Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “The Curtain Falls”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The chapter explains why advancing from a Peak Immortal King to an Immortal King Giant is extraordinarily difficult. Success requires an unwavering Dao heart, exceptional talent, and immense opportunities. The Desolate Emperor is presented as a nearly unique example of someone who achieved such a rise rapidly.
• Black Dragon Immortal King, frustrated after failing to advance for a million years, becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment toward younger prodigies. He challenges Ye Fan, a Quasi-Immortal King whose combat strength rivals or surpasses his own.
• Black Dragon uses “Black Fire Burns the World,” unleashing flames infused with Weird aura. Ye Fan avoids direct contact and relies on the Nine-Colored Ancient Cauldron, which absorbs the flames completely.
• Ye Fan then overwhelms Black Dragon in close combat. He crushes the dragon’s scales, breaks his horns, and repeatedly strikes him with the Heavenly Emperor Fists, humiliating and severely injuring him.
• Driven to desperation, Black Dragon burns his Immortal King Origin and appears to self-destruct. The resulting explosion tears through the newly born universe, convincing surrounding Immortal Kings that both combatants have perished.
• In reality, Jiang Yun rescues Ye Fan at the moment of the explosion by cutting through the Void and taking him into his Source World. Black Dragon also survives by disguising his primordial spirit as a weak True Immortal and fleeing.
• Jiang Yun chooses not to pursue Black Dragon, focusing instead on Ye Fan’s safety and future development. He warns Ye Fan that his victory has attracted the attention of hidden Half-Step Dao Ancestors and Dao Ancestors.
• Following Jiang Yun’s advice, Ye Fan decides to leave the Immortal King Battlefield, return to the Heaven Great Realm, and secludedly cultivate toward the Immortal King Realm. He believes he has found the opportunity to break through and promises to meet Jiang Yun again after advancing.
• Other Immortal King Deathmatches conclude:
  • Red Demon, a female Immortal King of the Serpent Scorpion Clan, defeats and swallows a Phoenix Immortal King.
  • A blue-haired Immortal King from the Eight Paths of Reincarnation wins another match.
  • Meng Xie, an Immortal King Giant, easily defeats Heaven’s representative, whose apparent death was secretly arranged by Jiang Yun.
  • Most subsequent matches also favor the Eight Paths of Reincarnation. Heaven gains only one victory, and that Immortal King is nearly crippled.
• The chapter ends with Heaven’s supporters realizing that, despite Heaven’s recent growth, the Eight Paths of Reincarnation possess greater individual strength because many of their fighters are ancient veterans from previous epochs.

Character Developments

• Ye Fan: Demonstrates extraordinary combat power by defeating a Peak Immortal King despite remaining in the Quasi-Immortal King Realm. His confidence is validated, but the battle also reveals his tendency to underestimate the destructive power of an Immortal King’s final attack. He accepts Jiang Yun’s warning and shifts from seeking further battles to preparing for his breakthrough.
• Black Dragon Immortal King: His long-standing frustration and inability to advance have completely distorted his mentality. His jealousy turns into cruelty and recklessness. After being decisively defeated and humiliated by Ye Fan, he resorts to a staged self-destruction and flees in disguise.
• Jiang Yun: Acts as Ye Fan’s protector and mentor. He carefully conceals Ye Fan’s survival, understands Black Dragon’s survival technique, and strategically manipulates the appearance of the deathmatch results to protect Heaven’s interests.
• Meng Xie and the Eight Paths’ Immortal Kings: Their victories establish the overwhelming strength and experience of the opposing faction, increasing the pressure on Heaven.

Significant Themes

• Talent versus time and opportunity: Advancement at the highest levels cannot be achieved through longevity alone. Talent, conviction, and fortune are essential.
• The danger of stagnation and resentment: Black Dragon’s failure to progress corrupts his mentality, transforming him from an accomplished expert into a bitter predator of younger geniuses.
• Overcoming realms through battle: Ye Fan’s victory demonstrates that extraordinary foundations and combat talent can allow a lower-realm cultivator to defeat a much stronger opponent.
• Confidence balanced by caution: Ye Fan’s fearlessness enables his breakthrough in combat, but Jiang Yun emphasizes that reckless confidence can be fatal against ancient experts and hidden powers.
• Appearance versus reality: Black Dragon’s “death,” Ye Fan’s supposed demise, and Heaven’s apparent defeat are all misleading. Survival, concealment, and strategic deception are as important as direct strength.
• The limits of Heaven’s rising power: Heaven may be growing stronger, especially with Willow God’s advancement, but its forces still lag behind the ancient powerhouses of the Eight Paths of Reincarnation in individual combat.

Important Character Interactions

• Ye Fan and Black Dragon Immortal King: Their confrontation is both a physical battle and a clash between youthful potential and stagnant old power. Ye Fan’s calm defiance contrasts with Black Dragon’s rage and insecurity.
• Jiang Yun and Ye Fan: Jiang Yun saves Ye Fan, praises his progress, and gives him a serious warning about the dangers of remaining on the battlefield. Ye Fan responds respectfully, acknowledges his mistake, and accepts the need to retreat and cultivate.
• Jiang Yun and Black Dragon: Jiang Yun sees through Black Dragon’s apparent self-destruction and recognizes his reincarnation technique but deliberately allows him to flee, prioritizing Ye Fan’s safety.
• The Immortal Kings and the spectators: The surrounding experts are stunned by Ye Fan’s unprecedented victory, while later defeats expose the superiority of the Eight Paths of Reincarnation and deepen concern about Heaven’s position.

