Recaps

Li Ming reunited with Snow Lotus Fairy, who had become the Azure Emperor after consuming the Chaos Green Lotus, and learned how she and Xiao Yao had borne him three children. She explained her path to Emperor Enlightenment and her encounters with the Undying Heavenly Emperor, leaving Li Ming reunited with his family and guiding her cultivation on Kunlun.

• Li Ming found Snow Lotus Fairy in the Immortal Ascension Pool and learned that she had achieved Emperor Enlightenment as the Azure Emperor by consuming the Chaos Green Lotus.
• Snow Lotus Fairy told Li Ming that she had given birth to a son and a daughter, while Xiao Yao had given birth to another son, and that all three children were sealed inside the Bronze Immortal Hall.
• Li Ming inspected the children, confirmed they were his, and embraced Snow Lotus Fairy after learning that their descendants had founded the Kunlun and Tianshan Immortal Races.
• Snow Lotus Fairy described her long Second Lifetime, her lotus-seed transformation method, and how the Heavenly Demonic Saber had driven away the Undying Heavenly Emperor when he attacked her and Xiao Yao.
• Li Ming reunited with Snow Lotus Fairy on Kunlun and began guiding her cultivation.

Li Ming visited Xiao Yao’s transformed Sacred Spirit Stone Embryo and learned that Snow Lotus Fairy had gained the Desolate Pagoda’s guidance. A century later, six escaped Sacred Spirits destroyed Primordial Emperor Ancient Star, but Li Ming killed them and restored the planet, leaving its lost inhabitants impossible to revive.

• Snow Lotus Fairy led Li Ming to Xiao Yao, who had successfully transformed into a Sacred Spirit Stone Embryo beneath Kunlun Mountain.
• The Desolate Pagoda appeared, and its Weapon Deity revealed that it had guided Snow Lotus Fairy in her cultivation and her attempt to evolve an Immortal Domain.
• The Desolate Pagoda’s Weapon Deity refused Li Ming’s offer to undergo Nirvana as a human, choosing instead to remain a weapon and await the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• A hundred years later, a trapped Sacred Spirit escaped at Primordial Lake and slaughtered the inhabitants of Primordial Emperor Ancient Star before five more Sacred Spirits joined it.
• Li Ming seized the six Sacred Spirits, extracted their Primordial Spirits, and reshaped their bodies into Primordial Emperor Ancient Star, though he could not restore the dead.

Li Ming discovered that a Primordial Lake descendant had secretly weakened the seals beneath the Primordial Emperor Ancient Star, allowing Perfected Sacred Spirits to escape and destroy the planet. After revealing the cause to the surviving tenth-generation descendant, Li Ming began destroying similar seals along the Ancient Starry Sky Road and found a powerful scripture.

• Li Ming restored the Primordial Emperor Ancient Star and divined that escaped Perfected Sacred Spirits had devoured every living being there.
• A white-haired tenth-generation descendant of the Primordial Emperor asked Li Ming to discover how the Sacred Spirits had escaped.
• Li Ming traced the disaster to a mediocre Primordial Lake descendant who had secretly opened a seal to steal Sacred Spirit blood energy and immortal liquid for cultivation.
• Li Ming told the old Quasi-Emperor to gather surviving humans and restore the planet, then left to destroy the other sealed Perfected Sacred Spirits.
• An imprint of Daode Tianzun recognized Li Ming and willingly abandoned its seal as Li Ming entered and destroyed the imprisoned Sacred Spirits.
• Li Ming found a stone scripture called the Heaven-Mending Scripture, while people on nearby planets recognized his aura and praised him.

Li Ming discovered the complete Heavenly Mending Art, dissolved the imprisoned Sacred Spirits, and created his own Heaven-Mending Scripture. After sensing danger to a distant descendant, he found Li Ling and uncovered a Buddhist Quasi-Emperor’s attempt to convert him, leaving Li Ming ready to confront the monk.

