Chapter Summaries

Ren swept through Purple Mountain, killed the dormant followers of the Immortal Heavenly Emperor, and sent their sealed children and the Heavenly Emperor’s Son into the wider world to grow. After plundering the mountain’s treasures, he considered searching for more sites, but Xiao Nannan’s absence left him feeling unsettled.

• Ren killed the dormant followers of the Immortal Heavenly Emperor and found children of the Primordial King Race sealed in Divine Source.
• Ren released the sealed children across the Big Dipper and Starry Sky so they could grow into Heaven’s Prides, despite the Beginningless Emperor Bell’s warnings about the chaos they might cause.
• Ren infused the Heavenly Emperor’s Son’s stone egg with Three Lights Divine Water, erased his memories, and sent him away to hatch in the current era.
• Ren sent away the remaining children, then killed the other dormant followers and gathered Purple Mountain’s resources.
• Ren asked the Beginningless Emperor Bell about other treasure sites, then admitted that Xiao Nannan’s departure had left him feeling something was missing.

The Wushi Emperor Bell told Ren that relics from the Chaotic Ancient Era might hold value and explained that the Shrouding the Heavens World was a broken fragment of the Immortal Domain. Ren went with the Bell to God City, where he began to understand Benevolent Thought and noticed the Feathered Emperor gathering faith through a sacred feather.

• The Wushi Emperor Bell revealed that it knew of Chaotic Ancient Era relics and believed Ren could preserve and study them.
• The Wushi Emperor Bell described how the world had been shattered in ancient battles and trapped its people, leaving Ren to comfort it and agree to seek the relics.
• The Wushi Emperor Bell led Ren from Purple Mountain toward God City, where it expected a local story to offer him a gain.
• Ren walked through God City, observed the Human Race's happiness, and began to understand Benevolent Thought through the people around him.
• Ren saw a five-colored feather in the city and recognized that the Feathered Emperor was gathering worship and faith while cultivating.

Ren followed the Wushi Emperor Bell to Tianxuan’s Heavenly Jade Stone Workshop, where he learned about the sect’s unusual unity and its slow, adaptable cultivation method. The bell revealed that a Chaotic Ancient Era treasure had once been hidden in a sword-shaped Source Stone, but Ren could not find it among the stones.

• Ren considered the Feathered Emperor’s incarnation technique and compared its offerings and protection of humanity to the Sacrificial Spirit Dao.
• The Wushi Emperor Bell directed Ren to Tianxuan’s Heavenly Jade Stone Workshop and described the sect’s spirit of unity and its adaptable foundational cultivation method.
• Ren entered the workshop and found only ordinary-looking Source Stones, then questioned whether the Wushi Emperor Bell had mistaken the timing of the opportunity.
• The Wushi Emperor Bell recounted how a sword-shaped Source Stone had once contained a damaged leaf whose Sword Dao inspired the rise of the Great Xia Dynasty.
• Ren recognized the leaf as a fragment of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and searched the workshop for its sword-shaped Source Stone, but found none.

Ren discovered a remnant of a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass inside a sword-shaped stone and bought it, hoping to restore the Grass-Character Sword Art and revive the ancient creature. Before leaving, he gave the Tianxuan disciples personalized Dao insights, and they resolved to honor him.

• Ren recognized the sword-shaped stone at the Heavenly Jade Stone Workshop as containing a damaged remnant of a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass.
• Ren explained the Grass-Character Sword Art’s significance and decided his Creation Water might restore the remnant or revive the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass.
• Ren bought the stone after the Tianxuan disciple let him choose a fair price.
• Ren used Dao Rhyme to give the Tianxuan disciples insights suited to their individual convictions and abilities.
• The disciples awoke with profound new understanding, but Ren had already left, so they knelt and thanked him.

Ren used Three Lights Divine Water to revive the fragmentary Nine-Leaf Sword Grass leaf and gained insight into its Grass-Character Sword Art. After learning of the grass’s final battle and survival in the leaf, he said it was time for Nirvana.