Chapter Summary: “Dao Ancestor Takes Action”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Immortal King Deathmatch ends with Eight Paths of Reincarnation achieving a decisive victory, shocking Primordial Beginning Dao Ancestor and all of Heaven. The result reveals that the Underworld’s strength is far greater than expected and may even rival Heaven at the Dao Ancestor level.
• Jiang Yun realizes that Heaven will likely mobilize to strengthen itself, while the larger conflict between Heaven and Eight Paths of Reincarnation has only begun.
• Jiang Yun suddenly senses that one of his Immortal King subordinates has been annihilated by a Dao Ancestor-level attack. He travels to a desolate world but finds no trace of the victim or attacker.
• Using the secret art “Return to Root and Source, See Through Past and Present,” Jiang Yun reconstructs the event. He discovers that several mysterious experts suddenly appeared, killed his subordinate instantly, and destroyed even the Reincarnation Token to prevent tracking.
• Jiang Yun breaks through the attacker’s concealment with a forbidden Dao Ancestor technique. He discovers that the attackers possessed the aura of the Four Great Origin Ancient Lands, not Heaven.
• Suspecting that the victim accidentally witnessed a much larger scheme, Jiang Yun follows the attackers through the River of Ages. The pursuit takes him along an extremely ancient and hidden road, apparently dating back to a previous Sacrificial Era.
• The journey lasts for ten thousand years. Jiang Yun creates a clone and sends it back to inform Hou Ming, ensuring that the Underworld will not be left without warning if he remains away.
• The pursuing Dao Ancestors eventually reach what appears to be the end of the ancient road: an endless Chaos Void concealing a ruined ancient battlefield where a Dao Ancestor once died.
• Three Dao Ancestors combine their strength and use forbidden techniques, even sacrificing Dao Ancestor Origin, to break through the illusion hiding the continuation of the road.
• The road is finally revealed. A Dao Ancestor from the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit declares that the path leads to the true origin of their faction—and that its end contains the opportunity to become an Immortal Emperor.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun is shown to be extremely vigilant, powerful, and investigative. Rather than simply avenging his subordinate, he recognizes the unusual circumstances and pursues the attackers to uncover their greater objective.
• His mastery of Dao Ancestor techniques grows more apparent. He can reconstruct events across time, overcome deliberate concealment, and track multiple Dao Ancestors for thousands of years.
• Jiang Yun also demonstrates strategic caution by creating a clone and notifying Hou Ming, ensuring that his absence does not endanger the Underworld’s plans.
• The mysterious Dao Ancestors are characterized as cautious but determined. They hide their identities, erase all traces, and avoid detection by Heaven, yet are willing to take enormous risks to reach the ancient road.
• The Dao Ancestor from the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit reveals intense ambition and hope, confirming that their expedition is driven by the possibility of reaching the Immortal Emperor realm.

Significant Themes

• The shifting balance of power: Eight Paths of Reincarnation’s victory forces Heaven to reconsider its assumptions about the Underworld and the strength of its own forces.
• Secrecy and conspiracy: The attackers’ careful destruction of evidence suggests a vast scheme operating beyond the visible conflict between Heaven and the Underworld.
• Ancient history and hidden inheritances: The secret road appears to originate from a previous Sacrificial Era, linking the present struggle to older civilizations and forgotten opportunities.
• Pursuit of ultimate power: The possibility of becoming an Immortal Emperor explains why multiple Dao Ancestors are willing to travel for ten thousand years and expose themselves to enormous danger.
• Caution versus ambition: Both Jiang Yun and the mysterious Dao Ancestors act carefully, but their determination to uncover or obtain the hidden opportunity repeatedly drives them into greater danger.

Important Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun’s actions are indirectly connected to Hou Ming, whom he informs through his clone so the Underworld can continue operating during his absence.
• Jiang Yun investigates the mysterious group of Dao Ancestors without confronting them directly, following their trail while avoiding detection.
• The three Dao Ancestors cooperate closely when their individual deductions fail. They debate whether using their full strength might attract enemies, but ultimately act together to reveal the hidden road.
• Their final revelation establishes the central mystery of the next stage: the ancient road may lead to a supreme inheritance capable of producing an Immortal Emperor.

Chapter Summary: “Opportunity!”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• The three Dao Ancestors from the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit reveal that the end of the Void Ancient Road contains an opportunity to become an Immortal Emperor, also known as an End-of-the-Road powerhouse.
• Jiang Yun is deeply shocked by this revelation. Immortal Emperors are virtually indestructible beings who stand above Dao Ancestors, can reappear as long as they are remembered, and possess power capable of influencing the outcome of entire Sacrificial Eras.
• Jiang Yun suspects that the Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit may itself be an Immortal Emperor, and that the Burial Pit has remained inactive in order to secretly pursue this opportunity.
• The three Dao Ancestors commit themselves to continuing the journey, declaring that they will either return as Immortal Emperors or die along the way. Jiang Yun secretly follows them.
• The Void Ancient Road severely restricts their divine abilities, forcing them to advance slowly. After more than a thousand years, they encounter ruined great worlds destroyed during earlier Sacrificial Eras.
• The group unexpectedly detects life within the desolate road and discovers a black Cosmic Battleship containing several thousand weak, mortal humanoid beings.
• By invading their minds, the Dao Ancestors learn that the beings came from a living great world located farther ahead. They turn the captives into puppets and discard the ship.
• The Dao Ancestors arrive at the living great world, but determine that its inhabitants are weak and unrelated to the Immortal Emperor opportunity. Nevertheless, they believe the world must be connected to the greater secret.
• Acting without hesitation, they unleash demonic power and begin destroying the entire great world.

2. Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: His curiosity and ambition intensify, but so does his caution. Although nearly invincible among Dao Ancestors, he recognizes the danger surrounding Immortal Emperor-level opportunities and chooses to remain hidden while investigating the three Dao Ancestors.
• The Three Dao Ancestors: Their restraint gives way to ruthless determination. The promise of Immortal Emperorhood overrides morality, fear, and concern for other lives. They become willing to sacrifice everything—including themselves and entire civilizations—to reach the destination.
• The captive beings: They are portrayed as helpless mortals, reduced to sources of information and then forcibly transformed into puppets, emphasizing the overwhelming cruelty and power of the Dao Ancestors.

3. Significant Themes

• The allure and danger of ultimate power: The chance to become an Immortal Emperor is so tempting that even supreme Dao Ancestors abandon caution and compassion.
• Immortality and legacy: Immortal Emperors are presented as beings who can return as long as they remain remembered, making memory and existence closely connected.
• The brutality of the Sacrificial Eras: Entire civilizations and worlds are erased, and even the highest-level beings cannot easily resist the Grand Sacrifice.
• Moral corruption through ambition: The Dao Ancestors’ pursuit of transcendence turns living beings into disposable tools and reveals how power can extinguish empathy.
• Mystery of the Void Ancient Road: The road appears to originate from an earlier Sacrificial Era and may lead to the true origin of the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit.

4. Character Interactions

• The three Dao Ancestors discuss the opportunity and repeatedly reinforce one another’s resolve to continue.
• Jiang Yun observes them from concealment, analyzing their motives and the connection between the road, the Burial Pit, and Immortal Emperorhood.
• The Dao Ancestors interrogate the Cosmic Battleship’s inhabitants by forcibly invading their consciousness, then use the information to locate the living great world.
• Upon reaching the world, they debate whether its inhabitants are connected to their goal before collectively deciding to annihilate it.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Three terrifying Dao Ancestors launch a devastating attack on a great world, instantly destroying countless universes and killing nearly all life within them.
• A powerful Cosmic Battleship carrying the culmination of an entire Evolutionary Civilization attempts to escape by activating spacetime acceleration. Although it breaks through the barriers of its universe and great world, a Dao Ancestor captures and destroys it.
• The civilization’s strongest survivor, a middle-aged Immortal connected to the world’s Heavenly Heart Dao Fruit and destiny, is discovered and killed. The Dao Ancestors learn that this world contains information about other great worlds but no immediate clue regarding their true objective.
• Jiang Yun secretly follows the Dao Ancestors. After discovering that a Gene Seed Vault still contains faint life signs within the wreckage, he rescues it and places it in his Source World, preserving the last hope of that Evolutionary Civilization.
• The Dao Ancestors continue destroying one great world after another. Jiang Yun remains hidden and gathers whatever survivors he can, unable to challenge the attackers directly.
• After ten worlds are destroyed, the Dao Ancestors reach a stronger great world containing multiple Immortal Kings. They attack without warning, annihilating nearly half the world and killing its strongest Immortal King Giant.
• The remaining Immortal Kings flee, but the Dao Ancestors capture and search their Primordial Spirits. They discover that the strongest being of this world had already departed for a mysterious Transcendent Ancestral Land, where beings far beyond the Immortal King realm may exist.
• The Dao Ancestors locate the Transcendent Ancestral Land through the traces of powerful Dao techniques and immediately move toward it.
• Before they can enter, a peerless Dao Ancestor-level expert emerges from the Ancestral Land wielding an immortal sword. The three invaders attack together, beginning a major clash between Dao Ancestor-level powers.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun becomes increasingly burdened by the scale of the destruction. Though he cannot openly oppose the three Dao Ancestors, he acts as a hidden rescuer, preserving surviving life and civilizations whenever possible.
• The three Dao Ancestors are shown to be ruthless, impatient, and purely goal-oriented. They treat entire civilizations as disposable obstacles, though they begin to show interest when evidence of stronger beings and a possible path to becoming an Immortal Emperor appears.
• The Immortal connected to the first great world’s Heavenly Heart Dao Fruit represents the world’s ultimate hope, but his potential is extinguished before he can understand the attackers or defend his civilization.
• The Immortal Kings initially attempt to defend their world collectively, but their confidence collapses when their strongest member is killed instantly. Their desperate escape only exposes more information to the Dao Ancestors.
• The sword-wielding expert of the Transcendent Ancestral Land is introduced as a fearless and powerful defender. Unlike the previous worlds’ inhabitants, he possesses the strength and courage to confront the invaders directly.

