Recaps

Li Ming appeared at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland disguised as a dying old man and killed Heaven-Abandoning Supreme with one punch, prompting the Dark Supremes to trap him in a powerful formation. The Underworld revealed that it possessed the Kunlun Immortal Bell, and Li Ming held back to see whether more enemies would emerge.

• Li Ming confronted more than a dozen Dark Supremes at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland while appearing close to death.
• Heaven-Abandoning Supreme entered Extreme Sublimation and attacked Li Ming, but Li Ming shattered his spear and killed him with one punch.
• The Dark Supremes entered Extreme Sublimation and trapped Li Ming in a formation powered by their weapons and formation diagrams.
• Corpse Emperor revealed the Kunlun Immortal Bell, which two Sacred Spirit Supremes from the Underworld controlled.
• Li Ming recognized that the Underworld had hidden more strength than he expected and held back to see whether more Dark Supremes would appear.

Li Ming fought the Underworld’s Dark Supremes and their allies, who wielded the Kunlun Immortal Bell and used Extreme Sublimation and Nine-Revolution Immortal Elixirs against him. Despite his apparent decline, he killed several Supremes and left the remaining attackers shaken by his strength.

• The Corpse Emperor and four other Underworld Supremes joined the siege on Li Ming with the Kunlun Immortal Bell as Dark Supremes from the Immortal Mausoleum watched.
• Li Ming struck the bell and overwhelmed its controllers, forcing them to enter Extreme Sublimation and take Nine-Revolution Immortal Elixirs.
• Li Ming killed a Netherworld Soil Sacred Spirit Emperor, then destroyed the other Sacred Spirit Emperor and drove back the Corpse Emperor, Ghost Emperor, and Skeleton Emperor.
• The Beast God, the Roc Emperor, and four other Dark Supremes entered the Formation and began Extreme Sublimation, but Li Ming attacked during the process and killed two of them.
• Li Ming killed two more Dark Supremes and crushed the Corpse Emperor’s Primordial Spirit, leaving the surviving Supremes astonished by his power.

Li Ming feigned weakness to draw out the Dark Supremes, then killed them in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland and smashed the Tongtian Nether Treasure. After the battle, Li Ming appeared dead, and the Lord of the Ancient Mine of Beginnings raced toward his body and scattered Chaos Essence Blood.

• The Kunlun Immortal Bell abandoned the Beast God and the Golden-Winged Roc Emperor to cover its escape, but Li Ming killed them along with the Ghost Emperor and the Skeleton Emperor.
• The Tongtian Nether Treasure entered the Formation with the Source God and the Source Ghost, and Li Ming smashed the Immortal Weapon to pieces.
• Li Ming broke through the Formation and killed the Source God, the Source Ghost, and the Light-Dark Supreme.
• The remaining Dark Supremes underwent Extreme Sublimation and attacked Li Ming, but he slaughtered them all in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland as the Heavenly Demonic Saber collected their blood essence and bones.
• Li Ming drifted through the starry sky looking lifeless while the Dark Supremes eyed his body and Chaos Essence Blood, and the Lord of the Ancient Mine of Beginnings rushed toward the battlefield.

After the universe believed Li Ming had died in the battle against the Dark Supremes, the Lord of Taichu tried to seize his corpse and chaotic origin. Li Ming revealed that he had been pretending to be dead, and the two prepared to fight over the Lord of Taichu’s Immortal Sword and his motives.

• The universe mourned Li Ming and feared the Dark Supremes would fight over his corpse, while human Quasi-Emperors could not reach him through the dangerous battlefield.
• The Lord of Taichu entered the battlefield with the Light of Taichu and an Immortal Sword, intending to crush Li Ming’s corpse and take his chaotic origin and essence blood.
• Li Ming sat up, resisted the Lord of Taichu’s attack, and blasted half his body apart with a punch.
• Li Ming revealed that he had sensed the Lord of Taichu’s intentions and had feigned death to lure him in.
• Li Ming identified the Lord of Taichu’s Immortal Sword and claimed it, while the Lord of Taichu regenerated and threatened to kill him.
• Li Ming recognized that the Lord of Taichu possessed a True Immortal body and asked why he still wanted his Chaos Origin.

