Chapter Summaries

Backer Sect panicked over Lin Yang establishing the Funeral Hall, while Mu Qingqing confirmed their fears by ordering Elder Hu to die. Hua Yunfei’s disciples decided to leave the sect for experience before Emperor’s Road opened, as the chapter ended by introducing the powerful geniuses emerging across the universe.

• Backer Sect elders feared Lin Yang’s Funeral Hall, and Mu Qingqing told Elder Hu to go and die.
• Hua Yunfei explained that the sect’s ancestors could easily restrain him and that the Ancestral Land was a precious cultivation place.
• Ye Bufan and his fellow disciples asked to leave Daoyuan Peak to gain experience, and Hua Yunfei approved their departure with a warning to be cautious.
• The Golden Age brought ancient factions, Emperor Armaments, and numerous geniuses into the wider universe.
• The chapter introduced the scheming Little Celestial Honored One, Budaode, and the repeatedly undefeated young sovereign Wang Taichu.

Hua Yunfei discussed delaying his breakthrough to the Great Emperor Realm and received an Unrestricted Region Teleportation Platform through sign-in. Meanwhile, Ye Bufan and his companions pursued a tomb raider with a second Bronze Compass into Sun Moon Sacred City, where they lost his trail.

• Hua Yunfei told the system he would wait until his Quasi-Emperor cultivation reached perfection before attempting the Great Emperor breakthrough.
• Hua Yunfei received an Unrestricted Region Teleportation Platform and considered using it to reach the Heaven-Stealing Organization’s headquarters.
• Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, Jia Duobao, and Chu Qing'er opened a Quasi-Emperor’s tomb in Cerulean Province, where a swift intruder escaped with a Bronze Compass of his own.
• Ye Bufan and his companions chased the intruder to Sun Moon Sacred City but lost his aura amid the city’s crowds.
• Ye Bufan asked Jia Duobao to confirm whether the fleeing man had truly possessed a Bronze Compass.

Dao De discovered another Bronze Compass in Sun Moon Sacred City and enlisted Gu Tianqiu to help him pursue its owner, while Gu Tianqiu instead barged into Ye Bufan and his companions’ inn room to pursue Chu Qing'er. The chapter ended as Chu Qing'er prepared to fight, backed by Ye Bufan and the others.

• Jia Duobao's Bronze Compass sensed a second Bronze Compass nearby, and Ye Bufan's group decided to investigate after eating.
• Dao De, carrying a warped Bronze Compass, spotted Gu Tianqiu and lured him toward Chu Qing'er by showing him her image.
• Gu Tianqiu gathered five companions and entered the private room where Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, Jia Duobao, and Chu Qing'er were dining.
• Gu Tianqiu demanded that Chu Qing'er accompany him to Drunken Moon Terrace, and she refused.
• Ye Bufan told Chu Qing'er to hit Gu Tianqiu and promised that he and their Master would protect her.

Chu Qing'er defeated Gu Tianqiu’s companions after he tried to force her to go with him, and the Sun Moon Divine Child intervened on her side. Gu Tianqiu and his men left the tavern, while Ye Bufan asked the Divine Child to arrange their deaths.

• Chu Qing'er struck the yellow-robed young man through a tavern wall after he mocked her and her companions.
• Gu Tianqiu and his four remaining companions released their Approaching Dao Realm auras, but Chu Qing'er insisted she could handle them herself.
• The Sun Moon Divine Child arrived and beheaded the purple-robed young man for insulting Chu Qing'er, then warned Gu Tianqiu to apologize or face him.
• Gu Tianqiu restored the purple-robed young man’s body and led his companions out of the tavern after realizing the Sun Moon Divine Child would protect Ye Bufan’s group.
• Ye Bufan privately asked the Sun Moon Divine Child to kill Gu Tianqiu and his companions, and the Divine Child agreed to handle it.
• The onlookers recognized Ye Bufan’s group as disciples of the Backer Sect and recalled their ties to powerful figures and factions.

The Sun Moon Divine Child killed Gu Tianqiu and his five companions after they plotted to ambush Ye Bufan’s group, while Gu Tianqiu realized De Ye had used him as a pawn. The death awakened Old Ancestor Gu Feng, who demanded that the Sun Moon Divine Church answer for his grandson’s death and threatened to destroy it.

