Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun orders the Sixteen Divine Halls and their numerous Ultimate Dao Artifacts to launch a combined assault on the Underworld.
• The Underworld activates its accumulated defenses: Quasi-Emperor battle slaves, Forbidden Weapons, Emperor Formations, and two living seventh- or eighth-heaven Quasi-Emperors wielding the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Shield and a black spear.
• The defenses delay or block several Emperor Weapons, but the Underworld’s formations and weapons are gradually destroyed. The Taihuang Sword eventually breaks through the black seals, destroys a skeletal Buddha projection, and shatters the battle-slave formation around the Hengyu Furnace.
• Six Emperor Weapons break through to attack the Prison Suppression Hall. The hall is destroyed, revealing the Underworld’s Supreme, the Prison Suppression Emperor.
• The Six Divine Halls seize the opportunity to attack him directly. Although he knocks away the Great Wilderness Halberd, the Six-Eared Macaque manipulates the Zhu Xian Sword Array with exceptional precision, allowing the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to smash apart the Emperor’s unprotected hand.
• The Prison Suppression Emperor is gradually overwhelmed by multiple Emperor Artifacts. He is forced to kneel, suffers severe injuries, and spills black blood, shocking observers throughout the universe.
• The Underworld’s remaining forces collapse as its battle slaves and Forbidden Weapons are defeated. The two Quasi-Emperors are also suppressed.
• In desperation, the Prison Suppression Emperor undergoes Ultimate Sublimation, releasing the full power of his Immortal Platform and blasting several Emperor Weapons away.
• The Forbidden Zones of the Big Dipper discuss whether to intervene. They ultimately refuse, choosing to endure the humiliation until the Immortal Road opens in less than a century.
• Jiang Yun prevents the Sixteen Divine Halls from continuing the costly siege. He orders them to purge the Underworld and seize its resources while he personally confronts the sublimated Prison Suppression Emperor.
• Jiang Yun moves to the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, where the Prison Suppression Emperor follows him for a final battle. The chapter ends as the Emperor prepares to test Jiang Yun’s true strength.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun demonstrates overwhelming confidence and strategic restraint. Rather than waste the Sixteen Divine Halls’ resources against a sublimated Supreme, he chooses to fight personally while preserving the halls’ future strength.
• The Prison Suppression Emperor is revealed as the Underworld’s sole remaining Supreme. Initially arrogant and contemptuous of weapons controlled by non-Supremes, he is forced into a defensive position, injured, and ultimately driven to Ultimate Sublimation.
• The Six-Eared Macaque proves highly capable at controlling the Zhu Xian Sword Array. Her racial talent and mastery of the Nine Secrets allow her to exploit the Prison Suppression Emperor’s opening and coordinate the Demon Jar’s devastating strike.
• Xiao Nannan and the Great Saint Dao Soldiers help awaken the power of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, evoking the might of the Ruthless Great Emperor.
• The Sixteen Divine Halls’ deputy hall masters and soldiers gain confidence after forcing a Supreme to kneel, but Jiang Yun reminds them that their current strength and resources are still insufficient for a prolonged battle against a sublimated Supreme.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes reveal their reluctance to risk themselves before the Immortal Road opens, despite their anger at being challenged by Jiang Yun’s forces.

Significant Themes

• The rise of collective power: Even weapons without direct Supreme control can threaten and suppress a Supreme when coordinated by powerful formations, armies, and capable controllers.
• The decline of the Underworld: Once feared as an ancient, dominant force, the Underworld is shown to possess only one remaining Supreme and to be losing its accumulated defenses.
• Strategic patience versus immediate revenge: The Forbidden Zones endure humiliation because the Immortal Road is close, while Jiang Yun balances aggression with resource preservation.
• The changing era: The Prison Suppression Emperor’s remark that “the times have changed” reflects the emergence of new powers capable of challenging ancient Supremes.
• The cost of Ultimate Sublimation: A Supreme can temporarily unleash overwhelming power, but the transformation is desperate and likely unsustainable, making the coming duel a race against time.
• Weapons, wills, and mastery: The chapter emphasizes that artifacts are not powerless merely because they lack a Supreme controller; skilled manipulation can make them decisive against even the highest beings.

Important Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun commands the Sixteen Divine Halls and later overrules their desire to fight the sublimated Prison Suppression Emperor directly.
• The Six-Eared Macaque coordinates with Xiao Nannan and the Great Saint Dao Soldiers to control the Zhu Xian Sword Array and Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• The Prison Suppression Emperor mocks the idea that weapons can defeat him, but his overconfidence allows the Demon Jar to destroy his unprotected hand.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes argue over whether to help the Underworld. Longevity Heavenly Venerable mocks the situation, while the Qilin Ancient Emperor refuses to recall allied Emperor Artifacts or risk waking other Supremes.
• Jiang Yun and the Prison Suppression Emperor finally separate from the battlefield for a personal confrontation, with the Emperor determined to discover whether Jiang Yun truly possesses Supreme-level combat strength.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Prison Suppression Emperor immediately activates the Prison Suppression Formation, using 360 divine rays and 360 banners to create a sealed domain that cuts off the surrounding universe and prevents outside observation or assistance.
• The formation is revealed to be a rare fusion of the Source Heavenly Divine Formation and an Emperor Formation, based on Heaven and Earth Divine Patterns created by the Netherworld Emperor and Emperor Zun. It can reshape the laws of a confined space, empower its master, and prevent enemies from borrowing strength from the universe.
• The Prison Suppression Emperor believes this domain will weaken Jiang Yun by severing his connection to the outside world. However, Jiang Yun explains that his strength comes from his own cultivation and his connection to the Source World, not merely from external augmentation.
• The Prison Suppression Emperor attacks with eighteen layers of purgatory, formation patterns, divine banners, and the Heavenly Halberd. Jiang Yun counters with the Reincarnation Treasure Seal and transforms into the Immortal Chaos Creation True Dragon, destroying the formation and overwhelming his opponent.
• Jiang Yun reveals that his cultivation has advanced significantly. By merging his Five Secret Realms with the Source World, he can unify his personal power with the world’s myriad laws, making the Prison Suppression domain ineffective.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes observe the battle but refuse to intervene, recognizing that defeating Jiang Yun would require an enormous and unacceptable expenditure of power.
• Jiang Yun repeatedly defeats and severely injures the Prison Suppression Emperor, breaking his Heavenly Halberd and destroying his Nether Iron Battle Armor. The Emperor survives multiple times by using the Underworld’s death aura to reconstruct his body.
• Jiang Yun offers him a chance to submit and promises that he may continue ruling the Netherworld under Dao Origin’s command. The Prison Suppression Emperor refuses, declaring that even the Netherworld Emperor and Emperor Zun could not make him submit.
• Returning to the Underworld, the Prison Suppression Emperor attempts to launch a final attack against Jiang Yun’s allies. Jiang Yun abandons further persuasion and delivers a decisive blow.
• The Prison Suppression Emperor self-destructs, but Jiang Yun’s chaotic power grinds away his body and completely destroys his Primordial Spirit, preventing resurrection.
• The fall of the Prison Suppression Emperor causes the Grand Dao to wail, the stars to dim, and blood rain to descend across the universe. The Underworld loses its final ruler and submits to Dao Origin.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun demonstrates that his power has advanced beyond reliance on ordinary formations or external heavenly support. His Dragon Transformation Scripture, Five Secret Realms, and union with the Source World allow him to remain powerful even inside a domain designed to suppress him.
• He displays both confidence and strategic patience, deliberately stalling while studying and recording the Prison Suppression Emperor’s divine patterns.
• Jiang Yun also shows a desire to recruit rather than simply destroy powerful enemies, repeatedly offering the Prison Suppression Emperor a chance to submit and continue ruling the Netherworld.
• When the Prison Suppression Emperor threatens Jiang Yun’s followers, Jiang Yun becomes completely decisive and eliminates him without further hesitation.
• The Prison Suppression Emperor is portrayed as an ancient, proud, and extremely resilient Supreme. Despite overwhelming injuries, he repeatedly revives through death aura and refuses submission until the end.
• His defeat marks the end of his long reign and the collapse of the Underworld’s former glory.

Significant Themes

• Self-reliance versus dependence on heaven and earth: Jiang Yun’s strength comes from his own cultivation and internalized connection to the Source World, allowing him to transcend external restrictions.
• Evolution of cultivation and world-building: The Prison Suppression Formation reflects the possibility of creating living domains and reshaping the laws of heaven and earth, a goal closely related to Jiang Yun’s own ambitions.
• The fall of ancient powers: The Prison Suppression Emperor’s death symbolizes the decline of Mythological-Era Supremes and the rise of Jiang Yun’s new age.
• Pride and refusal to submit: The Emperor chooses death over serving Jiang Yun, even when offered the chance to preserve his authority.
• The difficulty of killing a Supreme: Defeating a Supreme is possible, but permanently destroying one requires overcoming their Primordial Spirit, special techniques, and ability to regenerate.
• The cost of supreme-level conflict: The battle devastates entire starfields, destroys Emperor Weapons, and leaves lasting scars across the universe.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and the Prison Suppression Emperor engage in a battle of both strength and understanding: Jiang Yun studies the Emperor’s formation while the Emperor attempts to exploit Jiang Yun’s supposed dependence on external power.
• The Prison Suppression Emperor is shocked when Jiang Yun remains unaffected by the sealed domain, forcing him to abandon his confidence and fight directly.
• Jiang Yun repeatedly taunts and challenges him while also offering him a path to survival and continued authority.
• The Emperor responds with defiance, invoking his status and history with the Netherworld Emperor and Emperor Zun.
• Their final interaction occurs at the Underworld, where the Emperor intends to kill Jiang Yun’s people as a last act of revenge. Jiang Yun stops him and annihilates him completely.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes serve as distant observers, recognizing Jiang Yun’s growing dominance and choosing not to risk joining the battle.

Chapter Summary: “Sheltering the Underworld Netherworld! Changes in the Source World!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun defeats and kills the Prison Suppression Emperor, decisively destroying the Underworld’s invincible reputation.
• Though victorious, Jiang Yun reflects on the Underworld’s ambiguous morality. It never caused a Dark Turmoil and mainly collected powerful corpses, possibly preventing them from becoming disasters. He recognizes that his enemies cannot be judged as purely good or evil.
• Jiang Yun enters the vast Netherworld with Yu Xiangnan and surveys its ruined landscape, filled with ancient corpses, coffins, Yellow Springs, blood rivers, and shattered monuments.
• The Dao Origin Divine Halls have already defeated the Underworld’s remaining forces. Its two Ancient Emperor Weapons—the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Shield and Black Gold Spear—are captured, along with a Quasi-Emperor.
• Ancient inscriptions reveal that the Underworld once discovered several incomplete Emperor corpses and used their remains to restore its weapons.
• Xiao Nannan and the Six-Eared Macaque reveal the Underworld’s greatest secret: over countless ages, it collected blood and physiques from corpses to create an artificial monster capable of combining countless bloodlines. The creature may possess power equal to or greater than an ordinary Great Emperor and escaped with the Heaven-Piercing Netherworld Treasure, the Source Gods, and the Source Ghosts.
• The Dao Origin forces loot the Underworld’s immense treasuries, obtaining divine materials, medicines, Dragon Marrow, Divine Sources, and countless other treasures.
• Dao Origin troops then destroy the Underworld’s scattered branch bases throughout the universe, earning Source Points and battle merits.
• Jiang Yun investigates the Netherworld’s origins and discovers that it predates the Underworld itself. It is an ancient source land that gathers the True Spirits of dead beings, though it no longer functions as a true reincarnation system.
• After concealing the Netherworld, Jiang Yun successfully transfers the entire realm into the Source World.
• The Netherworld’s gathered True Spirits merge with the Source World’s Six Paths of Reincarnation, strengthening the spiritual nature of newly born life.
• A child named Li Changsheng is born with unusually strong spiritual potential. Jiang Yun grants him a strand of attention, and the Source World’s heavens favor him, suggesting he may become an exceptional cultivator.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Reaches a new level of power after defeating a Supreme, but becomes more thoughtful about justice, morality, and the burden of victory. His goal remains protecting his loved ones and creating a safe homeland. He also demonstrates foresight by preserving the Netherworld as a resource for the Source World.
• Yu Xiangnan: Continues to serve loyally as a Saint King and remains humble before Jiang Yun. He is uncomfortable with being closely associated with Yuhua Tian, a former enemy who surrendered.
• Xiao Nannan: Shows enthusiasm and loyalty, proudly delivering the secret learned from the captured Quasi-Emperor. Her close bond with Jiang Yun is emphasized.
• Six-Eared Macaque and the Deputy Hall Masters: Prove their effectiveness by helping conquer the Underworld, capture its weapons and experts, and lead campaigns against its remaining strongholds.
• The Underworld: Loses its Supreme leader, forces, treasures, and territory. Its ancient legacy is exposed, revealing both its corpse-gathering practices and its ambitious experiments with bloodline fusion.
• Li Changsheng: Though only an infant, he is introduced as a potentially important future figure, blessed by the Source World and guided toward cultivation.