• Li Ming retrieved the complete Heavenly Mending Art from the Sacred Spirits on Great Moon Slope, studied it, and dissolved them into the Dao before destroying their prison.
• Li Ming returned to Kunlun Mountain, watched the Lotus Fairy become a Lotus Seed, and refined the Heavenly Mending Art into his own Heaven-Mending Scripture.
• Li Ming sensed that a descendant was in danger and traveled to a remote temple, where he met his nineteenth-generation descendant, Li Ling.
• Li Ming used a secret art to reconstruct the past and discovered that Dharma Master Ming King, a Buddhist Quasi-Emperor, had tried to convert Li Ling without his knowledge.
• Li Ling remembered being entranced by the monk’s Buddhist scripture, and Li Ming angrily denounced the Buddhist Sect for targeting his descendant.

Li Ming uncovered Peacock King’s attempt to convert Li Ling and brought his descendant to Spirit Mountain, where he revealed the Bodhi Tree. The chapter left Li Ling poised to cultivate with the Buddhist Sect while Li Ming assured Peacock King that he would not take the sacred Immortal Medicine.

• Peacock King tried to brand Li Ling with a Buddhist symbol, but Emperor Runes from Li Ling and the Immortal Matriarch forced him to flee to Spirit Mountain.
• Li Ming recovered a feather from Peacock King and took Li Ling to Spirit Mountain, where Li Ling crossed the Bitter Sea with ease.
• Peacock King met Li Ming and Li Ling, apologized for trying to convert Li Ling, and urged him to join the Buddhist Sect as its first Buddha Emperor.
• Li Ming revealed the Bodhi Tree, and Peacock King recognized the lost Immortal Medicine as a supreme treasure of the Buddhist Sect.
• Li Ming told Peacock King he had known the Bodhi Tree’s value since the End of the Mythology Era and had chosen not to take it.

Li Ming discovered Spirit Mountain’s hidden Bodhi Tree and Eight Treasures Merit Pool, then rebuked the Peacock Monk for forcibly converting others and taught him a more accepting understanding of Buddhism. Li Ling chose to study Buddhism there, and the pool awakened the mysteries of his Divine Marked Purple Gold Pagoda, marking him as a possible future Buddha Emperor.

• Li Ming learned that the White-Browed Monk had sealed the Bodhi Tree and left the Peacock Monk to carry on the Buddhist Sect’s legacy.
• Li Ming condemned the Peacock Monk’s forced conversions, explained that people should choose Buddhism freely, and taught him Buddhist principles.
• Li Ling decided to cultivate on Spirit Mountain for a while and promised the Peacock Monk that he would not force others to join the Buddhist Sect.
• Li Ming led Li Ling and the Peacock Monk through Spirit Mountain, gave Li Ling a Divine Marked Purple Gold Pagoda, and discovered the Eight Treasures Merit Pool at the summit.
• Li Ling immersed the pagoda in the pool, awakening its divine metal mysteries and causing Buddhist visions and Grand Dao phenomena to appear around him.
• The Peacock Monk declared that Li Ling could become the Buddhist Sect’s first cultivator to attain enlightenment, while Li Ming considered his potential to become the first Buddha Emperor.

Li Ming found the Reincarnation Sea and discovered that Boundless Heavenly Venerable had been using five Dark Supremes to attempt a rebirth after Heaven’s One Blade nearly killed him. Boundless Heavenly Venerable survived but failed to begin a new lifetime, so he asked Li Ming to help him fuse with the Eternal Blue Gold Cauldron and become its Weapon Deity.

• Li Ming left Spirit Mountain, sensed the Reincarnation Sea in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, and entered it to investigate Boundless Heavenly Venerable’s lingering aura.
• Li Ming found five Dark Supremes sealed in immortal source; they awakened, and several offered scriptures and treasures in exchange for help escaping.
• Boundless Heavenly Venerable’s formations burned the five Dark Supremes and used their essence to fuel his return, but he remained too weak to live a new lifetime.
• Boundless Heavenly Venerable revealed the Eternal Blue Gold Cauldron, a companion treasure born during his failed Sacred Spirit transformation.
• Boundless Heavenly Venerable asked Li Ming to help him merge with the cauldron’s Weapon Deity, accepting the danger of losing himself inside the weapon.