Significant Themes

• The fragility of life and civilization: Even the most brilliant evolutionary achievements are helpless before Dao Ancestor-level power.
• The cruelty of overwhelming strength: The destroyed civilizations do not even understand why they are being exterminated, emphasizing the incomprehensible gap between supreme beings and ordinary cultivators.
• Preservation amid destruction: Jiang Yun’s rescue of the Gene Seed Vault reflects hope, continuity, and the possibility that civilizations can be reborn after catastrophe.
• The moral contrast between Jiang Yun and the Dao Ancestors: The Dao Ancestors destroy and exploit life, while Jiang Yun quietly protects its remnants.
• The pursuit of transcendence: The Dao Ancestors’ massacre is driven by their search for an opportunity to become Immortal Emperors or reach an even higher realm.
• Escalation of power: The chapter moves from worlds ruled by Immortals, to those containing multiple Immortal Kings, and finally to a Transcendent Ancestral Land inhabited by Dao Ancestor-level beings.

Character Interactions

• The three Dao Ancestors discuss the value of survivors and information, revealing their differing temperaments: one is violent and impulsive, while the others are more cautious and investigative.
• They interrogate the captured Immortal Kings by forcibly searching their Primordial Spirits, learning of the Transcendent Ancestral Land and the powerful expert who departed for it.
• Jiang Yun remains concealed from the Dao Ancestors, observing their actions and secretly saving remnants of the civilizations they destroy.
• The chapter concludes with the sword-wielding defender confronting the three Dao Ancestors. He draws power from the Transcendent Ancestral Land and its Great Realm Dao Fruit, while the three invaders unleash their forbidden techniques, leading to a climactic, unresolved clash.

Chapter Summary: “Sigh!”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• A fierce battle erupts in the Chaos Void between the Dao Ancestor of the Transcendent Ancestral Land and three Dao Ancestors from the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit.
• Their initial exchange nearly destabilizes the Transcendent Ancestral Land and causes the River of Ages to surge. The world’s own consciousness repairs the damage by absorbing the essence of all things.
• Jiang Yun, who has secretly followed the three invaders for thousands of years in search of the Immortal Emperor Opportunity, realizes that the Transcendent Ancestral Land is likely connected to it.
• The local Dao Ancestor discovers that the three invaders slaughtered numerous great worlds. They openly dismiss the victims as insignificant and claim that only Dao Ancestors deserve respect.
• Enraged, the Transcendent Ancestral Land’s Dao Ancestor attacks, but his sword strike is easily neutralized by the three working together.
• He identifies them as enemies connected to the destruction of the previous era’s Evolutionary Civilization. The invaders confirm that they came from the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, whose forces once destroyed that civilization and killed its Immortal Emperor.
• The battle initially favors the local Dao Ancestor because the Transcendent Ancestral Land continuously replenishes his strength. However, Demon Ancestor and Black River Dao Ancestor eventually overwhelm him.
• To compete with their numerical advantage, the local Dao Ancestor splits his body and Primordial Spirit into two separate Dao Ancestors, fighting two opponents simultaneously.
• Blood Saber Dao Ancestor then intervenes. His crimson saber severs the River of Ages, disrupting the connection between the local Dao Ancestor’s body and Primordial Spirit. The local Dao Ancestor suffers severe injuries and is forced to reunite his divided forms.
• The invaders reveal that their faction’s Immortal Emperor killed the Evolutionary Civilization’s Immortal Emperor, though the local Dao Ancestor disputes their version of history. He claims both Immortal Emperors perished and that the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit itself was destroyed.
• The three invaders prepare to finish him, but he retreats into the Transcendent Ancestral Land. They pursue him cautiously, suspecting that the world may contain traps or secrets.
• After the four Dao Ancestors enter the Ancestral Land, Jiang Yun emerges from hiding and prepares to follow them.
• Before he can enter, he hears a mysterious, era-spanning sigh from the Chaos Void, suggesting the awakening, exhaustion, or sorrow of an extremely powerful existence.

2. Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Remains patient and calculating, observing the battle without exposing himself. He pieces together the history of the previous era and begins to suspect that the Immortal Emperor Opportunity may involve the remains, inheritances, or revival of the two fallen Immortal Emperors.
• Dao Ancestor of the Transcendent Ancestral Land: Initially confident in his unique status as the world’s chosen child and strongest native expert, he becomes shocked upon discovering three equally powerful enemies. Despite overwhelming odds and grave injuries, he refuses to surrender and uses his ingenuity by splitting his body and Primordial Spirit. His pride, courage, and determination remain intact even when forced to retreat.
• Demon Ancestor: The most aggressive and hot-tempered of the invaders. He insults and attacks the local Dao Ancestor, remembers the insult comparing the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit to a “Rat nest,” and shows a vindictive personality.
• Black River Dao Ancestor: More composed and cruel than Demon Ancestor. He recognizes the local Dao Ancestor’s knowledge and attempts to force him into submission before joining the battle.
• Blood Saber Dao Ancestor: The most calculating and restrained of the three. He waits until the other two have created an opening, then decisively strikes by severing the River of Ages and crippling his opponent’s connection between body and spirit.

3. Significant Themes

• The destructive scale of supreme power: Dao Ancestor battles threaten not only individuals but the stability of space, time, worlds, and the River of Ages itself.
• Numerical advantage versus individual strength: Even an exceptional Dao Ancestor can be overwhelmed when facing three comparable opponents working together.
• Pride and resistance: The local Dao Ancestor refuses to surrender despite recognizing the invaders as the enemies responsible for his civilization’s destruction.
• Buried history and conflicting truths: Both sides offer contradictory accounts of the previous era’s war, leaving the true fate of the two Immortal Emperors uncertain.
• The Immortal Emperor Opportunity: The opportunity is revealed to be tied to the ancient Evolutionary Civilization, the fallen Immortal Emperors, and possibly the Transcendent Ancestral Land itself.
• Cycles of destruction and return: Immortal Emperors may revive as long as they remain remembered, while the recurrence of conflict suggests that ancient catastrophes may be repeating.
• Mysterious higher powers: The final sigh hints that beings or forces beyond the current Dao Ancestors may still be watching, awakening, or mourning the renewed conflict.

