Chapter Summaries

After the Backer Sect destroyed the Imperial Court, the Nine Provinces learned of Jiang Ruoyao’s role and powerful factions demanded answers for their fallen heirs. Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao examined the Bronze Compass fragment, whose mysterious aura seemed connected to Jiang Ruoyao’s Primordial Divine Body.

• A group of Daoyuan Peak’s little ancestors waited for the battered little ancestor from Celestial Secrets Peak and closed in on him.
• News spread that the Backer Sect had wiped out the Imperial Court, and people learned Jiang Ruoyao had offered five Emperor Scriptures to recruit cultivators for the battle.
• The Qiongqi and Taotie Clans, Ten Thousand Caves Mountain, and the Black Tortoise Clan condemned Jiang Ruoyao for killing their successors and demanded explanations.
• Jiang Ruoyao challenged her accusers to come to the Primordial Divine Territory after the Emperor’s Road ended, then disappeared from public view.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao examined the Bronze Compass fragment, and Jiang Ruoyao wondered why its aura seemed both like and unlike her own.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao joined Jia Duobao to activate the three Bronze Compass fragments, sending their consciousnesses into an ancient chaos world. Hua Yunfei fought a mysterious Golden-Haired Woman, then died beneath a vast hand before awakening in the strange world, where a voice spoke of having no real choice.

• Jiang Ruoyao and Hua Yunfei failed to activate the bronze fragment alone and waited for Jia Duobao to arrive with the other two fragments.
• Jia Duobao brought the two Bronze Compasses, and their combined aura pulled Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao’s consciousnesses into the fragments as golden lightning struck the starry sky.
• Hua Yunfei encountered the Golden-Haired Woman in a chaos-filled Great World and fought her to a draw before forcing her back with a second punch.
• The Golden-Haired Woman vanished, and a huge hand reached into the chaos world and killed Hua Yunfei despite his resistance.
• Hua Yunfei awoke in the chaos world and saw the wounded Golden-Haired Woman beside an obscured golden object as a voice spoke of a single unavoidable path and told him not to blame her.

Hua Yunfei reached a breakthrough after seeing a mysterious Golden-Haired Woman correct his cultivation, while Jiang Ruoyao hid her troubled feelings and left the Emperor's Road to make a sacrifice. Hua Yunfei later arrived at a transportation gate leading from Sky Province to Earth Province as it began to shine.

• Dao-law dragons surged into Hua Yunfei, and a Golden-Haired Woman guided his cultivation until his path reached the Emperor's Road.
• Jiang Ruoyao told Hua Yunfei that a mysterious power had appeared within her, and Jia Duobao left the fragments with him.
• Jiang Ruoyao took Hua Yunfei to watch the once-in-a-hundred-thousand-years meteor shower at Star-Moon Meteor Falls before leaving the Emperor's Road.
• After returning to the Primordial Universe, Jiang Ruoyao confirmed to a mysterious voice that she would sacrifice herself alone and went with it toward the Big Dipper Star Region.
• Hua Yunfei reached the transportation domain gate at the border of Sky Province, and it began to radiate dazzling light.

Hua Yunfei traveled to Earth Province to hunt members of the Heaven-Stealing Organization and encountered Xia Yun, the Hongmeng God Sovereign, who suspected he had a special physique. When Xia Yun attacked a group of Heaven-Stealing Organization members, they dismissed her as a weak opponent, leaving Hua Yunfei to watch and judge her strength.

• Hua Yunfei arrived in Earth Province and set out to search for the Heaven-Stealing Organization, sharing its aura and Space-Time Human King's appearance with allies across the Nine Provinces.
• Xia Yun followed Hua Yunfei from a distance, then approached him and introduced herself as Yunxia while asking whether he possessed a special physique.
• Hua Yunfei recognized Xia Yun as the master of the Hongmeng Divine Domain, but denied having a special physique and tried to leave.
• Xia Yun spotted a black-robed man and four cultivators from the Heaven-Stealing Organization, then charged them with her azure longsword.
• The five reacted to Xia Yun's attack and mocked her white luck level and second-level Celestial Realm cultivation.

Xia Yun fought five members of the Heaven-Stealing Organization despite being far below them in cultivation. She killed their black-robed leader with a Hongmeng technique, but her divine barrier shattered and she was blasted toward the ground.