• Gu Tianqiu took his recovered companions to an ancient forest and planned to ambush Ye Bufan’s group, while summoning their elders for support.
• The Sun Moon Divine Child arrived and killed Gu Tianqiu’s five companions, then fatally wounded Gu Tianqiu despite the intervention of his grandfather’s phantom.
• As he died, Gu Tianqiu realized De Ye had manipulated him and cursed De Ye for using him as a test.
• Gu Tianqiu’s death awakened Old Ancestor Gu Feng in the Ancient Path Star Region, and the Gu Family learned that the Sun Moon Divine Child had killed him.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng demanded that the Sun Moon Divine Church provide an explanation and threatened to tear it down if it refused.

The Gu family decided to seek compensation from the Sun Moon Divine Church and wait to kill its Divine Child on the Emperor’s Road rather than risk an immediate war. Hua Yunfei learned that the Bronze Compass might have another fragment near Jia Duobao, while Ye Bufan and his companions confronted the mysterious De Ye.

• The Gu family patriarch persuaded Old Ancestor Gu Feng to delay revenge until the Emperor’s Road and demand compensation from the Sun Moon Divine Church first.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng said his remnant soul had shown him that someone might have ordered the Sun Moon Divine Child to kill Gu Tianqiu, then led experts from five clans toward the Big Dipper Star Region.
• Hua Yunfei told the Sun Moon Divine Church to respond to the Gu family as needed and deduced that Jia Duobao was near another Bronze Compass fragment.
• Ye Bufan, Jia Duobao, Huang Xuan, and their companion cornered De Ye outside Sun Moon Sacred City, and Jia Duobao accused him of luring Gu Tianqiu to his death.
• Huang Xuan stopped Jia Duobao from attacking De Ye and said they would set aside the matter of Gu Tianqiu.

Ye Bufan and his junior siblings captured De Ye with Hua Yunfei’s help and recovered his Bronze Compass. When Hua Yunfei used both compasses, he glimpsed a golden building and a wounded woman, but learned that more compasses were needed to uncover the secret.

• De Ye tried to escape with a teleportation array platform, but Hua Yunfei appeared and returned him unconscious to Ye Bufan and the others.
• Jia Duobao searched De Ye’s Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven, found his immense hoard, and recovered the second Bronze Compass.
• The two Bronze Compasses reacted when Jia Duobao held them together, and Hua Yunfei said their hidden Dao laws were supreme and beyond his ability to fully understand.
• Hua Yunfei’s Dao laws made the compasses reveal a blurred golden building in chaotic qi and a woman who collapsed beside it, bleeding golden blood.
• Hua Yunfei concluded that more Bronze Compasses were needed to uncover the secret, and Jia Duobao planned to search for them when the Emperor’s Road opened in seven months.

Ya Ya’s glowing stomach released a mysterious power in the Hundred Herbs Garden, prompting Hua Yunfei to return to the sect while Ye Bufan and the others continued their travels. Meanwhile, Old Ancestor Gu Feng confronted the Sun Moon Divine Church over his grandson’s death and demanded the Sun Moon Divine Child’s life, only for the Sect Leader to offer him up.

• Ya Ya’s stomach glowed and repelled Qin Yi’s attempt to examine it, so Qin Yi and the Hundred Herbs Garden’s elders suppressed the mysterious power and reassured Ya Ya.
• Qin Yi informed Hua Yunfei about the incident, and he decided to return to the sect while Ye Bufan, Chu Qing'er, Huang Xuan, and Jia Duobao stayed behind to gain experience.
• Hua Yunfei warned his disciples to be cautious and avoid bringing grave-robbing foul aura back to the sect, then returned the Bronze Compass to Jia Duobao and left them to deal with their captive.
• Huang Xuan placed a Slave Seal on the unconscious young man in Daoist robes, and Jia Duobao kept him alive after taking his treasures.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng arrived at the Sun Moon Divine Church with five companions and demanded compensation for his grandson’s death, naming the Sun Moon Divine Child as payment.
• The Sun Moon Sect Leader summoned the Sun Moon Divine Child and told Old Ancestor Gu Feng he could kill him, leaving Gu Feng stunned.

The Sun Moon Sect Leader forced Old Ancestor Gu Feng and his five companions to retreat by daring them to kill the Sun Moon Divine Child, then they traced the conflict to Backer Sect disciples. As Gu Feng's group searched for those disciples, they detected activity beneath an ancient mountain range, where Jia Duobao demanded De Ye's treasure-hunting secret art.