• Ren sealed off an ancient courtyard in God City and used Sword Aura to expose the fragmentary leaf inside Divine Source.
• Ren reassured the Wushi Emperor Bell that he would not disrupt the future, then applied Three Lights Divine Water to the leaf.
• The leaf regained its vitality, grew tender shoots, and released increasingly sharp Sword Intent.
• Ren entered enlightenment and witnessed the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass battling foreign races before dying and sending its remaining vitality away in a leaf.
• Ren emerged from enlightenment, recognized the Grass-Character Sword Art’s power, and said the leaf was ready for Nirvana.

Ren cultivated the Grass-Character Sword Art for over half a year, then explored God City and heard from the Beginningless Emperor Bell that the Great Xia Dynasty's ancestor was nearby. He entered an inn to investigate, where a waiter came to take his order.

• Ren explained that the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass seed could produce up to nine offspring if given enough vitality, then put the seed away.
• Ren asked the Beginningless Emperor Bell to guard the area while he studied the Grass-Character Sword Art in seclusion.
• Ren tempered his body with Sword Aura and emerged from seclusion after more than half a year.
• Ren left the courtyard and wandered through God City, sensing that his Benevolent Thought had grown stronger.
• The Beginningless Emperor Bell recognized someone at an inn as the ancestor of the Great Xia Dynasty, and Ren went inside to look for him.
• A waiter approached Ren and asked what he wanted to order.

Ren discovered that a seemingly ordinary waiter had unknowingly mastered the swordsmanship hidden in a shop sign and was destined to found the Great Xia Dynasty. Ren decided to nurture the waiter as a future Sword Dao genius and potential obstacle for Ruthless, while Wushi Emperor Bell reflected on how fate might unfold.

• Wushi Emperor Bell identified the waiter as the future ancestor of the Great Xia Dynasty, and Ren noticed that the man appeared to have no cultivation aptitude.
• Ren spotted swordsmanship in the waiter's practiced movements as he wiped the table, but the waiter said he had only copied characters from a signboard for fun.
• Ren deciphered the signboard's layered sword arts and realized the illiterate waiter had unknowingly fulfilled several rare conditions for inheriting its cultivation method.
• Ren let the disappointed waiter leave, then told Wushi Emperor Bell that the man's comprehension could overcome his poor aptitude.
• Ren replaced the inn's tea with Reincarnation Enlightenment Tea and said he would give the waiter opportunities, partly to make him a worthy challenge for Ruthless.

Ren learned how the Heavenly Prodigy Rankings had sparked battles among Heaven's Prides across the Central Plains and Southern Region. The waiter ended by recounting Ruthless's rise and her bloody fight with the Netherfire Saintess, which left both women wounded and Ruthless fleeing into a Forbidden Zone.

• Ren asked the waiter about the Heavenly Prodigy Rankings, and the waiter explained that the list recorded the battles of exceptional Heaven's Prides under one hundred years old.
• The waiter described how Zi Shou defeated the Feathered Emperor's children and how Li Wu challenged him to a daylong draw, prompting the Feathered Emperor to promise not to avenge his children if they died fighting peers.
• The waiter recounted how Yin Lingtian drew with Zi Shou, while Yin Qianxun maimed the Feathered Emperor's second son and continued attacking despite the Emperor's decree.
• At the guests' prompting, the waiter described Southern Region Heaven's Prides Ji Haoyu, Netherflame, and Su Shishi and their formidable abilities.
• The waiter told how Ruthless fought the Worship Fire Sect, killed its pursuers, destroyed branch altars, and dragged Netherflame into her Four Extremes breakthrough tribulation.
• Ruthless reached the Four Extremes realm and gravely wounded Netherflame, but she was badly hurt too and fled into a Southern Region Forbidden Zone.