• Xia Yun severed the tall, thin man's arm with her first sword strike, then faced the five fighters as they surrounded her.
• After the men insulted Xia Yun, she cut off Brother Wen's arm and fought all five at once.
• Brother Wen used a five-colored flame lamp, but Xia Yun's Hongmeng Divine Light protected her from the flames.
• The black-robed man struck Xia Yun's barrier with his full strength, and the other four joined in until cracks spread across it.
• Xia Yun unleashed Hongmeng Wuji Divine Light, shattered the barrier, and killed the black-robed man with a beam through his brow.
• The broken barrier blasted Xia Yun away, sending her hurtling toward the ground.

Hua Yunfei rescued Xia Yun from Brother Wen and his companions, then refused her invitation to become the Hongmeng Divine Domain’s Divine Son despite her warning of a crisis threatening the universe. Xia Yun struggled to ask him for another way to preserve the Hongmeng Dao Body and the Primordial Universe.

• After Celestial Grace Honored One died, Brother Wen and the others attacked Xia Yun, but Hua Yunfei killed all four with a golden fist strike.
• Xia Yun thanked Hua Yunfei and followed him, revealing that she was Xia Yun, the Primordial God Sovereign, and that she had sensed his Hongmeng Dao Body.
• Xia Yun invited Hua Yunfei to join the Hongmeng Divine Domain as its Divine Son, but he refused because he was content in the Sun Moon Divine Church.
• Xia Yun warned Hua Yunfei that the universe faced a great crisis and said the Hongmeng Divine Domain could help him become an Emperor, but he still refused to join.
• Xia Yun hesitated to reveal her second plan: as the bearer of the Hongmeng Violet Body, she was expected to unite with the Hongmeng Dao Body so their child would inherit it.

Xia Yun asked Hua Yunfei to father a child with her, hoping their child would inherit the Hongmeng Dao Body and help the Primordial Legacies break their deadlock, but he refused because he did not want the child to become leverage against him. After Hua Yunfei left, Xia Yun spoke with the Chaos Godchild, who revealed that he was traveling to Sky Province to find Jiang Ruoyao.

• Xia Yun struggled to tell Hua Yunfei that she wanted him to leave a seed within her so their child could inherit the Hongmeng Dao Body.
• Hua Yun praised Xia Yun’s willingness to make the request for the universe’s sake but refused, saying he would not risk giving someone leverage over him.
• The Chaos Godchild arrived, and Hua Yunfei departed before Xia Yun could continue speaking with him.
• Xia Yun asked the Chaos Godchild whether he would accept a beautiful woman’s offer to have a child without requiring him to take responsibility, and his eager answer made her mistakenly think Hua Yunfei had rejected her because he found her unattractive.
• The Chaos Godchild told Xia Yun that he had come to find Jiang Ruoyao in Sky Province after hearing she had helped the Backer Sect kill several people there.

Hua Yunfei arrived in Earth Province, where he intercepted a wounded Heaven-Stealing Organization cultivator fleeing from the Little Holy Emperor, a Sacred Ape heir. After the two discovered they had both been warned about the organization by their ancestors, the Little Holy Emperor asked Hua Yunfei which lineage he belonged to.

• Xia Yun told the Chaos Godchild that Tianji would likely go to Sky Province to find Yao Yao, and the Chaos Godchild hid to ambush him.
• The Chaos Godchild intercepted a purple-clad young man approaching the border ancient city and demanded to know whether he was going to Sky Province to find Yao Yao.
• Hua Yunfei traveled through chaotic Earth Province and suppressed several old cultivators who tried to trap him.
• Hua Yunfei saw a golden ape defeat a blue-clad Heaven-Stealing Organization cultivator, then knocked the fleeing man unconscious.
• The golden ape introduced himself as the Little Holy Emperor and questioned Hua Yunfei about his knowledge of the Heaven-Stealing Organization.
• Hua Yunfei said an old ancestor had informed him about the organization, and the Little Holy Emperor asked which lineage he belonged to.