4. Character Interactions

• The local Dao Ancestor confronts the three invaders over their slaughter of countless worlds, condemning them as beasts unworthy of the Dao Ancestor title.
• The invaders mock his sword and challenge the legitimacy of his strength, while Black River Dao Ancestor offers him a chance to submit.
• The local Dao Ancestor rejects surrender and fights first against Demon Ancestor, then against Demon Ancestor and Black River Dao Ancestor together.
• He divides himself to counter their numerical superiority, but Blood Saber Dao Ancestor’s intervention turns the battle decisively against him.
• The two sides argue over the historical destruction of the Evolutionary Civilization and the deaths of their respective Immortal Emperors.
• After the local Dao Ancestor retreats, the three invaders pursue him into the Transcendent Ancestral Land, while Jiang Yun remains outside, preparing to exploit the situation.

Chapter Summary: Ancient Emperor Formation!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun hears a terrifying, otherworldly sigh that seems to come from both the distant Primordial Wilderness and directly beside him. The sound carries both sacred and demonic qualities, deeply unsettling him despite his status as a Dao Ancestor.
• He hides within the Chaos Void and wonders whether the sigh was an illusion. Since Dao Ancestors naturally perceive everything around them, the possibility that something approached without being detected suggests that this place contains an extraordinary mystery.
• Jiang Yun concludes that the phenomenon is likely connected to the Immortal Emperor Opportunity and decides to continue investigating rather than retreat.
• He infiltrates the Transcendent Ancestral Land and discovers that its spiritual energy is extraordinarily dense, comparable only to Heaven. However, many of its Great Universes have been destroyed by the battle between the Dao Ancestors.
• He follows the traces of destruction to the central Great Universe, where the Dao Ancestor of the Transcendent Ancestral Land is defending himself within a powerful formation.
• The three pursuing Dao Ancestors—Demon Ancestor, Black River Ancestor, and Blood Saber Dao Ancestor—confront him. Their battle has already devastated countless universes and extinguished innumerable lives.
• The Transcendent Ancestral Land’s Dao Ancestor relies on an ancient formation connected to the Immortal Emperor who once fell there. The formation suppresses the strange aura contaminating his wounds and allows him to continue fighting.
• The three attackers recognize that the formation is dangerous but determine that it is only a remnant of the original Immortal Emperor Formation. They realize the Transcendent Ancestral Land’s Dao Ancestor cannot fully activate it and is using it to bluff.
• Despite this, the wounded Dao Ancestor warns that if they enter the formation, he may still be able to take one or two of them down with him. The attackers hesitate because none wants to sacrifice himself and allow another to claim the Immortal Emperor Opportunity.
• Blood Saber Dao Ancestor proposes that they swear Dao Ancestor Blood Oaths, promising not to retreat or betray one another during the assault. Demon Ancestor and Black River Ancestor agree.
• Blood Saber Dao Ancestor enters the formation first, followed by the other two. As Jiang Yun observes, he senses that something even more terrifying than the formation itself lies hidden beneath it—something that causes his soul to tremble.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Although powerful and usually confident, he becomes genuinely wary after encountering the mysterious sigh. His caution develops into determined curiosity, and he chooses to investigate the Immortal Emperor Opportunity despite the danger.
• Blood Saber Dao Ancestor: Demonstrates exceptional intelligence, composure, and decisiveness. He correctly sees through the formation’s limitations, analyzes the wounded enemy’s strategy, and takes the lead by swearing an oath and entering the formation first.
• Demon Ancestor: Remains arrogant, aggressive, and battle-oriented, but even he recognizes the danger of the remnant formation and agrees to the blood oath.
• Black River Ancestor: Displays the greatest caution, maintaining protective black rivers around himself and openly sensing the formation’s threat. Though reluctant, he ultimately joins the assault.
• Dao Ancestor of the Transcendent Ancestral Land: Despite severe injuries and being outnumbered, he remains defiant. He uses the formation and the threat of mutual destruction to deter his enemies and protect the hidden secret beneath it.

Significant Themes

• The limits of power: Even Dao Ancestors, beings naturally aligned with the Heavenly Dao, can be frightened or threatened by forces beyond their understanding.
• Ancient remnants and lost greatness: The formation is only a fragment of an Immortal Emperor-level weapon, yet it remains powerful enough to endanger multiple Dao Ancestors.
• Caution versus recklessness: The three attackers are willing to fight, but they are not willing to die meaninglessly. Their hesitation reflects the tension between ambition and survival.
• Trust and forced cooperation: The Dao Ancestor Blood Oaths create a temporary alliance among rivals who are all pursuing the same opportunity.
• Hidden danger beneath appearances: The supposedly weakened formation and wounded defender conceal a deeper secret, suggesting that the true Immortal Emperor Opportunity has not yet been revealed.
• The mystery of the weird aura: Sacred and demonic forces appear intertwined, implying that the ancient battle left behind powers capable of transcending normal spacetime and perception.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun remains concealed and observes the confrontation without revealing himself.
• The Transcendent Ancestral Land’s Dao Ancestor taunts the attackers and challenges them to enter the formation, attempting to exploit their fear of becoming someone else’s sacrifice.
• Blood Saber Dao Ancestor verbally dismantles his bluff, explaining that the formation is incomplete and that the defender is too injured to use it fully.
• The defender admits the formation cannot defeat all three Dao Ancestors simultaneously but insists it can still kill one or two of them.
• Blood Saber Dao Ancestor forces cooperation through his Dao Ancestor Blood Oath, and Demon Ancestor and Black River Ancestor follow.
• The chapter ends as all three attackers enter the formation while Jiang Yun senses an even more terrifying presence hidden beneath it.