Li Ming and Boundless Heavenly Venerable devised a way to save Boundless Heavenly Venerable by merging him with the Eternal Blue Gold Cauldron. Li Ming completed the dangerous fusion, and Boundless Heavenly Venerable emerged as the cauldron’s Weapon Deity, leaving Li Ming to joke that he owed him a great debt.

• Li Ming and Boundless Heavenly Venerable discussed the risks of the fusion, the Red Dust Immortal Path, and the possibility that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had been corrupted by Strange Substance.
• Li Ming carefully prepared the Eternal Blue Gold Cauldron and began the fusion by drawing out its former Weapon Deity.
• Boundless Heavenly Venerable chanted a scripture that helped his body and Primordial Spirit merge with the Eternal Blue Gold Cauldron.
• Li Ming confirmed that Boundless Heavenly Venerable had perfectly become the cauldron’s Weapon Deity, then placed the former Weapon Deity in a Bone Cauldron he forged from a Dark Supreme’s bones.
• Boundless Heavenly Venerable said he would have risked a final transformation or entered the Strange World without Li Ming’s help, and Li Ming joked that he owed him an enormous debt.

Li Ming taught Boundless Heavenly Venerable the Heaven-Mending Scripture, then accepted a Primordial Life Stone containing the dead Taichu and placed it in Undying Mountain in hopes that Taichu might revive. He later tempered his Heaven-Burying Coffin in the Chaos Sea, where it emerged with an aura that seemed identical to his own, and he continued forging it despite its destructive trials.

• Li Ming taught Boundless Heavenly Venerable the Heaven-Mending Scripture, giving him a new path to transform as a Sacred Spirit.
• Boundless Heavenly Venerable gave Li Ming a large Primordial Life Stone containing Taichu, whom he had found while baiting a spot in the Reincarnation Sea.
• Li Ming placed the Primordial Life Stone in the Immortal Tear Green Gold Mine Cave in Undying Mountain, hoping Taichu could undergo Nirvana and return to life.
• Li Ming tempered his Heaven-Burying Coffin in the Chaos Sea, drawing on its ancient Grand Dao Laws as the coffin repeatedly shattered and reformed.
• The Heaven-Burying Coffin emerged from a Great Dao Cocoon with an aura indistinguishable from Li Ming's, and he continued tempering it with ancient laws.

Li Ming finished forging the Heaven-Burying Coffin, choosing to let it grow alongside him rather than make it an immortal weapon. On his way to Beidou Star, he met the Netherworld Venerable, who explained his perilous reincarnation path and revealed that he was nearing another transformation.

• Li Ming tempered the Heaven-Burying Coffin with grand Dao laws, Dark Supremes’ remains, and rare materials until it was complete.
• Li Ming decided the Heaven-Burying Coffin would grow with him instead of becoming an immortal weapon, then set out for Beidou Star.
• A strand of the Netherworld Venerable’s divine consciousness intercepted Li Ming and led him to a hidden dragon vein on Heaven-Piercing Ancient Star.
• Li Ming found the Netherworld Venerable near death, with a vigorous body but a fading primordial spirit, and learned that he was about to undergo another transformation.
• The Netherworld Venerable explained that he had deliberately sought a strike from Heaven’s Will Blade to sever his past and described his ambition to unite nine lifetimes and nine Dao Fruits through reincarnation.

Li Ming met Netherworld Venerable, received Myriad Things Soil, and studied his deep understanding of reincarnation before leaving for Beidou Star. There he witnessed the Boundless Sacred Land summon the Boundless Heavenly Venerable’s Extreme Dao Weapon, giving the threatened sect a chance to resist the Primordial Imperial Clans.

• Netherworld Venerable told Li Ming about his pursuit of a higher realm and his suspicions that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had been corrupted.
• Netherworld Venerable gave Li Ming Myriad Things Soil and explained the Way of Reincarnation before burying himself in hiding.
• Li Ming traveled incognito to Beidou Star and observed the Boundless Sacred Land facing demands from several Primordial Imperial Clans.
• The Boundless Sacred Land’s disciples used the Boundless Heavenly Venerable’s bones to summon the Boundless Divine Cauldron, Li Ming’s Extreme Dao Weapon.
• The Boundless Sacred Land’s Great Saint used the cauldron to send three Saints and gifted disciples to the Heaven-Piercing Ancient Star, then prepared to fight.