Significant Themes

• Moral ambiguity: The Underworld is not portrayed as simply evil. Its corpse-collecting practices may have protected the universe from dangerous dead powerhouses, showing that righteousness and sin are often difficult to separate.
• Cycles of life and death: The Netherworld embodies the accumulation of countless eras and the possible remnants of reincarnation. Its existence suggests that death, memory, and spiritual essence continue beyond physical destruction.
• The burden of power: Jiang Yun reflects that victory is necessary but dangerous; while he can survive repeated triumphs, even one defeat could destroy everything he protects.
• Legacy and transformation: The Underworld’s experiments seek to combine all bloodlines into a Chaotic Physique or Immortal Spirit True Body, emphasizing the pursuit of evolution through accumulated ancient power.
• Creation and preservation: Jiang Yun does not merely destroy the Underworld. He incorporates it into the Source World, transforming an ancient land of death into a foundation for future life.
• The birth of destiny: The arrival of Li Changsheng demonstrates how the Source World’s growing power can influence individuals and create favored figures for the future.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun reassures Yu Xiangnan that he need not kneel and speaks with him about the Underworld’s treasures and the possibility of establishing new Divine Halls.
• Jiang Yun meets Xiao Nannan, the Six-Eared Macaque, Crazy Old Man, and Yan Qi Great Saint at the Underworld’s core. Xiao Nannan eagerly reports the secret of the bloodline-fusion monster.
• Jiang Yun takes the captured Quasi-Emperor and Emperor Weapons from Xiao Nannan’s Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and seals them in the Source World.
• The deputy hall masters and Dao Origin soldiers celebrate Jiang Yun’s victory while carrying out his campaign to seize the Underworld’s wealth and destroy its remaining branches.
• In the Source World, an old Daoist names the newborn child Li Changsheng and forms a master-disciple connection with him, unknowingly marking the child’s emergence as a favored future talent.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun explores the Netherworld’s enormous accumulation of True Spirit fragments and ancient corpses. He discovers that the strongest fragments are linked to powerful cultivators whose bodies were preserved by the Underworld.
• He uncovers vast stores of corpses carrying rare physiques and bloodlines, including the Heavenly Tyrant Body, Barbarian Bloodline, Divine Race bloodlines, Jiang and Ji Family lineages, Ancient Emperor bloodlines, Imperial and Royal Clan inheritances, and incomplete Sacred Physiques.
• Jiang Yun realizes the Underworld had extracted much of the blood from older corpses to nourish the monster connected to the Heaven-Piercing Netherworld Treasure. Only relatively recent corpses retain substantial bloodline power.
• He begins using the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk and its central millstone to grind, merge, and purify True Spirit fragments before reincarnating them in his Source World. This prevents remnants of past wills or memories from resurfacing.
• Reincarnation gradually strengthens the Source World’s laws and causes rare physiques and bloodlines to reappear among newly born beings. Over five years, four notable physiques and five bloodlines emerge:
  • Barbarian War God Physique
  • Human King Physique
  • Brahma Battle Physique
  • Dark Physique
  • Void Emperor Bloodline
  • Taiyin Ancient Emperor Bloodline
  • Divine Continent Great Emperor Bloodline
  • Gou Chen Great Emperor Bloodline
  • Dao Yan Great Emperor Bloodline
• Jiang Yun reflects that Reincarnation allows heaven and earth to reclaim the power and Dao laws of deceased beings, enabling worlds to evolve through the cycle of life and death.
• As Jiang Shuanglan’s pregnancy advances, Jiang Yun isolates their unborn child from reincarnation and past-life influences, nourishing her purely with Chaos Qi so she will be born as a completely new life.
• Jiang Yun and Jiang Shuanglan discuss names for their daughter. Jiang Yun first suggests “Jiang Ping’an,” expressing his wish that she grow up safely, but Jiang Shuanglan teases him for choosing such an ordinary name.
• Wanting to eliminate threats to his family before the child’s birth, Jiang Yun orders the Dao Origin Divine Hall to purge hostile forces across the universe. The Teng Snake Clan, Winged Race, Origin Demon Race, remnants of the Divine Court, and the surviving Yin-Yang Sect are destroyed.
• Jiang Yun personally confronts the Emperor Lord, who has been hiding inside a Divine Sun. Jiang Yun offers him only two choices: submit and become a converted Dao Soldier, or die.
• The Emperor Lord attempts to bargain for three moves and promises to seal himself for a million years before protecting the Jiang Family. Jiang Yun agrees outwardly but has already decided not to spare him.
• The Emperor Lord sacrifices his body and merges his Primordial Spirit, Dao Yan Battle Garment, and Little Pagoda into a desperate escape attack. He flees into a strange altered space, but Jiang Yun’s power—or the transformed laws of heaven and earth—suppresses him.
• The Emperor Lord’s Primordial Spirit and Dao laws collapse. His remains are absorbed into a barren star, nourishing it and allowing new vitality to emerge. His death marks the end of his resistance.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun grows more proficient as the ruler of the Source World. He learns to manipulate True Spirits, develop Reincarnation, cultivate new bloodlines, and guide the evolution of an entire world.
• His ambitions expand beyond personal strength: he now focuses on perfecting the Source World, protecting his family, and preparing for future enemies such as the Forbidden Zones, Immortal Domain, Sea of Realms, and future Heaven.
• Jiang Yun also reveals a more tender and protective side through his concern for his unborn daughter. His choice of the name “Ping’an” reflects his fear that even the strongest beings may be unable to protect their loved ones.
• Jiang Shuanglan becomes increasingly affectionate and expectant as she prepares for motherhood. She playfully challenges Jiang Yun’s naming choice while reassuring him that their child is safe within the Source World.
• The Emperor Lord is shown to be consumed by resentment and despair. Realizing the enormous gap between himself and Jiang Yun, he abandons any hope of victory and attempts to escape rather than fight directly. His final gamble fails, leading to his death.

Significant Themes

• Reincarnation and cosmic renewal: Death is not merely an ending; True Spirits and Dao laws return to the world, allowing new lives, bloodlines, and possibilities to emerge.
• The evolution of worlds: Just as cultivators grow stronger, a world must develop its own laws, Reincarnation, and systems of life. Jiang Yun is effectively cultivating the Source World itself.
• Inheritance and transformation: Ancient physiques and bloodlines can be reborn in entirely new people, detached from their original identities and memories.
• Power versus protection: Jiang Yun seeks ultimate strength not only to prove his Dao but to protect his family from enemies beyond the Source World.
• Life emerging from death: The Emperor Lord’s destruction becomes nourishment for a dead star, reinforcing the chapter’s image of death feeding future life.
• The futility of resentment: The Emperor Lord’s hatred cannot overcome the vast difference in power, and his attempt to deceive Jiang Yun only delays his inevitable destruction.

Important Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun commands and questions a converted Underworld Quasi-Emperor, using the man’s knowledge to confirm that ancient blood essence had been extracted to nourish the Netherworld monster.
• Jiang Yun and Jiang Shuanglan share a warm domestic conversation about their unborn daughter, contrasting with the chapter’s larger-scale violence and cosmic warfare.
• Jiang Yun’s desire to protect his family directly leads to the universe-wide purge of hostile races and factions.
• Jiang Yun confronts the Emperor Lord in a tense exchange centered on submission, death, and the impossibility of the Emperor Lord resisting him.
• The Emperor Lord attempts to manipulate the situation by pretending to accept a three-move challenge, but Jiang Yun sees through his intentions and allows the escape attempt only because he already intends to end the threat.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun easily defeats and kills the Emperor Lord by trapping him within the Source World, where Jiang Yun controls the laws as its Heavenly Dao. He concludes that the Source World cannot safely contain many powerful enemies at once, so its greater value lies in serving as a stable base and strengthening his own cultivation.
• Jiang contacts Gai Jiuyou through the Source Ring and learns that Wushi Great Emperor is preparing to eliminate a powerful enemy in the Strange World. The Heaven Mending Art has strengthened Wushi’s Wushi Technique, giving him confidence in winning decisively.
• Jiang Yun delays sending the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s fleshy sphere into the Strange World. Doing so prematurely would place Wushi Great Emperor at a severe disadvantage, since Wushi is already suppressing the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s awakening while contending with another enemy.
• Jiang absorbs the Heavenly Venerable Sea of Reincarnation into the Source World, transforming it into a vast Divine Sea. The sea enriches the Source World, supports beings such as Tianyu, and continuously nourishes heaven and earth.
• Jiang begins considering the Source World as his Sixth Secret Realm. He plans to cultivate it systematically rather than merely use it as a source of power, aspiring eventually to reach realms beyond the Immortal King level.
• He identifies three existing core lands within the Source World—the Ascension Ground, Five Elements Continent, and Netherworld—and plans to transform the Divine Sea into a fourth core land.
• The development of Jiang Yun’s Five Secret Realms further strengthens the Source World. The Heavenly Heart Mark becomes more like a true Heavenly Dao, and Jiang grows increasingly detached from ordinary heavenly tribulations.
• Dao Origin’s influence continues to expand after the destruction of its enemies. Its divine halls command the universe, while many powerful figures continue cultivating under Jiang Yun’s protection and resources.
• Great Saint Qinghuang, after eight thousand years of cultivation and with his lifespan extended, attempts to break through to the Quasi-Emperor realm. He survives the deadly tribulation by destroying the heavenly chains binding him and successfully becomes a Quasi-Emperor.
• Jiang Yun celebrates Qinghuang’s breakthrough with a feast. In the following years, Gu Tianshu and Old Lunatic also become Quasi-Emperors, while Wei Yi approaches the same realm.
• The chapter ends with Jiang Yun hearing an infant’s cry. Jiang Shuanglan has given birth to a child, prompting Jiang Yun to abandon his Divine Medicine and rush excitedly into the Immortal Palace.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Jiang Yun grows more powerful and strategic. Rather than recklessly using the Source World or sending the Undying Heavenly Emperor to Wushi’s battlefield, he carefully weighs long-term risks. He also shifts his focus from simply gaining strength to creating an entirely new cultivation path through the Sixth Secret Realm.
• Wushi Great Emperor is portrayed as preparing for a decisive battle. His cooperation with Gai Jiuyou and use of the Heaven Mending Art may allow him to finally eliminate his longstanding rival.
• Gai Jiuyou acts as the intermediary between Jiang Yun and Wushi Great Emperor, relaying Wushi’s gratitude and battle plans.
• Great Saint Qinghuang risks everything despite his age and weakened condition. His breakthrough restores his vitality and gives him the chance to witness the coming Immortal Road.
• Xia Jiuyou worries about Qinghuang during his tribulation and discusses his chances with Jiang Yun, showing her concern and closeness to the older generation.
• Ancestor Ran Mu, Old Lunatic, Wei Yi, Gu Tianshu, and other senior figures watch Qinghuang’s tribulation, using it to assess their own chances of reaching the Quasi-Emperor realm.
• Jiang Yun and the Dao Origin cultivators now preside over a stable and prosperous universe. Even those who dislike Dao Origin’s dominance are largely unable to resist its overwhelming strength.
• The final birth of Jiang Yun’s child introduces a personal and joyful development after a chapter dominated by cosmic battles, cultivation, and political power.

Significant Themes

• Strategic strength over reckless power: Jiang Yun recognizes that overwhelming strength must still be used carefully, especially regarding the Undying Heavenly Emperor and Wushi Great Emperor’s dangerous situation.
• Creating rather than imitating: The Desolate Emperor’s refusal to leave behind a method for the Sixth Secret Realm emphasizes that true greatness requires independent discovery, not blind repetition of predecessors.
• Civilization and inherited knowledge: Jiang reflects that every person stands upon the shoulders of giants through language, learning, and civilization, but true summit-level figures must eventually create their own path.
• Cultivation as world-building: Jiang Yun’s Source World is not merely a weapon or storage space; it is becoming a living universe and a new secret realm whose development may determine his future path.
• Renewal and transcendence: Qinghuang’s successful breakthrough despite his age mirrors the broader theme of overcoming natural limits. The chapter also contrasts his renewal with Jiang Yun’s near-transcendence of heavenly tribulations.
• The balance between cosmic and personal life: Grand battles, the Immortal Road, and the evolution of worlds are juxtaposed with the intimate joy of a child’s birth, giving the chapter a warm personal conclusion.