Li Ming revealed that he had faked his death and defeated the Lord of Taichu, who had tried to seize his chaotic body. After torturing the Lord of Taichu’s Primordial Spirit, Li Ming uncovered his true Nine Nether form and prepared to claim his secret art.

• The Lord of Taichu explained his origins and confessed that he wanted Li Ming’s chaotic body to pursue the Immortal King realm.
• Li Ming broke free of the Lord of Taichu’s restraints, overwhelmed him in battle, and forcibly took and refined his Immortal Sword.
• Li Ming told the Lord of Taichu that he had begun another life long ago and had only pretended to be dead, then blasted apart his body and seized his Primordial Spirit.
• Li Ming carved apart the Lord of Taichu’s Primordial Spirit with the Immortal Sword and Heavenly Demonic Saber, forcing out the Nine Netherworld Ao’s hidden true form.
• The Lord of Taichu transformed into a nine-tailed wolf-like beast and attacked Li Ming, but Li Ming burned his Primordial Spirit with Immortal Ascension Light and declared he would inherit the Nine Nether Secret Art.

Li Ming cultivated the Nine Nether Secret Art, emerged from his Fifth Lifetime with renewed youth and power, and returned to the Undying Mountain. There, he used the Immortal Flame to strengthen the Heaven-Burying Coffin and began forging a Myriad Souls Banner from eighty-one Dark Supreme skins.

• Li Ming suppressed the Lord of Taichu's attempt to dissolve into the Dao, refined his Primordial Spirit essence, and obtained the Nine Nether Secret Art.
• Li Ming transformed into a Nine Nether to cultivate the secret art, devouring the Chaos Sea before revealing his youthful form after living out his Fifth Lifetime.
• Li Ming returned to the Undying Mountain, seized the Immortal Flame's rune-formed tree and bird, and used the flames to merge Immortal Gold into the Heaven-Burying Coffin.
• Li Ming gathered eighty-one Dark Supreme skins and began forging them with their bones into a Myriad Souls Banner, inscribing Immortal Dao Runes upon it.

Li Ming completed the Myriad Souls Banner from the skins and power of eighty-one Dark Supremes, then took it to the Ancient Mine of Beginnings to demand rent from its inhabitants. The Dark Supremes could not challenge him and faced paying a heavy price to make him leave.

• Li Ming forged the Myriad Souls Banner, infused it with universal resentment, and watched it gain a Weapon Deity amid Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Myriad Souls Banner provoked the Dark Supremes across the Life Forbidden Zones, and Li Ming headed to the Ancient Mine of Beginnings.
• Li Ming entered the Ancient Mine of Beginnings, where more than twenty Dark Supremes awakened and the Myriad Dragon Emperor spoke for them.
• Li Ming told the Dark Supremes that the Ancient Mine of Beginnings belonged to him because he had killed the Lord of Taichu, and demanded rent from everyone living there.
• The Golden Ancient Emperor and Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor tried to argue, but Li Ming threatened to seize the mine by force, leaving the Dark Supremes resigned to paying him.

Li Ming looted the Ancient Mine of Beginnings, taking its treasures and the Humanoid Immortal Medicine before leaving its Dragon Vein guardians unharmed. He then advanced on the Heaven Forbidden Zone, where twelve Dark Supremes underwent Extreme Sublimation and summoned the other Forbidden Zones to join them against him.