Li Ming watched the Primordial Imperial Clans and their allies attack Boundless Sacred Land with five Extreme Dao Weapons, then secretly empowered the Boundless Divine Cauldron to defeat them. He claimed all five weapons as materials and annihilated the attackers, leaving Boundless Sacred Land saved.

• The Primordial Imperial Clans and their allies surrounded Boundless Sacred Land, slaughtered disciples, and suppressed Boundless Great Saint with five Extreme Dao Weapons.
• The Boundless Divine Cauldron broke free, struck the Myriad Dragon Bell, and swallowed the God Refining Pot as the Primordial Imperial Clans prepared to attack it.
• The cauldron took the form of Boundless Heavenly Venerable and repelled the Golden Mace, while Li Ming revealed himself to the Primordial Imperial Clan Great Saints.
• Li Ming seized the five Extreme Dao Weapons, crushed their Weapon Deities, and refined them into five kinds of Immortal Gold.
• Li Ming reached for the Primordial Imperial Clans and Primal Ten Evils, killing them and devouring their origins and essence blood.

Li Ming secretly destroyed five Primordial Imperial Clans’ Extreme Dao Weapons while the Boundless Divine Cauldron’s Weapon Deity took credit for suppressing them. As the Dao Gate and Jade Pure Sect arrived with the Mountains-and-Rivers Cauldron and Years Bell, the Weapon Deity defeated the clans’ six Quasi-Emperors and seized their remaining Ancient Emperor Array Patterns.

• Li Ming refined the five Extreme Dao Weapons into raw materials and extracted their Ancient Emperor Scriptures while the Boundless Sacred Land believed its Weapon Deity had subdued them.
• Five Quasi-Emperors attacked the Boundless Divine Cauldron, but the Mountains-and-Rivers Cauldron and Years Bell arrived with the Peak Great Saints of the Dao Gate and Jade Pure Sect.
• The Primordial Imperial Clans’ Quasi-Emperors tried to block the newcomers with Ancient Emperor Array Patterns, and the Boundless Divine Cauldron shattered two patterns with a single blow.
• The Sun-Moon Divine General joined the attack, but the Boundless Divine Cauldron sent all six Quasi-Emperors flying and tore away their remaining array patterns.

Li Ming’s intervention allowed the Boundless Sacred Land to repel the Primordial Imperial Clans and reshape Beidou Star’s balance of power. He then entered Purple Mountain, defeated the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s imprint, and found the Undying Heavenly Empress, who recognized him as the Demon Venerable and offered herself to him.

• The Boundless Divine Cauldron punished the invading Primordial Imperial Clans, reduced their Quasi-Emperors to Great Saints, devoured their Ultimate Dao weapons, and drove them into seclusion.
• The Boundless Divine Cauldron explained why it spared the imperial clans, then displayed its might across their territories and exterminated hostile Primordial Savage Clans.
• Li Ming traveled to Purple Mountain, subdued the Sun-Moon Divine General and the Ancestral Kings, and entered the mountain unopposed.
• Li Ming absorbed the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s imprint attacks, destroyed the imprint, plundered the mountain’s treasures, and left behind an imprint of his own.
• Li Ming entered the Phoenix Nest and met the Undying Heavenly Empress, who told him she did not know where the Undying Heavenly Emperor had gone and recognized Li Ming as the Demon Venerable.
• The Undying Heavenly Empress confessed her admiration for Li Ming and offered herself to him.

Li Ling, now known as Li Buddha, left Spirit Mountain to pursue Emperor Enlightenment while relieving suffering instead of joining the Ancient Starry Sky Road’s bloody trials. After reaching the road’s end and defeating many opponents without killing them, he faced a coalition of peerless talents in the Chaos Thunder Sea, where experts began using a force that pierced his Faith Power.