Chapter Summary: “Jiang Yixian! Descendant Boost”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Shuanglan gives birth to Jiang Yun’s first daughter after carrying her for more than ten years. Although she is a Saint King, childbirth severely depletes her origin and causes her cultivation to fall by two minor realms.
• Jiang Yun meets his newborn daughter and is overwhelmed with joy. Jiang Shuanglan names her Jiang Yixian, or Xian’er, placing her in the Jiang Family’s “Yi” generation.
• Unlike an ordinary baby, Xian’er develops at an extraordinary speed:
  • She begins babbling after one day.
  • She crawls after two days.
  • She walks after three days.
  • Within a week, she can call the various women around her “Mama” and interact intelligently with everyone.
• Jiang Yun deliberately prevents Xian’er from immediately entering the Saint Realm, preferring that she cultivate gradually and establish a firm foundation.
• Because of Jiang Yun’s exceptional physique and bloodlines, Xian’er is born with the Supreme Divine Saint Immortal Dao Fetus and Chaos True Dragon Bloodline.
• Jiang Yun discovers that the panel has unlocked a new Descendant Boost function. Xian’er possesses an affiliated origin space measuring 50,000 meters in each dimension, filled with Chaos essence, dragon qi, and immortal radiance.
• This affiliated space can provide energy to Jiang Yun’s Source World and strengthen him. Jiang Yun realizes that future descendants may supply additional spaces and resources, though their quality could weaken over successive generations.
• Jiang Yun reflects on the deeper purpose of the panel, suspecting that the Source World, reincarnation, descendants, bloodlines, and reflection abilities are all connected. He still lacks definitive answers but feels he is beginning to understand the system’s true nature.
• A hundred-day banquet is held for Xian’er in the Big Dipper at the Jiang Family’s request. Hundreds of Jiang Family tables celebrate the child, who displays auspicious visions and Dao music despite being only one hundred days old.
• Big Black Dog tries to recruit Xian’er as a disciple, but she is frightened by his size and hides behind Jiang Yun. The fat Daoist gives her a gold lock and praises her extraordinary potential.
• Jiang Yun jokes that Big Black Dog may teach one of his future sons instead. Big Black Dog becomes excited at the prospect of raising a disciple with powerful bloodlines.
• Ye Fan arrives to see Xian’er but is instead subjected to pressure from his parents to marry and have children. They compare him unfavorably to Jiang Yun, who has already become a Great Emperor and fathered a child. The chapter ends during Ye Fan’s attempt to defend himself.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun embraces fatherhood fully. His normally imposing image softens as he lovingly carries, kisses, and protects Xian’er. He also shows deep concern for Jiang Shuanglan’s health and recovery.
• Jiang Shuanglan becomes a mother and demonstrates both strength and vulnerability. Despite her Saint King cultivation, childbirth leaves her physically weakened and forces her to begin a long recovery.
• Jiang Yixian is established as an exceptionally gifted child with rapid development, high intelligence, and an innate closeness to Jiang Yun. She is already treated as the Jiang Family’s little princess.
• Xiao Nannan is teased about being called “Mama” despite not having children. Xian’er’s innocent affection comforts her, especially since Nannan has waited many years for Jiang Yun.
• Dragoness and Tianyu show affection and envy toward Xian’er, since their own eggs will not hatch for decades. They eagerly participate in caring for her.
• Big Black Dog remains shameless, enthusiastic, and eager to mentor powerful descendants. His desire to raise a disciple reveals his pride in the Wushi inheritance.
• Ye Fan is portrayed humorously as a powerful cultivator still unable to escape parental matchmaking and marriage pressure.

Significant Themes

• The greatness and sacrifice of motherhood: Jiang Shuanglan’s childbirth demonstrates that even powerful female cultivators risk cultivation loss and physical depletion when bearing children.
• Family and affection: The chapter focuses heavily on Jiang Yun’s joy as a father and the warmth surrounding Xian’er’s birth and early growth.
• Inheritance and bloodlines: Xian’er embodies Jiang Yun’s accumulated physiques and bloodlines, suggesting that future generations will carry and expand his legacy.
• The relationship between descendants and power: The Descendant Boost reveals that Jiang Yun’s children can directly strengthen his Source World, making family lineage part of his cultivation system.
• The unknown nature of the panel: Jiang Yun’s growing ability to interpret the panel hints that it may be connected to the Source World, reincarnation, true spirits, and the fundamental laws of existence.
• Foundations versus immediate power: Jiang Yun refuses to force Xian’er into the Saint Realm at birth, choosing stable growth over instant strength.
• Humor amid cultivation grandeur: Domestic teasing, Big Black Dog’s antics, and Ye Fan’s parental pressure provide comic relief against the chapter’s larger cosmic and cultivation-related developments.

Important Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and Jiang Shuanglan share a tender reunion after childbirth, with Jiang Yun thanking her for her sacrifice and Jiang Shuanglan proudly introducing their daughter.
• Xian’er affectionately calls the women around her “Mama,” including Nannan, Huolin’er, Dragoness, and others. Her interactions create a lively and loving family atmosphere.
• Qin Yao teases Nannan about not truly being a mother, but Xian’er immediately embraces Nannan and calls her “Mama,” causing both embarrassment and happiness.
• Big Black Dog attempts to claim Xian’er as a disciple, but her fear of his enormous appearance leads Jiang Yun to protectively take her back.
• The fat Daoist gives Xian’er a gold lock and comments on her extraordinary talent, while regretting that she is not a boy.
• Ye Fan’s parents compare him with Jiang Yun and pressure him to find a partner, creating a humorous contrast between Ye Fan’s independent life and Jiang Yun’s growing family.

Chapter Summary: “Refining the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill! Immortal Medicines Are Tempting!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After the Jiang family’s hundred-day banquet, everyone returns to the Source World. Little Xian’er grows safely under the care of Jiang Yun and his Dao companions.
• Jiang Yun and Jiang Shuanglan decide not to rush Xian’er into cultivation, planning to begin guiding her after she turns ten so she can establish a strong foundation.
• A year passes. Xian’er frequently calls for her father, especially when she runs out of the specially prepared Ten Thousand Beasts Milk. Jiang Yun lovingly feeds her and promises to spend more time with her after completing his current work.
• Jiang Yun travels to Tang Valley to refine the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill. He uses the Solar Holy Force of the Fusang Ancient Tree as fuel and the heavens and myriad Daos as his cauldron.
• The main missing ingredient is the White Tiger Divine Medicine. Jiang Yun explains that most of his other Divine Medicines have already been consumed in refining Golden Cores, nourishing allies, or surviving tribulations.
• He successfully extracts three components from the White Tiger Divine Medicine: Dao Mark fragments, precious essence, and life essence containing Longevity Matter.
• Jiang Yun combines these with numerous prepared materials, dividing the most difficult fusion process into three stages before merging them into a single pill.
• The refinement succeeds. The resulting Nine-Turn Immortal Pill releases an aura so powerful that it briefly revitalizes the depleted Fusang Ancient Tree.
• Jiang Yun determines that even half an Immortal Pill could shorten a Divine Medicine’s growth by five thousand years and restore it to its peak.
• The pill’s fragrance also temporarily eases the profound emptiness caused by Jiang Yun’s excessively high life level and evolved Chaos Genesis True Dragon bloodline.
• Although tempted to consume it, Jiang Yun seals the pill away, deciding that using it now would be wasteful. He plans to obtain Longevity Matter from the Immortal Realm or the Strange World instead.
• After considering the scarcity of Divine Medicines, Jiang Yun turns his attention toward the Peach Garden hidden within the Divine Ruins and begins thinking about exploiting the Forbidden Zones’ resources.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun is shown as both a devoted father and an increasingly accomplished alchemist. He balances affection for Xian’er with immense responsibilities, ultimately mastering the refinement of the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill.
• His cultivation has created a new problem: his body and life level consume Longevity Matter faster than ordinary resources can provide. This makes the Immortal Realm increasingly important to him.
• Jiang Yun also displays restraint. Despite the pill’s ability to relieve his condition, he refuses to consume it because of its rarity and greater potential value.
• Little Xian’er is energetic, affectionate, and strongly attached to her father. She worries when he leaves, suggests sharing beast milk with future siblings, and secures a promise that he will play with her.
• Huolin’er remains playful and teasing toward Jiang Yun, while Yan Ruyu is more shy and reserved. Their contrasting personalities are evident during the morning interaction.
• The future Emperor Golden Crow experiences an intense instinctive desire to consume the Immortal Pill, recognizing its potential to complete and strengthen his transformation. However, he maintains discipline and obeys Jiang Yun.
• The weaker Golden Crows lose control when the pill’s fragrance escapes, but the Golden Crow Egg suppresses them and protects Jiang Yun’s refinement.

Significant Themes

• Family affection and responsibility: Jiang Yun’s relationship with Xian’er provides a warm contrast to the grand-scale cultivation and alchemy taking place around him.
• Patience and proper development: The family chooses to let Xian’er grow naturally rather than forcing her into cultivation prematurely.
• Scarcity of immortality: Divine Medicines and Immortal Pills are extraordinarily rare, difficult to preserve, and easily consumed by the needs of powerful cultivators.
• Restraint versus temptation: The Immortal Pill can solve Jiang Yun’s immediate problem, yet he refuses to waste it, prioritizing long-term benefits.
• The cost of power: Jiang Yun’s superior bloodline and life level create a new form of deprivation, showing that greater strength brings increasingly difficult demands.
• Alchemy as mastery and innovation: Jiang Yun’s division of the pill-merging process into Dao, essence, and life components demonstrates his growing sophistication and personal refinement method.
• Resource exploitation and future conflict: The chapter foreshadows Jiang Yun’s possible confrontation with the Forbidden Zones, whose hidden Divine Medicines and treasures may become his next target.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun tenderly cares for Xian’er, feeds her, comforts her, and makes a “pinky promise” to spend more time with her.
• Huolin’er and Yan Ruyu tease and respond shyly to Jiang Yun in an intimate domestic scene, emphasizing their differing temperaments.
• Xian’er expresses her desire for siblings and reveals how much she wants Jiang Yun’s companionship.
• The Golden Crow Egg restrains the other Golden Crows when they are overwhelmed by desire for the pill, showing both loyalty to Jiang Yun and authority over its peers.
• Jiang Yun remains largely unaware of the commotion outside while focusing completely on the delicate fusion process inside the alchemical hall.

Chapter Summary: “Raiding the Forbidden Zones! The Calamity of Divine Medicine?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun secretly surveys the Divine Ruins, one of the Big Dipper’s Life Forbidden Zones, and confirms the location of the Ancient Peach Tree and its surrounding Peach Garden.
• Using his mastery of Source Arts and the Big Dipper’s earth veins, he locates an exceptionally rare Divine Spring nourishing the Peach Garden.
• After two days of preparation, Jiang Yun launches a sudden attack. He blasts open part of the Divine Ruins, reaches into its depths, and uproots:
  • The Ancient Divine Peach Tree and the central Peach Garden
  • Nine powerful Old Medicine King peach trees and other divine peaches
  • A section of the Dragon Vein and the Divine Spring
  • Part of the South Heaven Gate, a relic of the Ancient Heavenly Court
• The three Supremes of the Divine Ruins awaken too late and send two Supreme attacks after him. Jiang Yun manifests his true form and destroys their blood-and-energy True Dragons with a single kick, demonstrating a major increase in strength.
• The other Forbidden Zones awaken and prepare to support the Divine Ruins. However, twenty-four Ultimate Dao Artifacts from the Dao Origin faction appear across the Big Dipper, revealing the overwhelming strength of Jiang Yun’s alliance.
• Faced with the united force of the Dao Origin Divine Hall and the approaching Immortal Road, the Forbidden Zones decide not to escalate the conflict. Jiang Yun claims he merely “borrowed” the Divine Medicine, while the Supremes reluctantly allow him to leave.
• The Forbidden Zones subsequently revise their plans for the Immortal Road, concluding that at least one or more zones must send two Supremes because five alone may not be enough to suppress Jiang Yun.
• The chapter ends with an Ancient Emperor in the Primordial Ancient Mine awakening in confusion over why the Ten Thousand Dragon Bell—and apparently his descendant Ling’er—are under the influence of the Human Race.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Displays exceptional preparation, confidence, and tactical precision. He is no longer merely resisting the Forbidden Zones but actively raiding them for resources. His physical strength has advanced to the point that he can casually destroy attacks from two Supremes. Despite his provocation, he carefully avoids a full-scale war, taking only what strengthens him before the Immortal Road opens.
• The Divine Ruins Supremes: Suffer humiliation and strategic defeat. Their delayed reaction allows Jiang Yun to steal their greatest treasure, while their reluctance to break their seals exposes their fear of the cost of direct confrontation.
• The other Forbidden Zone Supremes: Become increasingly wary of Jiang Yun and recognize that he has become a threat comparable to—or greater than—the forces they expected to face on the Immortal Road.
• The Dao Origin Faction: Has developed into a vast, coordinated alliance. Its strength now includes twenty-four Ultimate Dao Artifacts, with forces from Jade Pool, the Ji Family, the Divine State Dynasty, Divine Silkworm Ridge, and others joining Jiang Yun’s side.
• The Ancient Emperor in the Primordial Ancient Mine: Is awakened by the upheaval and becomes concerned about the Ten Thousand Dragon Bell and the whereabouts of “Ling’er,” suggesting an important connection to the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest and future conflict.

