Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• As his primordial spirit dies away, Li Ming’s body is sealed within the Immortal Tear Green Gold Vein of Undying Mountain. Primordial lightning, the mountain’s power, and the surrounding Great Dao revive his divine consciousness, transforming him into an unprecedented immortal-tear-green-gold sacred-spirit embryo.
• The transformation takes nearly a million years. Li Ming awakens in a new form, apparently a cultivable perfected sacred spirit at the ninth heaven of Quasi-Emperor. His past is concealed so completely that even ancient Dark Supremes cannot identify him.
• During the Primordial Era, Li Ming travels the Ancient Starry Sky Road and observes history before summoning an enlightenment tribulation. The age’s emperors include Ning Fei, Longevity Daoist, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who rises again after repeated setbacks. Primordial races flourish and oppress humanity until human emperors such as the Lunar and Solar Saint Emperors restore some of its standing.
• Li Ming withstands a vast tribulation, including manifestations of the Primal Ten Evils, with ease. Though he appears to be a sacred spirit, he is actually still a Chaotic Body and has entered his fourth lifetime.

Character development and interactions

• Li Ming’s million-year transformation gives him a fresh identity and makes his past virtually impossible to trace. He remains confident and curious, choosing to study the era and the nature of the Chaotic Body rather than immediately reclaiming his former status.
• His encounters with the tribulation’s powerful manifestations demonstrate how far he has surpassed ordinary Quasi-Emperors. He also creates the Saint Spirit Heaven-Mending Scripture, extending his growing body of cultivation teachings.
• The chapter recounts the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s repeated losses and revivals, followed by his eventual return to power. It also notes the later rise of human emperors who resist the Primordial races’ persecution.

Significant themes

• Rebirth and severing the past: Sacred-spirit transformation can produce a genuinely new life, obscuring the person’s former identity.
• Longevity and risk: The method may offer emperors and Dark Supremes longer lives and greater strength, but its danger discourages them from trying it.
• Potential of the Chaotic Body: Li Ming believes this physique has been underdeveloped and intends to explore its ability to encompass and harmonize all things.
• Power, fortune, and oppression: The Primordial Era’s rise of nonhuman emperors brings prosperity to their races but deepens humanity’s subjugation, setting the stage for human resistance.

Chapter Summary: Yun Gen Impersonates Carefree Heavenly Venerable

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Immortal Tears Green Gold Spirit, Li Ming, undergoes an extraordinarily powerful Heavenly Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland. He effortlessly destroys or absorbs successive tribulations, including phantoms of legendary Immortal Kings.
• His performance confirms that he is an Immortal Tears Green Gold Spirit. Unlike ordinary Sacred Spirits, he can continue cultivating and has achieved Alternative Enlightenment without merging with the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes view Li Ming as valuable prey, hoping to devour him to repair their Immortal Platform Rifts or extend their lives.
• A Dark Supreme attacks Li Ming with enormous tombstones, but Li Ming destroys them with ease.
• The attacker reveals himself as a man disguised as Carefree Heavenly Venerable. Li Ming recognizes that he is actually Ancient Emperor Yun Geng, who has inherited Carefree Heavenly Venerable’s techniques and is impersonating him.
• Yun Geng intends to seize Li Ming’s body, origin, and Primordial Spirit, merging with him to survive another lifetime.
• Yun Geng initially attacks with the extreme speed of Nine Secrets: Xing, but Li Ming easily evades and overwhelms him. Forced into desperation, Yun Geng undergoes Extreme Sublimation.
• During his final assault, Yun Geng combines Nine Secrets: Xing, Nine Secrets: Jie, the Divine Forbidden State, time-based techniques, and countless tombstones. His power reaches the level of a formidable Heavenly Venerable.
• Despite Yun Geng’s greatly increased strength, Li Ming destroys his attacks with a single palm strike. Yun Geng’s body and Primordial Spirit disintegrate, while Li Ming extracts his origin and claims his two Extreme Dao Weapons: the Immortal Tear Green Gold Treasure Vase and the Humanoid Tree Trunk.
• Li Ming notices that the Humanoid Immortal Medicine is missing, suggesting Yun Geng may have hidden or transferred it elsewhere.
• After witnessing Li Ming’s effortless victory, the Forbidden Zone Supremes fall silent and refuse to confront him.

Character Developments

• Li Ming: His overwhelming strength is established. Even without merging with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, he can defeat an Ancient Emperor undergoing Extreme Sublimation. He remains calm, confident, and contemptuous of the Forbidden Zone Supremes, treating Yun Geng’s ultimate attack as insignificant.
• Ancient Emperor Yun Geng: Revealed as the person impersonating Carefree Heavenly Venerable. His mastery of Carefree Heavenly Venerable’s techniques and his hidden strength show that he was far more powerful than other Supremes realized. However, his arrogance and obsession with possessing Li Ming lead him to risk his life and ultimately die.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerable: Though absent, his legacy drives the conflict. Yun Geng’s imitation of him emphasizes the Heavenly Venerable’s influence and the unusual connection between the two figures.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes: Their greed is exposed, but so is their cowardice. They initially regard both Li Ming and Yun Geng as prey, yet immediately retreat into silence after seeing Li Ming’s strength.

Significant Themes

• Power beyond conventional limits: Li Ming’s strength challenges established assumptions about Sacred Spirits and Alternative Enlightenment.
• Impersonation and inheritance: Yun Geng adopts Carefree Heavenly Venerable’s appearance and techniques, reversing the original relationship in which Carefree had once used Yun Geng.
• Arrogance versus reality: Yun Geng believes Extreme Sublimation will guarantee victory, but Li Ming’s superior strength renders his sacrifice meaningless.
• The desperation of the Forbidden Zones: The Supremes’ willingness to devour others for survival contrasts with Li Ming’s contempt for their methods.
• Fear beneath claims of invincibility: The supposedly supreme Ancient Emperors immediately become cautious and submissive after witnessing Li Ming’s victory.

Character Interactions

• Li Ming and Yun Geng: Their confrontation begins with Yun Geng asserting that he is Carefree Heavenly Venerable. Li Ming sees through the disguise, mocks him as “old thief Yun Geng,” and allows him to display his full strength before killing him effortlessly.
• Li Ming and the Forbidden Zone Supremes: The Supremes observe Li Ming as potential prey, but after he annihilates Yun Geng, they avoid eye contact and pretend to be asleep. Li Ming openly ridicules them as cowards.
• Yun Geng and Carefree Heavenly Venerable’s legacy: Yun Geng’s combat style mirrors Carefree’s, showing that he has absorbed or copied his inheritance, yet his attempt to replace the Heavenly Venerable ultimately fails.

Summary of “Li Ming’s Doubts”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming originally intends to lure out and kill several careless Ancient Emperor Supremes, but the surviving Dark Supremes have become too cautious to take the bait.
• Because the Life Forbidden Zones contain too many Dark Supremes, Li Ming decides against directly attacking them all. Instead, he triggers another Heavenly Tribulation to announce his breakthrough and intimidate them.
• Rather than merging with the Heavenly Heart Imprint like ordinary Emperors, Li Ming destroys it with a punch, breaks through the Myriad Dao of Heaven and Earth, and literally stands on the Imprint to achieve Emperor Enlightenment.
• His breakthrough establishes him as the sole Enlightened One of the current era. His Grand Dao Suppression prevents anyone else from achieving Emperor Enlightenment during his lifetime.
• The Dark Supremes are stunned by this unprecedented method and alarmed by Li Ming’s overwhelming power, especially after witnessing him previously kill Ancient Emperor Yun Geng even after Yun Geng’s Extreme Sublimation.
• Some surviving figures from the Age of Mythology recognize Li Ming’s aura as that of the long-feared Demon Venerable. They realize that he has survived for millions of years and successfully transformed into an Immortal Tears Green Gold Sacred Spirit.
• Although frightened, many Dark Supremes remain convinced that Li Ming will eventually succumb to time, dissolve into the Dao, or become a Forbidden Zone Supreme like themselves.
• After his enlightenment, Li Ming’s mysterious Bronze Mirror manifests and absorbs the enormous Faith Power gathered over millions of years. Li Ming again wonders about its origins.
• The chapter closes by reflecting on Li Ming’s extraordinary rise from an ordinary Mortal Body to a Chaotic Body and a Heavenly Emperor-level existence.

2. Character Developments

• Li Ming: Demonstrates absolute confidence, strategic caution, and overwhelming strength. He refuses to fight battles that could cause him losses, but he is willing to challenge the laws of the universe themselves. His Chaotic Body allows him to comprehend all Daos and makes the Heavenly Heart Imprint unnecessary. He also remains deeply curious about the mysterious Bronze Mirror that enabled his rise.
• Ancient Emperor Yun Geng: His earlier defeat and death are emphasized as proof of Li Ming’s extraordinary combat power. Even after undergoing Extreme Sublimation, Yun Geng could not injure Li Ming before being killed.
• Dark Supremes: Their arrogance gives way to fear and uncertainty. They recognize Li Ming as a potentially resurrected Demon Venerable but continue to rationalize that time will eventually defeat him.
• Mythology-Era survivors: Their reaction reveals that the Demon Venerable had once surpassed or defeated major figures such as Emperor Zun, Netherworld Venerable, Daode Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, and Boundless Heavenly Venerable.
• The Bronze Mirror: Remains an unexplained but immensely powerful presence. It has protected Li Ming, concealed him from higher powers, enabled his development, and can absorb vast Faith Power without visibly changing.