• The Sun Moon Sect Leader offered the Sun Moon Divine Child to Old Ancestor Gu Feng, who stopped the yellow-robed middle-aged man from attacking and led the group away.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng and the others learned that Gu Tianqiu had clashed with Backer Sect disciples and that the Sun Moon Divine Child had acted to protect them.
• After failing to find the disciples in Sun Moon Sacred City, Old Ancestor Gu Feng led the group toward the Backer Sect and searched for them along the way.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng detected living beings beneath an ancient mountain range as Jia Duobao praised De Ye's treasure-hunting secret art and asked to learn it.
• De Ye offered to teach Jia Duobao if he became De Ye's disciple, but Jia Duobao hit him and reminded him that he was their prisoner.

Ye Bufan and his companions faced Old Ancestor Gu Feng and five other powerful elders, but Hua Yunfei emerged from Ye Bufan’s ring and overwhelmed them. The survivors surrendered and were marked by Hua Yunfei before he ordered them to leave their valuables and go.

• De Ye gave Jia Duobao the first volume of a booklet he had hidden in his crotch, keeping the second volume as leverage.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng and five elders confronted Ye Bufan and his companions, accusing them of inciting the Sun Moon Divine Child to kill their relatives.
• Ye Bufan summoned Hua Yunfei from his ring, and Hua Yunfei shattered Gu Feng’s attack and cut him into eight pieces.
• Gu Feng’s divine soul admitted defeat, and Ye Bufan made him and the five elders apologize and promise not to cause trouble again.
• Hua Yunfei killed a middle-aged man in green who boasted about his powerful backing, then placed an unexplained force in the other five elders’ divine souls.
• Hua Yunfei ordered the survivors to leave behind everything valuable and get lost.

Hua Yunfei let Gu Feng and the other ancestors leave after taking their treasures, while Jia Duobao vowed to find the tombs of three Great Emperors. Months later, Ye Bufan neared the Sage Realm, and the Backer Sect gathered powerful ancestors to protect him from the danger of his Ancient Sacred Body’s tribulation.

• Hua Yunfei allowed Old Ancestor Gu Feng and the others to trade their treasures for their lives, then returned to Ye Bufan’s ring as the disciples divided the spoils.
• Jia Duobao declared that he would find the imperial tombs of the Sun Moon Sacred Emperor, the Yaoguang Great Emperor, and the Celestial Star Great Emperor, and even pee on their corpses.
• Old Ancestor Gu Feng warned his companions not to speak ill of the Backer Sect because a hidden danger could keep them from reaching home alive.
• Five months later, Ye Bufan’s cultivation surged toward the Sage Realm, but he suppressed it because an Ancient Sacred Body’s Sage Tribulation could bring deadly strangeness.
• Hua Yunfei asked Lin Yang to summon support, and Yun Tian Zhenren led ten Approaching Dao Realm ancestors into the Ancestral Tomb before deciding to seek additional help from the ancestral temple.

Lin Yang welcomed the Backer Sect’s ancestors as they emerged from the Ancestral Tomb, and they gathered to protect Ye Bufan during his Sage tribulation. Ye Bufan began his tribulation on a distant dead star, while hostile ancient beings plotted against the Sacred Body’s attempt to reconnect its severed path.

• Lin Yang watched the ancestors emerge from the Ancestral Tomb, including a purple-robed ancestor whom the white-robed Daoyuan Peak First Seat kicked out of the doorway.
• Dozens of ancestors gathered and promised to protect the disciple undergoing tribulation, then Lin Yang told them Ye Bufan was waiting beyond the domain.
• Ancient beings in a mysterious region vowed to prevent the Sacred Body from reconnecting its severed path and anticipated an attack by their allies.
• Hua Yunfei arrived at the dead star where Ye Bufan and his fellow disciples waited, told Ye Bufan he had secured the area, and let him begin his tribulation.
• Ye Bufan released his cultivation seal, drew thunderclouds spanning fifty thousand miles, and charged into the storm.
• Ye Bufan used the Thunder Emperor Sutra to absorb the first lightning bolt of his tribulation.

Ye Bufan endured a series of terrifying heavenly tribulations until the Sacred Body’s curse weakened him and a mysterious voice threatened his path. Meanwhile, Great Emperor-level observers discovered signs of an Immortal Being in the Life Forbidden Zones and decided to explore them after dealing with the threat to Ye Bufan.