Significant Themes

• The reversal of power between emperors and Forbidden Zones: Forbidden Zones traditionally preyed upon others and launched Dark Turmoil, but Jiang Yun reverses the relationship by invading and robbing them.
• Strategic restraint versus open war: Jiang Yun deliberately operates within the Supremes’ limits, strengthening himself without giving them enough justification to risk a devastating battle before the Immortal Road opens.
• Divine Medicine as both treasure and liability: Although Immortal Elixirs are priceless, possessing them attracts powerful enemies. The Supremes realize that Divine Medicine can become a “calamity,” since it has repeatedly drawn Great Emperors and other threats into their territories.
• The importance of alliances and military strength: The appearance of twenty-four Ultimate Dao Artifacts shows that unity can challenge even the Forbidden Zones. Jiang Yun’s political influence is nearly as important as his personal power.
• The approaching Immortal Road: The coming opening dominates every decision. Jiang Yun seeks to grow stronger and intimidate his future enemies, while the Forbidden Zones reassess their plans and prepare to send greater forces.
• Legacy and ancient grudges: The Divine Ruins, South Heaven Gate, Ancient Peach Tree, and Ten Thousand Dragon Bell all connect the present conflict to the Mythological Era and the long history of emperors, Saint Spirits, and Forbidden Zones.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun directly confronts the Lord of Divine Ruins and Ling Emperor by stealing their Divine Medicine and defeating their retaliatory attack.
• He openly taunts the Divine Ruins Supremes, inviting them to fight while knowing they are unwilling to pay the price of emergence.
• The other Forbidden Zone Supremes pressure the Divine Ruins to endure the humiliation rather than risk a premature war.
• The Dao Origin faction’s many allied forces demonstrate their loyalty by bringing their Ultimate Dao Artifacts to support Jiang Yun.
• The Fighting Saint Ape ancestor witnesses the theft of the Ancient Peach Tree and is conflicted: pleased that the Divine Ruins have been robbed, yet worried that recovering the tree from Jiang Yun will be even harder.
• At the end, the awakened Ancient Emperor becomes linked to the Qilin Ancient Emperor and reacts to the Ten Thousand Dragon Bell’s apparent obedience to the Human Race, setting up future tension involving the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dao Origin Great Emperor Jiang Yun’s repeated raids on the Divine Ruins and other Forbidden Zones shock the universe. Unlike past Great Emperors, who reacted defensively to Dark Turmoil, Jiang Yun consistently strikes first, displaying overwhelming authority but raising fears that he may provoke a catastrophic conflict.
• The Dao Origin Faction distributes the spoils from the Divine Ruins, including extremely valuable Flat Peaches capable of extending lifespan. Jiang Yun rewards his followers generously.
• In the Source World, the transplanted Ancient Peach Tree bears two true Undying Medicine fruits and begins producing another. Jiang Yun considers using a precious Nine-Turn Immortal Pill to accelerate its growth, since his faction increasingly needs Golden Cores and longevity resources.
• Ye Fan admires Jiang Yun’s generosity and understands why he must raid Forbidden Zones: the faction’s rapidly expanding group of powerful cultivators, companions, and descendants consumes enormous quantities of Golden Cores and divine resources.
• Over the next decade, the Dao Origin Faction becomes the dominant force in the universe. Several Quasi-Emperors emerge, and numerous prodigies, Ancient Emperor descendants, demons, and powerful figures join the Dao Origin Divine Hall.
• Jiang Yun notices that the Golden Age’s young prodigies have lost their ambition. Because his achievements seem impossible to surpass, many have abandoned the struggle for Dao Attainment and are simply waiting for the Immortal Road before sealing themselves away.
• To restore their motivation and recruit them for future battles against Forbidden Zones, darkness, Heaven, and the Immortal Domain, Jiang Yun announces a grand banquet and Dao discussion for the universe’s ranked prodigies and Young Emperors.
• The announcement causes a massive gathering. Famous figures such as Di Huang, God Venerable, Saint Prince, Primordial Beginning, Zhang Bairen, Huang Xudao, Jin Chanzi, and others converge on the Dao Origin Divine Hall.
• During the month before the banquet, the gathered prodigies repeatedly battle one another. These clashes demonstrate the exceptional talent of the Golden Age, though no one fights to the death within the Dao Origin territory.
• Jiang Yun finally appears, calming the entire gathering with his tranquil aura. The prodigies are awed by his youthful appearance, tremendous vitality, and terrifying reputation as a Quasi-Emperor capable of defeating Supremes.
• At the banquet, the guests are astonished by the rapid advancement of Jiang Yun’s companions and faction members, many of whom have already reached the Great Saint, Saint King, or even Quasi-Emperor realms.
• Divine Silkworm Daoist and Jin Chanzi ask Jiang Yun whether he intends to personally fight the Forbidden Zones, break through the Immortal Road, and lead the Dao Origin faction into the Immortal Domain.
• Jiang Yun challenges their assumptions by questioning whether entering the Immortal Domain or breaking through the Immortal Road truly means becoming immortal.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Becomes increasingly powerful, authoritative, and strategically ambitious. He shifts from merely dominating the present to planning for the universe’s long-term future, hoping to forge an army of battle-tested geniuses rather than fighting every major conflict alone. He also shows caution regarding scarce resources such as Nine-Turn Immortal Pill ingredients.
• Ye Fan: Remains loyal and deeply appreciative of Jiang Yun. He recognizes the tremendous burden Jiang Yun carries and takes responsibility for recruiting elite prodigies into the Dao Origin faction.
• Dao Origin faction members: Their cultivation advances dramatically through access to Jiang Yun’s resources, battles, and opportunities. Their success establishes the faction as not only politically dominant but also the strongest source of future talent.
• The young prodigies and Young Emperors: Initially become complacent and discouraged by Jiang Yun’s overwhelming achievements. Their gathering revives their competitive spirit, leading them to battle one another and reconsider their own potential.
• Di Huang and other legendary figures: Show admiration and curiosity toward Jiang Yun, regarding him as a figure worthy of pursuit even though they have never previously met him.
• Divine Silkworm Daoist and Jin Chanzi: Voice the central concerns of the gathered prodigies: immortality, the Immortal Road, and Jiang Yun’s plans for the Forbidden Zones.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming greatness and its unintended consequences: Jiang Yun’s unparalleled rise inspires awe but also causes younger cultivators to lose confidence and abandon their ambitions.
• Leadership and long-term preparation: Jiang Yun understands that the coming conflicts cannot be solved by one person. He seeks to organize and motivate an army capable of confronting future cosmic threats.
• Resources and sacrifice: The growth of the Dao Origin faction requires enormous quantities of Golden Cores, divine medicines, and rare materials, forcing Jiang Yun to raid Forbidden Zones and consider sacrificing precious alchemical resources.
• Competition in a Golden Age: The gathering reveals an era filled with extraordinary geniuses, each capable of becoming a dominant figure in another age. Their rivalry creates the possibility of a future mythic generation.
• The meaning of immortality: The chapter questions whether entering the Immortal Domain or passing through the Immortal Road truly constitutes genuine immortality.
• Unity and faction-building: The Dao Origin Divine Hall increasingly brings together humans, demons, Ancient Emperor descendants, divine races, and other powerful groups under one banner.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and Ye Fan discuss the Ancient Peach Tree, the value of its Undying Medicine fruits, and the immense resource demands of supporting their faction.
• Jiang Yun instructs Ye Fan to recruit elite figures, leading to the eventual inclusion of the Central Emperor, Great Demon God, Ji Zi, Southern Demon, Qi Huoshui, and others.
• God Venerable and another young Supreme begin fighting immediately after discussing their desire to determine who is strongest.
• Ye Fan, Huo Qizi, and other reception hosts become so absorbed in the battles that they themselves join the combat.
• The prodigies observe the vastly superior cultivation of Jiang Yun’s companions, producing envy, frustration, and renewed awareness of the gap between them and the Dao Origin faction.
• At the banquet, Divine Silkworm Daoist and Jin Chanzi openly question Jiang Yun about his plans for immortality and the Forbidden Zones, prompting Jiang Yun’s provocative challenge to their understanding of the Immortal Road.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun provokes the gathered prodigies to reconsider what “immortality” means. He explains that entering the Immortal Domain may constitute immortality for those seeking longevity, while those pursuing supreme strength must surpass the Heavenly Emperor realm.
• He confirms that immortals and the Immortal Domain truly exist, revealing that he learned much from records discovered after purging Immortal Mountain.
• Jiang Yun distributes copies of an ancient Immortal’s Travelogue, preserved on the tortoiseshell remains of a Supreme. The records describe the first emperor of the Chaotic Ancient Era living through multiple lifetimes, opening Immortal Roads, and ultimately becoming immortal.
• Jiang Yun announces that someone present has personally seen an immortal. Attention falls on Zhang Bairen, who is revealed to have survived from the Chaotic Ancient Era.
• Zhang Bairen confirms the existence of immortals and describes the ancient universe, the Immortal Ancient cultivation system, and the wars that shattered the primordial continents.
• He reveals that the immortal he saw was the legendary Desolate Emperor—the first emperor of the world—who later became a Heavenly Emperor and killed an immortal using an emperor’s body. The Desolate Emperor also created the foundation of the present Five Secret Realms cultivation system.
• Zhang Bairen explains that the Desolate Emperor helped him create Divine Source Liquid, enabling him to seal himself until the present era.
• Several prodigies expose their extraordinary identities: Di Huang is revealed as a disciple of Emperor Zun, while Primordial Beginning is an Immortal Embryo originating from the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Jiang Yun uses the revelations to invite the prodigies to join the Dao Origin Faction and pursue immortality together. He emphasizes that the Immortal Road and the conflicts surrounding it cannot be faced by one person alone.
• Zhang Bairen joins first, followed by Jin Chanzi, Divine Silkworm Daoist, Primordial Beginning, and many others. Eventually, roughly ninety percent of the era’s prodigies and Young Emperors come under Jiang Yun’s command.
• At the chapter’s end, Jiang Yun receives word that Wushi Great Emperor has succeeded in an important endeavor, likely preparing to deal with the Undying Heavenly Emperor by exiling him to the Strange World before the Immortal Road opens.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Jiang Yun reveals himself as both a knowledgeable guide and a powerful political leader. He openly shares secrets, earns the prodigies’ trust, and strategically recruits them into his faction.
• Ye Fan gains renewed determination after learning that immortals exist, resolving to break the supposed limits of the Sacred Physique.
• Zhang Bairen shifts from an apparently ordinary prodigy to a living survivor of the Chaotic Ancient Era. His firsthand knowledge establishes him as an invaluable historical source and leads him to join Jiang Yun.
• Di Huang exposes Zhang Bairen’s ancient origin, but Zhang retaliates by revealing that Di Huang is Emperor Zun’s disciple.
• Primordial Beginning is exposed as an Immortal Embryo who might once have been born immortal. His hostility toward Di Huang reflects his pride and extraordinary origins.
• Jin Chanzi tactfully redirects the increasingly dangerous exchange of secrets toward the central question of whether Zhang Bairen saw an immortal.
• Zhang Bairen compares Jiang Yun to the Desolate Emperor, recognizing in Jiang Yun the same unparalleled potential and bearing.