3. Significant Themes

• Defiance of established cultivation laws: Li Ming overturns the accepted method of becoming an Emperor by destroying and suppressing the Heavenly Heart Imprint rather than merging with it.
• Power versus survival: The Dark Supremes believe survival requires sacrificing morality, devouring living beings, and waiting for the Road to Immortality. Li Ming’s existence challenges their belief that endurance and self-severing are the only paths forward.
• Fear of the unknown: The Dark Supremes are terrified not only by Li Ming’s strength but by his unfamiliar Sacred Spirit path and mysterious origins.
• Arrogance and denial: Although frightened, the Dark Supremes refuse to accept that Li Ming’s path may succeed. They comfort themselves with the expectation that he will eventually fail, age, or beg them for help.
• The mystery of destiny and external intervention: Li Ming’s transformation from a Mortal Body into a Chaotic Body suggests that the Bronze Mirror has allowed him to escape the ordinary rules and predetermined structure of the world.
• Human exploitation and oppression: The chapter highlights how both the Primordial races and Human Race Dark Supremes treated ordinary humans as resources, especially for repairing damaged Immortal Platforms.

4. Character Interactions

• Li Ming and the Dark Supremes: Li Ming provokes and intimidates them through his public breakthrough, while they respond with fear, resentment, and secret hopes that he will eventually fall.
• Li Ming and the Heavenly Heart Imprint: Their relationship is portrayed almost humorously: the Imprint appears eager to merge with him, but Li Ming smashes it apart and tramples it, symbolizing his rejection of conventional authority.
• Li Ming and Ancient Emperor Yun Geng: Yun Geng serves as a direct demonstration of Li Ming’s superiority; despite using every available enhancement, he is effortlessly overwhelmed.
• Mythology-Era Dark Supremes and the Demon Venerable: Their memories of the Demon Venerable reveal longstanding fear and inferiority. They dare not even mention him openly or warn others, lest he detect their connection and retaliate.
• Li Ming and the Bronze Mirror: Their interaction is indirect but central. The mirror has shaped Li Ming’s destiny, yet he still cannot understand it, leaving their connection as one of the chapter’s major mysteries.

Key plot points and events

• Li Ming reflects on the Red Dust Immortal path, concluding that successive lifetimes can bring immense gains but that strength may fluctuate during transformation. He believes powerful cultivators have hidden reserves and that reaching Heavenly Emperor-level strength improves one’s chances of advancing.
• He assesses the Undying Heavenly Emperor as stronger than in the original history, likely in his fourth or fifth lifetime and currently undergoing Nirvana. The emperor has stolen the bodies of the Solar and Lunar Saint Emperors to aid his transformations. Li Ming intends to confront him, both for his crimes and because he has let him escape before.
• Li Ming mourns the near-erasure of the Solar and Lunar Saint Emperors’ descendants. He honors the emperors’ contributions to the Human Race, while acknowledging that later generations’ corruption may explain why the emperors did not intervene.
• During his own transformation, Li Ming receives immense Faith Power. His Bronze Mirror converts it into Destiny Power, revealing a connection between the two. He chooses not to cultivate through faith, directing some power to his weapons and the rest to the mirror.
• Li Ming’s transformation produces a three-cubic-unit block of Immortal Tear Green Gold, mystically linked to him. He decides not to forge another weapon, since he already possesses many powerful arms and has established defenses around Ziwei Star.
• His Heavenly Demonic Saber, made from exceptional materials and long tempered by battle, has become an Immortal Weapon. Others have tried to find it while he slept, but failed.

Character developments

• Li Ming emerges from his Fourth Lifetime transformation with greater power and a new connection to the Immortal Tear Green Gold. He remains pragmatic: he rejects the burdensome faith-based cultivation path and chooses to keep the gold for an unknown future use.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor is presented as an increasingly dangerous, persistent schemer whose stolen-body Nirvana has made him stronger. Li Ming now sees him as a target.
• The Solar and Lunar Saint Emperors are remembered as loyal defenders of humanity whose legacies have been gravely diminished by the fate of their descendants.
• Li Ming also wonders about the absent Emperor Zun, Daode Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, Xiao Yao, and the Snow Lotus Fairy, whose current circumstances remain unknown.

Significant themes

• Transformation and uncertain power: Each new lifetime can elevate a cultivator, but the path is uneven and may involve temporary weakness.
• Faith, destiny, and control: Faith Power can become Destiny Power, but its unstable nature makes it dangerous and unsuitable for Li Ming’s preferred path.
• Legacy and historical debt: Great rulers may be forgotten, while their descendants’ failures complicate the question of what later generations owe them.
• Ambition and moral cost: The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s pursuit of power involves stealing from other enlightened beings and destroying their legacies.

Character interactions

• The chapter is largely reflective, centering on Li Ming’s judgments of other powerful figures and his memories of prior encounters with the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Li Ming’s relationship with the emperor is adversarial: he has previously spared him for observation and experimentation, but now plans to confront him over his crimes.
• Li Ming expresses respect for the Solar and Lunar Saint Emperors and sympathy for their lost bloodlines, while remaining cautious about interfering in their descendants’ affairs.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• News spreads that Li Ming, once believed dead, has revived through the Saint Spirit Transformation Method and attained enlightenment again as the Demon Venerable. The Human Race celebrates, while Primordial Royal Clans that had helped suppress humanity grow fearful.
• Li Ming returns to Ziwei Star, where crowds of holy masters and sect leaders gather to welcome him. His Chaotic Body resonates with the Myriad Dao: merely being near him eases ailments and helps cultivators advance. He expounds the Great Dao to his visitors for a week.
• The return greatly strengthens the status of the Sun-Moon Holy Land, whose current master, Li Xian, is relieved that the sect’s ancient prestige and security are assured.
• In the holy land’s sacred grounds, Li Ming discovers that the Lunar Saint Emperor and Solar Saint Emperor each left behind their complete scripture. They had done so out of gratitude for Li Ming’s teachings and care for the lineage.
• Li Ming reflects on the difficulty of the Red Dust Immortal Path. The world’s laws and spiritual energy have weakened over successive eras, and most Dark Supremes prefer to wait for the Road to Immortality rather than pursue this path. Li Ming remains committed to it and hopes that becoming an immortal could eventually help restore the universe.

Character developments

• Li Ming becomes a public symbol of Human Race power and a protector of Ziwei Star’s lineages. Privately, he remains focused on advancing beyond the Human Dao realm and is confident that he can complete the Red Dust Immortal Path.
• Li Xian, initially troubled by being only a Saint and fearing his sect would decline under his leadership, regains confidence when Li Ming returns.
• The Lunar and Solar Saint Emperors are presented as generous and principled: both valued Li Ming’s guidance and preserved their scriptures for his lineage.

Character interactions

• Ziwei Star’s leaders and visiting Primordial factions approach Li Ming to pay their respects; his reception and Dao lecture demonstrate his immense influence.
• Li Xian leads the Sun-Moon Holy Land’s guests in welcoming Li Ming.
• Li Ming’s earlier guidance of the Lunar and Solar Saint Emperors connects him to their legacies, which now enrich the Sun-Moon Holy Land.

Significant themes

• Human revival and political balance: Li Ming’s return gives humanity a powerful defender against Primordial oppression.
• Legacy and gratitude: The two scriptures embody the emperors’ appreciation for Li Ming and their effort to preserve their teachings.
• The limits of inheritance: The Solar and Lunar Scriptures contain profound secrets, but combining them to become a Chaotic Body is perilous and cannot simply reproduce the emperors’ success. Li Ming’s own Chaos Scripture is likewise unsuitable for ordinary successors.
• Perseverance and historical decline: Though the universe’s cultivation environment has deteriorated and immortality seems unattainable, Li Ming chooses the difficult path of transformation rather than waiting passively for escape.

Key plot points and events

• Li Ming reflects on how much he has altered history: Lingbao Tianzun, Daode Tianzun, and Boundless Heavenly Venerable have all escaped their original fates. He has taught Sun-Moon Holy Land only selected Nine Secret Techniques, avoiding an excess of coveted teachings.
• He considers the cycle that produces Dark Supremes: killing the current ones would not solve the underlying problem, since future enlightened cultivators may still become desperate for immortality. His own priority is completing his Red Dust Immortal transformation, not waging a costly war against the Forbidden Zones.
• Li Ming suspects the Undying Heavenly Emperor has been corrupted by the Dark Strangeness and is behaving differently than in the original history. He expects the Emperor may eventually target his Chaotic Body Origin, making him a likely future threat.
• After Li Ming again achieves Enlightenment as Supreme, the Primordial Species grow subdued, but the Primordial Imperial Clans remain brazen, apparently emboldened by their living ancestors. Li Ming considers confronting them.
• News of the Demon Venerable’s return draws Human Race Saints and Quasi-Emperors from across the cosmos to Ziwei Star. They gather at Sun-Moon Holy Land, hoping to see Li Ming and learn from his presence.
• After more than a century, Li Ming reveals his true Chaotic Body and personally expounds the Dao for three years. His teaching brings sudden breakthroughs, physical improvements, and new clarity to the assembled cultivators. He suppresses their lightning tribulations and protects them during their advances.

