Recaps

Netherworld Venerable emerged from hiding and endured an Enlightenment Tribulation while forging a new Tongtian Treasure Wheel. With Li Ming restraining his Dao, he broke the heavenly heart imprint and achieved Emperor Enlightenment, then went to visit the Demon Venerable.

• Rumors spread that an unknown figure was undergoing an Enlightenment Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, and experts gathered to watch.
• The tribulation revealed Netherworld Venerable, whose ancient aura and immense power astonished the Dark Supremes.
• Netherworld Venerable forged a new Tongtian Treasure Wheel during the tribulation and repelled attacks from Dark Supremes.
• Netherworld Venerable shattered the heavenly heart imprint, and Li Ming restrained his Grand Dao imprint so Netherworld Venerable could brand his Dao upon it.
• Netherworld Venerable survived the final lightning and achieved Emperor Enlightenment, while God Venerable bowed and returned to secluded cultivation.
• Netherworld Emperor Duan De left the heavenly heart imprint and visited the Demon Venerable, dropping his imposing manner for his familiar sleazy grin.

After examining Duan De’s four Reincarnation Seals, Li Ming uncovered secrets of the Netherworld Venerable’s nine lifetimes and helped Duan De understand his path. As the Golden Age neared its end, Li Ming suppressed his and Duan De’s Daos to give other talents a chance, and someone triggered an Enlightenment Tribulation.

• Duan De visited Undying Mountain, then returned with Li Ming to the Underworld and discussed his past lives and cultivation.
• Li Ming explained the Netherworld Venerable’s history and the Nine-Lifetime Reincarnation Path, prompting Duan De to reveal his four Reincarnation Seals.
• Li Ming examined the seals, discovered how the lifetimes shared a root, and passed the memories he found to Duan De.
• Duan De placed his recovered memories in the Tongtian Treasure Wheel, while Li Ming urged him to guard against their effects on his current self.
• After more than five thousand years, Li Ming announced that the Golden Age would end and suppressed his and Duan De’s Daos so peerless talents could pursue Emperor Enlightenment.
• Someone in the depths of the universe triggered an Enlightenment Tribulation in the Golden Age’s final year.

God Venerable attained Emperor Enlightenment, challenged Demon Venerable Li Ming, and was defeated but received guidance and a True Dragon Elixir fruit to begin another lifetime. He returned to God Domain, declared the God Race independent from the Human Race, and began arranging an alliance with the Immortal Golden Body Lineage.

• God Venerable attained Emperor Enlightenment and thanked Demon Venerable for suppressing his Grand Dao Brand, while people across the world learned of his achievement.
• God Venerable challenged Li Ming at the Undying Mountain, but Li Ming shattered his Divine Marked Purple Gold Bell and body with one finger before God Venerable recovered.
• God Venerable thanked Li Ming for his guidance, learned about the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method, and received a ripe True Dragon Elixir fruit before Li Ming sent him away.
• God Venerable returned to God Domain and declared that the God Race would separate from the Human Race, with God Domain Ancestral Star renamed God Star.
• God Venerable hosted the Great Achievement Sacred Body, and they agreed that the God Race and Immortal Golden Body Lineage would become allies.

After the Immortal Golden Body died attempting Emperor Enlightenment, Li Ming and Duan De tracked down and captured two powerful beings born from a Fortune Origin Eye. Tens of thousands of years later, as Li Ming neared 130,000 years in his lifetime, a Sacred Spirit achieved Emperor Enlightenment after his Grand Dao Imprint vanished.