Significant Themes

• The meaning of immortality: Immortality is presented as either extended life, entry into the Immortal Domain, or transcendence beyond the Heavenly Emperor realm, depending on one’s aspirations.
• Truth versus legend: Ancient myths about immortals are confirmed through firsthand testimony and relics, transforming vague stories into historical reality.
• Inheritance across eras: The cultivation systems, weapons, and figures of the Immortal Ancient and Chaotic Ancient Eras continue to shape the present world.
• The burden of the Golden Age: The current era gathers unprecedented monsters and opportunities, making it both the most glorious and most dangerous age in history.
• Unity against greater threats: Jiang Yun argues that the Immortal Road, the Forbidden Zones, and future conflicts in the Immortal Domain require collective strength rather than solitary advancement.
• Political consolidation: The banquet becomes more than an exchange of knowledge; it allows Jiang Yun to unite nearly all major young powers under the Dao Origin Faction.
• Foreshadowing of conflict: The imminent opening of the Immortal Road and the threat of the Undying Heavenly Emperor establish the next major crisis.

Chapter Summary: “Flick of a Finger, Twenty Years! Undying Found Within Yinghuo!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun receives Gai Jiuyou’s message but waits while Wushi Great Emperor prepares an ambush in the Strange World to trap and kill the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• During the long wait, Jiang Yun continues cultivating, absorbing Longevity Matter and refining pills. His numerous physiques and bloodlines merge into the new Dao Origin Physique and Dao Origin Bloodline.
• He refines several Nine-Turn Immortal Pills and Seven-Turn Golden Cores, reserving some as life-saving trump cards and using others to support his Dao companions and Divine Medicines.
• More than twenty years after Wushi’s preparations begin, Jiang Yun finally receives confirmation from Gai Jiuyou that everything is ready.
• Jiang Yun travels alone to Yinghuo, a dead, blood-red ancient star once connected to the Heavenly Court and the Mythological Era’s final battlefield.
• Beneath Yinghuo, he enters a vast World Tomb containing an enormous Nether Sea filled with deathly qi, ancient corpses, ruined artifacts, undead creatures, and the remains of a destroyed age.
• Jiang Yun discovers a Buddhist ship carrying the remains of monks and Arhats from Shakyamuni’s era. Out of respect, he sends the ship into his Source World’s Netherworld so their true spirits can enter reincarnation.
• At the bottom of the Nether Sea, Jiang Yun finds the ancient battlefield where countless Imperial Dao experts and Heavenly Court forces perished. He also detects traces of the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s more recent transformations.
• In the innermost palace, Jiang Yun sees Gai Jiuyou restraining a blood-red flesh sphere—Undying Heavenly Emperor’s current form—while a Chaos Great Bell attempts to swallow and imprison it.
• Gai Jiuyou and the Human Demon have spent years cutting off all information from the outside world, ensuring that Undying Heavenly Emperor remains unaware of the ambush. Jiang Yun is revealed as the final decisive force in the planned attack.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun grows substantially stronger, reaching the Ninth Heaven and becoming confident that he can defeat most Forbidden Zone Supremes individually, aside from the Desolate Forbidden Land’s ruler.
• His many physiques and bloodlines evolve into unified Dao Origin versions, symbolizing his increasingly personalized and supreme path.
• He becomes more composed and strategic, patiently waiting for the correct moment instead of acting impulsively.
• Jiang Yun also displays compassion and responsibility by preserving the Buddhist monks’ remains and giving their spirits a chance at reincarnation.
• Jiang Yixian, once a small child, has grown into a young Saint-level woman. Her playful dependence on Jiang Yun remains, especially her secret fondness for Ten Thousand Beasts Milk.
• Gai Jiuyou is shown as a crucial conspirator and frontline restrainer, continuously supporting Wushi’s plan and personally suppressing Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Wushi Great Emperor emerges as the chief architect of the ambush, organizing forces and preparing the Strange World battlefield.
• Jiang Yun’s Dao companions remain close and supportive, while Xia Jiuyou and Zixia also act as voices of caution regarding his interactions with female subordinates.

Significant Themes

• Patience and preparation: The heroes spend decades arranging the ambush rather than rushing into battle.
• Transformation and self-created identity: Jiang Yun’s physiques and bloodlines becoming “Dao Origin” reflects his evolution beyond inherited powers into a path bearing his own name.
• The passage of time: Jiang Yixian’s growth and the decades-long preparations emphasize how rapidly centuries pass for powerful cultivators.
• Death, destruction, and reincarnation: Yinghuo and the World Tomb embody the ruin of entire eras, while Jiang Yun’s rescue of the Buddhist spirits introduces the possibility of renewal amid devastation.
• History’s buried consequences: The Mythological Era’s destruction, Emperor Zun’s deception, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s transformations remain connected to the present conflict.
• Family and responsibility: Despite his cosmic ambitions, Jiang Yun remains involved in domestic relationships, supporting his children, Dao companions, and extended family.
• Hidden threats and deception: The enemy’s isolation from outside information is essential to making the final strike possible.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun affectionately teases and cares for Jiang Yixian, while she secretly asks him for Ten Thousand Beasts Milk.
• Zixia and Xia Jiuyou playfully embarrass Jiang Yixian, causing her to flee in embarrassment.
• Xia Jiuyou and Zixia tease Jiang Yun about having more children and about rumors surrounding his cultivation guidance of female Heavenly Palace members.
• Jiang Yun accepts Zixia’s advice to place restrictions on the Heavenly Palace’s contribution-point system, protecting the reputations of both himself and the women involved.
• Gai Jiuyou works alongside Wushi Great Emperor and the Human Demon to suppress and isolate Undying Heavenly Emperor, while Jiang Yun arrives as the concealed final weapon.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun arrives at the underground palace, where the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s flesh sphere—formed through countless cycles of Nirvana and the absorption of Extreme Dao experts’ flesh and blood—is being pulled toward the Strange World.
• The Wushi Great Emperor restrains the Undying Heavenly Emperor from the far end of the spatial passage with the Chaos Great Bell, while Gai Jiuyou assists from within the Burial Grounds.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor attempts to resist the pull and recruit or intimidate Gai Jiuyou, insisting that Wushi cannot force him into the other world.
• He attacks Gai Jiuyou with five divine phoenix feathers, but Gai counters using the Order Immortal Bell, a law-formed bell created from the long struggle between Wushi and the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• After receiving Gai’s signal that Wushi is ready, Jiang Yun unleashes his full power and transforms into an enormous Chaos True Dragon. His dragon claw attacks the flesh sphere while Gai Jiuyou and Wushi coordinate their assaults.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor reveals that he has been concealing part of his strength and briefly breaks free, but Jiang Yun’s attack combines with the Wushi Bell’s suction and forces him deeper into the spatial passage.
• Desperate to avoid missing the imminent opening of the Immortal Road, the Undying Heavenly Emperor summons his scattered Divine Thought and calls back his ultimate weapon: the true Immortal Heavenly Blade.
• The Divine Thought attacks Gai Jiuyou and the Human Demon, while the five-colored Immortal Heavenly Blade emerges from Chaos and races toward the battlefield.
• The Wushi Bell prepares to intercept the blade, but Jiang Yun suddenly erupts with even greater Chaos Dragon power, overwhelming the Undying Heavenly Emperor and allowing Wushi to drag the flesh sphere completely into the Strange World.
• With the Undying Heavenly Emperor temporarily removed, Jiang Yun immediately pursues the revealed Immortal Heavenly Blade.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Demonstrates a dramatic increase in strength, revealing that his Chaos True Dragon transformation can approach the power of a four-lifetime Heavenly Emperor. He recognizes that he is not yet ready to match the Undying Heavenly Emperor directly, but believes that completing the Great Emperor realm and merging his Five Secret Realms may allow him to do so. His decisive attack establishes him as a major force in the battle.
• Undying Heavenly Emperor: Is shown to be vastly powerful, having survived across multiple eras and undergone repeated Nirvana transformations. His confidence gives way to panic and fury when Jiang Yun and Wushi threaten to remove him from the current world before the Immortal Road opens. He is forced to unveil his greatest weapon.
• Wushi Great Emperor: Continues his tens-of-thousands-year struggle against the Undying Heavenly Emperor from the Strange World. His patience, preparation, and coordination with Gai Jiuyou and Jiang Yun finally allow him to complete the transfer.
• Gai Jiuyou: Proves his ability to endure and fight an opponent far stronger than himself. By mastering the Order Immortal Bell and combining it with his own forbidden technique, he becomes an essential anchor in restraining the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Human Demon: Remains stationed at the hidden entrance to prevent the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Thought from infiltrating, later helping withstand the summoned attack.
• Immortal Heavenly Blade: Is revealed as the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s true, legendary weapon rather than merely a weapon associated with his heir. Its appearance signals the escalation of the conflict and creates a new immediate threat.

Significant Themes

• Immortality and obsession: The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s repeated Nirvana transformations and blood-based cultivation show the extreme lengths he will take to escape mortality and return to the Immortal Domain.
• Endurance versus sudden power: The centuries-long tug-of-war between Wushi and the Undying Heavenly Emperor contrasts with Jiang Yun’s explosive intervention, showing how long-term preparation and sudden breakthroughs can complement one another.
• Legacy and accumulated strength: The Order Immortal Bell embodies the laws left behind by Wushi and the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s ancient conflict. Gai Jiuyou gains power by refining the Dao marks of both enemies into his own technique.
• Hidden trump cards: Both sides conceal strength until the decisive moment. The Undying Heavenly Emperor reveals the Immortal Heavenly Blade, while Jiang Yun unexpectedly displays power far beyond his earlier apparent level.
• The approach of the Immortal Road: The impending opening of the Immortal Road drives the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s desperation and raises the stakes of every confrontation.

Character Interactions

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor taunts Wushi and attempts to persuade Gai Jiuyou to abandon his opposition, but Gai remains silent and loyal to the plan.
• Gai Jiuyou communicates secretly with Wushi through the Source Ring, coordinating the final assault.
• Jiang Yun and Gai Jiuyou fight in tandem: Gai uses the Order Immortal Bell to weaken and restrain the flesh sphere while Jiang Yun delivers the decisive physical blow.
• Wushi times his intervention with Jiang Yun’s attack, using the Chaos Great Bell to pull the Undying Heavenly Emperor fully into the Strange World.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s summoning of his Divine Thought and Immortal Heavenly Blade transforms the conflict from a localized struggle into a universal crisis.
• The chapter ends with Jiang Yun pursuing the Immortal Heavenly Blade, setting up the next confrontation after the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s temporary removal.

Chapter Summary: “A Weapon Born from the Source World! Break the Immortal Heavenly Blade!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun’s long-standing pretense of weakness successfully lures out the Immortal Heavenly Blade, the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s most powerful means of influencing the current world besides the Feixian Waterfall.
• With the Wushi Great Emperor assisting from outside, Jiang Yun forces the Undying Heavenly Emperor back into the Strange World and turns his attention to the Sky Blade.
• The Immortal Heavenly Blade races toward Yinghuo, whose Divine Thought carries the aura of the Undying Heavenly Emperor. If the two reunited, they might restore part of the Heavenly Emperor’s power or rescue him.
• Several Emperor Artifacts attempt to stop the blade. The Golden King and another Great Saint activate the Golden Mace and Golden Domain, but the Sky Blade tears through them, severely damaging the mace and injuring its wielders. Quasi-Emperor Gan Tian arrives in time to save them.
• Jiang Yun intercepts the Immortal Heavenly Blade with the Chaos Dragon Halberd, a supreme treasure naturally born from the Source World. Their collision destroys several barren starfields.
• Jiang Yun and the Sky Blade engage in a tremendous battle. The blade displays the full might of the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Dao, while Jiang Yun counters with the Myriad Dao Origin Suppression Kill.
• Initially, Jiang Yun is only evenly matched with the weapon. He then fully employs the Chaos Dragon Halberd, combining his own power with the weapon’s ability to draw strength from the Chaos Sea.
• The Immortal Heavenly Blade reveals that it contains the laws and mysteries of several legendary Immortal Artifacts, including the Immortal Bell, Immortal Cauldron, the scripture connected to Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin, and possibly the Desolate Pagoda. The Undying Heavenly Emperor had branded these laws onto the blade in an attempt to forge a true Immortal Artifact.
• Jiang Yun launches a decisive attack using the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk and the Five Elements Divine Seal. The resulting strike overwhelms the blade, cracks it, and splits it into two pieces.
• The Sky Blade’s Weapon Soul is badly damaged and nearly sent into reincarnation by Jiang Yun’s Reincarnation Disk. It attempts to flee, abandoning its mission to save the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Phoenix Blood Scarlet Gold within the blade activates its Nirvana and rebirth properties, allowing the two broken halves to reconnect. The weapon survives, though its defeat and the loss of part of its divine nature leave it weakened and frightened.
• The battle shocks the Forbidden Zone Supremes, who recognize that Jiang Yun, the Immortal Heavenly Blade, and the mysterious great bell suppressing the Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Thought represent unprecedented threats before the opening of the Immortal Road.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun abandons his concealed weakness and demonstrates overwhelming combat power. He proves capable of fighting an artifact that carries the full continuation of the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Dao.
• His physical body is shown to be strong enough to contend with the Sky Blade, but he realizes that his newly born Chaos Dragon Halberd is essential for gaining the upper hand.
• Jiang Yun’s mastery of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk and Five Elements Divine Seal reveals abilities beyond ordinary Dao techniques, including the power to threaten a weapon’s Divine Spirit directly.
• The Immortal Heavenly Blade’s Divine Spirit is portrayed as intelligent, proud, and nearly alive. Initially arrogant and determined to rescue its master, it becomes shocked, humiliated, and fearful after Jiang Yun repeatedly repels and finally shatters it.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor remains physically absent, but his influence dominates the battle through the Sky Blade’s power and its accumulated understanding of multiple Immortal laws.
• Golden King and the accompanying Great Saint realize how helpless they are against the Sky Blade, surviving only through Quasi-Emperor Gan Tian’s intervention.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes grow increasingly anxious as they witness powers that surpass the conventional limits of Supreme Great Emperors.

