Chapter Summaries

Emperor Zun's immortal artifact destroyed the Flying Immortal Cave, and Chen Qiye fought off Stone Emperor while the dark turmoil began. As Longevity Heavenly Venerable drew on the sun's essence to heal, the Desolate Lord remembered her charge to suppress the darkness, and Chen Qiye vowed to help her.

• Emperor Zun's immortal artifact shattered the Flying Immortal Cave, scattering the Green Copper Cauldron and ending the Immortal Ascension Road.
• Stone Emperor ambushed Chen Qiye, but Chen Qiye's sword strike cut away half of Stone Emperor's body and forced him to flee.
• Chen Qiye's system warned that the dark turmoil had begun and that advancing to the Reincarnation Realm could collapse his divine sense.
• The Desolate Lord struck Longevity Heavenly Venerable, who survived and drew the sun star's essence into himself, extinguishing the sun over the Big Dipper Star Domain.
• The Great Completion Sacred Body asked Chen Qiye to protect the Desolate Lord, who recalled her duty to suppress the darkness and protect humanity.
• Chen Qiye promised the Desolate Lord, "Then I will help you cut away all this!"

Chen Qiye and the Desolate Lord killed more of the ancient Supremes, while the Beginningless Bell vanished into the closing Immortal Ascension Road with the Beginningless Scripture and Divine Phoenix Immortal Elixir. The remaining Supremes began devouring the Big Dipper’s inhabitants, and Chen Qiye invoked the faith of all living beings to face Stone Emperor.

• Chen Qiye severed the space around Longevity Heavenly Venerable and left the Sun Star a chance to revive, while the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body confronted the wounded Supreme.
• The Desolate Lord struck down one Supreme, and Chen Qiye killed another with his Sever the Dao sword strike.
• The Beginningless Bell entered the closing Immortal Ascension Road, shielding the Beginningless Scripture and Divine Phoenix Immortal Elixir as they departed from Purple Mountain.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body fought Longevity Heavenly Venerable and warned the Big Dipper to flee, while Stone Emperor refined hundreds of thousands of Saints to restore his power.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor attacked the Divine Ruins, and Chen Qiye met Stone Emperor’s halberd before declaring that he would borrow the faith of all living beings and slay immortals.

Huang relentlessly suppressed the Divine Ruins forbidden zone as other awakened Supreme Beings began devastating the universe. Chen Qiye fought to save lives while facing the Lord of Samsara and the Stone Emperor, and answered the Stone Emperor’s attack with his Sword Intent True Body.

• Huang repeatedly struck the Divine Ruins forbidden zone, overpowering its ancient Supreme Beings and shaking the forbidden zone apart.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable fought the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body while fleeing saints escaped the Big Dipper Star Domain.
• The Lord of Samsara emerged and shattered the Big Dipper Star Domain, slaughtering its inhabitants and devouring their life essence.
• Chen Qiye cut through the Lord of Samsara’s torrent of blood and qi, then faced the Stone Emperor’s Heavenly Desolation Halberd.
• Chen Qiye formed his Sword Intent True Body and swung its sword at the Stone Emperor with Severing Time.

Chen Qiye and the Great Accomplished Saint Body fought the Stone Emperor and Longevity Heavenly Venerable while the Lord of Samsara and the other revived beings slaughtered countless people. The Desolate Lord broke the Stone Emperor’s Great Dao, giving Chen Qiye an opening to unleash another sword strike infused with the power of reincarnation.

• The Stone Emperor resisted Chen Qiye’s attack on his years, while Chen Qiye sensed the hopes of living beings as the battlefields below filled with the dead.
• The Great Accomplished Saint Body abandoned the Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s attack and charged the Lord of Samsara, while the Longevity Heavenly Venerable devoured tens of millions of lives in the Eastern Wasteland to restore his strength.
• The Great Accomplished Saint Body fought the Longevity Heavenly Venerable across a lifeless star system with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, burning his blood vitality despite his worsening wounds.
• The Lord of Samsara attacked the Desolate Lord and called for the Divine Ruins forbidden zone to join him in killing her.
• The Desolate Lord struck the imperial Dao laws and shattered the Stone Emperor’s Great Dao, allowing Chen Qiye to cut through the darkness with the Chaos Longsword and unleash the power of endless reincarnation.

