Chapter Summaries

Ren returned to Ziwei Palace with Ruthless and helped her begin her reincarnation and re-cultivation method by burning away her old body. As Ruthless’s vitality fueled the Emperor Flame, Ren used the fire to repair and strengthen his sword formation treasures.

• Ren returned to Ziwei Palace with Ruthless, dismissed the Ziwei Guards, and reunited with Yan Ruyu.
• Ruthless told Ren she was ready to begin her reincarnation and re-cultivation, and he formed the Zhu Xian Sword Formation around her.
• Ruthless turned her vitality into Death Flame, intending to leave behind a pure Divine Embryo for reincarnation.
• Ren used Ruthless’s vitality to intensify the Emperor Flame and repair the Four Zhu Xian Swords and Zhu Xian Formation Diagram.
• Ruthless directed Ren to add the Eight Sceneries Palace Lamp and Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner to the flames, and Ren fused the banner’s energy into the formation diagram.

Ruthless sacrificed her body and cultivation to refine Ren’s Zhu Xian swords and related treasures, then emerged as a child to rebuild her strength. She and Ren entered seclusion, with Ren planning to return to the Shrouding the Heavens World to temper his Dao heart before pursuing his cultivation.

• Ruthless used Emperor Flame to consume the Eight-Scenery Palace Lamp and fuse it, the Zhu Xian Formation Diagrams, and the Central Wuxing Apricot Yellow Banner with Ren’s weapons and treasures.
• Ruthless performed Ultimate Sublimation, turning her body into energy that refined the swords and left behind a life-filled divine embryo.
• Ruthless asked Ren to marry her after she rebuilt her cultivation, and Ren promised to marry her atop the Primordial World.
• A little girl emerged from Ruthless’s divine embryo and told Ren she was Ruthless, shedding her old body to erase her cultivation and cultivate anew.
• Ren told Ruthless he would return to the Shrouding the Heavens World to temper his heart, and Ruthless advised him to cultivate the Dream-Entering Divine Ability.
• Ruthless entered seclusion in Ziwei Hall, and Ren began cultivating there as well.

Ren prepared for future wars by restoring the Immortalization Pool with the Eight-Treasure Merit Pool, then cultivated for two years before returning to the Trash Station. He entered the Shrouding the Heavens World again, hoping Ye Fan and the others had grown strong enough.

• Ren visited the Immortalization Pool and gave Xian Yao the Eight-Treasure Merit Pool to devour, asking her to seek the Human Pool and prepare Star Bodies.
• Ren ordered Yao Chen to follow the original plan, then returned to Ziwei Palace to cultivate the Dream-Entering Divine Ability.
• Ren spent two years in the Time Formation refining the Emperor Flame, mastering the divine ability, and repairing and strengthening the Zhu Xian Sword Formation.
• Ren left the Primordial World through the Spacetime Tunnel, and Ruthless sensed his departure while Wendao concluded that his true self had gone to another world.
• Ren returned to the Trash Station and entered the tunnel to the Shrouding the Heavens World, wondering whether Ye Fan and the others had matured.

Ren emerged from a Spacetime Storm onto a Five-Colored Altar and discovered that the young girl waiting there was Xiao Nannan, the future Ruthless Emperor in childhood. He tried to take her to eat and get cleaned up, but she insisted on staying by the altar to wait for her brother.

• Ren was injured by a Spacetime Storm while traveling through the Spacetime Tunnel and emerged from the Five-Colored Altar.
• Xiao Nannan mistook Ren for her brother and cried when she realized he was someone else.
• Ren recognized Xiao Nannan as Ruthless Emperor’s younger self, comforted her, and wiped the dirt from her face.
• Ren offered to take Xiao Nannan to find food and get cleaned up, but she refused to leave the altar because she was waiting for her brother to return.
• Ren remembered how the Yuhua Divine Dynasty had taken Xiao Nannan’s brother away despite her protests.

Ren sheltered Xiao Nannan after her brother vanished, gave her a home and encouraged her to develop through reading rather than changing her poor aptitude. A year later, she still waited for her brother, unaware that Ren had learned he was already dead.

• Ren built palaces, created attendants from Spirit Fruits, and arranged for them to care for Xiao Nannan.
• Ren reassured Xiao Nannan that her poor aptitude did not limit her potential and promised to teach her if she wanted to cultivate.
• Ren stocked a Scripture Pavilion with texts from Shrouding the Heavens and encouraged Xiao Nannan to read and interpret them herself.
• After a year, Xiao Nannan had grown healthier and developed a mysterious Dao Rhyme, though she still watched the Five-Colored Altar for her brother.
• Xiao Nannan asked Ren when her brother would return, and Ren comforted her while concealing that he had discovered the boy had died before Ren arrived.

