier was stronger than the beasts.

• Jiang Changkong led the group through the passage and found that the immortal formation guarding the Phoenix Divine Fire had already been destroyed.
• Jiang Changkong used the Pangu Banner to suppress the spatial force above an Abyss and guide the group across.
• The Moon Goddess sensed Taiyin in an Immortal Palace and touched a Jade Toad, restoring sealed memories that revealed Chaos beasts were suppressed there and someone had altered her memories.
• The strip of cloth merged with Jiang Changkong's, the Immortal Palaces collapsed, and seven Chaos beasts emerged as a golden barrier blocked their Chaos Power from reaching Chaos.
• Jiang Changkong killed one Chaos beast and determined that the beasts were weaker than the spatial force they had encountered earlier.

Jiang Changkong killed the Chaos beasts on the divine mountain, but Immortal Emperor Guangxuan fused with a Chaos beast’s arm and became a peak Immortal Emperor. As Guangxuan threatened Jiang Changkong and the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, the Book of Heaven marked him for execution.

• Jiang Changkong killed six Chaos beasts, collected their corpses, and gave one to Sun Li and the others and another to the Moon Goddess.
• Jiang Changkong confronted Immortal Emperor Guangxuan for taking the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird’s source, but the Moon Goddess persuaded him to let Guangxuan return to the Heaven Emperor.
• The divine mountain transformed into the severed arm of an Immortal Venerable-level Chaos beast, and Guangxuan forcibly attached it to himself.
• Guangxuan’s power surged to the peak of the Immortal Emperor realm as Jiang Changkong and the others retreated from the collapsing mountain.
• Guangxuan accused the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King of betraying the Heavenly Court and threatened to kill him, while the Book of Heaven marked mutated Guangxuan for execution.

Jiang Changkong fought Immortal Emperor Guangxuan in Chaos and overwhelmed him with the Pangu Banner fragment and the Reincarnation Disk. An Immortal Venerable rescued Guangxuan before Jiang Changkong could kill him, and Jiang Changkong returned to the ruins with questions about the Heavenly Emperor’s plans.

• Jiang Changkong sent the Moon Goddess and the others away, then fought Immortal Emperor Guangxuan, who attacked with the power of a Chaos ferocious beast’s claw and the law of space.
• Jiang Changkong activated his Chaos Golden Body and used the Pangu Banner fragment to suppress Guangxuan and overpower him.
• Immortal Emperor Guangxuan awakened the ferocious beast’s will in his claw, but Jiang Changkong struck it with the Reincarnation Disk and shattered it.
• An Immortal Venerable intervened as Jiang Changkong prepared to kill Guangxuan, carrying him away with the golden feather and the artifact’s origin.
• Jiang Changkong received Heaven’s Power for completing the mission, then returned to the ruins and suspected the Heavenly Emperor had used ancient Dragon Race research to empower Guangxuan.

After returning to the Heavenly Realm, Jiang Changkong killed a mid-stage Immortal Emperor who demanded the expedition’s spoils and forced the Rogue Cultivator Alliance to appoint him as a Deputy Alliance Leader. Lin Qianshan then shared information about hundreds of ruins, revealing that the Heavenly Dao had informed the major factions but apparently not Jiang Changkong.

• Jiang Changkong returned to the Heavenly Realm with Sun Li and the others, then reported their gains to a mid-stage Immortal Emperor of the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.
• The mid-stage Immortal Emperor demanded the Chaos ferocious beast corpses, and Jiang Changkong overwhelmed him with his peak Immortal Emperor divine might and killed him.
• Lin Qianshan arrived with Gu Hanshan and Pei Yuanheng, and Jiang Changkong demanded to be made a Deputy Alliance Leader.
• Lin Qianshan accepted Jiang Changkong’s appointment as Deputy Alliance Leader and warned him against indiscriminate killing.
• Lin Qianshan gave Jiang Changkong a jade pendant containing information on hundreds of ruins and said the Heavenly Dao had informed the major factions.
• Jiang Changkong asked whether the Rogue Cultivator Alliance possessed a Heavenly Dao fragment.