Significant Themes

• The power of weapons and their creators: The Immortal Heavenly Blade is not a passive artifact but an intelligent continuation of its master’s Dao, nearly equivalent to the Undying Heavenly Emperor himself.
• Growth beyond established limits: Jiang Yun has not yet formally attained the Great Emperor realm, yet his strength surpasses many established Supremes and allows him to destroy an artifact approaching the Immortal level.
• The birth of new power: The Chaos Dragon Halberd, naturally formed from the Source World’s Chaotic Stone and nurtured by its myriad Dao, represents a new kind of supreme treasure with the potential to challenge ancient inheritances.
• Reincarnation, destruction, and rebirth: Jiang Yun’s Reincarnation Disk threatens the weapon’s Divine Spirit, while Phoenix Blood Scarlet Gold allows the blade to recover through Nirvana. The chapter contrasts annihilation with cyclical renewal.
• Accumulated ancient knowledge: The Sky Blade’s fusion of laws from the Immortal Bell, Immortal Cauldron, Desolate Pagoda, and other sources shows the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s long-term ambition to gather and surpass the greatest Immortal inheritances.
• The approaching Immortal Road: The battle establishes that the opening of the Immortal Road will bring forth terrifying beings and artifacts capable of destabilizing the entire universe.

Important Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and the Undying Heavenly Emperor: They do not directly fight throughout the chapter, but Jiang Yun confronts the Heavenly Emperor’s power through the Immortal Heavenly Blade and forces his plans into failure.
• Jiang Yun and the Immortal Heavenly Blade: Their confrontation evolves from a test of strength into a decisive battle of Dao, weapon spirituality, and ancient versus newly born power. Jiang Yun ultimately shatters the blade and causes its Divine Spirit to retreat.
• Wushi Great Emperor and Jiang Yun: Wushi supports Jiang Yun by helping force the Undying Heavenly Emperor into the Strange World, enabling Jiang Yun to confront the Sky Blade without interference.
• The Immortal Heavenly Blade and the Emperor Artifacts: The blade defeats or bypasses multiple artifacts, demonstrating its superiority over ordinary Imperial Weapons before finally meeting an opponent—Jiang Yun and the Chaos Dragon Halberd—it cannot overcome.
• Jiang Yun and the Forbidden Zone Supremes: Though they do not directly engage, Jiang Yun’s performance forces the Supremes to reassess the balance of power and fear the dangers emerging before the Immortal Road opens.

Chapter Summary: Immortal Heavenly Blade Shattered! Feixian Waterfall and the Phoenix Egg!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun decisively defeats the Immortal Heavenly Blade, shattering its true body with a single halberd strike and severely damaging its Divine Spirit.
• The blade attempts to flee into the Chaos Sea, using its immense speed, Emperor Formations, and the power of the five fused Divine Metals. Jiang Yun repeatedly intercepts and destroys its defenses.
• The Immortal Heavenly Blade summons vast Faith Power from all beings who worship the Undying Heavenly Emperor. It attempts to form the Heavenly Emperor’s Dao body and escape under its protection.
• Jiang Yun counters with the Chaos Dragon Halberd’s new technique, “Chaos Creation, World Within the Halberd,” creating a miniature world whose laws suppress and destroy the blade’s attacks.
• Forced into desperation, the blade sacrifices part of its Divine Spirit and summons a phantom of the Undying Heavenly Emperor. The phantom initially tries to retreat rather than fight Jiang Yun directly.
• Jiang Yun pursues and traps the phantom within his halberd-created world. After a fierce clash, he uses the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk to suppress the Heavenly Emperor phantom, the blade, and its Divine Spirit.
• Jiang Yun destroys the phantom completely and extracts the Immortal Heavenly Blade’s Divine Spirit and Dao laws, refining them into the Chaos Dragon Halberd. A Divine Phoenix and Five-Colored Heavenly Saber image appear on the halberd as new Dao markings.
• With the blade destroyed, Jiang Yun turns his attention to the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s other son: the Phoenix Egg hidden in the Chaos beyond the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.
• The Phoenix Egg attempts to escape through the legendary Feixian Waterfall, a mysterious immortal substance said to connect to the Immortal Domain.
• Jiang Yun recognizes the waterfall’s importance, realizing that it may serve as a crucial “signal amplifier” for his Source Ring and potentially make interworld communication or travel possible.
• He forcibly cuts through the supposedly indestructible Feixian Waterfall, preventing the Phoenix Egg from escaping completely. Although the egg reaches the opposite side of the universe, Jiang Yun can still track it through the Source Ring’s pervasive influence.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun demonstrates overwhelming growth. He defeats an awakened Imperial weapon with ease, showing that his physical body, Dao laws, and combat ability have surpassed ordinary Supreme-level beings.
• He rapidly masters the Chaos Dragon Halberd, developing and using the technique “Chaos Creation, World Within the Halberd.” His ability to learn and adapt during battle is emphasized.
• Jiang Yun becomes increasingly confident and strategically ambitious. He not only destroys his enemy but also absorbs its Divine Spirit, Dao laws, Fortune, and Divine Metal.
• His plans expand beyond defeating the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s forces. The discovery of the Feixian Waterfall gives him a possible means of strengthening the Source Ring and influencing other worlds.
• The Immortal Heavenly Blade’s Divine Spirit evolves from arrogance and confidence to panic and desperation. It uses every available resource—formations, Faith Power, the Heavenly Emperor phantom, and self-sacrifice—but ultimately fails.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s phantom reflects the Heavenly Emperor’s traditional caution and patience. Rather than risk total destruction, it tries to retreat when faced with Jiang Yun’s youthful and superior strength.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and transformation: Jiang Yun’s victory shows how far he has surpassed legendary weapons and ancient Supreme beings.
• The inheritance of Dao: By refining the Immortal Heavenly Blade’s Divine Spirit and laws into the Chaos Dragon Halberd, Jiang Yun turns an enemy’s legacy into his own strength.
• Faith and immortality: The blade’s use of collective belief illustrates how the Undying Heavenly Emperor preserves influence after death, while also showing that faith alone cannot overcome true power.
• Pragmatism and survival: The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s history reveals a philosophy of endurance, retreat, and avoiding unfavorable battles. However, this cautious strategy cannot save him from Jiang Yun’s pursuit.
• Worlds, dimensions, and interconnection: The Feixian Waterfall introduces a potential bridge between universes and realms. Its connection to Jiang Yun’s Source Ring may become important to future plans involving other worlds.
• The destruction of legends: The Immortal Heavenly Blade, once revered as the continuation of the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Dao, is completely erased, signaling the collapse of an ancient myth.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and the Immortal Heavenly Blade: Their confrontation dominates the chapter. The blade repeatedly attempts to escape or overwhelm Jiang Yun, while Jiang Yun methodically breaks its formations, body, Divine Spirit, and inherited laws.
• Jiang Yun and the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s phantom: The phantom represents the Heavenly Emperor’s past glory, but Jiang Yun treats it as a training opportunity for his halberd techniques. Their clash ends with Jiang Yun suppressing and destroying it.
• The Immortal Heavenly Blade and the Undying Heavenly Emperor: The blade relies on the Heavenly Emperor’s faith, Dao body, and lingering reputation, effectively summoning its master as a final defense.
• Jiang Yun and the Phoenix Egg: Jiang Yun pursues the egg because of its future potential, while the developing lifeform instinctively flees through the Feixian Waterfall. Their conflict remains unresolved, but Jiang Yun successfully prevents its escape from his perception.
• Jiang Yun and the Chaos Dragon Halberd: The halberd responds to Jiang Yun’s intent, absorbs the enemy’s Divine Spirit and Dao laws, and becomes a stronger weapon bearing both True Dragon and Divine Phoenix imagery.

Chapter Summary: Immortal Falls! The Black Emperor Howls! Yinghuo Settled!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun uses the Source Ring to open a gateway and seize the stone phoenix egg, which contains a yet-unborn True Phoenix. He determines that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had given the egg only the Sky Blade for protection, while the Immortal Falls served as an auxiliary artifact.
• He extracts the Immortal Falls from the egg. The artifact contains a mysterious core filled with the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s aura and powerful immortal energy, suggesting a connection to the Immortal Realm and possibly explaining how the Undying Heavenly Emperor fell into this world.
• Because the Immortal Falls may allow the Undying Heavenly Emperor to affect events across space and time, Jiang Yun seals it inside the Light Pot and carries it with him while planning to refine it cautiously. The phoenix egg is sealed and placed in Tang Valley.
• Jiang Yun returns to Yinghuo’s Boundary Mausoleum Burial Grounds, where Gai Jiuyou and others are using the Wushi Bell and several Emperor Weapons to suppress and refine the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s strange Divine Thought.
• Jiang Yun destroys the entity completely with the Wushi Technique. Gai Jiuyou explains that it is not a true Divine Thought, but more likely a faith-based yin god or monster formed from the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s power and the spirits within the Burial Grounds.
• With the threat eliminated, Yinghuo is effectively settled. Jiang Yun then follows the Wushi Bell into the deeper Burial Grounds, where a small passage to the Strange World remains open.
• The Black Emperor is overjoyed because the Wushi Great Emperor is alive on the other side and is apparently fighting the Undying Heavenly Emperor. Jiang Yun enlarges the passage, while the Wushi Bell stabilizes it.
• Jiang Yun prevents the Black Emperor from entering recklessly, warning that the chaotic void between the two worlds would kill anyone without immense strength or guidance from the Wushi Great Emperor.
• The chapter ends with Jiang Yun, the Wushi Bell, and the Black Emperor waiting for the Wushi Great Emperor to finish his battle and establish a safe route between the worlds.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun demonstrates increased confidence and overwhelming strength. He effortlessly captures the phoenix egg, analyzes the Immortal Falls, destroys the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s eerie manifestation, and remains cautious about the greater dangers surrounding the Immortal Realm and Strange World.
• Gai Jiuyou recognizes that Jiang Yun’s combat power has surpassed his own despite Jiang Yun’s lower cultivation realm. He is deeply moved by seeing his disciple Xia Jiuyou and his old companion Azure Phoenix Daoist again after a century.
• Xia Jiuyou has matured into a Great Saint and a dignified, powerful cultivator, no longer the spoiled young girl Gai Jiuyou remembers.
• Azure Phoenix Daoist appears aged and emotional. His reunion with Gai Jiuyou reveals their deep bond: Gai was both a mentor and father figure to him.
• The Black Emperor reveals his intense devotion to the Wushi Great Emperor. His excitement at learning Wushi is alive surpasses even his previous joy over receiving precious pills. Despite his usual arrogance and impatience, he is forced to wait and restrain himself.
• The Wushi Bell remains protective of the Wushi Great Emperor but maintains its antagonistic, mocking relationship with the Black Emperor, repeatedly stunning him with bell waves whenever he becomes too unruly.