• Li Ming collected half the Primordial Life Stones and bargained with the Ancient Mine of Beginnings’ Dark Supremes for treasures instead of taking its main Dragon Vein.
• Li Ming searched the Lord of Taichu’s former retreat and took the Humanoid Immortal Medicine, Taichu’s nurturing placenta, its independent Dragon Vein, and the treasures and Immortal Platforms there.
• Li Ming left the Ancient Mine of Beginnings, and news of his looting spread as the Ancient Emperors warned the Primordial Imperial Clans not to provoke him or his human allies.
• Li Ming headed for the Heaven Forbidden Zone, intending to reclaim it for Earth, and spotted Heavenly Court ruins and terrain resembling Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin within Burial Heaven Island.
• Twelve Dark Supremes of the Heaven Forbidden Zone underwent Extreme Sublimation and called on the other Forbidden Zones to aid them against Li Ming.
• Dark Supremes across the Life Forbidden Zones surged skyward, preparing to join the battle against Li Ming.

Li Ming destroyed the Heaven Forbidden Zone, killing its Dark Supremes and collecting their remains and weapons for the Myriad Souls Banner. He entered Burial Heaven Island and stood above the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands as the Demon Venerable, with no Dark Supreme daring to challenge him.

• Li Ming declared that the Heaven Forbidden Zone would belong to him and instantly killed a Dark Supreme who resisted.
• Li Ming and the Myriad Souls Banner slaughtered the Dark Supremes, while the Heavenly Demonic Saber helped kill those who tried to attack or flee.
• The last two Dark Supremes unleashed a final strike, but Li Ming crushed them in his hand and fed their remains to the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Li Ming collected the Heaven Forbidden Zone’s weapons and remains, then entered Burial Heaven Island and recognized it as the summit of Mount Tai.
• The news that Li Ming had killed twelve Ancient Emperors and flattened the Heaven Forbidden Zone spread across the universe, where people hailed him as the Demon Venerable.

Li Ming destroyed the Heaven Forbidden Zone and marched into the Divine Ruins, where he killed the Lord of the Divine Ruins after the other Dark Supremes abandoned him. After collecting tribute, Li Ming investigated Ruins' Daughter's tomb and discovered that she and her father had died far earlier than in the original timeline.

• Li Ming inspected the Heaven Forbidden Zone's strange coffin-shaped terrain, then brought Burial Heaven Island to Undying Mountain.
• Li Ming entered the Divine Ruins Forbidden Zone, where the Lord of the Divine Ruins called on more than twenty Dark Supremes to fight him.
• The other Dark Supremes stayed hidden, and Li Ming killed the Lord of the Divine Ruins and devoured him with the Myriad Souls Banner.
• The Divine Ruins' Dark Supremes handed Li Ming Immortal Gold, their own skins, and a Fortune Origin Eye as tribute.
• Li Ming found Ruins' Daughter's tomb on a bloodstained mountain and discovered an Extreme Dao Weapon guarding her coffin.

Li Ming opened Ruins' Daughter’s coffin in the Divine Ruins and destroyed the evil spirit possessing her corpse. He discovered that she had secretly loved him and spent her life searching for him, then found a statue of himself among her belongings.

• Li Ming found marks left by Snow Lotus Fairy and Xiao Yao on the Immortal Tear Green Gold mirror and wondered why they had visited the Divine Ruins.
• Li Ming sensed his Devouring Heaven Demon Jar inside Ruins' Daughter’s coffin and discovered the coffin was covered in green hair as the corpse stirred.
• Li Ming opened the coffin, endured Ruins' Daughter’s attack, and destroyed the evil spirit possessing her body.
• Li Ming retrieved Ruins' Daughter’s azure scepter and read its record of her admiration and lifelong search for him.
• Li Ming found a crystal-clear jade statue of himself inside the azure scepter.

Li Ming forced the major Dark Restricted Areas to submit tribute, then tracked down the Underworld Forbidden Zone and brought it under his control. After killing the Prison-Suppressing Emperor and the Yama Emperor, he considered the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s likely schemes, though he still could not locate him.