Jiang Changkong accepted the Rogue Cultivator Alliance deputy leadership and sent his companions to cultivate, while the Demon Sovereign managed the Underworld and learned that the Demon Emperor had withheld ruin information from him. The Demon Sovereign decided to search for ruins himself and visited the Holy Land at Jiang Changkong’s request, where a Divine Emperor asked why he had come.

• Lin Qianshan made Jiang Changkong responsible for sharing news about ruins and offered him half their harvest in exchange for one item from a ruin.
• Jiang Changkong confirmed his deputy alliance leader position to Sun Li, Sun Qing, and Northern Devil, then urged them to strengthen themselves before seeking another ruin.
• The Demon Sovereign arranged for Sun Yuan to move powerful Evil Ghosts into the Celestial Realm and accepted that the Heavenly Ghost Lineage and zombie lineage had left the Underworld.
• Sun Wuxuan told the Demon Sovereign that the Demon Emperor had information about ruins but had not shared it, so the Demon Sovereign ordered his followers to search for Chaos Divine Stones and ruins themselves.
• The Demon Sovereign traveled to the Divine Court and inspected the Holy Land with a peak Divine Emperor, finding its facilities developed to the Immortal Emperor realm.

The Demon Emperor traded information with Qu Hong of the Divine Court for two Chaos Divine Stones, then returned to find the Heavenly Court invading the Demon Court. As Jiang Changkong joined him in battle, they wounded a peak Immortal Emperor and pushed back against the attack.

• The Demon Emperor told Qu Hong that Immortal Emperor Guangxuan had fused with a Chaotic Ferocious Beast and offered information about the Demon Race in exchange for Chaos Divine Stones.
• Qu Hong agreed to trade two Chaos Divine Stones for information about the Demon Master and a ruin where one could become an Immortal Emperor.
• After returning to the Heavenly Realm, the Demon Emperor examined the stones, then learned from Sun Wuxing that the Heavenly Court had attacked while the Demon Emperor was occupied with the Immortal Court.
• The Demon Emperor led the Demon Race into battle, but the Heavenly Court's forces overwhelmed them and the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King captured many Demon Race members.
• The Demon Emperor fought back against a peak Immortal Emperor who said the Heavenly Court was drawing territorial boundaries, while Jiang Changkong arrived and joined the battle.
• Jiang Changkong and the Demon Emperor struck together, cracking the enemy's ring and wounding the peak Immortal Emperor before pressing their attack.

Jiang Changkong and the Demon Court drove back the Heavenly Court, but an Immortal Venerable intervention established only a temporary boundary. While searching ruins for Chaos Divine Fire, Jiang Changkong and Sun Wuxuan fought three Immortal Court peak Immortal Emperors, who escaped, as the Demon Emperor strengthened his divine body and learned of more ruins.

• The Demon Emperor, Jiang Changkong, and Sun Wuxuan routed the Heavenly Court’s forces until an Immortal Venerable set a golden barrier and declared a boundary between the Demon Court and Heavenly Court.
• The Demon Emperor shared Jiang Changkong’s information about ruins containing Chaos Divine Fire, and he, Sun Wuxuan, and his true body entered a ruin on the divine star.
• When three Immortal Court peak Immortal Emperors appeared at the ruin entrance, Sun Wuxuan and Jiang Changkong fought them after Jiang Changkong refused to submit to the Immortal Court.
• The three Immortal Emperors escaped despite being wounded, while the Demon Emperor finished strengthening his divine body with Chaos Divine Stones and learned of another Immortal Emperor-level ruin near the Heavenly Realm.

As Kun Yu transformed into an Immortal Emperor in a ruin guarded by Feng Jiu and Aoyin Yume, two peak Divine Emperors attacked and captured him with an eighth-grade Demon-Suppressing Tower. The Divine Court left with Kun Yu and Feng Jiu imprisoned, while Aoyin Yume was cast into Chaos.