Character developments

• Li Ming is more powerful and experienced than ever, with a clearer understanding of the Heavenly Heart Imprint. He is cautious about long-term threats, but also accepts his role as a source of guidance and support for the Human Race.
• Li Xian, master of Sun-Moon Holy Land, advances from Saint to Great Saint in just over a century. Li Ming’s presence and an Immortal Medicine fruit give him confidence that he may one day become a Quasi-Emperor.
• The visiting Human Race cultivators gain insight and confidence, with many breaking through during Li Ming’s lecture.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor emerges as a more ominous and uncertain figure: Li Ming suspects he has been changed by the Dark Strangeness and may covet Li Ming’s Chaotic Origin.

Significant themes

• Changing fate and unintended consequences: Li Ming has saved or redirected important figures, yet history’s deeper cycles remain difficult to break.
• The limits of force: Destroying present Dark Supremes would not prevent future ones from arising without a solution to the pursuit of immortality.
• Cultivation through guidance and proximity: Li Ming’s presence alone helps others resonate with the Dao, while his lecture transforms individual understanding and strengthens the Human Race.
• Responsibility and caution: Though powerful enough to challenge the Forbidden Zones, Li Ming prioritizes his own cultivation and avoids a war whose costs may outweigh its benefits.
• Collective pride: The gathering and Li Ming’s teaching renew the Human Race’s confidence and sense of unity.

Character interactions

• Human Race Saints and Quasi-Emperors travel to Ziwei Star and wait over a century for an audience with Li Ming. They honor him as the Demon Venerable, while he declines the title Human Sovereign.
• Li Ming’s long stay benefits Sun-Moon Holy Land and its visitors alike; Li Xian welcomes the resulting influx of knowledge and cultivation opportunities.
• During the three-year lecture, Li Ming teaches the Five Great Secret Realms, answers the crowd’s need for direction, and shields those who break through from their tribulations. The grateful cultivators depart praising him and the guidance he gave them.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming summons the Heavenly Demonic Saber and channels the enormous Faith Power gathered around him into it. The saber develops mysterious inner visions of countless human and other-race figures, suggesting it is evolving into a faith-based weapon and possibly a future Human Race Sacred Weapon.
• Li Ming reflects that his own Chaotic Body and mastery of the Dao make weapons secondary to him. He nevertheless plans to forge a second weapon, the Heaven-Burying Coffin, believing that carrying it alongside the saber would better suit his status as the Demon Venerable.
• Li Xian, the Great Saint and Holy Lord of the Sun-Moon Holy Land, is summoned. Li Ming encourages his progress and gives him two powerful inheritances: Ancient Emperor Yun Geng’s scripture and Li Ming’s own Source Heaven Scripture. These teachings could allow the Holy Land to prosper even when the Grand Dao is weak and may enable alternative paths to defeating Saints and reaching higher realms.
• Li Ming reflects on his million-year-old clan and his efforts to protect them. The Peach Tree seeds he planted have grown into a Flat Peach Grove, granting extended lifespans without attracting the danger associated with a true Immortal Medicine.
• After waiting several years, the Holy Lords of the Solar Divine Sect and Lunar Divine Sect are granted an audience with Li Ming. They present two relic tokens left by their ancestors, the Solar Saint Emperor and Lunar Saint Emperor, intended for a future Human Race cultivator who attained Supreme Enlightenment.
• Li Ming discovers that the tokens contain powerful seals, the complete Solar Scripture and Lunar Scripture, and advanced techniques for transforming lunar power into solar power and solar power into lunar power.
• The relics reveal that both Saint Emperors had pursued the transformation of Yin and Yang. The Solar Saint Emperor had progressed even further, approaching the path of Sacred Spirit transformation.
• The chapter ends by recounting the Lunar Saint Emperor’s extraordinary life: despite the Taiyin Divine Body’s usual fatal limitations, he attained Emperor Enlightenment, survived a second lifetime through an Immortal Medicine, and eventually transformed from a Taiyin Divine Body into a Solar Divine Body.

Character Developments

• Li Ming continues to establish himself as an almost godlike ancestor and protector. His power is immense, but he remains invested in guiding his descendants and securing the long-term future of the Human Race.
• Li Xian grows from an ordinary-talented Saint into a Great Saint and potential Quasi-Emperor under Li Ming’s instruction. Receiving the two scriptures greatly increases the Sun-Moon Holy Land’s future potential.
• The Solar and Lunar Holy Lords demonstrate humility and sound judgment by entrusting their ancestors’ relics to Li Ming rather than attempting to investigate secrets beyond their level.
• The Lunar Saint Emperor is portrayed as a miraculous survivor who overcame the apparent curse of his physique and achieved a profound Yin-Yang transformation.
• The Solar Saint Emperor appears to have surpassed even his predecessor in exploring the connection between solar, lunar, and Sacred Spirit powers.

Significant Themes

• Faith and weapon evolution: The Heavenly Demonic Saber is changing through the accumulation of collective faith, potentially becoming a symbolic weapon of the Human Race.
• Legacy and inheritance: Scriptures, relics, weapons, and cultivation methods are preserved across eras and entrusted to future enlightened figures.
• Protection versus danger: Li Ming carefully strengthens his clan without giving them treasures so attractive that they would invite destruction.
• Transformation and transcendence: The Saint Emperors’ techniques emphasize the unity and interchangeability of Yin and Yang, while the Lunar Saint Emperor’s physical transformation represents overcoming destiny and bodily limitations.
• Power and responsibility: Although Li Ming stands far above nearly everyone else, he uses his strength to educate, protect, and prepare future generations rather than merely dominate them.
• Continuity across lifetimes: The chapter emphasizes rebirth, new lifetimes, revived cultivation, and the way ancient figures can continue influencing later eras.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ming and Li Xian: Li Ming encourages Li Xian, evaluates his potential, and transmits two Supreme Scriptures to him. Their relationship reflects the reverence between an ancient ancestor and a grateful descendant.
• Li Ming and the two Holy Lords: The Holy Lords respectfully surrender the Solar and Lunar Saint Emperors’ tokens. Li Ming accepts them, rewards both men with Flat Peaches, and investigates the relics himself.
• Li Ming and the Saint Emperors’ legacies: Although the Solar and Lunar Saint Emperors are absent, their scriptures and tokens allow Li Ming to uncover their progress in Yin-Yang transformation and their possible connection to Sacred Spirit evolution.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming studies the Dao Tribulation Gold Token and uncovers the true history of the Lunar Saint Emperor’s death.
• The Lunar Saint Emperor had:
  • Mastered the first transformation of Yin and Yang.
  • Reached Emperor Enlightenment.
  • Successfully lived a Third Lifetime, becoming one of the earliest figures to pursue the Red Dust Immortal Path.
  • Obtained Li Ming’s Chaos Scripture and attempted to transform into a Chaotic Body so he could live a Fourth Lifetime.
• Seeking the secret of the Chaotic Body, the Lunar Saint Emperor traveled to Beidou Star and investigated the remnants of its ancient Chaos Grand Formation.
• A seemingly genuine Road to Immortality suddenly appeared, attracting several Dark Supremes. They entered it, believing they could reach the Immortal Domain.
• The Dark Supremes eventually realized the road was false and erupted into a battle with the Lunar Saint Emperor. After an extremely brutal fight, he defeated and killed the sublimated Dark Supremes, suppressing the resulting Dark Turmoil.
• While gravely wounded, the Lunar Saint Emperor was ambushed by the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who severely injured him with the Undying Heavenly Saber and devoured his body.
• Before dying, the Lunar Saint Emperor sent away the Dao Tribulation Gold Token containing his final warning: future emperors should beware the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• His Human Emperor Seal was damaged and lost, while the token eventually returned to the Lunar Divine Sect.
• Li Ming activates the token with Chaos Origin, causing the Lunar Saint Emperor’s final phantom to appear. The emperor recognizes Li Ming, expresses relief that the Human Race may prosper under him, and disappears peacefully after warning him.
• Li Ming then examines the Solar Saint Emperor’s Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Token and discovers that the Solar Saint Emperor suffered a similar fate.
• The Solar Saint Emperor had inherited the Lunar Saint Emperor’s knowledge, transformed between Yin and Yang, and reached a Third Lifetime. Instead of pursuing a Chaotic Body, he attempted to use the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method to live a Fourth Lifetime.
• While half-transformed into a Sacred Spirit Stone Embryo, he was also ambushed by the Undying Heavenly Emperor. He forcibly reverted his transformation and fought back, but was ultimately defeated and devoured.
• Li Ming concludes that the Undying Heavenly Emperor deliberately hunted and consumed both Human Race emperors to absorb their powerful origins. He suspects the emperor may now be hiding with the Kunlun Immortal Bell and possibly undergoing another transformation.
• Li Ming resolves to find the Undying Heavenly Emperor, investigate whether he has been corrupted by Dark Strangeness, and prevent that threat from spreading through the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

2. Character Developments

• Li Ming gains a deeper understanding of the Lunar and Solar Saint Emperors’ accomplishments and deaths. His admiration for them grows, particularly because both had immense potential to become powerful Red Dust Immortals.
• Li Ming becomes increasingly hostile toward the Undying Heavenly Emperor, recognizing him as a patient and calculating predator who has repeatedly exploited others’ pursuit of immortality.
• He also becomes suspicious of the Kunlun Immortal Bell, blaming it for aiding or associating with the Undying Heavenly Emperor and for refusing to acknowledge him.
• The Lunar Saint Emperor is portrayed as a brilliant and self-reliant emperor who cared deeply for the Human Race. Even at death, he sacrificed his final strength to warn future cultivators.
• The Solar Saint Emperor is shown as equally talented but more cautious in his pursuit of a Fourth Lifetime. Despite careful preparation, he was still discovered and killed during his transformation.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor emerges as the chapter’s principal villain: secretive, opportunistic, highly skilled at concealment, and capable of manipulating the appearance of the Road to Immortality to arrange the deaths of powerful opponents.