In God City, Ren learned that the Worship Fire Sect was destined to be destroyed by the Saint Spirit it raised, while its current pursuit of Xiao Nannan risked bringing Ruthless Emperor’s wrath upon it. After Ren left his tea behind, the inn’s waiter discovered his Reincarnation Enlightenment Tea and Three Lights Divine Water and drank the water, which began transforming his body.

• Ren learned from the Beginningless Emperor Bell that the Worship Fire Sect would become a Holy Land, raise a Saint Spirit that destroyed it, and later be annihilated by Ruthless Emperor.
• Ren asked why the Southern Region had city lords, and the Beginningless Emperor Bell explained that cities were predecessors of later sects and Holy Lands.
• Customers discussed the many Heaven's Prides emerging during the Feathered Emperor’s reign, while the waiter envied their talent.
• After Ren disappeared, the waiter collected his leftover tea and discovered that its leaf and water were extraordinary treasures.
• The waiter drank the Three Lights Divine Water, and its vitality began to wash through his body, causing him pain.

Ren's followers reported the results of experiments fusing special blood into test subjects, and Ren ordered them to continue on a vastly larger scale across multiple planets. He left them with enormous stores of blood and flesh and coordinates for worlds along the Starry Sky Ancient Road.

• Ren's agents said only one in a hundred subjects fused successfully with Divine Beast blood, while Wu Clan Blood succeeded only once in ten thousand attempts.
• Ren reviewed the jade slip records and ordered the agents to keep testing Wu Clan Blood so the Creation Jade Butterfly could study a fusion method.
• Ren gave the agents two cauldrons containing hundreds of millions of portions of blood and special flesh, and told them ordinary people and special races could serve as test subjects.
• The agents warned that the experiments could cause hundreds of millions of deaths and attract the Feathered Emperor's attention.
• Ren dismissed the warning, supplied teleportation jade platforms with coordinates across the Starry Sky Ancient Road, and ordered the agents to cultivate Heaven's Pride on other planets as well.

Ren learned about Xiao Nannan’s growing power and the scheme behind the fabricated Emperor Ruins, then set out with the Beginningless Emperor Bell to investigate a grave robber who might be Duan De and visit the Sacred Water Sect, predecessor of the Jade Pool Holy Land. The Bell hoped the journey might help resolve Emperor Wu Shi’s regrets by letting it see his mother.

• The man in black reported that Xiao Nannan had developed a Demon Art, formed the beginnings of a Chaos Body by devouring her opponents, and drawn a coalition of Heaven’s Pride toward a Prodigy Banquet hosted by Zi Shou.
• Ren discovered that his subordinates had fabricated Emperor Ruins to attract Heaven’s Pride, and rewarded the man in black with resources and a special path toward attaining the Dao.
• The man in black told Ren that a fat, shameless grave robber had emptied graves in the Sacred Water Sect’s Forbidden Zone, prompting the Beginningless Emperor Bell to identify the sect as the Jade Pool Holy Land’s predecessor.
• Ren agreed to take the Bell to the Sacred Water Sect to seek Emperor Wu Shi’s mother and check whether the grave robber was Duan De, then vanished from God City.

Ren reached the Sacred Water Sect while searching for Duan De and finally encountered the shameless grave robber, who had been chased there by an Innate Dao Embryo woman. After Ren stopped Duan De from fleeing and helped him withstand her attack, the two were reunited, though Duan De immediately tried to enlist him in robbing tombs.

• Ren arrived at the Sacred Water Sect and searched for Duan De using his Double Pupils.
• Duan De fled toward Ren while a woman pursued him for robbing graves and stripping the corpses of their clothes.
• Duan De tried to escape and recruit Ren to help rob tombs, but Ren recognized him and restrained him.
• The woman attacked Duan De with a Dao Diagram, but its force did not harm his Emperor body and instead shredded his clothes.
• Ren gave Duan De a Daoist robe, and Duan De put it on before asking Ren for more robes.