• The Immortal Golden Body challenged God Venerable’s Grand Dao through a tribulation but was reduced to ash, while Li Ming watched without intervening.
• Duan De brought Li Ming to a hollow sun containing an abandoned Fortune Origin Eye, and they used a Forbidden Secret Art to trace two beings born from it.
• Li Ming and Duan De found the holy and red-haired beings in an underground Divine Source Dragon Vein, where Li Ming sealed them and Duan De took them to the Underworld.
• Li Ming planted his Immortal Medicines in the Bronze Immortal Hall, hoping they would take root and eventually return to life.
• After tens of thousands of years, God Venerable and Duan De disappeared from public view, and many believed Li Ming had also died or failed his transformation.
• When Li Ming had lived nearly 130,000 years, a Sacred Spirit achieved Emperor Enlightenment in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, prompting Dark Supremes to wonder whether Li Ming’s Grand Dao Imprint had vanished.

The Spirit Emperor achieved Emperor Enlightenment and ruled the universe, while the long-absent Li Ming remained alive in the Undying Mountain. When the Spirit Emperor came to rob Li Ming’s grave and claim his Immortal Weapons, Li Ming appeared and killed him with a single strike.

• A Sacred Spirit endured the Enlightenment Tribulation, achieved Emperor Enlightenment, and took the title Spirit Emperor.
• The Spirit Emperor founded Spirit God Mountain on Gouchen Ancient Star, where the Sacred Spirits oppressed other races as Li Ming remained hidden in the Undying Mountain.
• Three thousand years later, the Spirit Emperor went to the Undying Mountain and announced that he would seize Li Ming’s weapons and grave.
• The Spirit Emperor entered the mountain after receiving no response, but Li Ming emerged atop the Heaven-Burying Coffin and challenged him.
• The Spirit Emperor attacked Li Ming, who destroyed his feathers and Spirit Saber before cutting him apart with the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

Li Ming imprisoned Spirit Emperor beneath the Myriad Souls Banner, which eventually consumed him after he tried to escape by becoming a Dark Supreme. As Li Ming prepared for the end of his lifetime, a mysterious heartbeat and the Netherworld Venerable’s awakened weapon appeared in the Underworld, signaling a possible revival.

• Li Ming struck Spirit Emperor back to Gouchen Ancient Star and pinned him beneath Spirit God Mountain with the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Dark Supremes and people across the universe learned that Li Ming remained at his peak, while the Sacred Spirits hid and humans celebrated his strength.
• After three thousand years of torment beneath the banner, Spirit Emperor broke his Dao heart, then decided to sever his cultivation and become a Dark Supreme.
• The Myriad Souls Banner swallowed Spirit Emperor before he could establish a Forbidden Zone, and the universe learned of his death at just over six thousand years old.
• Li Ming felt his vitality waning and began preparing for his transformation in the Underworld Forbidden Zone.
• A powerful heartbeat shook the Netherworld Soil as the Myriad Souls Banner concealed the transformation and the Netherworld Venerable’s weapon awakened.

Li Ming witnessed Netherworld Emperor Duan De complete a new lifetime through Destruction and Rebirth, then discussed longevity and transformation with him. Five thousand years later, the Feathered Immortal Cauldron appeared as an Immortal Weapon, revealing that the Boundless Heavenly Venerable had survived as its Weapon Deity, and Li Ming and Duan De prepared to help him break free.

• Li Ming watched Duan De use the refined Source God and Source Ghost to destroy his old body and be reborn stronger.
• Li Ming and Duan De discussed the Red Dust Immortal Transformation Method in the Netherworld Emperor Hall.
• After traveling and cultivating for five thousand years, Li Ming saw the Feathered Immortal Cauldron appear at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, drawing the Dark Supremes' attention.
• The Boundless Divine Cauldron arrived, and the Dark Supremes realized its Weapon Deity was the Boundless Heavenly Venerable, who had survived inside the Feathered Immortal Cauldron.
• Duan De and Li Ming arrived at the Chaos Sea, where Li Ming proposed helping the Boundless Heavenly Venerable escape the Feathered Immortal Cauldron and live another lifetime.

Li Ming and Netherworld Emperor Duan De freed Boundless Heavenly Venerable from the Feathered Immortal Cauldron so he could begin a new life and cultivate anew. Over two thousand years later, Boundless Heavenly Venerable achieved Enlightenment as Supreme again and flew to the Undying Mountain to visit Li Ming.