• Ye Bufan fought through the Nine-Colored, strange beast, and divine armament tribulations, absorbing lightning with the Thunder Emperor Sutra until the Sacred Body’s curse appeared and left him badly wounded.
• A mysterious voice declared that the Sacred Body could not continue the broken road, but another voice answered and was followed by a scream.
• The white-robed middle-aged man, the woman in palace attire, and the purple-robed middle-aged man discussed Scarlet’s connection to Nine Nether and sensed an Immortal Being’s aura within the Life Forbidden Zone.
• An eerie figure from First Line Sky approached Ye Bufan, but Daoyuan Peak Old Ancestor and the other old ancestors surrounded it and beat it down.
• The purple-robed middle-aged man found that the eerie figure was a corpse-like being, and the three Great Emperor observers agreed to enter the Life Forbidden Zones once matters were settled.

Ye Bufan’s curse faded during his Saint Tribulation, and he fought twelve Emperor Law Bodies while Hua Yunfei and the Backer Sect Old Ancestors watched. After the Old Ancestors learned the curse might be tied to a Life Forbidden Zone, they prepared to investigate it and protect Ye Bufan.

• Ye Bufan’s strange bloodline curse faded, restoring his strength as he fought through the Nine-Colored Lightning Tribulation and drew twelve Emperor Law Bodies, including the Profound Yellow Great Emperor.
• The Sun Moon Sacred Emperor and other Law Bodies attacked Ye Bufan, while the Sun Moon Sacred Emperor repeatedly self-destructed and persuaded several others to do the same.
• A Celestial Secrets Peak Old Ancestor killed two Heaven-Stealing Organization Quasi-Emperors who approached the tribulation.
• Hua Yunfei thanked the Backer Sect Old Ancestors, and the Daoyuan Peak Old Ancestor kicked a Celestial Secrets Peak Old Ancestor away for teasing him.
• Three white-robed Old Ancestors announced they would enter a Life Forbidden Zone to seek the source of Ye Bufan’s tribulation troubles, and Hua Yunfei gave them his Emperor Armaments to help.

Hua Yunfei learned more about Backer Sect’s hidden strength while Ye Bufan endured the attacks of twelve Great Emperor law bodies. A disturbance in Nine Abyss sparked rumors of the Underworld Emperor’s legacy, and the three old ancestors returned to Backer Sect after failing to enter the forbidden zone.

• Celestial Secrets Peak Old Ancestor told Hua Yunfei that becoming Emperor would let Backer Sect’s old ancestors descend in their true bodies, while Daoyuan Peak Old Ancestor bragged about his family’s flourishing descendants.
• Ye Bufan fought the twelve Great Emperor law bodies for hours, surviving repeated self-destructive attacks led by the Sun Moon Sacred Emperor.
• One month later, Nine Abyss erupted with black radiance and battle-like sounds, prompting cultivators to speculate that the Underworld Emperor had left a treasure there.
• A supreme lineage’s clan leader claimed that the Underworld Emperor had attained the Dao in Nine Abyss, so cultivators waited for his supposed legacy until the disturbance disappeared and the clan leader fled.
• The white-robed middle-aged man and the other two old ancestors returned to Backer Sect and told Hua Yunfei that their attempt to enter the Life Forbidden Zone had failed.

Hua Yunfei learned that the three Great Emperor ancestors had failed to suppress Nine Nether because the Life Forbidden Zones concealed the remains of an Immortal Being. A month later, the Primordial Bell rang nine times and the Emperor’s Road opened, prompting heavenly geniuses across the universe—including disciples from Backer Sect—to prepare to enter.

• A purple-robed ancestor told Hua Yunfei that the six Life Forbidden Zones were connected and that the remains of one half-dead Immortal Being had defeated their avatars.
• The three ancestors returned Hua Yunfei’s Dharma artifacts and vowed to settle their defeat once Hua Yunfei became a Great Emperor.
• The Primordial Bell appeared at the universe’s center, rang nine times, and vanished as Emperor’s Gates descended across the star fields.
• The Battle Immortal Hall Successor and a wielder of the Overlord Celestial Body entered Emperor’s Gates, while ancient and present-era geniuses prepared to compete.
• Lin Yang hesitated to enter the Emperor’s Road because he had to protect Backer Sect, but Mu Qingqing urged him to go and offered to ask their Master to oversee the sect.
• Disciples from Lower Mystery Peak, Celestial Secrets Peak, and other Backer Sect peaks decided to enter the Emperor’s Road, while the elders chose to stay behind.