Chapter Summary: “Decision!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun concludes that the conflict centers on the legendary Immortal Emperor Opportunity, since the Transcendent Ancestral Land’s Dao Ancestor is willing to fight three opponents despite severe injuries.
• Demon Ancestor, Black River Dao Ancestor, and Blood Saber Dao Ancestor honor their blood oath and join forces to attack the Immortal Emperor Remnant Formation.
• The Transcendent Dao Ancestor activates the formation, awakening its ancient formation spirit. The spirit recognizes the three Dao Ancestors as descendants or subordinates of enemies from the ancient Immortal Emperor War.
• The formation spirit sacrifices its remaining soul to unleash a devastating attack: tens of millions of immortal swords combine into a single giant sword containing terrifying karmic killing power.
• Black River Dao Ancestor and Demon Ancestor abandon Blood Saber Dao Ancestor and flee, violating their oath. Blood Saber attempts to escape as well, but the giant sword follows him through the River of Ages and completely erases him from existence.
• The formation spirit disappears after the attack, but leaves behind a sword of light for the Transcendent Dao Ancestor. The remnant formation itself collapses.
• The wounded Transcendent Dao Ancestor is immediately attacked by the surviving Demon Ancestor and Black River Dao Ancestor. Unable to protect the treasure beneath the formation, he chooses survival over continuing the fight and flees after throwing away the sword of light.
• Demon Ancestor and Black River Dao Ancestor remain behind to seize the emerging treasure, while Jiang Yun also prepares to compete for it.
• Their attempts to uncover the treasure fail. A mysterious sigh is heard, followed by the eruption of the River of Ages and the appearance of an Immortal Emperor descending from the source of time and space.
• The Immortal Emperor effortlessly suppresses the two Dao Ancestors and sees through Jiang Yun’s concealment. He criticizes the Transcendent Dao Ancestor—his inheritor—for lacking the courage to fight the Weird Clan to the death.
• The Immortal Emperor declares that his ancient battle is not over. Weird black energy then emerges from his body, splits away, and forms another terrifying figure: the Weird Immortal Emperor, who has also awakened and returned.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun remains observant and calculating, correctly identifying the treasure as the Immortal Emperor Opportunity. However, he becomes increasingly wary as the situation escalates beyond the level of ordinary Dao Ancestor conflict.
• The Transcendent Dao Ancestor is revealed to be deeply attached to the opportunity beneath the formation. Though proud and furious at losing it, he ultimately prioritizes survival, exposing a weakness in his resolve that the returning Immortal Emperor condemns.
• Demon Ancestor and Black River Dao Ancestor demonstrate their willingness to betray their oath when faced with certain death. Their survival instinct overrides loyalty and cooperation, though they remain reckless in pursuing the treasure.
• Blood Saber Dao Ancestor displays greater resolve than his allies, attempting to confront the giant immortal sword alone after they flee. His courage cannot overcome the attack, and he is annihilated.
• The formation spirit evolves from a fading remnant into a final, sacrificial defender. Its loyalty to its former Immortal Emperor master and hatred toward the Weird Clan drive it to expend its last strength.
• The Immortal Emperor appears as an overwhelmingly powerful and authoritative figure. He judges his inheritor harshly but remains focused on resuming the ancient war.
• The Weird Immortal Emperor is reintroduced as an equal and enduring enemy, suggesting that the ancient conflict has transcended eras and is beginning again.

Significant Themes

• Survival versus conviction: The Transcendent Dao Ancestor and the fleeing Dao Ancestors choose survival over vows, ideals, or opportunities, while the Immortal Emperor emphasizes the need for an invincible heart.
• The cost of power: The formation spirit sacrifices itself, Blood Saber Dao Ancestor is erased completely, and the Immortal Emperor Opportunity brings devastation rather than immediate advancement.
• Betrayal and broken oaths: The blood oath temporarily unites the three Dao Ancestors, but fear causes two of them to abandon their ally, revealing the fragility of alliances built on ambition.
• Legacy and inheritance: The Immortal Emperor judges whether his inheritor truly embodies his spirit. Merely inheriting power or Dao Fruit is insufficient without the courage and determination of the original master.
• The continuation of ancient conflicts: Time and space cannot contain the struggle between the Immortal Emperor and the Weird Clan. Both the Immortal Emperor and the Weird Immortal Emperor awaken, bringing an ancient war into the present.