• Li Ming explained that Boundless Heavenly Venerable risked becoming the Feathered Immortal Cauldron's weapon deity permanently, and he and Netherworld Emperor Duan De helped awaken him.
• Li Ming, Netherworld Emperor Duan De, and Boundless Heavenly Venerable joined forces to shatter the Feathered Immortal Cauldron, freeing Boundless Heavenly Venerable to begin a new lifetime.
• Li Ming restored the Feathered Immortal Cauldron to an embryonic Immortal Weapon, while Boundless Heavenly Venerable sealed his Dao Fruit in the Boundless Divine Cauldron and transformed into an infant.
• Boundless Heavenly Venerable cultivated anew, chose the Dao Scripture of Daode Tianzun, and later stepped onto the Ancient Starry Sky Road.
• After more than two thousand years, Boundless Heavenly Venerable triggered the Enlightenment Tribulation and blasted apart the Heavenly Heart Imprint, achieving Enlightenment as Supreme again.
• The Boundless Sacred Land celebrated Boundless Heavenly Venerable's return, and he flew to the Undying Mountain to visit Li Ming.

Boundless Heavenly Venerable challenged Li Ming after reaching his Fifth Lifetime, but Li Ming overwhelmed him with a single attack. After twenty thousand years of wandering as a mortal, Li Ming sensed Netherworld Emperor Duan De’s apparent impending death and visited him in the Underworld, where he discovered Duan De was preparing for another transformation.

• Boundless Heavenly Venerable challenged Li Ming at the Mythical Battlefield, and Li Ming effortlessly dispelled his strongest attack with Immortal Ascension Light.
• Boundless Heavenly Venerable asked how he could become as powerful as Li Ming, then thanked him for his guidance and departed.
• Li Ming vanished from public view and wandered the mortal world for twenty thousand years, while rumors claimed he remained alive and vigorous.
• Li Ming sensed Netherworld Emperor Duan De’s Grand Dao Imprint collapsing and traveled to the Underworld to visit him.
• Li Ming found Duan De feigning imminent death in a treasure-filled Yellow-Mud Coffin and told him he still had several thousand years to live.
• Duan De admitted he was preparing early for his next transformation but kept the location of his plans secret.

Li Ming helped Netherworld Emperor Duan De begin another Corpse Spirit Awakening in Kunlun Mountain, then watched his Reincarnation Seal form five thousand years later. As Li Ming reflected on the loneliness of immortality, the Boundless Heavenly Venerable began transforming into a Sacred Spirit Stone Embryo again, with Li Ming standing by to guard him.

• Li Ming brought Netherworld Emperor Duan De to Earth and persuaded him to use Kunlun Mountain as his Corpse-Nurturing Land.
• Netherworld Emperor Duan De sealed himself inside the Yellow-Mud Coffin and vanished into Kunlun Mountain's Dragon Veins, while his Dao Dissolution signs spread across the universe.
• Five thousand years later, Li Ming watched a new Reincarnation Seal form inside the coffin and saw Netherworld Emperor Duan De's next transformation take shape.
• Li Ming wandered among mortals and reflected on the loneliness of long life and why Dark Supremes grew cold, while rejecting their slaughter of living beings.
• The Boundless Heavenly Venerable began transforming into a Sacred Spirit Stone Embryo again, and Li Ming watched closely in case he needed to intervene.

Boundless Heavenly Venerable transformed into a Saint Spirit Immortal Embryo, while Li Ming reached the end of his Fifth Lifetime and underwent a perilous transformation inside the Heaven-Burying Coffin. After more than ten thousand years between life and death, Li Ming’s Life Seed finally sprouted, and he awakened in his Sixth Lifetime.