3. Significant Themes

• The pursuit of immortality and the Red Dust Immortal Path: The chapter emphasizes how exceptional figures seek new lifetimes through different methods—Yin-Yang fusion, Chaotic Body transformation, or Sacred Spirit transformation.
• The danger of ambition and false hope: The Road to Immortality attracts Dark Supremes and emperors with the promise of transcendence, but its apparent opportunity is actually a trap.
• Legacy and remembrance: The Lunar Saint Emperor’s token preserves his final warning, showing how the dead can continue influencing later generations.
• Sacrifice for the Human Race: Despite his personal ambitions, the Lunar Saint Emperor remains committed to protecting humanity and encouraging its future revival.
• Betrayal and predation: The Undying Heavenly Emperor exploits wounded or vulnerable cultivators, turning their pursuit of immortality into an opportunity to steal their origins.
• The limits of talent: Even figures capable of living multiple lifetimes and defeating Dark Supremes can still be destroyed by a carefully planned ambush.
• The threat of Dark Strangeness: Li Ming’s concern shifts from merely defeating the Undying Heavenly Emperor to determining whether he has been corrupted by a deeper and potentially world-threatening force.

4. Character Interactions

• Li Ming and the Lunar Saint Emperor: Through the Dao Tribulation Gold Token, Li Ming encounters the emperor’s final remnant. The Lunar Saint Emperor recognizes Li Ming as the Demon Venerable, congratulates him on living another lifetime, and entrusts him with the warning about the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• The Lunar Saint Emperor and the Dark Supremes: The emperor battles several sublimated Dark Supremes on the false Road to Immortality and defeats them despite being vastly outnumbered and seriously wounded.
• The Lunar Saint Emperor and the Undying Heavenly Emperor: The Undying Heavenly Emperor waits until the Lunar Saint Emperor is exhausted, then ambushes and devours him.
• The Solar Saint Emperor and the Undying Heavenly Emperor: The Solar Saint Emperor is attacked during his Sacred Spirit transformation. Though he interrupts the process and fights desperately, he is ultimately killed and consumed.
• Li Ming and the Undying Heavenly Emperor: Their conflict is not yet direct in the chapter, but Li Ming now views the emperor as a major enemy and possible threat to his own Chaotic Body.
• Li Ming and the Kunlun Immortal Bell: Li Ming resents the bell for withholding its Immortal Dao Runes and suspects it may be connected to the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

Key plot points and events

• Li Ming reflects on the Undying Heavenly Emperor, judging him a powerful but dishonorable predator who ambushes aging emperors. Li Ming believes he could defeat him, though finding him will be the challenge.
• Studying the Solar and Lunar Saint Emperors’ Immortal Gold Tokens, Li Ming gains insight into their yin-yang path and its potential to create a chaotic body. He adds his own knowledge and three Heavenly Venerable strikes to the tokens, intending to return them to their sects.
• After another thousand years, the Sun-Moon Holy Land has become a chaos-filled cultivation sanctuary. Li Xian reaches the Quasi-Emperor realm and recognizes how steadily Li Ming continues to grow.
• Li Ming suddenly releases his full aura across the universe. Human cultivators revere him, while primordial clans submit. Ancient Emperor Weapons try to resist but are suppressed, some even cracking.
• His aura awakens the Dark Supremes in the Life Forbidden Zones. They argue over whether to challenge him, resent his apparent provocation, and speculate that they can wait for his eventual decline and claim his Chaos Origin.
• The Fire Crow Ancient Emperor, ruler of a forbidden zone on Ziwei Star, finally attacks. His immense fire-based Dao bears down on Li Ming, threatening life across the universe.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Ming is increasingly confident in his path toward Red Dust immortality and the immortal apex. The Saint Emperors’ tokens deepen his understanding of chaos and yin-yang transformation.
• Li Xian grows into a Quasi-Emperor and gains a clearer sense of Li Ming’s overwhelming, still-increasing power.
• The Dark Supremes reveal their pride and survival-first worldview: they once ruled as emperors, but now plan to endure and exploit Li Ming if he weakens.
• The Fire Crow Ancient Emperor breaks the uneasy restraint among the Supremes by directly challenging Li Ming.

Significant themes

• The cost of power and longevity: Emperors face predation in old age, while Li Ming’s growing lifespan and vitality set him apart.
• Legacy and historical decay: Ancient achievements and bloodlines can vanish across eras; the tokens preserve knowledge that might otherwise be lost.
• Strength, pride, and submission: Former rulers resist Li Ming’s authority, but their weapons and clans yield when confronted with his greater power.
• Moral responsibility and protection: Unlike the Dark Supremes, Li Ming’s power is associated with safeguarding ordinary people, making his confrontation with them seem increasingly inevitable.

Chapter Summary: “A Divine Hammer Destroys a Forbidden Zone”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming confronts the Flame Mountain Restricted Area, a powerful fire-based Life Forbidden Zone in the East Sea controlled by Fire Crow Ancient Emperor and several fire-aligned Sacred Spirit and Ancient Emperor Supremes.
• Fire Crow Ancient Emperor launches a devastating flame attack, but Li Ming’s Chaotic Body absorbs and devours it through the combined powers of Chaos, Solar and Lunar forces, and the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art. Fire Crow is severely injured after only one exchange.
• Li Ming demands that the Flame Mountain Restricted Area surrender:
  • Tang Valley,
  • the Solar Saint Emperor’s divine tower,
  • and the Fusang Divine Tree.
• His purpose is to reclaim the Solar Saint Emperor’s treasures, which he regards as priceless Human Race inheritances and essential tools for reviving both the Solar and Lunar Saint Emperors.
• The Flame Mountain Supremes refuse and threaten Li Ming with the consequences of forcing them into Extreme Sublimation, claiming that countless lives would be lost in the resulting battle.
• Li Ming ignores their threats and attacks. He first freezes the flames with Lunar Saint Power, deliberately humiliating the fire-aligned Supremes, then summons the Thunder God’s Hammer from the Sun-Moon Holy Land.
• The hammer instantly kills three Perfected Sacred Spirits and two Ancient Emperor Supremes. Fire Crow Ancient Emperor and three others undergo Extreme Sublimation in a final attempt to resist.
• Li Ming throws the entire Flaming Mountain into the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland and kills the four sublimated Supremes by smashing their heads with the Thunder God’s Hammer. Their bodies and Primordial Spirits are absorbed and refined by the hammer’s Weapon Deity.
• The Flame Mountain Restricted Area is effectively destroyed, demonstrating Li Ming’s overwhelming dominance.

Character Developments

• Li Ming/Demon Venerable: His strength has grown dramatically since attaining Enlightenment again and entering a new Lifetime. He is calm, decisive, and utterly unconcerned with the traditional restraint observed among Ancient Emperors. He views the Dark Supremes as decayed corpses responsible for Dark Turmoil and is willing to annihilate them without negotiation.
• Fire Crow Ancient Emperor: Initially confident in his own invincibility, Fire Crow is shocked and enraged after being effortlessly suppressed and injured. His refusal to yield leads him to Extreme Sublimation and ultimately to his death.
• The Flame Mountain Supremes: Their arrogance prevents them from accepting Li Ming’s demands even though other Dark Supremes recognize that surrender would be wiser. Their overconfidence and faith in Extreme Sublimation prove completely misplaced.
• Other Dark Supremes: They react with a mixture of fear, caution, contempt, and opportunism. Older Supremes who remember Li Ming’s former power understand that the Flame Mountain is doomed, while younger or more confident Ancient Emperors believe Li Ming will eventually decline and become vulnerable.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and authority: Li Ming’s victory establishes that his current strength far surpasses ordinary Ancient Emperors and even groups of Dark Supremes.
• Arrogance and misjudgment: Fire Crow and his allies underestimate Li Ming, refusing to compromise despite clear evidence that they cannot win.
• Conflict between old conventions and new dominance: Ancient Emperors traditionally avoid destroying one another’s territories, but Li Ming rejects this tacit understanding and imposes his own rules.
• Protection and ownership of Human Race treasures: Li Ming’s demand for the Fusang Divine Tree and the Solar Saint Emperor’s divine tower reflects his determination to reclaim sacred Human Race inheritances and use them to revive the ancient emperors.
• The moral decay of the Dark Supremes: The forbidden-zone rulers threaten the lives of countless beings without caring about them, revealing their hypocrisy and corruption.
• Renewal versus decline: Li Ming’s renewed growth contrasts with the aging and eventual decay expected of the Dark Supremes, who comfort themselves with the belief that he will one day weaken.