Ren learned that Xiao Nannan’s brother, Ye Qing, had died after being sacrificed to repair the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, but he kept the truth from her until the Yuhua Divine Dynasty returned with Ye Qing’s corpse. Xiao Nannan ran toward her brother, and Ren’s power began turning the people who blocked her and tried to stop her into ash.

• Ren divined that Ye Qing had died after being sacrificed for the Immortal Embryo, but he did not tell Xiao Nannan.
• Xiao Nannan spent the next two years reading Emperor Scriptures while Ren watched over her near the Five-Colored Altar.
• Ren sensed that people were about to emerge from the altar, and a group of Daoist-robed visitors arrived.
• The visitors’ leader recognized Xiao Nannan and told her that her brother Ye Qing was dead, then revealed his corpse.
• Xiao Nannan tried to reach Ye Qing, but the visitors blocked her and began turning to ash as Ren’s power took effect.

After Ye Qing died, Xiao Nannan's despair awakened a terrifying power that killed the men who threatened her. Ren comforted her, promised to stay by her side forever, and recognized the cultivation method Ye Qing left as the first step toward Xiao Nannan's future rise as the Ruthless Emperor.

• The men attacked Xiao Nannan, but flames engulfed them and killed a Dragon Transformation Secret Realm cultivator.
• Xiao Nannan asked Ren to revive Ye Qing, and Ren explained that his body, soul, and True Spirit were gone.
• Xiao Nannan begged Ren not to die, and he promised that nothing, not even Heaven or the Time River, could end his existence.
• The leader returned Ye Qing's belongings, including Divine Sources, clothes, books, and the Origin Devouring Art.
• Ren recognized the Origin Devouring Art as a precursor to the Heaven Devouring Demon Art and understood that it would begin Xiao Nannan's path toward becoming the Ruthless Emperor.

Ren used Ye Qing’s death to spur Xiao Nannan toward cultivation, then destroyed the Feathered Emperor’s men and refined Ye Qing’s restored Sacred Body Origin into a seed. Xiao Nannan was left unconscious, while Ren sent the surviving messenger back to the Yuhua Divine Dynasty with a challenge.

• The leader revealed that the Feathered Emperor’s son wanted Ye Qing’s remains to refine his Sacred Body Origin, filling Xiao Nannan with hatred.
• Ren burned the leader’s companions to ash and ordered the surviving leader to carry a warning to the Feathered Emperor.
• Xiao Nannan fainted from grief, and Ren sent her with the maidservants to rest.
• Ren restored Ye Qing’s body with Three Lights Divine Water, then burned it and extracted a golden pearl containing the Sacred Body Origin.
• Ren scattered Ye Qing’s ashes, leaving Xiao Nannan’s grief and hatred to become the impetus for her cultivation.

Ren encouraged Xiao Nannan to reshape the Origin Devouring Art into a cultivation method of her own, while Prince Zishou learned that Ren had taken the Sacred Body’s remains and prepared to confront him. Ren remained unaware of the prince’s plans as he gathered information about the Yuhua Divine Dynasty.

• Xiao Nannan sensed the Emperor Scriptures held profound cultivation principles and asked Ren why they lacked a specific method.
• Ren told Xiao Nannan to create a path suited to herself, and she resolved to forge her own method and crush the wicked people.
• Yu Lin reported to Prince Zishou that a mysterious man had taken the Sacred Body’s remains and claimed he could never die.
• Prince Zishou ordered his teacher to prepare for a confrontation so he could obtain the Sacred Body’s origin and become powerful enough to rival a Great Emperor.
• Ren reviewed records about the Yuhua Divine Dynasty and rewarded a village elder, asking him to investigate Purple Mountain and a fat grave robber.

Ren studied the Yuhua Divine Dynasty and considered Zi Shou a possible opponent to spur Xiao Nannan’s growth. His gaze awakened the sealed Supremes, who discussed the Immortal Heavenly Emperor, before Ren turned his attention to Purple Mountain and a stone egg.

• Ren read records about the Yuhua Divine Dynasty and noticed parallels between its origins and the Shang Dynasty.
• Ren decided Zi Shou could serve as a whetstone for Xiao Nannan and planned to usher in a Golden Age.
• Ren’s gaze crossed the Starry Sky and awakened Supremes hidden in forbidden lands.
• The Supremes compared what they knew about the Immortal Heavenly Emperor and concluded that he was still alive.
• Ren looked into Purple Mountain and saw the Creation Source Eye and a stone egg containing the Immortal Heavenly Emperor’s eldest son.