Character Interactions

• The three Dao Ancestors cooperate under a blood oath against the Transcendent Dao Ancestor and the remnant formation.
• The formation spirit directly recognizes and confronts Demon Ancestor, Black River Dao Ancestor, and Blood Saber Dao Ancestor as connected to the old Immortal Emperor enemies.
• Demon Ancestor and Black River abandon Blood Saber during the giant sword’s attack, leaving him to die.
• The surviving two Dao Ancestors attack the Transcendent Dao Ancestor, forcing him to surrender the treasure and flee.
• Jiang Yun remains hidden but is sensed by the newly awakened Immortal Emperor, demonstrating the vast difference between their levels of power.
• The Immortal Emperor confronts and condemns the Transcendent Dao Ancestor before preparing to resume battle with the returning Weird Immortal Emperor.

Chapter Summary: “Revival and Battle Once More!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Two ancient Immortal Emperors revive simultaneously: the Immortal Emperor of the Transcendent Ancestral Land and his former rival, the Weird Immortal Emperor.
• The Weird Immortal Emperor explains that he had prepared for his death long ago by binding his revival to the other Emperor through an Immortal Emperor Grand Vow. Once his rival returned, he was resurrected from within his body.
• Their former battle had never produced a victor. The Immortal Emperor of the Transcendent Ancestral Land had previously killed two Immortal Emperors from the Calamity Plateau, erasing them so completely that even the Plateau could not revive them. However, he was grievously weakened by the attacks and curses of nine other Immortal Emperors.
• Before his own death, the Immortal Emperor used his body and Dao bones as fuel to nurture a new civilization in the Transcendent Ancestral Land. He also arranged for a future successor to inherit his legacy, though that successor lacked the resolve to fight to the death and failed to inherit everything.
• The present Immortal Emperor’s revival occurred through the influence of mysterious Ancestral Artifacts, while the Weird Immortal Emperor’s resurrection followed the vow established in the past.
• The Immortal Emperor summons the restored Emperor Sword, whose sword spirit had reincarnated and now returns to its original weapon.
• The Weird Immortal Emperor summons the blood-red Emperor Blade, announcing that their weapons will clash before the two Emperors settle their own unfinished battle.
• To “sharpen and feed” the Emperor Blade, the Weird Immortal Emperor sacrifices the Demon Ancestor and Black River Dao Ancestor, whose bodies and souls are completely erased by the weapon’s killing intent.
• The Weird Immortal Emperor notices that Jiang Yun possesses Dark True Blood but is not controlled by it, realizing that Jiang Yun hides important secrets.
• Jiang Yun attempts to flee, but the Weird Immortal Emperor nearly captures him. The Transcendent Ancestral Land’s Immortal Emperor intervenes and protects him, declaring that the Weird Immortal Emperor cannot attack Jiang Yun unless he first defeats him.
• The Emperor Sword and Emperor Blade finally collide, beginning the decisive, cross-era battle between the two Immortal Emperors.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun becomes fully aware of the enormous gap between Dao Ancestors and true Immortal Emperors. His focus shifts completely from pursuing the Immortal Emperor Opportunity to simply surviving.
• Jiang Yun’s secret advantage is revealed: the Dark True Blood in his body has been transformed, allowing him to control it rather than be controlled by it. However, this concealment is now threatened because the Weird Immortal Emperor has detected his abnormality.
• The Immortal Emperor of the Transcendent Ancestral Land is shown to be an exceptionally powerful and strategic figure. He once erased two Immortal Emperors permanently and arranged a long-term inheritance plan across eras.
• His chosen successor is portrayed as a tragic failure. Although given the opportunity to inherit the Emperor’s power, the successor lacked the courage to fight to the death and therefore could not obtain the full legacy.
• The Weird Immortal Emperor is revealed as calculating, ruthless, and extraordinarily powerful. He anticipated the conditions of his revival, recognized Jiang Yun’s unusual nature, and casually sacrificed two Dao Ancestors to empower his weapon.
• The two Immortal Emperors are presented as evenly matched rivals whose conflict has shaped multiple eras and is now approaching its final conclusion.

Significant Themes

• Immortality and resurrection: The chapter explores how true End-of-the-Road experts can influence events across countless eras and revive through vows, artifacts, lingering will, or other preparations.
• The cost of power: Both Immortal Emperors paid devastating prices for their achievements, including the destruction of their followers, the loss of their identities, curses, and death.
• Fate versus choice: The failed successor demonstrates that inherited destiny and prepared opportunities mean nothing without the will to make the final, decisive choice.
• Legacies across eras: The Transcendent Ancestral Land’s civilization, the Emperor Sword, and the planned inheritance all show how the actions of ancient figures continue to shape the present.
• The limits of lower realms: Dao Ancestors are shown to be insignificant before Immortal Emperors, emphasizing the terrifying scale of the revived beings.
• Betrayal and manipulation: The Immortal Emperor Opportunity is revealed to be connected to a larger scheme involving Ancestral Artifacts and the revival of ancient powers, making it appear more like a trap than a blessing.
• Survival amid overwhelming power: Jiang Yun must conceal his identity and abilities while caught between two beings capable of destroying entire universes.