Character Interactions

• Li Ming and Fire Crow Ancient Emperor clash directly, with Li Ming suppressing Fire Crow’s flame Dao almost effortlessly.
• Li Ming confronts the Flame Mountain Supremes and gives them an opportunity to surrender their stolen treasures, but they respond with defiance and threats.
• The surrounding Dark Supremes observe the conflict and debate whether the Flame Mountain should submit, revealing their fear of Li Ming and their differing views of his future.
• The Flame Mountain rulers attempt collective resistance, then Extreme Sublimation, but Li Ming cuts through every defense with the Thunder God’s Hammer.
• The chapter ends with Li Ming’s complete victory, while the other forbidden-zone Supremes are left shocked by how quickly their peers are annihilated.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The deaths of several Flame Mountain Restricted Area Supremes after they underwent Extreme Sublimation trigger the terrifying Sky Cry phenomenon, signaling the fall of former enlightened beings.
• The Dark Supremes across the universe are shocked by Li Ming’s overwhelming strength. Even Sublimated Supremes cannot injure him, and their bodies, Dao fragments, and Extreme Dao Weapons are consumed or refined by him.
• Li Ming cleans up the battlefield, preserving useful Origin Essence Blood and Immortal Gold materials. He also refines the silver Flaming Mountain and sends it to the Sun-Moon Holy Land on Ziwei Star, greatly exciting its inhabitants.
• Returning to Ziwei Star, Li Ming searches the North and East Seas and locates Tang Valley, the hidden domain of the Solar Saint Emperor.
• Within Tang Valley, he discovers the powerful Fusang Divine Tree and the long-lost Solar Divine Tower, both of which had been seized and suppressed by the Flame Mountain Supremes.
• Li Ming removes the seals on the Solar Divine Tower, awakening its Weapon Deity. The tower’s eruption of Solar Saint Emperor aura spreads across Ziwei Star, alarming countless cultivators and causing the Solar Divine Sect to rejoice.
• The Weapon Deity recognizes Li Ming as the Demon Venerable and expresses gratitude for rescuing it. Li Ming reveals that he intends to resurrect the Solar Saint Emperor.
• Li Ming proposes two resurrection methods: using faith to restore him, or transforming the Solar Divine Tower into an Immortal Weapon, allowing the Weapon Deity to cultivate as a human, recover the Solar Saint Emperor’s Dao Fruit, and reunite with it.
• The Weapon Deity warns Li Ming that the Undying Heavenly Emperor may be connected to a mysterious parasitic creature, black demonic patterns, and terrifying black mist. Li Ming dismisses the danger, claiming the Undying Heavenly Emperor is no match for him.

Character Developments

• Li Ming/Demon Venerable: His victory over the Sublimated Supremes further establishes him as an almost invincible existence. He has moved beyond reverence for ordinary Extreme Dao Weapons and now focuses on altering history and resurrecting ancient figures. His intention to save the Solar Saint Emperor shows both his confidence and his desire to prevent the tragic fate recorded in the original timeline.
• Solar Divine Tower’s Weapon Deity: Awakens after being sealed for countless years and immediately recognizes Li Ming. He displays loyalty, gratitude, and immense excitement at the possibility of restoring his master. He also reveals important information about the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Solar Saint Emperor: Though absent, his legacy remains central. His relationship with the Fusang Divine Tree, his lost weapon, his struggles across multiple lifetimes, and his tragic death are all emphasized. Li Ming seeks to give him a new and less tragic destiny.
• Dark Supremes: Their fear and hesitation increase after witnessing Li Ming effortlessly destroy powerful Sublimated Supremes. They recognize the enormous gap between themselves and the Demon Venerable.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and fear: Li Ming’s battle demonstrates the terrifying difference between ordinary Supreme-level beings and a true ancient powerhouse.
• Legacy and remembrance: The Solar Saint Emperor’s aura, weapon, divine tree, and descendants preserve his influence long after his death.
• Resurrection and changing fate: Li Ming’s plan challenges the inevitability of death and seeks to rewrite the Solar Saint Emperor’s tragic history.
• Loyalty between master and weapon: The Solar Divine Tower functions as the continuation of its master’s will and retains his memories, gratitude, and concerns.
• The hidden dangers of power: The revelation that the Undying Heavenly Emperor may be controlled or influenced by a mysterious entity hints at deeper threats beyond ordinary cultivation conflicts.

Character Interactions

• The Dark Supremes discuss whether to unite against Li Ming, but fear prevents them from acting.
• Li Ming encounters the awakened Solar Divine Tower and accepts its respectful greeting, recalling his past influence on the Solar Saint Emperor through the Chaos Scripture, Thunder God’s Heavenly Art, and Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• Li Ming assures the Weapon Deity that he intends to resurrect the Solar Saint Emperor and even provide him with a Chaotic Body.
• The Weapon Deity responds with profound gratitude and warns Li Ming about the Undying Heavenly Emperor, while Li Ming confidently declares that the former enemy cannot defeat him.

Chapter Summary: Fusang Divine Tree and Ten-Lifetime Transformation

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming’s main objective remains obtaining the Fusang Divine Medicine and using the Solar Divine Tower to revive the Solar Saint Emperor.
• He plans to locate the Lunar Saint Emperor’s Human Emperor Seal, then bring both treasures to the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains. There, he hopes to refine them into true Immortal Weapons and help their Weapon Deities undergo Nirvana and become human-like beings.
• Li Ming intends to revive both the Solar and Lunar Saint Emperors through this method, while allowing their sects to continue pursuing revival through faith.
• He firmly opposes the Underworld’s plan to seize the source bloodlines of the Solar and Taiyin Divine Bodies to create a Chaotic Body. If the Yama Emperor, Prison-Suppressing Emperor, or Corpse Emperor pursue this plan, Li Ming is prepared to kill them.
• After pacifying the Solar Divine Tower, Li Ming gives it Immortal Gold and Chaos Stone so it can begin refining itself. He later returns it to the Solar Divine Sect.
• The Tower’s return releases overwhelming Extreme Dao Divine Might across the universe. Many beings believe the Solar Saint Emperor has returned, while others interpret the phenomenon as the lingering manifestation of his Dao.
• The Dark Supremes discuss the Solar Saint Emperor’s death and increasingly recognize that the Undying Heavenly Emperor was responsible for attacking him and the Lunar Saint Emperor. They fear the Undying Heavenly Emperor but also covet his Immortal Phoenix origin.
• Li Ming investigates the Fusang Divine Tree in Tang Valley and discovers that it contains Immortal Dao runes, profound Dao fragments, and enough longevity essence to let several Great Emperors live another lifetime.
• He extracts some of its longevity essence for himself, since he has never previously relied on Immortal Medicines or elixirs to extend his life.
• Li Ming decides that merely completing nine Red Dust transformations is no longer enough; he now aims to transform through ten lifetimes.
• Learning that the Moon Laurel Divine Tree vanished alongside the Human Emperor Seal and Lunar Saint Emperor, Li Ming resolves to find it. He believes that studying the opposing supreme-yin and supreme-yang Daos of the Moon Laurel and Fusang Trees may help him achieve another transformation.
• He also hopes to restore the possible Immortal King origins behind these divine medicines, believing their return could produce future powerhouses capable of resisting the dark strangeness.

Character Developments

• Li Ming becomes increasingly ambitious and strategic. His goal expands from reviving the two Saint Emperors to cultivating a network of powerful allies and restoring ancient Immortal King-level existences.
• His confidence grows as he considers surpassing the traditional nine-lifetime Red Dust Immortal Path and pursuing a tenth lifetime.
• Li Ming also shows a protective and authoritarian side: he will defend the Solar and Lunar Divine Sects and destroy anyone who attempts to exploit their bloodlines.
• The Solar Divine Tower demonstrates loyalty and begins its path toward becoming a true Immortal Weapon. Its return reconnects it with the Solar Divine Sect and revives memories of the Solar Saint Emperor throughout the universe.
• The Fusang Divine Tree, though possessing only an immature consciousness, responds with joy to Li Ming’s promise to help it become human and cultivate beyond the limits of an Immortal Medicine.
• The Dark Supremes reveal their fear, envy, and cynicism. They ridicule the Solar Saint Emperor for opposing the Forbidden Zones while secretly worrying that the Undying Heavenly Emperor may eventually target them.

Significant Themes

• Revival and Nirvana: Immortal Weapons and divine medicines may transcend their original forms, become human, and return to higher realms of existence.
• Yin-Yang Complementarity: The Solar and Taiyin bloodlines, as well as the Fusang and Moon Laurel Trees, represent complementary supreme-yang and supreme-yin forces. Their union may create a Chaotic Body or reveal deeper Grand Dao principles.
• Ambition Beyond Tradition: Li Ming rejects the Dark Supremes’ belief that self-slashing and waiting in Forbidden Zones is the only legitimate route to immortality. He seeks a more difficult but potentially greater path through repeated Red Dust transformations.
• Power, Protection, and Exploitation: The chapter contrasts Li Ming’s intention to protect divine bloodlines and medicines with the Underworld’s desire to exploit them for creating a Chaotic Body.
• Legacy and Regret: The Solar Divine Tower’s return evokes the Solar Saint Emperor’s unfinished ambitions, sacrifice, and refusal to compromise with the Forbidden Zones.
• Hidden Origins: The chapter repeatedly suggests that Immortal Medicines may actually be fallen Immortal Kings undergoing Nirvana, raising the possibility that ancient beings can return in new forms.