Ren observed powerful beings across the Big Dipper, provoking the Feathered Emperor and Forbidden Zone Supremes, while Xiao Nannan continued improving her cultivation and Origin Devouring Art. Prince Zi Shou arrived at Ren’s palace complex with Yu Lin and a Great Saint, intending to meet its master despite sensing danger.

• Ren’s gaze disturbed the starry sky, and the Feathered Emperor challenged the unseen observer before returning to seclusion.
• Xiao Nannan revised the Origin Devouring Art, cultivated her Sea of Bitterness, and sensed an unpleasant presence approaching.
• Prince Zi Shou arrived in a golden chariot pulled by nine Golden Crows, accompanied by Yu Lin and a Great Saint.
• Yu Lin identified the palace complex as the home of the mysterious person who had seized the Sacred Body.
• After the Great Saint sensed danger but no killing intent, Zi Shou ordered the group to enter and meet the master.

Ren destroyed the nine Golden Crows that Zi Shou brought to the palace complex and received Zi Shou and his elder in his hidden garden. Zi Shou saw the treasures there and learned how dangerous Ren was, leaving him to apologize respectfully.

• Ren used his gaze to set the nine Golden Crows ablaze, and they burned down to nine drops of blood essence.
• Ren summoned Zi Shou and the old man into the palace complex, while Yu Lin turned to ash after delivering them there.
• Zi Shou and the old man were astonished by Ren's garden, which contained Ginseng Dolls, transformed medicinal plants, and the Divine Dragon Immortal Medicine.
• The old man greeted Ren, but Ren drained a thousand years of his lifespan for staring at him.
• Zi Shou introduced himself as the Feathered Emperor's seventh son and apologized for entering Ren's domain uninvited.

Ren examined Zi Shou’s secret technique and gave him a Great Sun Body made from refined Golden Crow essence blood. He sent Zi Shou and his attendant away, while Xiao Nannan was left with the technique and new reason to hate Zi Shou.

• Zi Shou explained that he wanted the Sacred Body to create an Acquired Sacred Body, and Ren asked to inspect his secret technique.
• Ren recognized that the technique might have inspired the Heaven Devouring Demon Art and guessed that Zi Shou had once used it to devour Xiao Nannan’s brother’s bones.
• Xiao Nannan showed killing intent toward Zi Shou, and Ren kept the secret technique before offering Zi Shou a special physique in return.
• Ren refined the Golden Crow essence blood into a Great Sun Body for Zi Shou, burning away his cultivation while transforming his body.
• Ren sent Zi Shou and the old man ten thousand miles away; Zi Shou planned to rebuild his cultivation and asked the old man to keep Ren’s existence from his father.

Ren trained Xiao Nannan to face the harshness of the world and prepare to avenge her brother, while she developed her own cultivation method. Years later, Xiao Nannan chose to leave Ren’s protection and temper herself through hardship and slaughter.

• Ren explained to Xiao Nannan that Zi Shou was being prepared as her opponent and that the Yuhua Divine Dynasty was ultimately responsible for her brother’s death.
• Ren gave Xiao Nannan secret arts, and she studied them to create her own cultivation method.
• Ren concealed their home with a formation and spent years contemplating his cultivation while Xiao Nannan grew up and studied Emperor Scriptures and biographies.
• Xiao Nannan repeatedly abolished and rebuilt her cultivation, reaching the Sea of Reincarnation realm nine times and developing a vast Sea of Reincarnation with many Visions.
• Xiao Nannan told Ren she planned to leave and face the outside world, explaining that she needed hardship and slaughter to perfect her method and Sea of Bitterness.

Ren sent Xiao Nannan out to face danger and grow, while secretly arranging protection and an Age of Great Strife to test her. He ordered his followers to create more powerful Heaven's Prides and began experimenting with Primordial World blood to produce special constitutions and investigate ways to create Human-Witches.

• Ren encouraged Xiao Nannan to cultivate her Sea of Bitterness a tenth time and refine her offensive techniques before leaving to test herself.
• Xiao Nannan left the palace, renamed herself Ruthless, and vowed to grow strong before returning to Ren.
• Ren told his followers to protect Ruthless secretly without interfering unless an older cultivator threatened her, and learned that their preparations had sparked an Age of Great Strife.
• Ren ordered the followers to create more Heaven's Prides with unbreakable resolve and seek peerless youths with special constitutions to challenge Ruthless.
• Ren gave the followers refined blood essences from the Shura Race and other creatures, directing them to test whether the blood could transform human constitutions and help create Human-Witches.