• Boundless Heavenly Venerable’s body and Immortal Platform turned to stone, and his Undying True Spirit emerged as a Saint Spirit Immortal Embryo.
• Three thousand years later, Li Ming entered the twilight of his Fifth Lifetime and studied the Humanoid Immortal Medicine’s cycle of death and renewal.
• Li Ming’s Primordial Spirit and Origin Essence Blood condensed into a Life Seed as his body died, but the seed remained dormant for thousands of years.
• Great Dao Flame burned around Li Ming’s Life Seed for more than two thousand years before dispersing, leaving the seed silent in the coffin.
• Li Ming’s Life Seed finally took root in the ashes of his body and grew into a new body, restoring his Five Great Secret Realms.
• Li Ming awakened in his Sixth Lifetime with renewed vitality and greater strength, while the Immortal Weapons concealed his return from the world.

After completing his sixth lifetime as a Life Seed, Li Ming feigned imminent death and drew out the Dark Supremes, triggering the most devastating dark turmoil in history. He saved Ziwei Star by killing one Dark Supreme with a single strike, but the other Supremes then turned their attention to him.

• Li Ming completed his sixth lifetime by becoming a Life Seed, then made himself appear aged and near death and sent the Heavenly Heart Imprint to act.
• The Demon Venerable's Grand Dao imprint began to collapse after two hundred thousand years, and Dark Supremes emerged from their forbidden zones to begin a dark turmoil.
• The Dark Supremes devoured living beings and destroyed inhabited planets as Great Saints and Ancestral Kings fled with their descendants.
• A Dark Supreme targeted Ziwei Star and prepared to destroy it, but the Demon Venerable arrived and killed him with a single palm strike.
• Living beings across the world cheered at the Demon Venerable's return, while the remaining Dark Supremes declared that his time to die had come.

Demon Venerable Li Ming faced thirty-two Dark Supremes, who trapped him in the Myriad Immortals Demon-Slaying Formation to seize his Chaos Origin and devour the lives of countless beings. As the Supremes drew power from across the universe to strengthen the formation, Human Race experts tried to slow them down, leaving Li Ming surrounded and the battle unresolved.

• The Dark Supremes confronted Li Ming as he appeared in his twilight years, demanding his Chaos Origin and declaring their intent to harvest living beings.
• Li Ming challenged the Supremes' cruel methods and reminded them that he had once killed Dark Supremes during his previous life's twilight years.
• Thirty-two Dark Supremes surrounded Li Ming and activated the Myriad Immortals Demon-Slaying Formation, a killing formation designed to refine the world.
• The formation's attack was extinguished by a mysterious Immortal Ascension Light, but the Dark Supremes saw Li Ming's Dao Transformation grow stronger and pressed their assault.
• The Dark Supremes drew Chaos Origin from across the universe to power the formation, while Human Race experts activated formations to block the flow.
• A Dark Supreme threatened the Human Race experts who interfered, warning that they would suffer after Li Ming's death.

Li Ming defeated the Dark Supremes’ Myriad Immortals Demon-Slaying Formation and ended the Dark Turmoil, saving the surviving worlds. He then hunted down the Dark Supremes who had attacked with their true bodies, incarnations, or Extreme Dao Weapons, leaving the remaining Forbidden Zones terrified.

• Li Ming killed three Dark Supremes inside the Myriad Immortals Demon-Slaying Formation, including one who had undergone Extreme Sublimation.
• The remaining twenty-nine Dark Supremes underwent Extreme Sublimation and attacked Li Ming, but his Immortal Ascension Light disrupted the formation and their assaults could not harm him.
• Li Ming killed the Dark Supremes within the formation and destroyed it, leaving only bone fragments and a vast sea of their blood.
• The surviving living beings realized Li Ming had won, cheered for him, and sent their Faith Power into him as they mourned the destruction wrought by the Dark Turmoil.
• Li Ming tracked down Dark Supremes who had sent incarnations or deployed Extreme Dao Weapons, destroyed their Forbidden Zones, and killed their inhabitants.
• Li Ming declared that Supremes who had not attacked him need not fear, while continuing to hunt the guilty Dark Supremes until none dared speak.