Chen Qiye used a sword that severed reincarnation to kill Stone Emperor, but the weakened Quasi-Emperor was immediately attacked by the Lord of Samsara and Longevity Heavenly Venerable. As he called on all living beings’ thoughts to resist, Huang awakened as the Ruthless Great Emperor and moved to protect him as he attained the Dao.

• Chen Qiye unleashed his reincarnation-severing sword and killed Stone Emperor, extinguishing his soul and imperial path.
• The ancient Supremes recognized Chen Qiye as a threat, and the Lord of Samsara attacked him while he was weakened.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable joined the attack, sending a killing sword toward Chen Qiye as the Great Accomplished Sacred Body engaged him.
• Chen Qiye invoked the thoughts of countless living beings and declared that he would burn his divine sense rather than fall into reincarnation.
• Huang awakened as the Ruthless Great Emperor and struck away the Lord of Samsara’s chains, declaring that she would protect Chen Qiye as he attained the Dao.

The Ruthless Great Emperor shielded Chen Qiye as he broke through, battling Longevity Heavenly Venerable and the Lord of Samsara while other ancient Supremes awakened. After the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body sacrificed his life to wound Longevity Heavenly Venerable, the five sublimated Supremes joined forces against her, and the Lord of Samsara ordered one of them to kill Chen Qiye.

• Longevity Heavenly Venerable attacked Chen Qiye, but the woman in white caught and shattered his sword light as the Big Dipper Star Domain was destroyed.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body burned through his life and landed a final punch that broke the Longevity Sword and hurled Longevity Heavenly Venerable across the universe, then died.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable survived, replenished his strength by devouring living beings, and attacked Chen Qiye, but the Ruthless Great Emperor blocked him and shielded Chen Qiye within the river of time.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor fought Longevity Heavenly Venerable and the Lord of Samsara, then faced three more ancient Supremes who underwent extreme sublimation.
• The Lord of Samsara summoned the Reincarnation Sea and told the other Supremes to kill Chen Qiye while he killed the Ruthless Great Emperor.

The Ruthless Great Emperor fought the Lord of Samsara while restraining the revived supreme beings, and Chen Qiye deepened his understanding of reincarnation through the lives of those who believed in him. As the ancient supreme beings set out to feed on living beings and unleash a greater dark turmoil, the Ruthless Great Emperor sealed three of them away but could not suppress the Longevity Heavenly Venerable.

• The Ruthless Great Emperor confronted the Lord of Samsara and struck at his Reincarnation Sea while the Longevity Heavenly Venerable judged her condition and considered his chance to kill Chen Qiye.
• A Human Emperor among the ancient supreme beings urged them to feed, and the narration revealed how their fear of death and need to replenish their life force drove the dark turmoil.
• Chen Qiye experienced the memories and lives of countless believers, realizing that every life was a reincarnation and that Hao Tian regarded all lives as precious.
• The ancient supreme beings headed toward different domains to feed, while living beings across the universe cried out for the Great Emperors to return and save them.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor sealed heaven and earth to trap three ultimate Emperor Lords, but could not suppress the Longevity Heavenly Venerable while she protected Chen Qiye and severed spacetime.

Ruthless Great Emperor used the Nameless Immortal Sword and her law of time to suppress four Supremes, but they broke free and fled to begin a dark calamity. As Longevity Heavenly Venerable reached Earth, the exhausted divine thoughts ended and profound eyes opened with a declaration of immortality through reincarnation.

• A human Great Emperor revealed Ruthless Great Emperor’s past and the world’s former hunt for her.
• Ruthless Great Emperor wielded the Nameless Immortal Sword, using the law of time to suppress Lord of Samsara and three other Supremes.
• The Supremes joined forces to trap her in a heavenly cage, but admitted they could not kill her and resolved to wear her down.
• Lord of Samsara sacrificed a heavenly blade to shatter the sealed battlefield, and the four Supremes fled in different directions.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable reached Earth as the billions of divine thoughts faded and profound eyes opened.