Ren ordered his subordinates to conduct blood-fusion experiments and continue searching for Duan De, then left to visit Purple Mountain. He reached the mountain and found it far more prosperous and powerful than in later generations.

• Ren gave the man in black Wu Clan blood and ordered him to choose subjects carefully, record each fusion, and watch over those who survived.
• The men in black reported that they had found no sign of Duan De, and Ren told them to keep searching and cultivate geniuses across multiple starfields.
• Ren left his residence to seek insight into Benevolent Thought and Obsessive Thought, then traveled toward the Northern Region.
• Ren arrived at Purple Mountain and observed that its Dragon Veins and formation patterns were more vibrant than in later generations.

Ren entered Purple Mountain and sought the Heavenly Emperor's Son, intending to make him a future trial for Xiao Nannan. The Beginningless Emperor Bell then revealed that Emperor Wu Shi's mother had been born in this era and recounted her repeated attempts to become a Great Emperor, ending with her preparing for an eighth return to the contest.

• Ren slipped through Purple Mountain's Killing Array and reached its interior, where Divine Source sealed members of the Primordial King Race and various treasures.
• Ren asked the Beginningless Emperor Bell to locate the Heavenly Emperor's Son and said he wanted to release him early as a whetstone for Xiao Nannan.
• The Beginningless Emperor Bell worried that Ren's interference with the past might alter the future, while Ren assured it he would not erase Emperor Wu Shi.
• The Beginningless Emperor Bell explained that Emperor Wu Shi's mother had shared an era with Ruthless Emperor, repeatedly sealing herself away and restarting her cultivation after losing the Great Emperor's contest.
• The Beginningless Emperor Bell recounted that Emperor Wu Shi's mother had reached the Great Saint and Quasi-Emperor realms across later attempts, narrowly missing the throne before beginning another sealed period of cultivation.

Ren learned that Emperor Wu Shi had searched the Starry Sky for his unknown father, then entered Purple Mountain to protect the Heavenly Emperor’s Son. He left the eight Primordial King guardians confronting him and killed one with a glance.

• The Beginningless Emperor Bell told Ren that the Great Accomplished Sacred Body had been a puppet, not Emperor Wu Shi’s father, and that Emperor Wu Shi had searched for his father across the Starry Sky.
• Ren asked what the Western Empress looked like so he could arrange secret protection, then explained that fate could persist despite changes to the past.
• Ren entered Purple Mountain and found the Creation Spring Eye, where the Heavenly Emperor’s Son lay sealed in a stone egg guarded by eight Primordial Kings.
• The eight Primordial Kings woke and attacked when Ren reached for the stone egg.
• Ren killed a Saint King by piercing his head with Sword Aura from his eyes, leaving the other kings horrified.

Ren destroyed the Immortal Heavenly Emperor's guards and Killing Array, then confronted the Immortal Heavenly Emperor when he emerged to stop Ren from taking the sentient stone egg. Ren burned the Emperor's attacks and entered the passage through his injured arm to pursue him.

• The Primordial King Race guards activated the Killing Array against Ren, but his Qingfeng swept away the formation and killed the Quasi-Emperor and Great Saints.
• Ren approached the sentient stone egg at the Creation Spring Eye and reached out to capture it.
• The Immortal Heavenly Emperor tore open the void, formed the Immortal Heavenly Saber, and attacked Ren.
• Ren shattered the saber with a punch and declared himself an eternal immortal, shocking the Immortal Heavenly Emperor.
• Ren used Emperor Flame to burn the Immortal Heavenly Emperor's attack and set his aged arm ablaze.
• Ren tore open space along the Immortal Heavenly Emperor's arm and stepped into the passage to pursue him.

Ren refined a Death Qi-filled planet into a Life-and-Death Pearl, then returned to Purple Mountain and questioned the Emperor Bell about the Heavenly Emperor’s Son and other descendants of the Primordial King Race. The chapter left Ren examining Purple Mountain while holding the frightened stone egg, which he promised to release into the current era.

• Ren found that the Immortal Heavenly Emperor had severed his arm to escape Ren’s Emperor Flame, and chose not to pursue him.
• Ren refined the planet of death into a Life-and-Death Pearl and decided he would give it to Ruthless someday.
• The wounded Immortal Heavenly Emperor lamented his defeat, vowed to undergo Nirvana, and turned his attention toward the Big Dipper.
• Ren returned to Purple Mountain, stopped the stone egg from escaping, and asked the Emperor Bell about descendants of the Primordial King Race.
• The Emperor Bell explained that the Immortal Heavenly Emperor had secretly protected his son from Ruthless, and Ren promised the Heavenly Emperor’s Son he would release him to contend for the Imperial Position.