Yun Tian Zhenren prepared the Backer Sect disciples for the Emperor's Road and brought powerful ancestors out of the Ancestral Tomb. When Hua Yunfei accepted a challenge from the Hua Family's little ancestors, he sent several of them flying, and curious disciples rushed to Daoyuan Peak to see what happened.

• Yun Tian Zhenren invited powerful ancestors to accompany the Emperor's Road expedition and gave the disciples location-sensing chess pieces from a Celestial Secrets Peak ancestor.
• A violet-robed Hua Family descendant led the little ancestors to Daoyuan Peak, where a formation blocked their way and they met Yang Gandang.
• Hua Yunfei arrived and greeted the little ancestors, while Yang Gandang recognized them as descendants from the Ancestral Tomb.
• The violet-robed youth challenged Hua Yunfei to a fight with their cultivation suppressed to the Celestial Realm, and Hua Yunfei asked whether they would fight one at a time or together.
• Several little ancestors screamed as they were sent flying out of the sect, drawing a crowd of disciples toward Daoyuan Peak.

Hua Yunfei defeated the Hua Family’s little ancestors, then led the Backer Sect disciples through the Emperor’s Gate, where the Emperor’s Road scattered them and suppressed his cultivation. After arriving alone, he learned how fortune worked and caught a gray-robed youth who had tried to ambush him.

• Hua Yunfei beat the Hua Family’s little ancestors by kicking them, healed their injuries, and brought them to Daoyuan Peak.
• Yun Tian Zhenren entrusted the disciples entering the Emperor’s Road to Hua Yunfei and warned them to put their lives first.
• Hua Yunfei led the disciples through the Emperor’s Gate, where his cultivation was suppressed and spatial force scattered everyone across the Emperor’s Road.
• Hua Yunfei arrived in a star-filled world with unusually dense spiritual energy and set out to find the Backer Sect disciples.
• A gray-robed youth’s sword attack failed to injure Hua Yunfei, who recognized the youth’s black fortune and explained how fortune grades increased cultivation.
• Hua Yunfei used a giant transparent hand to seize the fleeing gray-robed youth.

Hua Yunfei traveled through the Emperor’s Road while cultivators rushed toward the newly revealed Sun Moon Sacred Emperor’s mausoleum. Ye Bufan set out for Profound Province, killed a hunter who attacked him, and discovered a trap at an ancient city, where Yuan Li and his mercenaries surrounded him.

• Hua Yunfei killed the gray-robed youth, then used Earth Shrinking to travel discreetly while tracking the nearest Backer Sect disciple.
• The Sacred Realm shook as the Sun Moon Sacred Emperor’s imperial mausoleum appeared in Profound Province, drawing cultivators and prodigies from nearby provinces.
• Jia Duobao celebrated the mausoleum’s discovery, while Ye Bufan headed from Yellow Province toward Profound Province to seek it out.
• A black-clothed youth attacked Ye Bufan, who caught his halberd, killed him, and absorbed his luck.
• Ye Bufan reached an eerily deserted ancient city and concealed himself as he approached its teleportation domain gate.
• Ye Bufan realized the city was a hunting trap and found himself surrounded by Yuan Li and nine other mercenaries.

Ye Bufan slaughtered a group of cultivators in an ancient city and continued through the teleportation gate, while Jixiang and Ruyi escaped their pursuer, Li Xuange. In Profound Province, two young men ambushed and robbed the Overlord Celestial Body, leaving him humiliated and determined to hunt them down.

• Ye Bufan killed Hong Niang and the other nine cultivators, searched their treasures for Jia Duobao's Bronze Compass, and left through the teleportation gate.
• Jixiang and Ruyi fled Li Xuange through the gate to Profound Province, and Li Xuange followed after deciding to seek a share of the Sun Moon Sacred Emperor's imperial tomb.
• The Overlord Celestial Body arrived, prompting Li Xuange to leave through the gate rather than confront him.
• A purple-robed youth and an azure-robed youth joined the Overlord Celestial Body at the gate, then struck him with wooden clubs and robbed his treasures while his divine soul was paralyzed.
• After recovering in Profound Province, the Overlord Celestial Body abandoned the imperial tomb and began searching for the two youths to kill them.