The Supremes ravaged the universe in a dark upheaval while Ruthless Great Emperor remained trapped in Big Dipper. As living beings prayed for past Emperors, Chen Qiye began awakening through their faith, and Longevity Heavenly Venerable arrived on Earth at Hangu Pass.

• Abandoned Heaven Supreme and Light-Dark Supreme slaughtered populations across the stars, while Lord of Samsara turned Gouchen Ancient Star into a Death Domain and the Human Emperor hunted Quasi-Emperors.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable crossed the Milky Way and reached Earth, where he found the ancient city gate of Hangu Pass.
• Living beings across the universe prayed for long-dead Emperors, including Void Emperor and the Human Sword Emperor, as Chen Qiye awakened and drew on the faith placed in him.
• Chen Qiye recognized that Ruthless Great Emperor had severed time and space, but his exhausted divine sense kept him from breaking free immediately.
• Light-Dark Supreme recalled the suffering and love he had lost, then suppressed his remaining compassion and resumed slaughtering Sky-Piercing Main Star.
• Chen Qiye's heavenly human sixth sense began awakening across the universe, and he wondered whether he was the same as someone or something he had just realized.

Longevity Heavenly Venerable reached Hangu Pass on Azure Planet and was confronted by its imperial formation and four powerful reborn figures. Bai Ningbing and Chen Qiye overwhelmed him, and Chen Qiye ended his chance of reincarnation.

• Longevity Heavenly Venerable discovered that Azure Planet was protected by immense formations and was forced back when he tried to enter Hangu Pass.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable recognized Laozi Li Er, Shakyamuni, Shennong, and the Yellow Emperor as reborn imperial bodies, but they told him to leave.
• A white-robed young man joined the four figures, and Bai Ningbing appeared behind Longevity Heavenly Venerable and struck him with a spiked club while the formation bound him.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable escaped beyond Azure Planet with half his body destroyed and threatened to return after restoring his Immortal Platform.
• Chen Qiye killed Longevity Heavenly Venerable and stripped him of his qualification for reincarnation.

Chen Qiye’s phantom killed Longevity Heavenly Venerable and left Bai Ningbing and the others to return to Earth, while Chen Qiye reflected on his power in the Samsara Realm. Elsewhere, the perfected Tyrant Body joined the dark turmoil to protect his ancestral star, but the Solar Saint Emperor answered the cries of the Purple Star Domain and confronted Light-Dark Supreme.

• Chen Qiye’s phantom annihilated Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s soul, then vanished after telling Bai Ningbing he would visit later.
• Li Er, Shennong, Shakyamuni, and Bai Ningbing discussed Chen Qiye’s arrival and returned to Earth, while Chen Qiye realized his divine sense had killed Longevity Heavenly Venerable.
• The perfected Tyrant Body fought Abandoned Heaven Supreme, then agreed to join the Supremes’ massacres so he could preserve his ancestral star and its thirty billion inhabitants.
• News arrived that Mingde Quasi-Emperor, two Qilin Quasi-Emperors, and many others had fallen as the Supremes ravaged the universe.
• The Solar Saint Emperor answered the Purple Star Domain’s pleas, reappeared in human form with an Imperial tower, and charged at Light-Dark Supreme.

Chen Qiye returned to the Purple Star System and slew Light-Dark Supreme after the Solar Saint Emperor’s final human skin held him back. The Human Emperor faded away, leaving the Stone Tower behind, while Chen Qiye’s return was hailed as the Human Sword Emperor attaining the Dao.

• The Solar Saint Emperor’s human skin revived through the faith of the people and charged into battle against Light-Dark Supreme.
• The Stone Tower dragged Light-Dark Supreme into the outer realms, and the Solar Saint Emperor stopped him with the Solar Emperor Fist despite his body cracking apart.
• Light-Dark Supreme retreated to the outskirts of the Purple Star Domain and waited for the Human Emperor’s fading battle intent to disappear.
• Chen Qiye appeared in white and slew Light-Dark Supreme, whose final moments brought a vision of a girl from long ago.
• The Solar Saint Emperor nodded to Chen Qiye, shed a tear of blood, and vanished as his human skin scattered, leaving the Stone Tower behind.
• The people mourned the Human Emperor and praised Chen Qiye as the Human Sword Emperor who had attained the Dao and returned.