Character Interactions

• Li Ming communicates with and pacifies the Solar Divine Tower, supplying materials and directing it toward eventual Immortal Weapon transformation.
• He forms a bond with the Fusang Divine Tree by sensing its consciousness and promising to help it become human and reach greater cultivation realms.
• Li Ming’s relationship with the Solar and Lunar Divine Sects is protective and cooperative: he intends to preserve their bloodlines while pursuing the restoration of their lost emperors.
• His opposition to the Underworld places him in direct ideological conflict with the Yama Emperor, Prison-Suppressing Emperor, and Corpse Emperor.
• The Dark Supremes collectively discuss the Solar Saint Emperor and the Undying Heavenly Emperor, revealing their shared fear of the latter despite their usual arrogance.
• Li Ming also reflects on the possible future of other divine medicines, especially the Chaos Green Lotus, imagining them as future Immortal Kings or even higher existences.

Chapter Summary: Mysterious Runes Imprinted by the Undying Heavenly Emperor

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming moves the Fusang Divine Tree into his Chaos-filled Bitter Sea, where it resonates with the White Tiger Divine Medicine, True Dragon Elixir, Immortal Phoenix Divine Medicine, and Flat Peach Divine Medicine.
• His Bitter Sea continues developing toward a self-contained universe, reflecting his goal of using his Chaotic Body to create an internal world independent of the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• Li Ming reflects on the possibilities and limitations of this path:
  • Creating worlds within his body is feasible.
  • Becoming a Red Dust Immortal merely by devouring Dark Supremes is insufficient.
  • He believes Azure Emperor’s attempt to evolve an Immortal Domain in the Desolate Pagoda was ultimately impossible because the true Immortal Domain was formed through countless large-scale fusions and the efforts of many Immortal Kings.
• The Fusang Divine Tree deepens Li Ming’s comprehension of fire-related Dao runes, especially through its similarities to the Immortal Flame.
• Li Ming sends the Solar Divine Palace to the Solar Divine Sect and Tang Valley to the Sun-Moon Holy Land, while keeping the Fusang Divine Tree for himself.
• While traveling from Ziwei Star to Feixian Star through a Chaos Divine Bridge, Li Ming discovers hidden Grand Dao Runes embedded throughout the universe.
• He identifies them as the work of the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who has secretly laid down countless formations and contingencies, apparently preparing to refine the entire universe into a supreme World Cauldron.
• Li Ming chooses not to destroy the runes. Instead, he records them, believing they may help him develop powerful fields by combining them with his Source Heaven Scripture.
• He also considers disguising himself as weak or aged to lure hostile Dark Supremes into an ambush, though he does not yet act on the idea.
• The chapter ends with Li Ming feeling that the Ancient Emperors of the Primordial Era—including the Undying Heavenly Emperor—owe him compensation for benefiting from the Ancient Starry Sky Road and the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method.

Character Developments

• Li Ming grows increasingly confident in the potential of his Chaotic Body. He seeks to evolve his Bitter Sea into a complete universe and eventually develop a unique path toward Red Dust Immortality.
• His understanding of the Chaotic Body expands beyond ordinary cultivation: he believes it may replace the Heavenly Heart Imprint and allow him to escape the limitations of the current world.
• Li Ming becomes more strategically cautious. Rather than immediately interfering with the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s runes, he sees their possible value and plans to repurpose them.
• His attitude toward the Ancient Emperors becomes more assertive and possessive. He views their use of resources connected to his Ancient Starry Sky Road as a debt that may need to be collected.

Significant Themes

• Creation of an inner universe: The chapter explores the idea that a powerful cultivator can evolve a complete world within their body, turning cultivation into a form of cosmic creation.
• Independence from the world’s laws: Li Ming’s rejection of the Heavenly Heart Imprint represents his desire to transcend the restrictions and dependence imposed by the existing universe.
• Different paths to immortality: The text contrasts devouring Dark Supremes with more profound forms of transformation, emphasizing that raw accumulation of power is not enough to become a Red Dust Immortal.
• Hidden conspiracies and cosmic manipulation: The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s runes reveal a long-term plan to control or refine the entire universe.
• Knowledge as power: Li Ming’s awareness of the original storyline allows him to reinterpret historical figures such as Emperor Zun, Azure Emperor, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Moral ambiguity of great cultivators: Emperor Zun and the Undying Heavenly Emperor are portrayed as figures willing to sacrifice worlds, races, or entire universes for their goals.

Character Interactions

• The Fusang Divine Tree forms a mysterious energetic connection with Li Ming’s other divine medicines, suggesting an almost communicative relationship among them.
• Li Ming indirectly strengthens the Solar Divine Sect and Sun-Moon Holy Land by transferring the Solar Divine Palace and Tang Valley to their possession.
• His discovery of the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s runes creates an indirect confrontation between the two. Li Ming does not openly attack him, instead intending to study and potentially exploit the very preparations the Undying Heavenly Emperor created.
• Li Ming’s reflections on Emperor Zun, the Undying Heavenly Emperor, Azure Emperor, and the Immortal Kings place his own ambitions against the failures and sacrifices of earlier supreme cultivators.

Plot points and events

• Li Ming reflects on the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method, which lets a person abandon their former cultivation and begin life anew as a Sacred Spirit. He considers possible ways to accelerate the process, especially through Kunlun’s Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains or the blood of powerful beings, but notes that he has already completed his own transformation.
• He worries about the missing Boundless Heavenly Venerable and hopes he survived the catastrophe at the end of the Mythology Era.
• Following traces of the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s increasingly subtle Grand Dao runes, Li Ming eventually reaches Feixian Star, where many Dark Supremes have established Forbidden Zones.
• He discovers that humans on Feixian Star—descendants of Pre-Qin Qi Practitioners from Earth—have suffered extreme oppression from the Primordial Species. Their position worsened after the Lunar and Solar Saint Emperors died, and the Lunar Saint Emperor’s Human Emperor Seal was seized by a Forbidden Zone.
• Li Ming’s arrival terrifies the Primordial Species and awakens the Dark Supremes. He demands that the Human Emperor Seal be returned to the human race.
• The Forbidden Zones resist, citing old grievances with the Lunar Saint Emperor. Li Ming recognizes them as remnants of the Kunlun Immortal Race and declares that he will eliminate them. He attacks the Kunlun Restricted Area, destroying a divine mountain, and seven Kunlun Supremes emerge to confront him.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Ming shows both concern and possessiveness toward Boundless Heavenly Venerable, whom he wants as an ally. On Feixian Star, his concern for oppressed humans becomes a direct, uncompromising challenge to the Dark Supremes.
• The Dark Supremes initially try to reason with Li Ming, but their indignation and fear grow as he refuses to negotiate. Their reluctance to fight is tied to their desire to await the Road to Immortality.
• The Kunlun remnants invoke their old feud with the Lunar Saint Emperor to justify keeping the Human Emperor Seal. Their confrontation with Li Ming escalates into open violence.
• The Primordial Species are shown as both oppressors of humanity and themselves frightened by Li Ming’s overwhelming power.

Significant themes

• Power and oppression: Feixian Star’s humans endure systematic abuse, and Li Ming’s strength gives him the ability to challenge the order that sustains it.
• Immortality and sacrifice: The Dark Supremes have given up much to await the Road to Immortality, making them hesitant to risk war.
• Transformation and rebirth: Li Ming’s reflections on Sacred Spirit creation explore the possibility of starting over, while emphasizing the long, uncertain cost.
• Justice versus old grudges: The Kunlun Supremes defend their actions through past grievances, while Li Ming frames the return of the Human Emperor Seal as a matter of restoring it to its rightful people.

Chapter Summary

• The attack begins: Seven Dark Supremes ambush Li Ming while he is on Feixian Star, entering Extreme Sublimation and attacking at once. One tries to stomp on his head, while another curses him with hair sprouting across his body. Li Ming burns away the curse with Chaos Flame and kills Supreme Guan Shu of the Kunlun Remnant Race with a single punch.
• The attackers reveal themselves: More enemies arrive, including two curse-wielding Supremes apparently from the Age of Mythology, a Supreme called Chaos, and four ancient evil spirits from the Primordial Ancient Era. Thirteen Dark Supremes gather in total. They blame Li Ming for attacking Kunlun Mountain and intend to kill him, divide his body, and consume his Chaotic Blood and origin.
• Chaos’s ambition: Chaos admits he wants to devour Li Ming and become a true Chaotic Body. Li Ming dismisses him as an imperfect imitation. This strikes at Chaos’s insecurity: he was rejected by the Underworld’s rulers and has long coveted Li Ming’s power.
• The formation is shattered: The thirteen Supremes trap Li Ming in a killing formation built around the Nine Secrets: Zu and backed by thirteen Extreme Dao Weapons. Li Ming breaks it apart with four punches, destroying all thirteen weapons and escaping. His overwhelming display leaves the attackers—and observers in the Forbidden Zones—astonished.
• Li Ming turns the fight around: The Supremes charge him together, but Li Ming draws them into his Chaos Domain, where their attacks cannot reach him. He kills Supreme Yingyu with his fifth punch and Supreme Gudiao with his sixth, then continues fighting while gathering the fallen Supremes’ remains and weapon fragments. The survivors burn their remaining Origin Essence Blood and prepare to fight to the death.