• Jiang Changkong and the Demon Emperor divided the two ruins between them, and Jiang Changkong sent Sun Li and the others to search for the Chaos Divine Stone.
• Kun Yu began transforming in a pool of innate spiritual liquid while Feng Jiu and Aoyin Yume guarded him.
• Qu Hong and another peak Divine Emperor invaded the ruin, and Aoyin Yume fought them to buy Kun Yu time to complete his breakthrough.
• Kun Yu reached the Immortal Emperor realm as his innate divine patterns continued evolving.
• The Divine Emperors used an eighth-grade Demon-Suppressing Tower to capture Kun Yu and Feng Jiu, then left with them while Aoyin Yume was sent flying into Chaos.

Jiang Changkong explored the chaos ruins, captured powerful ferocious beasts, and discovered Gu Hanshan’s corpse beside a real phoenix fruit tree. After learning that killing the beasts granted him Power of Heaven, he used them to advance the Seven Revolutions Profound Art to its late stage, while trouble arose on the Demon Emperor’s side.

• Jiang Changkong entered the chaos caverns, collected Chaos Divine Stones, and captured several experimental creatures.
• Jiang Changkong fought and suppressed a powerful phoenix guarding a real fruit tree, then recognized the nearby corpse as Gu Hanshan’s.
• Jiang Changkong searched the other caverns, found more illusory fruit trees but no research information, and returned to the Heavenly Realm with eight creatures.
• Jiang Changkong discovered that killing the chaos ferocious beasts granted Power of Heaven, then killed all eight and gained over 2.2 million Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Jiang Changkong advanced the Seven Revolutions Profound Art to the late stage, while trouble began on the Demon Emperor’s side.

The Demon Emperor entered a hidden research site guarded by the Yin-Yang Energy Bottle and discovered it was an ancient immortal gods’ experimental ground. He found evidence that the route out might be concealed in a tributary of the River of Time, but the chapter left him wondering whether the Golden-Winged Roc had taken the bottle away.

• The Demon Emperor joined the Heaven-Devouring Python and the Heavenly Court and Immortal Court peak Immortal Emperors as they entered a passage filled with immortal armor and artifact fragments.
• The four peak Immortal Emperors emerged into a black-and-white world where Yin and Yang energies attacked them, then raced toward the scattered fragments.
• A ferocious beast attacked the Demon Emperor, who used the Chaos Bell to break through the energies and enter a region filled with the power of reincarnation.
• The Demon Emperor crossed the River of Forgetfulness and found tablets and containers documenting the ancient immortal gods’ experiments and their failed subjects.
• The Demon Emperor read that the research site was guarded by the Yin-Yang Energy Bottle and suspected the missing route out might be hidden in a tributary of the River of Time.
• The Demon Emperor wondered whether the Golden-Winged Roc had taken the Yin-Yang Energy Bottle when it left.

The Demon Emperor joined the Heaven-Devouring Python and an Immortal Court Immortal Emperor in fighting a Heavenly Court peak Immortal Emperor who had fused two legs of a Chaos ferocious beast. The battle left the three attackers badly wounded as the empowered opponent continued to unleash Chaos Divine Power.

• The Demon Emperor saw the River of Forgetfulness skeletons sink as a roar shook the experimental site and revealed a sealed Chaos ferocious beast's power.
• The Heavenly Court peak Immortal Emperor fused two Chaos ferocious beast legs into his body, while the Heaven-Devouring Python and an Immortal Court Immortal Emperor confronted him over the stolen research results.
• The Demon Emperor shielded the two Immortal Emperors from yin-yang energies and urged them to attack before their opponent mastered the new power.
• The Heavenly Court Immortal Emperor overwhelmed their attacks with Chaos Divine Power, and the Demon Emperor asked whether they had Immortal Venerable treasures.
• The Demon Emperor and the other two peak Immortal Emperors launched a final assault, but the divine bell collapsed, the spear was knocked away, and the Heaven-Devouring Python was nearly cleaved in two.

The Heavenly Court Immortal Emperor battered the Demon Emperor, the Heaven-Devouring Python, and the Immortal Court Immortal Emperor inside the experimental grounds. Just as he prepared to finish them off, Jiang Changkong arrived with the Reincarnation Disk and forced him back.