The ancient Supremes returned to Big Dipper intending to seize the Ruthless Great Emperor’s life essence, but they found that she was not alone. Chen Qiye emerged from a space-time rift without an Imperial Dao, leaving the universe stunned by the possibility that he had failed to attain the Dao.

• Reports of devastation spread across the universe as Supremes slaughtered worlds and destroyed the Human Race Ancient Road’s Imperial weapons.
• The Lord of Samsara proposed taking the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Dao and life essence, and Abandoned Heaven Supreme argued that killing her and Chen Qiye offered their best chance to survive.
• After learning that the Longevity Heavenly Venerable and Light-Dark Supreme had fallen, the ancient Supremes agreed to return to Big Dipper and confront the Ruthless Great Emperor.
• Thirteen Supremes charged toward Big Dipper, where the prayers and sword intent of living beings gathered around the white-clad Empress.
• Chen Qiye stepped out of a space-time rift, and the Lord of Samsara declared that Chen Qiye had no Imperial Dao and had failed to attain the Dao.

Chen Qiye revealed that his Dao was formed from the obsessions of all living beings and used it to overwhelm the ancient Supremes. As the Abandoned Heaven Supreme fully ascended and challenged him, Chen Qiye answered with the Sword of Time.

• An alien Supreme wielding Flame Imperial laws attacked, but the Ruthless Great Emperor extinguished his flames as the Supremes turned against her.
• Chen Qiye declared that the hundreds of millions of sword intents were his Dao, sealing the Big Dipper Star System and suppressing the laws of heaven and earth.
• Chen Qiye’s first step used the sword intents to cleave the Flame Supreme in two, and his second step sent sword shadows against the remaining Supremes, killing another and damaging the Lord of Samsara.
• The Ultimate Emperor thrust his spear at Chen Qiye, but his Imperial laws collapsed, and Chen Qiye bound him with chains of order.
• The Abandoned Heaven Supreme ignited his vitality, fully restored his Imperial Dao, and charged through the sword intents in a flawless state.
• Chen Qiye called the Abandoned Heaven Supreme unworthy and unleashed the Sword of Time at him.

The Lord of Samsara absorbed the imperial blood and laws of thirteen ancient beings, achieving a state he called immortality. Chen Qiye dismissed his claim and prepared to reveal the power of a true immortal, leaving the universe stunned by the return of his Chaos Longsword.

• The Lord of Samsara gathered the imperial blood of fallen Supremes, including Abandoned Heaven Supreme, and transformed it into immortal ascension light.
• Thirteen ancient beings ultimately fulfilled the Lord of Samsara, who emerged from the Reincarnation Sea in a restored Green-Gold Immortal Garment.
• Chen Qiye released the Ultimate Imperial Sovereign from his cage and offered him the choice to dissolve into the Dao or become part of the Lord of Samsara's Immortal Platform.
• The Ultimate Imperial Sovereign chose to dissolve into the Dao, while Chen Qiye and the Ruthless Great Emperor watched the Lord of Samsara's transformation without intervening.
• The Lord of Samsara thanked Chen Qiye for helping him break through the Emperor realm and become an immortal.
• Chen Qiye called the Lord of Samsara's claim false, drew his Chaos Longsword, and declared that he would show the world what a true immortal was.

Chen Qiye killed the Lord of Samsara with the Sword of Retrospection, erasing him from the past and ending the turmoil in the Big Dipper Star System. Meanwhile, five Great Emperors ambushed and killed the fully developed Tyrant Body near Earth, then prepared to use imperial blood to lure more ancient Supremes.

• Chen Qiye used the Sword of Retrospection to erase the Lord of Samsara’s past, causing him to perish along with his primordial spirit.
• The Ultimate Emperor accepted his death and sent the Cold-Snow Divine Spear into the depths of the universe with his Dao and imperial blood.
• Living beings across the Big Dipper celebrated Chen Qiye as the human race’s Sword Immortal and praised the Ruthless Great Emperor.
• The fully developed Tyrant Body fled to the Solar System and was distracted by the imperial blood near Earth.
• Bai Ningbing, Shakyamuni, Shennong, the Yellow Emperor, and Li Er attacked and killed the fully developed Tyrant Body, then hid to use the imperial blood as bait for ancient Supremes.