• Mount Sumeru regained its original form, but the Faith Power forming the True Buddha’s Shadow dispersed, and the White-Browed Monk dissolved into a Sarira after sharing his hope for a Buddha Emperor.
• Li Ling formally took the name Li Buddha, made a vow to deliver all living beings from suffering, and entered the Ancient Starry Sky Road after Peacock Wisdom King urged him to seek Emperor Enlightenment.
• Rather than join the road’s bloody trials, Li Ling spent thousands of years aiding people across the Life Source Grounds and studying the Red Dust Myriad Forms before reaching Quasi-Emperor.
• Li Ling defeated countless peerless talents on the Ancient Starry Sky Road without killing them, and many began following him, prompting others to fear that he could convert or enslave them.
• In the Chaos Thunder Sea, Li Ling subdued a powerful Peacock Clan Quasi-Emperor, who willingly joined the Buddhist Sect, then battled a Nine-Headed Lion and many other challengers for a century before winning.
• Nine experts who had developed methods to counter Faith Power pierced Li Ling’s Buddhist light and struck his Golden Body with a terrifying force of the Dao.

Li Ling brought defeated rivals into the Land of the Other Shore, where he studied the Demon Venerable’s scriptures and let the other cultivators seek their own opportunities. After years of traveling and relieving suffering, he faced a Heavenly Tribulation in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, and the faith of countless beings extinguished the Thunder Sea as his attempt at Emperor Enlightenment began.

• Li Ling defeated nine Quasi-Emperors with his Faith Power, cleared up their suspicions about forced conversion, and invited them and other defeated prodigies to enter the Land of the Other Shore with him.
• Li Ling brought more than a hundred cultivators across the Chaos Thunder Sea, where most were bound by Grand Dao runes and chains but gained insight from the resonances; Li Ling obtained the Demon Venerable’s scriptures and more than a dozen Supreme Scriptures.
• Li Ling parted from his followers and persuaded the peacock and the Nine-Headed Lion to return to their homelands before pursuing him and joining the Buddhist Sect.
• At Mount Sumeru, Li Ling inscribed “All Beings Inspire Awe” and accepted the Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle from the Peacock Monk.
• Over the next two thousand years, Li Ling traveled the Myriad Heavens and Domains, relieved suffering, and refined the Divine Marked Purple Gold Pagoda and Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle while continuing to follow his path.
• At age eight thousand, Li Ling faced a Heavenly Tribulation in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, and the gathered Faith Power of countless living beings extinguished the Thunder Sea.

Li Ling endured the ninefold immortal tribulation, forged his weapons, and attained emperor enlightenment as the Buddha Emperor, who used faith power to aid all beings. Later, Li Ming arrived at the Ancient Mine of Beginnings on Beidou Star, confronted its Dark Supremes, and entered after they agreed to receive him.

• Li Ling used faith power to withstand the heavenly tribulation while forging the Divine Marked Purple Gold Pagoda and restoring the Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle.
• Li Ling proclaimed grand dao oaths, shared faith power with living beings, merged with the heavenly heart imprint, and became the Buddha Emperor.
• The Buddha Emperor returned to Mount Sumeru, taught the Buddhist Sect to serve living beings, and enshrined the Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle as an extreme dao weapon.
• Li Ming arrived at the Ancient Mine of Beginnings, where more than a dozen Dark Supremes confronted him and he effortlessly dispelled their auras.
• A senior Supreme persuaded the others to welcome Li Ming, and Li Ming entered the Ancient Mine of Beginnings.

Li Ming visited the Ancient Mine of Beginnings, where the Lord of Taichu tried to recruit him and offered him Primordial Life Stones. Li Ming declined to join the Dark Supremes but offered to share insights into Sacred Spirit transformation, leaving them to consider a path they had long feared to attempt.

• Li Ming entered the Ancient Mine of Beginnings and found Myriad Dragon Emperor, Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor, Golden Ancient Emperor, and Light Emperor there, all suspicious that he had destroyed their Extreme Dao Weapons.
• Light Emperor challenged Li Ming over the destroyed weapons and slain clansmen, but Li Ming defended his actions and reminded the Ancient Emperors that their clans had targeted Boundless Heavenly Venerable's lineage.
• The Lord of Taichu intervened to prevent a fight and revealed that his present form was a mass of Light of Taichu containing dense Immortal Dao Runes.
• Golden Ancient Emperor complained that Li Ming had taken his Golden Mace, but Li Ming dismissed him, and the Lord of Taichu urged him to accept the loss.
• The Lord of Taichu invited Li Ming to join the Ancient Mine of Beginnings and offered protection during his Red Dust Immortal transformations, but Li Ming said he remained committed to that path.
• The Lord of Taichu gifted Li Ming numbered Primordial Life Stones, and Li Ming offered to share the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method with the Dark Supremes.