Li Ming wiped out the Dark Supremes who had attacked him, restored the ruined Life Source Grounds, and entered his Heaven-Burying Coffin with their Origin Essence Blood. After pretending for over five thousand years that he had died, he emerged in a vigorous new body and revealed that he had entered his Sixth Lifetime, leaving the Dark Supremes shaken by his strength.

• Li Ming hunted down and killed more than fifty Dark Supremes who had attacked him, destroying their Forbidden Zones and collecting their Origin Essence Blood.
• Li Ming restored the Life Source Grounds damaged by the Dark Supremes, then entered the Heaven-Burying Coffin and let the collected blood essence engulf him.
• For over five thousand years, the coffin traveled through the Chaos Sea and Cosmic Frontier Wasteland as Li Ming concealed his cultivation and made others believe he had died.
• Li Ming admitted that he had hoped to lure out the Undying Heavenly Emperor and more Dark Supremes, then emerged from the coffin with renewed youth and immense vitality.
• The universe celebrated Li Ming's new Lifetime, while the Dark Supremes questioned whether he could achieve Red Dust Immortal Ascension.

Li Ming claimed the Soaring Immortal Waterfall and Soul Pool, sealed them with the Reincarnation Lake, and watched over the Ruins' Daughter as her revival advanced. When Ziwei triggered an Enlightenment Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, he effortlessly shattered the Dark Supremes’ attacks, leaving his path to Emperor Enlightenment underway.

• Li Ming examined the Soaring Immortal Waterfall and Soul Pool, sealed them with the Reincarnation Lake along the Ancient Starry Sky Road, and added safeguards for future prodigies.
• Li Ming visited the Yellow Springs and observed the Ruins' Daughter’s faint spark of life growing as her Corpse Spirit Awakening neared completion.
• As the Grand Dao revived, sealed geniuses emerged to compete for Emperor Enlightenment, but a thunderous Enlightenment Tribulation erupted from the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.
• The assembled onlookers recognized the tribulation candidate as Ziwei, the former holy son of Ziwei Holy Land, and the Dark Supremes sent attacks against him.
• Ziwei waved the mysterious Ziwei Flower and effortlessly shattered the Dark Supremes’ attacks, then wondered whether they were weak or he was unusually strong.

The Ziwei Saint Son survived his tribulation and achieved Emperor Enlightenment as the Jade Emperor, then marched on the Dark Restricted Areas. The Dark Supremes fled rather than face him, and after visiting Li Ming for guidance, the Jade Emperor founded the Ziwei Divine Dynasty and began preparing to follow the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method.

• The Ziwei Saint Son endured the Heavenly Tribulation and fused his Dao with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, becoming a New Emperor.
• The Jade Emperor headed for Beidou Star to challenge the Dark Restricted Areas, but the Dark Supremes withdrew with their domains, leaving him a pit and several Primordial Life Stones.
• The Jade Emperor learned that the Zhang Family's ties to Li Ming had helped secure its fortune, then visited Li Ming and received guidance on the Red Dust Immortal Path and the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method.
• After more than a thousand years of cultivation, the Jade Emperor returned to Ziwei Star, founded the Ziwei Divine Dynasty, and entered seclusion to study the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method.

After successfully transforming into a Sacred Spirit Stone Embryo, the Jade Emperor disappeared, and the universe passed through a Dharma-Ending Era before the Grand Dao revived into a new Golden Age. Li Ming wandered the world as the Jade Emperor’s transformation endured, while a group of young women began searching for treasure in Beidou Star’s Southern Ridge.