• Li Ming collected treasures from the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone and the Heaven-Severing Mountain Forbidden Zone, including the Black Tortoise Immortal Medicine.
• Li Ming sent the Myriad Souls Banner to demand tribute from smaller Dark Restricted Areas, which surrendered treasures and Supreme skins rather than fight.
• Li Ming discovered that the Underworld Forbidden Zone had hidden in Chaos, used the Tongtian Nether Treasure fragments to locate it, and broke through its concealment.
• The Myriad Souls Banner devoured the Underworld’s yin soldiers, yin generals, Yin Gods, and buried bones, then helped Li Ming kill the Prison-Suppressing Emperor and the Yama Emperor.
• Li Ming brought the Underworld under his control and reflected on the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s past ambushes, while remaining unable to find him.

Li Ming studied the Corpse Emperor Transformation Method in the Underworld while using it to transform Ruins' Daughter, and the deaths of the Dark Supremes reshaped the balance of power across the world. After more than ten thousand years of meditation, he completed a preliminary understanding of the method, just as the Undying Heavenly Empress arrived and addressed him with affection.

• Li Ming found an ancient corpse and yellow-clay coffin in the Yellow Springs, placed Ruins' Daughter in the water, and studied the corpse's Reincarnation Seal before feeding its remains to the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Li Ming used Netherworld Venerable's method to form two Reincarnation Seals in Ruins' Daughter and observed her death qi begin to generate life.
• The world learned that Li Ming had killed more than twenty Dark Supremes and destroyed the Heaven Forbidden Zone and the Underworld Forbidden Zone, prompting the Primordial Imperial Clans to retreat and the Human Race to regain its standing.
• After more than ten thousand years of enlightenment, Li Ming awakened with a preliminary method for transformation through the Ultimate Death, while remaining cautious about his path toward becoming a Red Dust Immortal.
• The Undying Heavenly Empress flew from Purple Mountain into the Underworld and greeted Li Ming as the Demon Lord with visible adoration.

Li Ming learned from the Undying Heavenly Empress that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had behaved strangely in his later years and concluded that Dark Strangeness had corrupted him. Li Ming offered to help the Undying Heavenly Empress achieve Emperor Enlightenment, and ten years later a Dao-Proving Heavenly Tribulation appeared in the Chaos Sea, awakening the Dark Supremes.

• The Undying Heavenly Empress recognized Li Ming as the Demon Venerable after sensing the terrifying Myriad Souls Banner and realizing it had consumed the Underworld’s forces and bones.
• The Undying Heavenly Empress warned Li Ming that the Undying Heavenly Emperor was still alive and described his violent, erratic behavior and his failed attempt to lead an Ascension of the Entire Religion.
• Li Ming deduced that Dark Strangeness had corrupted the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and the Undying Heavenly Empress recalled seeing black mist and strange runes around him.
• Li Ming told the Undying Heavenly Empress that the Undying Heavenly Emperor was likely hiding and transforming, then offered to help her achieve Emperor Enlightenment.
• Ten years later, a Dao-Proving Heavenly Tribulation erupted in the Chaos Sea, prompting powerful figures and Dark Supremes across the universe to awaken.

The Demon Venerable helped the Undying Heavenly Empress survive her tribulation and merge with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, allowing her to attain Emperor Enlightenment. Later, Li Ming prepared the Fortune Origin Eye for his daughter Li Lian and nurtured his son Li Hu within Spirit Mountain.

• The Undying Heavenly Empress endured a devastating tribulation as the Myriad Souls Banner consumed its assaults, and Li Ming forced the Heavenly Heart Imprint to appear.
• Li Ming urged the Heavenly Heart Imprint, whom he had shaped like Little Rabbit, to merge with the Undying Heavenly Empress, and the Myriad Souls Banner scattered the remaining tribulation.
• The Heavenly Heart Imprint merged with the Undying Heavenly Empress, healed her injuries, and accepted her Grand Dao as she attained Emperor Enlightenment and thanked the Demon Venerable.
• The Undying Heavenly Empress lived quietly after her reign, later taking an Immortal Medicine before her first and second lifetimes ended; she transformed into a Sacred Spirit Stone Embryo.
• Li Ming placed his daughter Li Lian's stone egg in the Fortune Origin Eye, where its lotus seed continued to transform.
• Li Ming visited Spirit Mountain, where his son Li Hu was being nurtured inside a primordial life stone in the Immortal Tear Green Gold Vein.