Li Ming demonstrated his Sacred Spirit Transformation Method to Dark Supremes gathered at the Ancient Mine of Beginnings, offering them a chance to mend their Immortal Platform Rifts and live anew. As the method persuaded some and left others wary, the Lord of Taichu revealed that he was a Sacred Spirit, and the Dark Supremes asked him to assess the method for flaws.

• Li Ming announced that he would explain his transformation method, prompting Dark Supremes from across the universe to gather at the Ancient Mine of Beginnings.
• Li Ming demonstrated how Dark Supremes could become Sacred Spirit stone embryos, preserve a trace of their True Spirits, and return after a million years; he explained how they could seek Heaven and Earth’s recognition and protect one another during the process.
• Several Dark Supremes grasped the method and considered abandoning the need to devour living beings, while many others remained cautious about its risks and long duration.
• The Lord of Taichu’s Sacred Spirit aura became apparent, and he acknowledged that he belonged to the Sacred Spirit Race.
• A Dark Supreme asked the Lord of Taichu whether Li Ming’s method contained flaws or could be improved.

Li Ming and the Dark Supremes explored the Ancient Mine of Beginnings, where the Lord of Taichu revealed a vast divine mountain nurturing countless Sacred Spirits and offered it as a place for their transformations. The Dark Supremes chose different paths, and several moved their forbidden zones to Beidou, where the Boundless Sacred Land remained secure beneath the Boundless Divine Cauldron.

• The Lord of Taichu offered Dark Supremes a shortcut to Sacred Spirit transformation if they joined the Ancient Mine of Beginnings, while Li Ming promised protection to those undergoing the process.
• The Lord of Taichu led Li Ming and the Dark Supremes into the mine's Chaos World and showed them Taichu Divine Mountain, a vast place nurturing many Sacred Spirits and powerful Immortal Fetuses.
• The Lord of Taichu invited the Dark Supremes to transform within the mountain's greatest Dragon Vein, but they hesitated and chose to observe the transformation process instead.
• The Lord of Taichu allowed the Dark Supremes to decide freely whether to join the Ancient Mine of Beginnings or move their forbidden zones to Beidou.
• Several forbidden zones descended onto Beidou as Dark Supremes relocated there, while the Boundless Sacred Land remained stable under the protection of the Boundless Divine Cauldron.

Li Ming returned to Undying Mountain, cultivated there, and considered the mountain’s treasures and the fate of Sacred Spirits. Later, Li Buddha, also known as Li Ling, reached Undying Mountain after a long journey through the worlds, following a visit to Beidou Star late in his Second Lifetime.

• Li Ming explored Undying Mountain, contemplated its Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree and Immortal Tear Green Gold Mine Cave, and concluded that the dead Taichu fetus showed little hope of revival.
• Li Ming stayed in Undying Mountain to comprehend the Dao and cultivate, while resolving to seize Stone Emperor after his emergence and brew him into immortal wine.
• Li Buddha, Li Ming’s nineteenth-generation descendant, attained Emperor Enlightenment and spent tens of thousands of years delivering living beings and spreading Buddhist teachings.
• Li Buddha traveled through the Myriad Heavens and Domains, visited every Life Forbidden Zone, and became known as a descendant of both the Demon Venerable and the Immortal Matriarch.
• Near the end of his Second Lifetime, Li Buddha visited Beidou Star, where his immense Buddha light and Extreme Dao Divine Might swept across the planet.

The Buddha Emperor visited Li Ming, chose the Sacred Spirit transformation for his next lifetime, and spent his final years spreading Buddhism before transforming within Mount Sumeru. After more than ninety thousand years of aging, Li Ming used his apparent weakness as bait, and a Sacred Spirit from the Tianshan Forbidden Zone approached him seeking his origins.