Hua Yunfei and Little Holy Emperor joined forces to hunt the Heaven-Stealing Organization in Earth Province, using interrogation and ambushes to kill its members. A month later, Little Holy Emperor had embraced Hua Yunfei’s stealth tactics and planned to teach them to the Sacred Ape Clan.

• Hua Yunfei told Little Holy Emperor he was the Sun Moon Divine Child’s senior brother and persuaded the golden ape to keep his secret identity confidential.
• Little Holy Emperor woke the captured Heaven-Stealing Organization member by slapping him, then forced him to reveal a list of members before Hua Yunfei burned him to ashes.
• Hua Yunfei and Little Holy Emperor fled when a beautiful woman arrived, and she wondered whether Hua Yunfei or Little Holy Emperor had erased the Heaven-Stealing Immortal Records’ aura.
• Over the next month, Hua Yunfei and Little Holy Emperor killed nearly a hundred Heaven-Stealing Organization members by interrogating captives and ambushing their associates.
• Hua Yunfei taught Little Holy Emperor an improved concealment secret art, and Little Holy Emperor used it to ambush and kill a top-tier prodigy before vowing to teach the method to the Sacred Ape Clan.

Hua Yunfei and Little Holy Emperor followed a trail of Heaven-Stealing Organization targets to Ice Emperor Mountain, where Hua Yunfei expected an ambush. Inside the mountain, Divine Flame Human King and more than two hundred experts surrounded them, and Hua Yunfei remained confident as Little Holy Emperor asked him for a plan.

• Hua Yunfei explained to Little Holy Emperor that their route across Earth Province formed a line and suggested that a hidden force was guiding them toward an ambush.
• Hua Yunfei persuaded Little Holy Emperor to keep following the route, reasoning that an ambush would bring the Heaven-Stealing Organization to them.
• Hua Yunfei and Little Holy Emperor traveled to Ice Emperor Mountain to find the injured Ice King and sensed they had entered an encirclement.
• The two crossed an icy path and entered a cave, where Divine Flame Human King appeared behind them and blocked their retreat.
• Divine Flame Human King summoned more than two hundred experts, and Little Holy Emperor grew alarmed while Hua Yunfei said he was ready to fight.

Hua Yunfei revealed that his apparent double was an incarnation and declared that he and Little Holy Emperor had surrounded the Heaven-Stealing Organization’s forces. As the battle erupted, Hua Yunfei cursed Divine Flame Human King, while a blue figure emerged from the cave and struck Ice King.

• Qin Ming and a voluptuous woman taunted Little Holy Emperor, who attacked them before Ice King stopped him with an ice pillar.
• Hua Yunfei appeared behind Divine Flame Human King, revealing that the Hua Yunfei beside Little Holy Emperor was an incarnation.
• Hua Yunfei said he and Little Holy Emperor had surrounded the enemy, and Divine Flame Human King and Ice King trapped the group inside a barrier.
• Little Holy Emperor charged Qin Ming and his allies, while Hua Yunfei’s incarnation instantly killed an attacker and then faced a larger group.
• Divine Flame Human King realized Hua Yunfei had cursed his shoulder and cut off his arm to stop the curse from spreading.
• Ice King charged Hua Yunfei, but a blue figure emerged from the cave and sent him flying with one sword strike.

Hua Yunfei and his allies fought the Heaven-Stealing Organization’s forces inside the cave, where Hua Yunfei’s overwhelming strength turned the battle into a massacre. The survivors tried to flee, but Hua Yunfei had altered the trapping array and left them unable to escape.

• Xia Yun joined Hua Yunfei’s fight, trapped nearly thirty attackers with a talisman barrier, and wounded the Ice King despite his superior fortune.
• Hua Yunfei charged into more than a hundred enemies while his incarnation killed the thirty people attacking it.
• Hua Yunfei killed the Divine Flame Human King with a casual strike and rapidly slaughtered the Heaven-Stealing Organization’s fighters, including its guides.
• The surviving attackers tried to escape through the cave entrance but found that Hua Yunfei had altered the array to prevent their departure.
• One lineage’s strongest successor protested that his father had predicted he would become a Great Emperor, and Hua Yunfei replied that his father had lied.