Ren stopped Zi Xuan from attacking Duan De, then had the Wushi Emperor Bell punish him and demand compensation for the Sacred Water Sect. Duan De asked what Ren knew about his lost memories, but Ren told him to follow his instincts, and the Emperor Bell caught him trying to flee.

• Ren explained that Zi Xuan could not harm Duan De and asked how much damage he had caused the Sacred Water Sect.
• Ren sent the Wushi Emperor Bell to beat Duan De, and Zi Xuan realized it was a Great Emperor's weapon.
• Ren learned Zi Xuan's name and stopped the Emperor Bell after it had battered Duan De.
• Duan De asked Ren what he knew about his lost memories, and Ren advised him to follow his heart until he reached the right level.
• Duan De tried to escape, but the Wushi Emperor Bell demanded compensation and eyed the unfinished Dao Diagram inside him.

Ren settled Zi Xuan’s dispute with Duan De by having him give her a valuable Dao Diagram, then stayed near the Sacred Water Sect while helping Duan De begin the process of cultivating anew. The chapter ended with Duan De wondering why Ren was circling the sect and the Wushi Emperor Bell worrying that Ren had taken an interest in Zi Xuan.

• Duan De gave Zi Xuan an Enlightenment Tea Tree bark Dao Diagram as compensation, and Ren told her the Sacred Water Sect should drop its pursuit of him.
• Zi Xuan returned to her sect after inviting Ren to attend the Heaven's Pride Banquet in God City.
• Duan De asked Ren about his past and his need to cut away his body and treasures, but Ren refused to reveal details that might damage his Dao.
• Duan De demanded vast resources from Ren, so Ren ordered the Wushi Emperor Bell to beat him until his Emperor body was shattered.
• Duan De followed Ren as he circled the Sacred Water Sect, and the Wushi Emperor Bell worried that Ren had taken a fancy to Zi Xuan.

Ren realized that the Big Dipper’s five landmasses formed a colossal Five-Colored Altar, with the Sacred Water Sect at its center, and suspected that Wang Bo, the Mythological Era’s Innate Chaos Body, remained hidden there. He decided to find Wang Bo and bring him into the world early, leaving Duan De and the Beginningless Emperor Bell astonished.

• Ren showed Duan De and the Beginningless Emperor Bell a map of the Big Dipper, and the bell recognized its landmasses as a fragmented Five-Colored Altar.
• Duan De identified the Sacred Water Sect as the altar’s center, and Ren explained that the site’s gathered destiny would later help give rise to the Jade Pool Holy Land.
• Ren recalled the legend of Wang Bo, whose body had become part of the Five-Colored Altar while his Primordial Spirit survived in Immortal Source somewhere in the Big Dipper.
• Ren reasoned that Wang Bo might be hidden near the Sacred Water Sect and chose to find the Innate Chaos Body ahead of time.
• The Beginningless Emperor Bell and Duan De reacted with disbelief to Ren’s claim that Wang Bo was concealed there.

Ren sealed the Big Dipper with the All-Heaven Stars to stop Wang Bo, the Chaos Body, from teleporting away, then captured him and offered him a chance to follow. Wang Bo resisted the idea of becoming Ren’s subordinate but realized he had no way to refuse while trapped under the Star Seal.

• Ren used Star Lock to command the All-Heaven Stars to seal the Big Dipper, alarming its Supremes and the Feathered Emperor.
• Ren explained to Duan De that the Big Dipper was the Five-Colored Altar formed from the Chaos Body’s flesh, so sealing it would prevent Wang Bo from escaping by teleportation.
• Ren seized Wang Bo’s Immortal Source from the mountains and bound it with starlight.
• Wang Bo asked whether Ren was an immortal, and Ren claimed to be an immortal beyond the reach of heaven, earth, time, and calamity.
• Ren offered Wang Bo an opportunity to follow him, but Wang Bo asked if he could refuse.
• Ren told Wang Bo he was in no position to refuse, and Wang Bo realized that the Star Seal left his life in Ren’s hands.