Character Developments and Interactions

Li Ming remains utterly confident and reinforces his reputation as the Demon Venerable, treating the assembled Supremes as inferior foes rather than a serious threat. The attackers’ arrogance gives way to fear as he overwhelms their numbers and destroys their carefully prepared formation. Chaos, however, responds to Li Ming’s strength not with retreat but with greater greed: he still believes consuming Li Ming is his path to becoming complete.

Significant Themes

• Strength as authority: Li Ming asserts that deeds, not boasts, decide who rules.
• Arrogance versus reality: The Supremes expect their numbers and preparation to guarantee victory, only to discover the vast gulf between them and Li Ming.
• Envy and the desire for transformation: Chaos’s ambition to acquire Li Ming’s essence reflects his resentment of his own incomplete nature.
• The Demon Venerable’s legend: Li Ming’s actions turn his fearsome reputation into something the watching Supremes can no longer dismiss.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chaos Supreme transforms into his true Chaos form, merging the power of the other nine Dark Supremes and turning the surrounding starry sky into a restrictive domain.
• Li Ming remains completely unaffected because his evolved Super Chaotic Body is immune to all techniques and naturally aligned with the Myriad Dao.
• Li Ming defeats the Dark Supremes one by one with overwhelming ease:
  • His eighth punch annihilates Chaos Supreme.
  • His ninth punch destroys Supreme Xuangui despite his legendary defensive tortoise shell.
  • Supreme Bifang’s “Hundred Thousand Crimson Divine Feathers” are devoured by Li Ming’s Chaotic Phenomenon, and Bifang is killed by a single punch.
  • Supreme Heluo Fish and other fleeing Supremes are tracked through Chaos and destroyed.
• Li Ming draws the Heavenly Demonic Saber and slaughters the remaining Dark Supremes. The fourteen Dark Supremes of Feixian Star are completely eliminated.
• Their deaths trigger the “Sky Cry” phenomenon: black rain, crimson lightning, wailing ghosts, and other ominous signs spread across the universe.
• Li Ming collects their Origin Essence Blood, Grand Dao fragments, weapon fragments, and bones. Their remains strengthen the Heavenly Demonic Saber and may provide enough essence for him to undergo another lifetime.
• The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands are shaken by the news. The Human Race celebrates Li Ming as an invincible myth, while ancient Supremes are stunned by his strength.
• Li Ming returns to Feixian Star and challenges the remaining Dark Restricted Areas, demanding the Moon Laurel Divine Tree.
• The surviving Dark Supremes refuse to fight and instead offer large quantities of Immortal Gold as compensation for past crimes. Li Ming accepts their tribute but still insists that they hand over the Moon Laurel Divine Tree.

Character Developments

• Li Ming: His invincibility is firmly established. His Chaotic Body proves capable of neutralizing even the combined powers of numerous Dark Supremes. He becomes more confident and openly domineering, using his victory to pressure other Forbidden Zone Supremes into surrendering treasures. He also gains valuable Origin Essence Blood and Dao insights that may help him extend his life and deepen his cultivation.
• Chaos Supreme: His imitation of the Chaotic Body is exposed as fundamentally inferior to Li Ming’s true Chaotic Body. Despite merging the strength of nine other Supremes, he is destroyed by one punch.
• The Dark Supremes: Once proud and invincible figures, they are reduced to terrified fugitives. The surviving Supremes regret being deceived by Kunlun Supreme and realize they cannot escape or defeat Li Ming.
• The Human Race: Its members increasingly regard the title “Demon Venerable” with admiration rather than fear or contempt, treating Li Ming as their greatest protector and a legendary figure.

Significant Themes

• Absolute superiority of true power: The battle demonstrates that numerical advantage, forbidden techniques, and Extreme Dao Weapons are meaningless before a truly perfected Chaotic Body.
• Invincibility and isolation: Li Ming’s overwhelming strength places him at the peak of the Human Dao, leaving no opponent capable of seriously challenging him.
• Fear and submission under power: The surviving Dark Supremes surrender treasures not because of justice or goodwill, but because they recognize that resistance would mean death.
• Legacy and mythmaking: Li Ming’s victory becomes a historical legend, validating earlier claims that he had slain dozens of Dark Supremes during the Age of Mythology.
• Humor amid grandeur: Despite his terrifying status, Li Ming casually thinks about forging a Heaven-Burying Coffin, posing with it beneath his feet and the Heavenly Demonic Saber in hand, complete with dramatic background music inspired by his childhood admiration for Qiao Feng.

Character Interactions

• Li Ming overwhelms each Dark Supreme in direct combat, often dismissing their strongest techniques and defenses with contemptuous ease.
• His comments—such as calling Xuangui’s famed shell merely “quite hard”—further humiliate the defeated Supremes.
• The fleeing Supremes discover that Li Ming’s resonance with Chaos makes escape impossible.
• The surviving Forbidden Zone Supremes challenge Li Ming’s justification for attacking them, but he claims their clansmen once harmed the Human Race and demands justice, clearly using the grievance as a pretext to extort them.
• They attempt to appease him with Immortal Gold, but Li Ming remains unsatisfied and demands the Moon Laurel Divine Tree as the final price.

Key plot points and events

• After destroying the Kunlun Restricted Area, Demon Venerable Li Ming confronts Feixian Star’s other Forbidden Zones and demands the Moon Laurel Divine Tree. His Heavenly Demonic Saber intimidates the Dark Supremes and also protects the planet’s humans.
• The Supremes initially resist, but one persuades the others to avoid a costly fight. They surrender the Moon Laurel Divine Tree and additional Immortal Gold. Li Ming also possesses the Human Emperor Seal, bringing him closer to his plan to revive the Lunar and Solar Saint Emperors.
• Li Ming stays on Feixian Star and lectures its human cultivators on the Dao for ninety-nine years. His teaching sparks many breakthroughs, including advances to Saint and Quasi-Emperor realms.
• To help protect the humans from the powerful Primordial Imperial Clans, Li Ming uses the surrendered materials to forge three Extreme Dao Weapons: the Heaven, Earth, and Human Pagodas.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Ming shows both overwhelming confidence and restraint: he forces the Forbidden Zones to yield but stops short of fighting them all, recognizing that a united battle would be dangerous. He then shifts from conquest to strengthening Feixian Star’s humans.
• The Dark Supremes are angered and humiliated by Li Ming, but choose survival over confrontation. They privately vow to wait for a chance to retaliate.
• The Primordial Imperial Clans fear Li Ming’s power and keep their distance. They warn their members not to antagonize humans while he remains on the planet.
• The human cultivators respond to Li Ming’s lecture with enthusiasm, gaining insights and breaking through long-standing limits.

Significant themes

• Power and deterrence: Li Ming’s reputation, built on defeating Dark Supremes, compels even ancient rulers to retreat.
• Strengthening the vulnerable: He uses his influence not only to defeat enemies but to give humans knowledge, morale, and weapons.
• Restraint and calculation: Though he boasts of his strength, Li Ming avoids needlessly provoking a battle against all the Forbidden Zones at once.
• Legacy and revival: The Moon Laurel Divine Tree and Human Emperor Seal advance his larger plan to revive the Lunar and Solar Saint Emperors.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming completes the Heaven-Earth-Human Three Pagodas, forging them from rare Immortal Golds and branding them with Immortal Dao Runes. Though currently Extreme Dao Weapons, they can eventually evolve into true Immortal Weapons through the Faith Power of Feixian Star’s human population.
• He distributes the pagodas among the inheritances of Boundless Heavenly Venerable, Daode Tianzun, and Lingbao Tianzun, intending to strengthen the Human Race of Feixian Star and help them escape oppression and exploitation by the Primordial Imperial Clans.
• Li Ming leaves Feixian Star after sincerely supporting its humans, despite the Dark Supremes’ suspicion that he might attack them.
• He travels to Beidou Star in search of fragments of the Lunar Saint Emperor’s corpse, having already received news that the Solar Divine Tower located traces of the Solar Saint Emperor’s remains.
• Using his Chaotic Body and overwhelming power, Li Ming forcibly opens a hidden Road to Immortality by punching through empty space. The rupture releases Immortal Spirit Qi and powerful Immortal Spirits.
• His actions awaken countless Dark Supremes, who speculate that he is attempting to become immortal, imitate Emperor Zun, or has reached the end of his lifespan.
• Li Ming enters the Road to Immortality, destroys its Immortal Spirits, breaks through the first city pass, and reaches the Chaos Cavern.
• Inside, he discovers terrifying undying flames formed from the blood of ancient Supremes and Ancient Emperors who died there. After destroying many of these flames, he finds a vast field of blood, bones, and flesh.
• Li Ming detects the distinctive Grand Dao resonance of the Lunar Saint Emperor, confirming that fragments of the Saint Emperor’s remains are present.

Character Developments

• Li Ming is portrayed as extraordinarily powerful, wealthy in resources, and increasingly confident. He can mass-produce Extreme Dao Weapons and forcibly breach the Road to Immortality, yet he also shows strategic judgment by recognizing that personal cultivation matters more than possessing countless weapons.
• His protective side develops through his serious efforts to uplift the Human Race of Feixian Star. He is not merely pursuing power; he is actively reshaping the fate of an oppressed population.
• Li Ming’s ambitions expand as he plans to forge the massive Heaven-Burying Coffin, incorporating his finest materials into an ultimate weapon.
• The Dark Supremes are shown as fearful, suspicious, and desperate. Their obsession with immortality drives them to consider following Li Ming, while their fear of his strength prevents them from acting openly.