• Li Ming brought the Jade Emperor to Kunlun Mountain, where the Jade Emperor studied the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method and began turning his body to stone.
• After nearly five thousand years, Li Ming took the Jade Emperor to the Undying Mountain, where the Jade Emperor continued transforming as the universe remained largely peaceful.
• The Jade Emperor’s Grand Dao Imprint collapsed after the end of his Second Lifetime, and the world believed he had died, though Li Ming found that he had become a Sacred Spirit Stone Embryo.
• Li Ming wandered among mortals and visited Dark Restricted Areas as the world entered a Dharma-Ending Era, then watched the Grand Dao revive ten thousand years after the Jade Emperor’s apparent death.
• On Beidou Star, a group of seven or eight young women searched the Southern Ridge for treasure, following the confident lead of their senior sister.

Gu Yunshu and the disciples of Moonwater Cave Well uncovered a living golden creature inside a huge Divine Source Block, and their elders identified it as a Divine Silkworm capable of evolving through successive forms. They brought the innocent little creature back to the sect, concealed its origins, and treated it as a disciple; its extraordinary aura and cultivation talent soon made it beloved by the sect’s disciples.

• Gu Yunshu used her Dragon-Seeking Secret Art to find a stone that tried to escape, and the disciples discovered a cubic unit of Divine Source containing a living creature.
• The golden creature broke free, ate most of the Divine Source, and fled from the disciples before hiding inside Gu Yunshu’s clothes as the elders arrived.
• The Supreme Elder proposed that the creature was a Divine Silkworm whose transformations could lead it through different forms, and the elders discussed its mysterious origins and appetite for Source.
• The Supreme Elder and sect master took the creature back to Moonwater Cave Well, concealed its aura and the disciples’ memories, and taught it a fragmentary ancient scripture.
• The little golden snake drew in spiritual energy and grew stronger even while sleeping, attracting crowds of disciples who gathered around it to cultivate.

The Divine Silkworm left Water Moon Cave Heaven, underwent successive transformations, and eventually became a Quasi-Emperor on the Ancient Starry Sky Road, determined to avenge his clan. The chapter ended with the Heaven-Splitting Demon Butterfly clan learning that he had become powerful enough to threaten its future.

• The sect leader of Water Moon Cave Heaven explained the Divine Silkworm’s heritage and blood feud, then sent him away with fifty thousand jin of Pure Source.
• The Divine Silkworm consumed the Pure Source, broke through the Four Extremes Realm, and transformed into a Golden Qilin before quietly leaving Water Moon Cave Heaven.
• As Qilin’s Son, he rescued Gu Yunshu and Su Xingyue, seized treasures at the Immortal Ascension Grounds, and then transformed into a Golden Phoenix.
• At Divine Silkworm Ridge, an old monk discussed Buddhist teachings with him, but the Divine Silkworm rejected monastic life and reaffirmed his resolve to avenge his clan.
• The Divine Silkworm traveled the Ancient Starry Sky Road, defeated rival prodigies, and reached the Ninth Transformation as a renowned Quasi-Emperor.
• The Heaven-Splitting Demon Butterfly clan learned that the Divine Silkworm had reached the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven and feared his growing power.

The Divine Silkworm destroyed the Heaven-Splitting Demon Butterfly Clan, survived the Ninefold Immortal Tribulation, and defied the Heavenly Heart Imprint to attain Emperor Enlightenment as the Divine Emperor. He then entered Undying Mountain to meet the long-hidden Demon Venerable.

• The Divine Silkworm shattered Butterfly Emperor Ancient Star, defeated the Butterfly Emperor's Heir, and wiped out the Heaven-Splitting Demon Butterfly Clan.
• The Divine Silkworm triggered the Dao-Proving Tribulation, underwent his tenth transformation, and forged the Divine Silkworm Battle Armor from his shed body.
• The Divine Silkworm shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint and fought the Emperor and Immortal Spirit phantoms unleashed in response.
• The Divine Silkworm rebuilt his body after it exploded, branded his Grand Dao Imprint onto the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and attained Emperor Enlightenment.
• The Divine Emperor expounded the Dao for those who came to worship him, then went to Undying Mountain and requested an audience with the Demon Venerable.
• The Demon Venerable invited the Divine Emperor into Undying Mountain for a talk.