Significant Themes

• The mystery of the Immortal Realm: The Immortal Falls may be a bridge or key linking the current world to the Immortal Domain, raising questions about the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s origins and fall.
• Power and restraint: Although Jiang Yun possesses extraordinary strength, he understands that entering the Strange World without a stable passage would be suicidal. True power is shown through judgment and patience rather than reckless action.
• The persistence of bonds across time: The reunions between Gai Jiuyou, Xia Jiuyou, and Azure Phoenix emphasize how relationships endure despite centuries of separation and aging.
• Loyalty and longing: The Black Emperor’s desperate desire to reunite with Wushi Great Emperor highlights his unwavering loyalty and emotional attachment.
• The limits of mortality and time: The aging of Gai Jiuyou and Azure Phoenix contrasts with Jiang Yun’s rising power and the enduring existence of supreme beings such as Wushi and the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

Important Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun captures and studies the phoenix egg, recognizing its connection to the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Gai Jiuyou explains the nature of the enemy manifestation to Jiang Yun, after which Jiang Yun destroys it.
• Xia Jiuyou reunites tearfully with Gai Jiuyou, who is proud of her growth.
• Azure Phoenix Daoist embraces Gai Jiuyou and mourns the years they lost apart.
• Jiang Yun and the Black Emperor argue over whether to enter the Strange World. Jiang Yun insists on waiting for Wushi’s guidance, while the Black Emperor impatiently wants to rush in.
• The Black Emperor and Wushi Bell continue their comic rivalry, with the bell repeatedly knocking the dog unconscious whenever he insults it.
• Jiang Yun reassures the Black Emperor that Wushi Great Emperor remains powerful and will eventually return for him.

Chapter Summary: Refining the Feixian Waterfall

Key Plot Points and Events

• Beneath the Nether Sea, Jiang Yun, the Black Emperor, and others await a response from the Wushi Great Emperor while investigating a mysterious underground passage.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Huo Qizi, Primordial Beginning, Zhang Bairen, and other prodigies discover the Chaos Cave and North Pole Immortal Light, realizing that it is a surviving section of the Road to Immortality.
• At the end of the road, they encounter two law-formed figures: the lingering Dao imprints of the Wushi Great Emperor and the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who had once fought a life-and-death battle there.
• The imprints preserve enough power to repel and severely injure the Great Saint-level prodigies. Huo Qizi is badly wounded, but Jiang Yun heals him and the others.
• Jiang Yun instructs the prodigies to study the two opposing Dao laws from a safe distance, while he enters the restricted area himself to cultivate and refine the Feixian Waterfall using the North Pole Immortal Light.
• During refinement, Jiang Yun removes the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s aura from the artifact and replaces it with his own divine imprint. The Feixian Waterfall unexpectedly splits into two connected halves.
• Jiang Yun experiments with the divided waterfalls and discovers that he can travel between them regardless of distance within the universe. They can also serve as passages between worlds.
• Cross-world transportation consumes more of the waterfall’s immortal energy depending on the traveler’s strength and the distance crossed. Weak beings pass through with little loss, while powerful cultivators face greater resistance and may only be able to extend part of their bodies through.
• Jiang Yun realizes that the Feixian Waterfall can function as a powerful “signal amplifier” for the Source Ring, potentially allowing the Source World to communicate with or attack distant worlds through Source Space.
• He gives one half of the waterfall to the Wushi Bell so it can eventually carry it into the Strange World. Jiang Yun hopes to use it with the Source Ring to establish a connection between worlds.
• Several months pass without news from the Wushi Great Emperor. Jiang Yun continues studying the Dao imprints and gains considerable insight.
• Gai Jiuyou then arrives. After a century of cultivation influenced by the conflict between Wushi and the Undying Heavenly Emperor—and further recent breakthroughs—he is now extremely close to attaining the Great Emperor realm.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun grows stronger through comprehending the laws left by two future Red Dust Immortals. He also demonstrates greater strategic vision, viewing the Feixian Waterfall not merely as a weapon but as a tool for inter-world communication and expansion of the Source Ring network.
• Ye Fan and the other prodigies are humbled by their inability to approach the Dao imprints. Their pride as Great Saints diminishes as they recognize the enormous gulf between themselves and true Supreme-level existences.
• Huo Qizi suffers serious injuries from the ancient Dao imprints but survives because of Jiang Yun’s intervention.
• Gai Jiuyou makes rapid progress after the threat of the Undying Heavenly Emperor is temporarily removed. His Dao foundation, aided by guidance from Wushi and an Immortal Elixir, has reached the threshold of Emperor-level advancement.
• The Wushi Great Emperor and Undying Heavenly Emperor are further established as beings whose power vastly surpassed ordinary Great Emperors; even their ancient law imprints remain overwhelmingly powerful.

Significant Themes

• The vastness of cultivation realms: Potential and Great Saint-level strength are shown to be insignificant before the supreme beings who stand above the Great Emperor realm.
• The endurance of the Dao: The Road to Immortality preserves the traces of Wushi and the Undying Heavenly Emperor across countless ages, demonstrating how truly supreme cultivators can leave permanent marks on reality.
• Refinement and transformation: Jiang Yun’s purification of the Feixian Waterfall symbolizes his gradual replacement of the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s influence with his own power and purpose.
• Worlds separated by immense distance: The chapter emphasizes that different worlds may appear close conceptually while remaining unimaginably far apart in reality. Entering the Immortal Domain and reaching the Strange World require different levels of power because their distances and barriers differ.
• Technology-like applications of cultivation: Jiang Yun approaches divine artifacts experimentally, treating the Feixian Waterfall as a transport system, amplifier, and possible network connecting the heavens and worlds.
• The timing of opportunity: The opening of the Immortal Road represents a rare convergence of time, location, and circumstance, making it the ideal moment to attempt contact between worlds.

Important Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun rescues and heals Huo Qizi and the other injured prodigies, earning their gratitude and reinforcing his position as their protector and guide.
• He encourages the prodigies to study the opposing Dao laws rather than recklessly approach the dangerous imprints.
• Jiang Yun relies on the Wushi Bell as his life-bound weapon and entrusts it with half of the Feixian Waterfall, believing it may eventually help him connect to the Wushi Great Emperor.
• The final interaction is between Jiang Yun and Gai Jiuyou: Jiang Yun recognizes that Gai Jiuyou’s cultivation has advanced dramatically and that he is now on the verge of becoming a Great Emperor.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• After spending a century under the pressure of Wushi Great Emperor and the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Dao Laws, Gai Jiuyou prepares to study their intertwined Dao Marks using the Immortal Bell.
• Jiang Yun instead urges Gai Jiuyou to focus on becoming emperor. Gai Jiuyou is already powerful enough to attempt the Emperor Tribulation, having recovered from his former Dao injury through Jiang Yun’s aid and the Immortal Elixir.
• Gai Jiuyou refuses to compete with Jiang Yun for the imperial position. He believes only one Great Emperor can normally appear in an era and that Jiang Yun, being younger and more talented, is the better candidate to protect the world during the coming Immortal Road upheaval.
• Jiang Yun reveals that he has fully refined the Feixian Waterfall and brings Gai Jiuyou into the Source World, an independent universe governed by laws Jiang Yun personally comprehended.
• Inside the Source World, Jiang Yun demonstrates his control over its myriad Dao Laws. He condenses the world’s Heavenly Heart Mark, merges countless manifestations of his own cultivation into it, and displays a transformation beyond the ordinary limits of the Five Secret Realms.
• Gai Jiuyou realizes that the Source World functions like an additional cultivation realm—a “Sixth Secret Realm”—and may be the foundation for Jiang Yun’s ability to suppress Supremes while still only a Quasi-Emperor.
• Jiang Yun explains his theory that, after perfecting the Five Secret Realms, cultivators must cause their inner “Dao seed” to break through the soil and develop into a new form of existence. He tentatively names the transitional stage the Dao Seed Realm, while the fully developed Sixth Secret Realm may correspond to a Grand Dao flower blooming outside the body.
• Inspired by Jiang Yun’s ideas, Gai Jiuyou regains his youthful determination and appears ready to pursue Emperorhood.

2. Character Developments

• Gai Jiuyou: Moves from a cautious, battle-worn elder who has lost some of his former ambition to an inspired cultivator once again seeking the summit. His willingness to give Jiang Yun the imperial opportunity demonstrates humility, foresight, and devotion to the greater good.
• Jiang Yun: Reveals that his cultivation has advanced beyond conventional Emperor-level concepts. He is not merely relying on external power from the Source World; he is developing an entirely new cultivation path and may already possess the foundation for realms beyond the Emperor Realm.
• Their relationship: Their master-disciple and family bond deepens. Jiang Yun respects Gai Jiuyou’s sacrifices, while Gai Jiuyou recognizes that Jiang Yun has surpassed him not only in combat power but also in understanding the Dao.

3. Significant Themes

• Sacrifice for the greater good: Gai Jiuyou willingly gives up the chance to become emperor first so Jiang Yun can better protect the universe.
• The limits of traditional cultivation: The chapter questions whether the perfected Five Secret Realms represent the ultimate human path or merely the foundation for a higher transformation.
• Creation and rulership: Jiang Yun’s Source World resembles a personal universe, making him its creator and ruler while demonstrating the terrifying potential of an independent Dao system.
• Innovation in the Dao: True advancement requires creating or discovering a new path rather than simply repeating methods left by ancient powerhouses.
• Renewed ambition: Jiang Yun’s revelation revives Gai Jiuyou’s fading confidence and restores his desire to challenge the heavens.

4. Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun counsels Gai Jiuyou to pursue Emperorhood, while Gai Jiuyou explains why he refuses to obstruct Jiang Yun’s path.
• Gai Jiuyou expresses faith in Jiang Yun’s potential to surpass even the Undying Heavenly Emperor and protect the world during the coming catastrophe.
• Jiang Yun responds by revealing the Source World and demonstrating his cultivation, allowing Gai Jiuyou to witness the true depth of his progress.
• Their discussion of the “Sixth Secret Realm” becomes a moment of mutual enlightenment: Jiang Yun shares his unfinished theories, and Gai Jiuyou immediately grasps their significance.
• By the end, Gai Jiuyou regards Jiang Yun less as a junior and more as a cultivator who has surpassed him in both strength and Dao comprehension, while Jiang Yun anticipates the emergence of the Jiuyou Great Emperor.

Chapter Summary: Gai Jiuyou’s Preparations and the Strange World

Key Plot Points and Events

• After traveling through Jiang Yun’s Source World, Gai Jiuyou gains a new understanding of cultivation and the limitations of the Shrouding the Heavens World. He realizes that becoming a Great Emperor will require extensive preparation rather than merely comprehending the Heavenly Heart Mark.
• Jiang Yun gives Gai Jiuyou the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s scriptures. Combined with Gai Jiuyou’s centuries of experience fighting the Undying Heavenly Emperor, this provides major insights into the Divine Phoenix’s Dao.
• Gai Jiuyou enters seclusion on the Immortal Road beneath Yinghuo to prepare for his Great Emperor tribulation.
• Jiang Yun seals the damaged Yinghuo World Tomb, replaces the original planet with a refined substitute, and moves the original Yinghuo environment into his Source World. He plans to merge the World Tomb with the Source World’s Burial Soil, creating a new “Nether Sea Burial Grounds” and strengthening the Source World’s laws.
• With Yinghuo secured, the universe becomes temporarily peaceful. The Forbidden Zone Supremes enter slumber, while the Dao Origin Faction’s prodigies train intensively through the Source Ring’s consciousness space.
• Many young geniuses, including Southern Demon and the Central Emperor, break into the Great Saint realm. The universe enters a flourishing Golden Age, and attention gradually shifts from the Star Road to Big Dipper, where cultivators gather in anticipation of the Immortal Road’s opening.
• Only thirty-eight years remain before the Immortal Road opens. Speculation spreads about whether anyone will become immortal and whether the Dao Origin Great Emperor will take others with him.
• After five years of silence, the Wushi Great Emperor finally appears at the end of the Void passage. He reveals that he had been pursuing and suppressing the Undying Heavenly Emperor in the Strange World.
• Wushi explains that the Undying Heavenly Emperor remains difficult to kill. The Strange World is vastly more powerful and complicated than the current universe, containing numerous long-lived Imperial Dao experts and several beings comparable to Heavenly Emperors.
• Wushi agrees to retrieve the Wushi Bell and later cooperate with Jiang Yun in testing whether the Source Ring and Feixian Waterfall can create a passage between the two worlds.