Hua Yunfei, Little Holy Emperor, and Xia Yun defeated the Heaven-Stealing Organization’s forces and discovered the Ice Emperor’s Tomb, which Hua Yunfei emptied before they left. Beyond the Primordial Universe, a towering enemy grew alarmed by the deaths and a possible rising young Great Emperor, then defeated the wounded Taishi Female Emperor as she defended a blood-red bubble.

• Hua Yunfei killed the remaining members of the Heaven-Stealing Organization, while Little Holy Emperor and Xia Yun defeated their opponents, including Ice King.
• Hua Yunfei pretended his strength had cost him dearly, and Little Holy Emperor and Xia Yun admired his dedication to the Sun Moon Divine Church.
• Ice Emperor Mountain shook as the three departed, so Hua Yunfei returned and collected Ice Emperor’s scripture before leaving with Little Holy Emperor and Xia Yun.
• A crowd entered Ice Emperor’s Tomb after them and found that Hua Yunfei had taken everything.
• Beyond the Primordial Universe, a towering figure sensed the deaths, feared an unparalleled young Great Emperor might emerge, and prepared to attack the Primordial Universe.
• The towering figure fought Taishi Female Emperor, cut her in half, and sent her falling into the crimson bubble as others cried out to her.

Primordial’s Divine Lords prepared for an assault after learning Taishi was falling and Jiang Ruoyao had died, while a mysterious figure failed to enter the nine-colored mist. After clearing much of the Heaven-Stealing Organization from Earth Province, Hua Yunfei, Xia Yun, and Little Holy Emperor set off to try a famous street-stall meal.

• Tianji Divine Lord and the other Divine Lords feared Taishi had fallen and warned that Primordial would be attacked next.
• Primordial Divine Lord mourned Jiang Ruoyao, whose life tablet had shattered, and called for Primordial’s strongest ancestors to gather.
• A chaotic figure tried to enter the nine-colored mist but retreated after its unseen occupant warned him away.
• Little Holy Emperor asked Hua Yunfei whether he had heard someone cursing him, and Hua Yunfei claimed he had merely cleaned the Ice Emperor’s Tomb for its would-be treasure seekers.
• Little Holy Emperor invited Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun to try a brothers’ street-stall food said to boost strength, and the two said in unison that they had met before.

Little Holy Emperor tried to engineer a reconciliation between Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun by bringing them to the Ludicrous Brothers’ food stall and conspiring to serve them huge portions. Hua Yunfei noticed the scheme and offered Little Holy Emperor some of his battle-strength-boosting fried rice, leaving him wary of what would happen next.

• Little Holy Emperor decided Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun had quarreled and resolved to help them make up.
• Little Holy Emperor brought Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun to the Preposterous Grub Hub in Dique Ancient City, where the Ludicrous Brothers sold food that temporarily increased battle strength.
• Little Holy Emperor secretly persuaded Zhong Li and Zhong Pu to serve Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun unusually large portions.
• Xia Yun enjoyed her beef noodles while Hua Yun stopped after one bite of his fried rice.
• Hua Yunfei offered Little Holy Emperor some fried rice, and Little Holy Emperor realized Hua Yunfei might have seen through his plan.

Hua Yunfei exposed Little Holy Emperor’s attempt to drug him and Xia Yun, then helped Xia Yun suppress the medicine’s effects. Three days later, as Little Holy Emperor returned to Dique Ancient City, the entire Emperor’s Road shook and a golden Great Dao radiance erupted into the sky.

• Hua Yunfei discovered that Little Holy Emperor had put an aphrodisiac in the beef noodles, and Little Holy Emperor admitted he had hoped to help Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun reconcile.
• Hua Yunfei made Little Holy Emperor eat the drugged fried rice, and Little Holy Emperor fled Dique Ancient City afterward.
• Hua Yunfei helped Xia Yun suppress the medicine’s effects, and Xia Yun said she no longer needed to bear a Hongmeng Dao Body for him because he was already so powerful.
• Little Holy Emperor returned three days later and found Zhong Li and Zhong Pu angry with him for the trouble his scheme had caused.
• The Emperor’s Road shook, and a vast golden Great Dao radiance rose into the sky.

Emperor Province opened ahead of schedule, prompting Xia Yun to explain to Hua Yunfei that the Emperor’s Road was entering its decisive struggle. As they discussed Jiang Ruoyao’s unexplained absence, Xia Yun revealed that another powerful universe, the Taisi Universe, was now in danger.