Significant Themes

• Power versus dependence: Weapons can enhance a cultivator, but true strength ultimately comes from one’s own cultivation and Dao.
• Faith and collective development: The Human Race’s growth and belief can nourish the Three Pagodas, linking the people’s prosperity to the evolution of their protectors.
• Immortality and obsession: The Dark Supremes’ endless pursuit of immortality has reduced them to fearful, calculating beings willing to risk everything.
• Legacy and remains: The bodies and blood of past Ancient Emperors continue to influence the present, showing how the struggles of earlier eras leave lasting traces.
• Misunderstood intentions: The Dark Supremes interpret Li Ming’s actions as a possible attempt to seize immortality or ambush them, while his actual purpose is to search for the Lunar Saint Emperor’s remains.

Character Interactions

• Li Ming entrusts the Three Pagodas to the inheritances of the three Heavenly Venerables, establishing a cooperative relationship between his power and the Human Race’s religious and cultivation traditions.
• The Dark Supremes debate whether to follow Li Ming into the Road to Immortality. Some want to exploit the opportunity, while others fear provoking him.
• Several Dark Supremes form an alliance, hoping Li Ming will be wounded so they can attack and seize his Chaos Origin.
• The wider cultivation world watches Li Ming’s actions with awe, assuming that his entry into the Road to Immortality is an attempt to become immortal.
• The chapter ends with Li Ming discovering evidence of the Lunar Saint Emperor’s presence, setting up his search for the Emperor’s flesh and bones.

Chapter Summary: “Reviving the Lunar and Solar Emperors”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming enters the blood-soaked Chaos surrounding the Road to Immortality, where the remains of the Solar Saint Emperor and several Dark Supremes lie scattered. The corpses bear overwhelming Extreme Dao pressure, confirming that they were destroyed in a catastrophic battle connected to the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Li Ming locates the Lunar Saint Emperor’s surviving finger and uses a Summoning Art to gather the scattered fragments of his body. The finger guides the other remains—arms, legs, torso, head, and flesh fragments—back through the Chaos until the corpse is reassembled.
• Li Ming repairs the body with Chaos Essence, but discovers that the Lunar Saint Emperor’s Divine Substance and most of his Lunar and Solar Essence have been completely drained. The corpse is physically restored but remains lifeless.
• The Demon Venerable emerges from the Road to Immortality carrying the Lunar Saint Emperor’s corpse. The path immediately collapses, leaving the universe in shock.
• The corpse releases a terrifying Ancient Emperor-level aura, causing many beings to believe that the Lunar Saint Emperor has revived. Experts eventually recognize the remains and identify him.
• The Lunar Divine Sect reacts to the corpse’s return. His descendants and bloodline holders awaken their Lunar Saint Power, mourn his death, and unintentionally draw vast quantities of Faith Power toward the corpse.
• Faith Power strengthens the corpse’s aura and creates a temporary manifestation of the Lunar Saint Emperor. He opens his eyes, speaks to the universe, and reveals that he was killed by the hidden mastermind, the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• The manifestation warns Li Ming to beware of the Undying Heavenly Emperor and admits that his revival is extremely difficult. It is only an obsession and faith-based projection, not true resurrection.
• The Lunar Saint Emperor directs a hostile gaze toward Purple Mountain, the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s legacy, but restrains himself rather than punishing the descendants and subordinates connected to his enemy.
• Li Ming proposes a method of genuine revival: refining the Human Emperor Seal into an Immortal Weapon, allowing its Weapon Deity to undergo Nirvana, cultivate into a new Emperor, and merge with the Lunar Saint Emperor’s remaining obsession and faith manifestation.
• The Lunar Saint Emperor accompanies Li Ming through various human Life Source Grounds, reassured by the Human Race’s improved condition under Li Ming’s protection. He regrets only that he died before attaining immortality.

Character Developments

• Li Ming: Demonstrates his control over Chaos Essence, his knowledge of Faith Power, and his willingness to challenge the limits of life and death. Rather than accepting the Lunar Saint Emperor’s death, he confidently seeks a way to revive him and protect the Human Race from the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• The Lunar Saint Emperor: Is revealed to have died from the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s ambush after failing to transform into a Chaotic Body and enter a Fourth Lifetime. Even in death, he remains dignified, restrained, and concerned for humanity rather than consumed by vengeance.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor: Becomes a more clearly defined unseen antagonist. He killed the Lunar Saint Emperor, drained his Divine Substance, destroyed the other emperors present, and may still be manipulating events through faith incarnations and hidden forces.
• The Lunar Saint Emperor’s descendants and followers: Their inherited bloodline powers awaken in response to his remains, while their grief and accumulated faith help generate his temporary manifestation.
• The Human Emperor Seal’s Weapon Deity: Reacts emotionally to the Lunar Saint Emperor’s apparent return, celebrating while recognizing that the figure is only an obsession rather than the true emperor.

Significant Themes

• Death versus resurrection: The chapter explores whether a powerful being can truly return through corpses, faith, lingering obsessions, and the remnants of a Dao Fruit.
• The power of faith: Faith Power can preserve a dead emperor’s presence, create a convincing manifestation, and perhaps eventually restore the original person, though the process is uncertain and extremely difficult.
• Legacy and memory: The Lunar Saint Emperor’s influence survives through his bloodline, scriptures, followers, and the Human Race he once protected.
• Dignity and restraint: Despite his hatred for the Undying Heavenly Emperor, the Lunar Saint Emperor refuses to indiscriminately destroy the emperor’s descendants or affiliated forces.
• The hidden dangers of immortality: The Road to Immortality is shown not as a straightforward path to transcendence, but as a place of slaughter, betrayal, and ruined emperors.
• Protection of humanity: The Lunar Saint Emperor is comforted by the Human Race’s progress, while Li Ming’s actions position him as the dominant protector of the current era.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ming and the Lunar Saint Emperor: Li Ming restores his body, converses respectfully with his faith manifestation, and promises to seek a path toward true resurrection. The Lunar Saint Emperor acknowledges Li Ming’s efforts and warns him about the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• The Lunar Saint Emperor and his followers: His return triggers grief, worship, and an enormous release of Faith Power from the Lunar Divine Sect and countless Human Race descendants.
• The Lunar Saint Emperor and the Human Emperor Seal: The Weapon Deity responds emotionally to its former master’s manifestation, highlighting the bond between the emperor and his imperial weapon.
• The Lunar Saint Emperor and the Undying Heavenly Emperor: Their conflict is revealed as the cause of the Lunar Saint Emperor’s death. Though enraged by the enemy’s legacy, the Lunar Saint Emperor ultimately chooses restraint.
• Li Ming and the Human Race: By showing the Lunar Saint Emperor that humanity is thriving, Li Ming helps ease his final concerns and earns his implicit approval as the protector of the new age.

Key plot points and events

• Li Ming begins restoring the Lunar Saint Emperor, whose death he believes was unjust. Using Chaos Essence, Faith Power, and a vast supply of cosmic energy, he revives the emperor’s body and strengthens his lingering obsession.
• Rather than restoring him directly, Li Ming reforges the Human Emperor Seal with Immortal Gold and Immortal Dao runes. The Lunar Saint Emperor’s body, soul, and memories merge with it, making him its Weapon Deity. He has not fully returned to life, but now has a path to revive—by maturing as a weapon or breaking free and undergoing Nirvana.
• A century later, Li Ming applies the same method to the Solar Saint Emperor. He reconstructs a body from the emperor’s skin and blood essence, then merges him with the Solar Divine Tower. The two emperors’ weapons become vessels for their hoped-for return.
• Li Ming takes the Human Emperor Seal and Solar Divine Tower to Earth, intending to place them in Kunlun’s Immortal Pool. There he discovers that his former maid Xiao Yao has become an Extreme Dao Weapon and an Emperor—the Immortal Matriarch of later history. She is currently undergoing a third-life transformation into a Sacred Spirit Stone Embryo in Kunlun.
• Xiao Yao’s companion, a woman associated with a Green Lotus and the Snow Lotus Fairy, also appears as an Emperor-level weapon. She refuses to explain her identity, leaving Li Ming with suspicions.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Ming demonstrates immense power and ingenuity, devising an unconventional route to give the two Saint Emperors a chance at new lives. He is astonished to learn how far Xiao Yao has risen since he took her in.
• The Lunar and Solar Saint Emperors are not fully resurrected, but regain much of their presence, memories, and potential through their weapons.
• Xiao Yao has gone from Li Ming’s maid to the Tianshan Child Matriarch and then the Immortal Matriarch. She is now pursuing another transformation in Kunlun, though its dangers concern Li Ming.
• Li Ming reunites with Xiao Yao through the Jade Ruyi and questions her about her history and current state. He also tries to learn the identity of the mysterious Green Lotus figure, but she remains evasive.

Significant themes

• Life, death, and rebirth: The chapter explores revival not as simple resurrection, but as transformation through weapons, faith, and successive lives.
• Unexpected potential and destiny: Xiao Yao’s rise overturns Li Ming’s modest expectations and links his past choices to later history.
• Legacy and collective memory: The Saint Emperors’ scriptures and sacrifices continue to shape human civilization, while their possible return inspires widespread reverence.
• The risks of transformation: Xiao Yao’s metamorphosis in Kunlun may bring renewal, but the land’s corpse-nurturing nature makes failure dangerous.