• The Buddha Emperor visited Beidou Star’s legacies and bowed to Li Ming as his nineteenth-generation descendant in Undying Mountain.
• The Buddha Emperor told Li Ming he planned to use the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method, and Li Ming advised him on his transformation and Faith Power research.
• The Buddha Emperor spread Buddhism throughout the Western Desert, gathered immense Faith Power, and transformed into a Sacred Spirit Stone Embryo within Mount Sumeru.
• Li Ming returned to Undying Mountain and let his aging aura spread to lure those seeking his Chaotic Body Origin or Immortal Tears Green Gold Spirit Origin.
• A Sacred Spirit representing the Tianshan Forbidden Zone asked Li Ming for a portion of his origins, and Li Ming attacked him before he could finish.

Li Ming rejected the Tianshan Forbidden Zone’s attempt to obtain his Chaotic Body Origin and used the Heavenly Demonic Saber to cut the mountain’s summit away, leaving its supremes humiliated and silent. As he neared the end of his hundred-thousand-year life, he entered the Nirvana Pool in Undying Mountain to begin transforming into a new lifetime.

• Li Ming sent the Heavenly Demonic Saber to Beidou Star, where it overwhelmed the Tianshan Forbidden Zone’s defenses and sliced the upper half off Tianshan Mountain.
• The sacred spirit supremes renamed their domain the Heaven-Severing Mountain Forbidden Zone, but none dared emerge to confront Li Ming.
• Li Ming returned to seclusion in Undying Mountain and reflected on the Red Dust Immortal transformation paths as he prepared for his next lifetime.
• After reaching the final years of his life, Li Ming entered the Nirvana Pool filled with the Origin Essence Blood of dozens of Dark Supremes.
• The Dark Supremes’ conflicting Grand Dao Laws surged through the Nirvana Pool, taking the form of Great Dragons that battled above Li Ming.

Li Ming refined the Dark Supreme Origin Essence Blood and successfully lived his Fifth Lifetime, then disguised his transformation as a failure. Across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, his apparent Dao Dissolution stirred panic and drew Dark Supremes toward Undying Mountain.

• Li Ming used the Dark Supreme Origin Essence Blood to burn away his old body and nourish an Immortal Fetus, which emerged from its Great Dao Cocoon as his transformed body and Primordial Spirit.
• After living his Fifth Lifetime, Li Ming decided to kill Dark Supremes and ordered Little White to make it appear that his transformation had failed.
• The Heavenly Heart Imprint manifested a spreading aura of Dao Dissolution, leading people across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands to believe Demon Venerable was dying.
• People feared that Demon Venerable's apparent death would upset the balance of power and bring renewed oppression of the Human Race and another Dark Turmoil.
• Dark Supremes emerged or watched from Beidou Star's forbidden zones, hoping to seize Li Ming's Chaotic Body Origin and uncover its secrets.

As Demon Venerable approached Dao Dissolution, Dark Supremes gathered to seize his Chaotic Body Origin and launched a siege at Undying Mountain. The Heavenly Demonic Saber killed Light Emperor, but the other Supremes took Demon Venerable’s apparent exhaustion as a chance to press on, leaving the Corpse Emperor uneasy as he prepared to attack.

• Light Emperor tried to awaken Myriad Dragon Emperor, Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor, and Golden Ancient Emperor, but they refused to join the hunt; Light Emperor and two nameless Supremes headed for Undying Mountain.
• Three more Dark Supremes joined Light Emperor, and the six advanced across the Chaos Sea as news of the coming Dark Turmoil spread panic throughout the world.
• Light Emperor tried to seize the Heavenly Demonic Saber, but it split the God Refining Pot, killed him with one slash, and swallowed his remains and weapon.
• The remaining Dark Supremes saw the Demon Venerable Imprint cracking and concluded that Demon Venerable had spent his last strength, so they renewed their attack and called on others to join them.
• The Corpse Emperor, Ghost Emperor, Skeleton Emperor, Heaven-Abandoning Supreme, and Light-Dark Supreme emerged to claim the Chaotic Body Origin, while the Corpse Emperor sensed an approaching danger as he prepared to fire at Undying Mountain.