Character Development

• Gai Jiuyou becomes more ambitious and focused after witnessing Jiang Yun’s Source World. He begins preparing seriously for his own Great Emperor tribulation and gains new inspiration from the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s scriptures.
• Jiang Yun continues consolidating his power and improving the Source World. He acts as a guardian of the universe, sealing dangerous locations while seeking ways to connect the two worlds and assist Wushi.
• Wushi Great Emperor is shown to be cautious, powerful, and burdened by the complexity of the Strange World. Though he has made progress against the Undying Heavenly Emperor, he recognizes that hidden forces—possibly including Emperor Zun’s arrangements—make the situation dangerous.
• The Black Emperor is overwhelmed with joy at Wushi’s return but becomes anxious when Wushi says he can only bring the Wushi Bell back at first. Its dramatic sadness highlights its deep loyalty and dependence on Wushi.
• Jiang Yun and Wushi shift from a master-disciple relationship toward equality. Wushi rejects being called “master,” acknowledging that Jiang Yun’s achievements surpass what his inheritance alone could have enabled.

Significant Themes

• Preparation before transcendence: Reaching the Great Emperor realm requires long-term refinement, understanding, and readiness rather than sudden breakthrough.
• The vastness of higher worlds: The Strange World is revealed to be far larger and deeper than Jiang Yun expected, with abundant longevity resources and many ancient powerhouses.
• Guardianship and responsibility: Jiang Yun views protecting the universe and preserving the legacy of past human emperors as his duty.
• The limits of power and knowledge: Even Wushi, one of the strongest beings alive, cannot fully control the Strange World or guarantee safe passage between worlds.
• Loyalty and companionship: The reunion between Wushi and the Black Emperor emphasizes that emotional bonds survive countless years and separation.
• World-building through integration: Jiang Yun’s absorption of the Yinghuo World Tomb into the Source World demonstrates how dangerous ruins can become foundations for a stronger, more complete cosmos.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and Gai Jiuyou: Jiang Yun supports Gai Jiuyou’s cultivation by providing the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s scriptures and a safe place for seclusion.
• Jiang Yun, the Black Emperor, and Wushi: Their reunion is emotional and humorous. The Black Emperor greets Wushi with overwhelming excitement, while Jiang Yun observes and occasionally comforts the dog.
• Jiang Yun and Wushi: They discuss their past connection, the Undying Heavenly Emperor, the danger of the Strange World, and the possibility of using the Source Ring and Feixian Waterfall to bridge the two worlds. Wushi treats Jiang Yun as a fellow Daoist rather than a disciple.
• Wushi and the Black Emperor: Wushi reassures the Black Emperor that he has not abandoned it, explaining that its body is not yet strong enough to survive the journey through the Void passage.
• Jiang Yun and the Black Emperor: Jiang Yun humorously strokes the depressed Black Emperor and restrains its excitement, acting as a mediator between the loyal companion and the returning Great Emperor.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun reflects on Wushi Great Emperor’s reputation as a quiet, selfless, and nearly invisible protector of the world. Despite his overwhelming strength and achievements—including suppressing Undying Heavenly Emperor for 100,000 years—Wushi deliberately avoided fame.
• Jiang Yun contrasts Wushi’s solemn personality with Big Black’s shameless and unruly behavior, finding it amusing that such a reserved emperor raised a dog like him.
• Jiang Yun reveals that he has refined the legendary Nine-Turn Immortal Pills. Big Black becomes wildly excited, attempts to steal the jade jar, and immediately abandons his arrogance to flatter Jiang Yun.
• The Nine-Turn Immortal Pills are explained to be nearly impossible to create. They can grant an additional lifetime even to beings who have already consumed Immortal Elixirs, potentially allowing a Great Emperor to live for millions of years.
• Jiang Yun reveals that the Source Ring can locate and facilitate the purchase of rare resources across worlds. He proposes that Big Black help introduce the Source Ring into the Strange World.
• Big Black realizes the enormous wealth and influence this opportunity could provide. He eagerly proposes entering the Strange World and even jokes about pawning the Wushi Bell for vast numbers of Source Rings.
• Jiang Yun clarifies that Big Black cannot control the Source Ring directly, since he lacks Source Space. Instead, he offers him the position of sole Vice Hall Master—or, as Big Black insists, Hall Master—of the Strange World branch of the Dao Origin Divine Hall.
• Jiang Yun explains that Dao Origin Heavenly Palace would manage the Source Ring’s actual operations, while the Dao Origin Divine Hall would provide protection. His larger goal is to recruit Wushi Great Emperor into cooperation and spread Source Rings throughout the heavens.
• The possibility of using Feixian Waterfall together with the Source Ring to cross worlds is discussed. Jiang Yun estimates an 80% chance of success because the Source World’s laws can extend into other worlds.
• After several days, Wushi Great Emperor repairs the cross-world formation. The Wushi Bell begins traveling through the dangerous spatial passage, while Jiang Yun stabilizes the route and Big Black watches anxiously.
• The passage is filled with chaotic currents powerful enough to kill Supreme figures. Big Black finally understands why Wushi refused to let him hide inside the bell, realizing he would have been little more than protective flesh for the artifact.
• The chapter ends with Jiang Yun and Big Black waiting and praying for the Wushi Bell to safely reach the Strange World.

2. Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Demonstrates his extraordinary alchemical ability, strategic thinking, and long-term ambition. His offer of cooperation is not merely about helping Big Black obtain pills; it is part of a plan to expand the Source Ring’s influence and bring Wushi Great Emperor into his alliance.
• Big Black: Shifts repeatedly between arrogance, greed, shameless flattery, and genuine excitement. His obsession with the Nine-Turn Immortal Pills exposes his desire for another life, while his eagerness to become Hall Master reveals his entrepreneurial and opportunistic nature.
• Wushi Great Emperor: Remains quiet and focused, modifying the formation and guiding the Wushi Bell. His restrained behavior reinforces his image as a powerful but detached protector. Although he does not openly respond to Jiang Yun’s proposal, his presence suggests that he is listening and may be considering cooperation.
• Wushi Bell: Acts almost like an independent participant, resisting Big Black’s attempts to enter and serving as the vehicle through which Wushi attempts the dangerous crossing.

3. Significant Themes

• Cooperation over individual power: Jiang Yun seeks to unite alchemy, commerce, institutional management, and imperial protection rather than relying on his own strength alone.
• Resources and influence: The Source Ring represents control over trade and rare materials, showing that economic power can rival martial power in shaping the future of entire worlds.
• Greed and ambition: Big Black’s obsession with the Nine-Turn Immortal Pills and the Source Ring provides comic relief while also highlighting the immense temptation of immortality and wealth.
• Public image versus true nature: Wushi is portrayed as a legendary, solemn protector, while his association with Big Black reveals a humorous contrast between his dignified reputation and the dog’s shameless behavior.
• Immortality and the fear of death: The Nine-Turn Immortal Pills are valuable because even Great Emperors and Immortal Elixir users still desire another lifetime.
• Risk and exploration: The dangerous crossing through the spatial passage emphasizes the peril involved in connecting different worlds and expanding into unknown territories.

4. Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun teases Big Black with the Nine-Turn Immortal Pills, exposing the dog’s greed and causing him to abandon his usual arrogance.
• Big Black tries to curry favor with Jiang Yun, while Jiang Yun uses the pill as leverage to encourage his cooperation.
• Jiang Yun deliberately frames the business proposal around Big Black’s loyalty to Wushi, forcing him to confront whether he would give a single Nine-Turn Immortal Pill to himself or to Wushi.
• Wushi silently overhears or observes the exchange while continuing to repair the formation, creating an underlying tension about his possible response.
• Jiang Yun positions Big Black as the public representative of the project but intends the real partnership to be between the Dao Origin forces and Wushi Great Emperor.
• Big Black’s relationship with the Wushi Bell remains comic and antagonistic: he begs to be allowed inside, while the bell rejects him and leaves him unconscious.
• The chapter closes with Jiang Yun and Big Black united in concern as they watch Wushi and the bell attempt the perilous journey into the Strange World.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun and the Black Emperor successfully activate the Source Ring and the Feixian Waterfall, establishing contact with the Wushi Great Emperor in a separate Chaos Immortal Land.
• Jiang Yun meets Wushi face-to-face for the first time. Wushi is revealed to be safe, immensely powerful, and residing in the region closest to the two connected worlds.
• The Black Emperor attempts to cross through the Feixian Waterfall but initially becomes stuck. Wushi then reveals that he possesses the other half of the waterfall and merges it with Jiang Yun’s portion.
• The two halves grow simultaneously in both worlds, forming a mysterious connection resembling “quantum entanglement.” The Source Ring can now transport the Black Emperor without consuming the waterfall’s immortal energy.
• Jiang Yun and Wushi test whether powerful cultivators can cross between worlds. Both discover that the passage is still too weak: Jiang Yun can only send part of his body through, while Wushi can extend only one arm. The passage can currently support cultivators around the Late Quasi-Emperor level.
• Jiang Yun and Wushi are unable to meet physically, so they instead discuss the Dao across the boundary. The Feixian Waterfall continues to grow as it absorbs immortal substances.
• The Black Emperor remains in the Strange World with Wushi, intending to manage his territory and develop a network of Source Rings. Jiang Yun considers sending Jiang Tingting and Little Dingdang there to coordinate affairs.
• Jiang Yun focuses on the approaching Immortal Road, which will open in roughly thirty years. Missing it would force him to wait hundreds of thousands of years before another chance to enter the Immortal Domain appears.
• During cultivation guidance, Jiang Yun and the Golden Heavenly Maiden finally become intimate. Their relationship advances, and she is added to his list of Dao Companions.
• The encounter strengthens Jiang Yun’s Dao Origin Bloodline, adding Golden, Silver, Immortal Gold, and Golden King bloodline traits. His Immortal Gold Bloodline later rises to 95%, confirming its connection to an Immortal King-level lineage.
• Twenty years pass. Then a terrifying Emperor Tribulation erupts at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland. An unfamiliar cultivator—not Jiang Yun—begins attempting to ascend to the Great Emperor realm.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes awaken and observe the tribulation. They hesitate to interfere because the person undergoing it is connected to Gai Jiuyou, and Jiang Yun may be secretly protecting him.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Gains a direct connection to Wushi and expands his influence across two worlds. He becomes more focused on preparing for the upcoming Immortal Road and continues improving his bloodlines and cultivation. His relationship with the Golden Heavenly Maiden also deepens.
• Wushi Great Emperor: Is confirmed to be alive and dwelling in an isolated Chaos Immortal Land. He willingly gives Jiang Yun the second half of the Feixian Waterfall and begins cooperating with him. Despite his immense strength, he cannot physically cross the weakened interworld passage.
• Black Emperor: Reunites with Wushi and is relieved that the Great Emperor is safe. It quickly returns to its ambitious, energetic nature and plans to exploit the Source Ring network for influence in the Strange World.
• Golden Heavenly Maiden: Moves from a guarded, competitive subordinate to Jiang Yun’s intimate companion. Her desire to catch up with former rivals and surpass her peers appears to influence her decision to accept Jiang Yun.
• Gai Jiuyou: Though not physically present, becomes central to the final conflict because the unknown cultivator undergoing tribulation is associated with him.

Significant Themes

• Connection across worlds: The Feixian Waterfall and Source Ring represent the possibility of overcoming separation between entire universes, though physical limitations still prevent the strongest beings from crossing.
• Power and limitation: Even emperors cannot freely pass through the interworld passage, emphasizing the vast difference between communication, teleportation, and true physical travel.
• Loneliness and reunion: Wushi’s existence highlights the isolation of those who achieve immortality, while the Black Emperor’s reunion with him provides emotional relief and reinforces their bond.
• Ambition and competition: The Golden Heavenly Maiden’s relationship with Jiang Yun is partly shaped by her determination not to be surpassed by former rivals.
• Preparation for destiny: Jiang Yun prioritizes the coming Immortal Road, recognizing that missed opportunities in the cultivation world may require immense spans of time to recover.
• Bloodline inheritance: The Golden Heavenly Maiden’s mixed ancient bloodlines reveal the lingering influence of the Immortal Ancient era and the powerful ancestry hidden within the Primordial Races.
• Political tension: The appearance of another potential Great Emperor threatens to alter the balance among Jiang Yun, Gai Jiuyou, and the Forbidden Zones.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and the Black Emperor cooperate to contact Wushi and test the Source Ring’s abilities.
• Jiang Yun and Wushi exchange information, merge their halves of the Feixian Waterfall, and discuss the Dao when they cannot physically meet.
• The Black Emperor reunites emotionally with Wushi, then returns to Jiang Yun after discovering that the Source Ring allows efficient travel.
• Jiang Yun and the Golden Heavenly Maiden’s mentor-student relationship evolves into a romantic and intimate bond.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes indirectly weigh Jiang Yun’s possible involvement in the Emperor Tribulation, fearing that attacking Gai Jiuyou’s associate could provoke Jiang Yun into retaliation.