• The Heavenly Court Immortal Emperor’s power disturbed the Yin-Yang Energy Bottle, releasing divine flames as the three Immortal Emperors attacked him together.
• The Heavenly Court Immortal Emperor drove the three into the River of Forgetfulness, then overwhelmed them with another strike that split their bodies and left them gravely wounded.
• The Heavenly Court Immortal Emperor raised his blade to kill them, but Jiang Changkong struck him with the Reincarnation Disk and sent him crashing into the river.
• Jiang Changkong mocked the Demon Emperor and attacked the Heavenly Court Immortal Emperor again while the other two recovered.
• The Heavenly Court Immortal Emperor prepared to travel through the void.

Jiang Changkong and the Demon Emperor defeated the Heavenly Court Immortal Emperor, collected the Yin-Yang Energy Bottle, and returned to the Immortal Realm. Jiang Changkong then learned that Gu Hanshan and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance leaders had gone to Mount Buzhou, raising questions about the Gu Hanshan he had in his spatial equipment.

• Jiang Changkong used the Divine Banner phantom and Chaos Bell phantom to overwhelm the Heavenly Court Immortal Emperor, who fled when an Immortal Venerable intervened.
• Jiang Changkong and the Demon Emperor searched the black-and-white space and collected the Yin-Yang Energy Bottle, causing the space to collapse into surging Chaos currents.
• Jiang Changkong and the Demon Emperor left with the Heaven-Devouring Python and She Tianshi, then spent three days breaking apart the teleportation stone house to obtain Chaos Divine Stone.
• After reaching the Immortal Realm, Jiang Changkong parted ways with the Demon Emperor and returned to the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, where he learned that Gu Hanshan, Lin Qianshan, and Pei Yuanheng had gone to Mount Buzhou.
• Jiang Changkong questioned who the Gu Hanshan in his spatial equipment was, while Sun Li suggested he take over the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.

Jiang Changkong traveled to Mount Buzhou to search for the three Rogue Cultivator Alliance leaders and investigate why Immortal Emperors could not enter the divine mountain. After meeting Ji Yunxiao, he tried to cross the barrier while concealing his cultivation, but it repelled him, leaving him to consider sending Immortal Kings inside to report back.

• Jiang Changkong gave Sun Li and the others Chaos ferocious beast flesh, then departed for Mount Buzhou.
• Jiang Changkong stopped Ji Yunxiao’s fight with a mysterious young Immortal Emperor and learned the man wielded a half-finished Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger.
• Ji Yunxiao told Jiang Changkong that Immortal Emperors and Immortal Venerables could not enter Mount Buzhou, and agreed to ask Penglai to look for Lin Qianshan, Gu Hanshan, and Pei Yuanheng.
• Jiang Changkong concealed his cultivation and touched Mount Buzhou’s golden barrier, but its force sent him flying back.
• Jiang Changkong accepted Ji Yunxiao’s suggestion to have Immortal Kings enter the mountain and relay what they found.

The Demon Emperor learned that the factions would divide the Heavenly Realm’s ruins through battles between Immortal Emperors and ordered an investigation into Gu Hanshan and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance’s possible connection to the Immortal Spirits. He gave Feng Jiu a Chaos Fierce Phoenix Fruit, and Feng Jiu’s explanation suggested that a powerful Chaos Phoenix race had once existed and may have faced annihilation.

• Jiang Changkong and Ji Yunxiao searched Mount Buzhou for Gu Hanshan and the others but found no trace of them or the Penglai Immortal Sect.
• Sun Wuxuan told the Demon Emperor that four hundred and thirty-six ruins would be divided among the major factions and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance through Immortal Emperor battles, with the Demon Emperor, Jiang Changkong, and Sun Wuxuan barred from participating.
• The Demon Emperor asked Sun Wuxuan to investigate Gu Hanshan and whether the Rogue Cultivator Alliance was connected to the Immortal Spirits.
• The Demon Emperor gave Feng Jiu a Chaos Fierce Phoenix Fruit, and Feng Jiu said it could purify bloodlines and potentially let a phoenix reach the Immortal Emperor limit.
• Feng Jiu explained that cultivating the fruit required a Chaos Phoenix race or a phoenix near the Saint realm, leading the Demon Emperor to suspect that such a race had suffered a catastrophic calamity.