• Emperor Province opened early, and cultivators across the eight provinces prepared for the battle over the Emperor’s Seat.
• Xia Yun privately asked Hua Yunfei about his cultivation, and he revealed that he had reached the Quasi-Emperor Realm at just over a hundred years old.
• Xia Yun told Hua Yunfei that Jiang Ruoyao had entered the Emperor’s Road to find him, but he said she had claimed to leave for an urgent matter outside.
• Hua Yunfei tried to locate Jiang Ruoyao through the Primordial Sacred Sword but could only determine that it was not on the Emperor’s Road.
• Xia Yun explained that the Taisi Universe was a great universe comparable in strength to the Primordial Universe.

Xia Yun told Hua Yunfei that the Primordial Universe had survived Heaven-Stealing through the Immortal Markings left by twelve true immortals, though only two forebears might remain. As the Taisi Universe’s defenses crumbled, the Primordial Universe prepared to hasten the Emperor’s Road and raise a Great Emperor; Xia Yun then admitted no one knew Heaven-Stealing’s true goal.

• Xia Yun explained that twelve true immortals had left Immortal Markings to protect the Primordial Universe, and that three of its twelve legacies had vanished.
• Xia Yun said the Chaos Great Emperor and Empress Tai’e might still be alive, but Empress Tai’e’s Immortal Markings had grown dim and the Supremes had been activating the defenses in eras without emperors.
• Xia Yun warned Hua Yunfei that Heaven-Stealing would turn its full attention to the Primordial Universe after the Taisi Universe fell, so the Emperor’s Road had to end quickly and someone had to ascend the Emperor’s Seat.
• Xia Yun revealed that the Taisi Universe still had a Great Emperor and a Great Accomplishment Holy Body who were Dao Companions, though its Immortal Markings had failed and its predecessors had fallen.
• Hua Yunfei asked what Heaven-Stealing wanted, and Xia Yun said she had considered him a future Great Emperor and that, despite his qualification to know, no one knew the organization’s goal.

Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun discussed the Heaven-Stealing Organization’s likely plan to steal the Primordial Universe’s origin, then prepared to travel to Emperor Province as its opening approached. At the crowded teleportation gate, Hua Yunfei and his companions concealed themselves to cut in line, but he warned Xia Yun that her concealment might fail amid spatial turbulence.

• Xia Yun told Hua Yunfei that the Primordial Legacies suspected the Heaven-Stealing Organization sought the Primordial Universe’s origin, which could cause the universe to decline.
• Xia Yun encouraged Hua Yunfei to follow his own methods and not let the burden of proving his Dao overwhelm him.
• Hua Yunfei asked whether Xia Yun would ever attack beyond the Primordial Universe, startling her before he dismissed the question as a joke.
• Hua Yunfei, Xia Yun, and Little Holy Emperor decided to leave for Emperor Province, while Hua Yun contacted the Space-Time Human King to coordinate against the Heaven-Stealing Organization.
• The three reached Dique Ancient City’s crowded teleportation gate and used concealment secret arts to cut in line, but Hua Yunfei warned that Xia Yun’s art might not withstand spatial turbulence.

Hua Yunfei, Xia Yun, and Little Holy Emperor secretly infiltrated the crowd heading toward Emperor Province and ambushed members of the Heaven-Stealing Organization. As the group neared the province, the surviving enemies gathered and shouted challenges at their unseen attackers, while Hua Yunfei decided it was time to stop hiding.

• Hua Yunfei strengthened Xia Yun’s concealment, and the three used their secret arts to board teleportation gates and reach the border city near Emperor Province.
• Little Holy Emperor spotted members of the Heaven-Stealing Organization, but Hua Yunfei waited until the crowd dispersed before attacking them.
• Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun secretly killed Heaven-Stealing Organization members, and Xia Yun grew increasingly enthusiastic about ambushing her targets.
• Little Holy Emperor loudly smashed an opponent, drawing an old man’s attention, and Hua Yun swiftly killed the old man before he could warn the others.
• The surviving Heaven-Stealing Organization members gathered and called their unseen attackers cowards, while Hua Yunfei judged that they had stayed hidden long enough.