Li Ming returned to the Kunlun Secret Realm, checked on the beings and treasures being nurtured in the Immortal Ascension Pool, and observed the Golden Age unfolding along the Ancient Starry Sky Road. After the Six-Eared Macaque defeated three Underworld successors with Lingbao Tianzun’s Salvation Scripture, Li Ming met him and went with him to find the Fighting Saint Ape.

• Li Ming visited the Immortal Ascension Pool and found the Human Emperor Seal, Solar Divine Tower, Boundless Divine Cauldron, Lotus Seed, and Li Fan thriving in their transformations.
• Li Ming watched prodigies compete on the Ancient Starry Sky Road and noticed the Underworld’s three sons among the Seed Candidates.
• The Six-Eared Macaque used the Salvation Scripture to rout the Prison-Suppressing Son, Nether Emperor's Son, and Yama's Son, then collected their abandoned treasures.
• Li Ming approached the Six-Eared Macaque, learned about his lineage and inheritance from Lingbao Tianzun, and invited him to find the Fighting Saint Ape.
• The Six-Eared Macaque brought Li Ming to a Divine City, where the Fighting Saint Ape recognized the Demon Venerable and respectfully greeted him.
• Li Ming praised the Fighting Saint Ape after seeing the Sea-Calming Divine Needle inscribed on his Golden-Hooped Staff.

Li Ming watched an Immortal Domain Rift open above the Heaven-Piercing Ancient Star, where the Heaven-Piercing Divine Tree grew into a path that drew Dark Supremes toward the Immortal Domain. A mysterious figure triggered an immense Enlightenment Tribulation while climbing the tree, and the chapter ended as Dark Supremes began dying within the rift amid a clash involving the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

• Li Ming gave the Fighting Saint Ape and the Six-Eared Macaque techniques, and the two monkeys immediately fought over their gifts.
• A tremendous explosion opened an Immortal Domain Rift above the Heaven-Piercing Ancient Star, and Northern Polar Immortal Light spread across the universe.
• A Heaven-Piercing Divine Tree grew from the rift after the Dark Supremes fed it treasures and Origin Essence Blood, and many Dark Supremes climbed its branches toward the Immortal Domain.
• A mysterious figure endured a terrifying Enlightenment Tribulation and climbed the divine tree, causing a massive explosion that shattered branches filled with Longevity Essence.
• Several Dark Supremes rushed into the lightning-filled rift, where a voice cried out against the Undying Heavenly Emperor and multiple Dark Supremes began to fall.

Li Ming watched the Undying Daoist reveal that the Immortal Domain Rift and Heaven-Piercing Jianmu were a trap for the Dark Supremes, while the Daoist used a terrifying tribulation to refine them. The Daoist proved powerful enough to blast apart three Supremes at once, then his strange golden tribulation rain restored vitality to those trapped in the formation.

• The Dark Supremes saw that the Undying Daoist had used the Heaven-Piercing Jianmu and Immortal Domain Rift to trap them in the Corpse Mountain Blood Sea Formation and harvest their Origin Essence Blood.
• The Undying Daoist sent a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation against the contemporary prodigies, but most of its lightning struck him and the trapped Dark Supremes instead.
• Li Ming stayed out of the battle and concluded that the Road to Immortality was a long-prepared scam, while suspecting the Undying Heavenly Emperor and Undying Daoist had a larger scheme.
• Three Dark Supremes used Extreme Sublimation and attacked the Undying Daoist together, but he blasted them apart with a single exchange.
• The three Dark Supremes reassembled by burning their origins, and the Undying Daoist continued refining them with lightning as golden rain restored some of their vitality and power.