After Chen Qiye killed the Lord of Samsara and ended the dark turmoil, survivors across the universe mourned the billions who had died and honored the fallen heroes. Chen Qiye and Little Nannan returned to the ruined Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, where they discussed Lu Junchu’s fading life and Little Nannan’s unstable condition.

• The Great Accomplishment Tyrant Body’s death ended the daylong dark turmoil, and survivors celebrated before grieving for the countless dead.
• Survivors and returning cultivators mourned the fallen heroes, honored the Human Sword Immortal and Ruthless Great Emperor, and began rites for the nameless dead.
• Chen Qiye returned to the ruined Big Dipper and walked with Little Nannan through the Eastern Wasteland to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Little Nannan explained that Lu Junchu’s life was nearly over and that undoing her seal would likely cause her Immortal Platform to collapse.
• Chen Qiye voiced concern about Little Nannan’s unstable condition, but she assured him she was no longer a frail little girl.

After parting with Little Nannan, Chen Qiye visited the survivors guarding the Azure Planet and learned that Bai Ningbing’s unusual Great Emperor powers were tied to the Solar System. Bai Ningbing’s visions of the “Origin of the Chaos Stars” hinted at a hidden connection to Chen Qiye, but its meaning remained unknown.

• Chen Qiye crossed the starfield to the ancient city near the Azure Planet and passed through its million imperial formations without triggering them.
• Chen Qiye explained that he could not activate the formations because he was incompatible with the world, much like Bai Ningbing.
• Bai Ningbing revealed that he had no lifespan limit and could control his imperial Dao and laws only within the Solar System.
• Bai Ningbing recalled visions of the “Origin of the Chaos Stars,” prompting him and Chen Qiye to wonder whether the phrase was connected to Chen Qiye’s name and fate.
• Bai Ningbing recounted more visions, and Li Er and the Yellow Emperor noted that Chen Qiye’s arrival had changed futures they had once foreseen.
• Bai Ningbing began to tell Chen Qiye that there was something he was unsure whether he should say.

Chen Qiye left Azure Planet and traveled upstream through the River of Time, reflecting on the final swords of the Heavenly Sword Intent before entering a new great world to continue as a teacher. After he departed, Dark confronted Heaven and warned it not to interfere with the origin.

• Chen Qiye bid farewell to Bai Ningbing on Azure Planet and set out to seek a way to resolve Lu Junchu's crisis.
• Chen Qiye crossed the River of Time in his physical body and learned that beings beyond Dao Gods could retrace time and retrieve the dead.
• Chen Qiye reasoned that the Sword of Retrospection manipulated time, the Sword of Cause and Effect could kill Innate Gods, and the Sword of All Beings remained beyond his comprehension.
• Chen Qiye descended into a life-filled great world to continue his path as a teacher.
• Dark appeared in the River of Time, restrained Heaven, and threatened to annihilate it if it interfered with the origin again.

Chen Qiye discovered that someone had diverted him from the River of Time into a derived world and traced his disciples’ presence toward the Six Paths Realm. He passed through a dangerous teleportation passage and arrived in a world where gods and demons were gathering.

• Chen Qiye learned from the system that the River of Time had been frozen and that he had reached a derived world connected to the Six Paths Realm, where Xiao Yan and Oscar were also present.
• Chen Qiye followed his karmic deductions to a planet encircled by six dying suns whose divine chains blocked his deductions.
• The system identified the chains as the Innate Sun God’s protective ability and explained that the god had likely fallen, though innate gods could be reborn if their origins survived.
• Chen Qiye entered a perilous teleportation passage guarded by lightning and elemental forces, and sensed that his sword-shaped ancient tree had grown more solid after he emerged.
• A voice asked whether Chen Qiye had come to the grand gathering of God-Demon Purgatory as he appeared among floating vessels and gathered gods and demons.