Ren used the Sky Ranking to restore Wang Bo’s Primordial Spirit and help him rebuild his Chaos Body, then left with Wang Bo and Duan De before the area drew attention. The Feathered Emperor arrived afterward and found no trace of who had commanded the stars.

• Wang Bo carved his name into the Sky Ranking, and Ren ordered it to restore him and create a body for him.
• The Sky Ranking poured energy into Wang Bo, who recovered his Primordial Spirit and rebuilt his Chaos Body with help from the stars and Ren’s Spirit Fruits.
• Wang Bo asked how to address Ren, accepted the name Great Emperor, and grew calmer as he sensed the world connected to the Sky Ranking.
• Ren dispersed the stars and the Star Seal, then took Wang Bo and Duan De through the void to leave.
• The Feathered Emperor arrived after the Star Seal disappeared, questioned who had commanded the stars, and found no one there.

The Feathered Emperor reversed time to investigate the mysterious event that had controlled the stars and severed his connection to the Heavenly Dao. The vision suggested that the Nether Emperor and other powerful figures were involved, then revealed a battle that left the Feathered Emperor and the Supremes stunned.

• The Forbidden Zone Supremes promised the Feathered Emperor they would cause no upheaval while he lived if he used time reversal to investigate.
• The Feathered Emperor reversed time and saw three indistinct figures, one surrounded by Dao Rhyme resembling Reincarnation.
• The Feathered Emperor intensified his technique with his blood essence and saw a Chaos-hued golden scroll, but the central figure noticed him and looked toward the Forbidden Zones.
• The central figure stepped into the Time River, revealing a vision of a battle filled with Demon Qi, clashing Dao Rhyme, cries of battle, and Buddhist light.
• The Feathered Emperor and the Supremes wondered whether they had witnessed an immortal.

After the Feathered Emperor suffered a backlash from spying through the Time River, Ren returned to Purple Mountain with Wang Bo and his Chaos Body. Ren explained why the Feathered Emperor had been punished but left him alive as a future challenge for Ruthless, then freed Duan De and sent him to find his own cultivation resources.

• The Feathered Emperor and the Supremes glimpsed an immortal through the Time River, and the backlash badly injured them.
• Ren arrived at Purple Mountain with Wang Bo and his Chaos Body, while the Firmament Ledger complained about being spied on.
• Ren allowed Wang Bo to beat the Firmament Ledger for its boastful claims about protecting him.
• Ren explained that the Feathered Emperor had suffered the backlash for probing someone stronger, and that he had spared him to serve as Ruthless's future whetstone.
• Ren freed Duan De from star-forged chains, and Duan De pocketed the Stellar Essence and asked for more cultivation resources.
• Ren told Duan De to search Purple Mountain for resources himself.

Ren persuaded Wang Bo to abandon the Great Emperor position and follow him to a greater world, explaining the difficult paths to becoming a Red Dust Immortal. Meanwhile, the fallen stars transformed the Big Dipper, and a mysterious stone egg hatched in a Forbidden Zone, awakening powerful figures.

• Duan De recognized Purple Mountain as the tomb of an extraordinary Great Emperor, while Ren sealed the Sky Ranking and asked Wang Bo what he would do.
• Ren told Wang Bo that Nannan was destined to become the Great Emperor of this age and described several Red Dust Immortals’ arduous paths to immortality.
• Wang Bo chose to follow Ren to the greater world, took resources from Purple Mountain, and began cultivating.
• Starlight spread across the Big Dipper, helping tens of millions of people begin cultivating and drawing out Demon Race geniuses and slumbering Primordial King Races.
• A radiant stone egg in a Forbidden Zone cracked open, released Phoenix-shaped immortal aura, and sent ripples that awakened powerful figures across the Big Dipper.