The Undying Daoist endured a strange Immortal Ascension Tribulation and revealed a powerful Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold body, but the Immortal Domain Rift he triggered brought a wounded True Immortal Heavenly Insect into the world. After the insect overwhelmed the Dark Supremes and tore apart the Undying Daoist, he struck back with the Nine Secret Techniques merged into one, and the two began a titanic battle.

• The Dark Supremes wondered whether the Undying Daoist's endless, unprecedented tribulation was an Immortal Ascension Tribulation as he refined more than twenty of their kind.
• The Undying Daoist fought the tribulation's phantoms, rebuilt his body from Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold, and absorbed Chaos Essence and Immortal Spirit Qi.
• Immortal King phantoms and a Reincarnation Millstone appeared before a wounded True Immortal Heavenly Insect descended through the Immortal Domain Rift and targeted the Undying Daoist's body.
• The Heavenly Insect tore apart the Undying Daoist and devoured the Dark Supremes, while Li Ming watched and judged that he could handle the wounded immortal.
• The Undying Daoist merged the Nine Secret Techniques and split the Heavenly Insect in two with a five-colored saber strike, but the insect reformed and resumed the fight.

Undying Daoist fought the Immortal Domain Heavenly Insect to mutual destruction, but the Heavenly Insect revived and began devouring the Dark Supremes to strengthen himself and refine the world. As the Dark Supremes faced annihilation, Li Ming finally revealed himself and confronted the True Immortal.

• Undying Daoist repeatedly battled the Immortal Domain Heavenly Insect, using the Nine Secrets Unity Technique and a Heavenly Tribulation before both fell, leaving Undying Daoist's shattered corpse behind.
• The Immortal Domain Heavenly Insect revived in black flames, crushed the Dark Supremes' avatars, and used the Corpse Mountain Blood Sea Formation Diagram to refine the world and gather its Grand Dao Laws.
• The Immortal Domain Heavenly Insect hunted Dark Supremes in their Forbidden Zones, tearing them apart and consuming them to temper his True Immortal Dao Fruit.
• The Dark Supremes could not find a way to stop the Heavenly Insect, and the Demon Venerable remained untraceable as the slaughter continued.
• Li Ming emerged in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, revealed himself as the Demon Venerable, and challenged the Immortal Domain Heavenly Insect.

Li Ming fought the Immortal Domain Heavenly Insect, revealing power from his Fifth Lifetime that let him contend with the True Immortal. When the Heavenly Insect brought out a mysterious Bronze Lamp, its flame joined with the Immortal Flame in the Fire Domain and burned him and his formation to ash before vanishing.

• The Heavenly Insect attacked Li Ming with the Corpse Mountain Blood Sea Formation, but Li Ming blocked its Immortal Sword without injury.
• Li Ming unleashed his Fifth Lifetime’s power and fought the recovering Heavenly Insect across the Chaos Sea, damaging its body and matching its attacks.
• The Heavenly Insect summoned a mysterious Bronze Lamp and demanded that Li Ming hand over the Immortal Flame, which he believed could help him become an Immortal King.
• A young man emerged from the lamp, questioned the Heavenly Insect’s plan to sacrifice the world’s living beings, and joined his flame with the Immortal Flame in the Fire Domain.
• The combined flames engulfed the Heavenly Insect and burned him and the Corpse Mountain Blood Sea Formation to ash; the lamp and Immortal Domain Rift then disappeared.

Li Ming fought Undying Daoist, who had been parasitized by a powerful Weird creature, and trapped him in the Heaven-Burying Coffin to study and refine the strange aura. The creature devoured Undying Daoist's divine sense and detonated itself, blasting away the coffin's lid.