The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor visited Li Ming in Undying Mountain, learned more about immortals and the Red Dust Immortal Path, and resolved to pursue it. After living for fifty thousand years across two Lifetimes, he began a perilous Nirvana transformation as Li Ming arrived to guard him.

• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor entered Undying Mountain and thanked Li Ming for helping him attain Emperor Enlightenment.
• Li Ming explained that he had killed a True Immortal, described the shattered Immortal Domain, and taught the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor about the Red Dust Immortal Path.
• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor left to cultivate, rebuilt Divine Silkworm Ridge, and studied transformation through his Second Lifetime while ruling the world.
• After living for fifty thousand years, the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor began a Nirvana transformation at Divine Silkworm Ridge, alarming cultivators and Dark Supremes across the universe.
• Li Ming rushed to Divine Silkworm Ridge to stand guard as the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor formed a Great Dao Cocoon and began his transformation.

Li Ming helped the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor complete Nirvana and live a Third Lifetime, then agreed to send four Dark Supremes to the Strange World. After they entered through the passage he opened, the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor appeared, having sensed the other world.

• Li Ming added three Immortal Medicine fruits to the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor’s Nirvana, allowing him to emerge young and live a Third Lifetime.
• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor remained in seclusion to consolidate his Dao Fruit, while visitors flocked to Divine Silkworm Ridge and were turned away.
• Four Dark Supremes came to Undying Mountain and asked Li Ming to send them to the Strange World so they could seek a way to extend their lives.
• Li Ming agreed, warned the four Dark Supremes that the Strange World held powerful rivals, and gave them Immortal Medicine fruits to take along.
• Li Ming opened a passage through the World Barrier, and the four Dark Supremes entered the Strange World after thanking him.
• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor appeared after the passage closed, having sensed the Strange World and believing he could open a passage there himself.

Li Ming watched the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor survive the collapse of his Third Lifetime and emerge into a Fourth Lifetime. After reaching one hundred and five thousand years of age, the Divine Emperor entered a mysterious coffin to pursue his Red Dust Immortal transformation, leaving Li Ming convinced he would succeed.

• Li Ming opened a brief passage to the Strange World and sent four frail Dark Supremes through before it closed.
• Thirty thousand years later, the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor's Grand Dao Brand shattered, but he transformed inside a nine-colored cocoon and lived out a Fourth Lifetime.
• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor returned to Divine Silkworm Ridge, taught his clansmen for several hundred years, then left an Extreme Dao Weapon and wandered as a mortal.
• After another twenty thousand years, the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor forged a mysterious coffin and discussed his transformation method with Li Ming.
• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor bowed to Li Ming, entered the coffin, and vanished into the void to begin his next transformation.

After the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor departed, the Grand Dao revived and Yama’s Son achieved Emperor Enlightenment, ushering in an age of Underworld rule. After Yama Emperor’s reign ended, a Nether Beast born in the Netherworld Soil emerged as the Underworld’s next contender, defeated the peerless talents on the Ancient Starry Sky Road, and attained Emperor Enlightenment.

• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor buried himself in the Divine Spirit Ninefold Coffin, and his Grand Dao Suppression faded over the following ten thousand years.
• Yama’s Son overcame the peerless talents and sealed Quasi-Emperors, survived his tribulation, and became the new Yama Emperor.
• Yama Emperor ruled for more than twenty-five thousand years, died in meditation, and was followed by another ten thousand years before his Grand Dao traces vanished.
• A Nether Emperor’s Son nurtured in the Underworld’s Netherworld Soil entered the Ancient Starry Sky Road and defeated or forced the submission of its peerless talents.
• The Nether Beast overcame his Emperor Enlightenment Tribulation and became the Underworld Emperor, then ruled quietly and protected the myriad spirits during his reign.