• The Bronze Lamp vanished through the Immortal Domain Rift, and the Weird-parasitized Undying Daoist emerged to attack Li Ming.
• Undying Daoist and Li Ming fought with the Nine Secrets Unity Technique, the Immortal Phoenix Origin, and their respective Dao arts, but Li Ming shattered Undying Daoist's pitch-black Phoenix.
• The Heaven-Burying Coffin and Heavenly Demonic Saber trapped Undying Daoist, and Li Ming began refining the Weird creature's aura while studying it.
• Li Ming's Six Paths Reincarnation Art briefly stirred Undying Daoist's divine sense, but the Weird creature devoured it and took complete control of his body.
• The Weird creature detonated itself in a massive blast that sent the lid of the Heaven-Burying Coffin flying.

Li Ming destroyed the weird creature’s avatar and purged its seed from the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, keeping the rescued prince as bait for the Undying Heavenly Emperor. Meanwhile, the Six-Eared Macaque attained Emperor Enlightenment, and Li Ming welcomed the many visitors who flocked to Undying Mountain.

• Li Ming erased the weird creature with the Bronze Mirror, refined its remaining black blood, and traced it to the corrupted egg containing the Heavenly Emperor’s Son.
• Li Ming used the Bronze Mirror to remove the eerie seed from the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, erased his memories, and kept him as bait for the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• The Six-Eared Macaque survived the Immortal Domain Rift, merged with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and became an Imperial Sovereign.
• News of the Six-Eared Macaque’s Emperor Enlightenment spread along the Ancient Starry Sky Road, drawing living beings and powerful factions to celebrate and pay homage.
• Li Ming moved Undying Mountain near the center of the universe and opened a training ground, as visitors gathered to pay their respects to him.

After another twenty thousand years, Li Ming watched new prodigies rise and explored the Boundless Heavenly Venerable’s cultivation within the Boundless Divine Cauldron. He entered the Heavenly Venerable’s Eternal Grand Dream to investigate his path of illusion and reality.

• The Six-Eared Macaque visited Li Ming after attaining Emperor Enlightenment, and the experts gathered at the Undying Mountain witnessed the two discuss the Dao.
• The Six-Eared Macaque vanished after living a second lifetime, while Li Ming continued cultivating as a new generation of prodigies emerged.
• An Immortal Golden Body defeated an Azure Heaven Tyrant Body in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, and Li Ming sent the challenger flying when he tried to fight him.
• Li Ming visited the Ancient Starry Sky Road, observed the prodigies training in his Corpse Mountain Blood Sea Grand Formation, and returned to Earth.
• Li Ming found the Boundless Heavenly Venerable cultivating through Eternal Grand Dream and the Interplay of Illusion and Reality inside the Boundless Divine Cauldron.
• Li Ming used the Way of Reincarnation to enter the Boundless Heavenly Venerable’s dream.

Boundless Heavenly Venerable told Li Ming that the Boundless Divine Cauldron was increasingly suppressing him and could turn him into a Weapon Deity if he pursued immortality. After Li Ming gave him a branch of the Heaven-Piercing Jianmu and left, a Dao-Proving Tribulation erupted in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland around an old acquaintance whose identity remained unknown to most observers.

• Boundless Heavenly Venerable explained that recovering his strength might make him sink permanently into the Boundless Divine Cauldron, and Li Ming promised to help him find a way to survive.
• Li Ming gave Boundless Heavenly Venerable a branch of the Heaven-Piercing Jianmu and recounted how he had stopped the Undying Daoist and the Immortal Domain Heavenly Insect from destroying the world.
• Li Ming left Kunlun Mountain and the Primordial Ancient Star as the Ancient Starry Sky Road declined and the Demon Venerable's reputation spread.
• A terrifying Dao-Proving Tribulation appeared in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, startling the Quasi-Emperors and awakening the Dark Supremes.
• Li Ming recognized the figure inside the tribulation as an old acquaintance, while the watching prodigies wondered who could attempt such a powerful path to Emperor Enlightenment.