Important Character Interactions

• The two Immortal Emperors calmly discuss their former battle, mutual preparations, and the different paths that led to their revival.
• The Transcendent Ancestral Land’s Immortal Emperor briefly judges his successor, effectively dismissing him as someone whose final choice proved unworthy.
• The Weird Immortal Emperor treats the Demon Ancestor and Black River Dao Ancestor as expendable fuel for the Emperor Blade.
• The Weird Immortal Emperor attempts to seize Jiang Yun after sensing the secret within his Dark True Blood.
• The Transcendent Ancestral Land’s Immortal Emperor protects Jiang Yun, creating a temporary barrier between him and the Weird Immortal Emperor.
• The chapter ends with the Emperor Sword and Emperor Blade beginning their long-awaited clash, signaling the start of the Immortal Emperors’ final battle.

Chapter Summary: “Ancestral Artifacts!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Emperor Blade and Emperor Sword clash across the River of Ages before their wielders fight directly. They attempt to travel backward through time and destroy each other before becoming Immortal Emperor Artifacts, but neither succeeds.
• Their conflict evolves into a Grand Dao struggle over whether the blade or sword is the supreme weapon. Their battle influences countless blades and swords throughout history, causing weapons across innumerable worlds and eras to awaken and fight.
• The Emperor Blade and Emperor Sword ultimately collide directly, annihilating the surrounding space-time and shattering the great world. The Immortal Emperors restrain the destruction and restore stability to the River of Ages.
• The Emperor Sword is damaged and retreats, but the peerlessly heroic Immortal Emperor repairs it by transferring some of his Origin into the weapon. Soon afterward, the Emperor Blade also develops a severe crack and is recalled by the Weird Immortal Emperor.
• The Weird Immortal Emperor is deeply unsettled by the result. He had strengthened the Emperor Blade by sacrificing two Dao Ancestors and believed it could not lose to the Emperor Sword.
• The battle then shifts from weapons to their masters. The Weird Immortal Emperor attacks barehanded, using enormous, dark, hair-covered hands capable of contaminating entire paths of cultivation. The peerlessly heroic Immortal Emperor blocks the attack with an apparently simple palm strike.
• Both Immortal Emperors reveal that they have not fully revived because of the influence of the Ancestral Artifacts. The Weird Immortal Emperor intends to kill his opponent and return with the artifacts to the Calamity Plateau, hoping to become supreme among the ten Immortal Emperors.
• The peerlessly heroic Immortal Emperor reveals that he has deliberately refused complete revival, believing it would mean sinking into weirdness. He declares that even with only his remnant soul, he can borrow the battle prowess of his former peak and kill the Weird Immortal Emperor.

Character Developments

• The peerlessly heroic Immortal Emperor: Demonstrates extraordinary confidence and restraint. He treats the Emperor Sword as a trusted extension of his Dao, repairs it without emotion, and remains calm despite not being fully revived. His refusal to accept complete revival emphasizes his resistance to corruption and dependence on external power.
• The Weird Immortal Emperor: Displays immense pride and ambition. He is shaken when the Emperor Blade is damaged, since he sees it as the embodiment of his lifelong Dao Fruit. Nevertheless, his battle spirit remains firm, and he shifts his focus to personally defeating his former rival.
• Jiang Yun: Gains a deeper understanding of the terrifying gap between Dao Ancestors and Immortal Emperors. He also begins to suspect that the peerlessly heroic Immortal Emperor may once have approached the Sacrificial Dao Realm and becomes increasingly curious about the true origin and nature of the Ancestral Artifacts.
• The Dao Ancestor from the Transcendent Ancestral Land: Suffers a severe blow to his confidence after witnessing the Emperor Sword’s will and power. He realizes that he is insignificant compared even with an Immortal Emperor’s weapon, but remains arrogant and blames the Ancestral Artifacts, other Dao Ancestors, and unfortunate circumstances for his failure.

Significant Themes

• The supremacy of the Grand Dao over individual weapons: The blade-versus-sword conflict represents more than a contest between artifacts; it affects countless weapons and cultivators throughout all eras.
• The meaning and danger of revival: Full revival may provide power, but the heroic Immortal Emperor sees it as potentially equivalent to being consumed by weirdness. True strength is portrayed as retaining one’s will rather than simply restoring one’s former body.
• Pride versus reality: The Dao Ancestor’s self-image collapses when confronted with genuine Immortal Emperor power, while the Weird Immortal Emperor struggles to accept that his supposedly superior weapon has been damaged.
• External objects versus personal cultivation: Although the Emperor Blade and Emperor Sword possess terrifying power and independent Dao Fruits, the decisive battle ultimately returns to the Immortal Emperors themselves.
• The scale of Immortal Emperor power: Their attacks can destroy worlds, disrupt the River of Ages, and influence countless eras, yet they can also stabilize time and space without effort.

Character Interactions

• The Emperor Blade and Emperor Sword engage in a cosmic ideological and Dao-based rivalry, turning the ancient dispute between blade and sword into a universal conflict.
• The Weird Immortal Emperor mocks the Emperor Sword and its wielder, while the peerlessly heroic Immortal Emperor responds not with words but by repairing his weapon and calmly blocking the enemy’s attack.
• The Weird Immortal Emperor attempts to assert superiority through his history, ambition, and incomplete revival, but the heroic Immortal Emperor undermines his confidence by revealing that he has deliberately limited himself and still possesses enough power to win.
• Jiang Yun and the Dao Ancestor serve as observers, each reacting differently: Jiang Yun gains insight and curiosity, while the Dao Ancestor experiences humiliation, fear, and continued denial.

Chapter Summary: “The Curtain Falls!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Weird Immortal Emperor challenges the peerlessly magnificent Immortal Emperor, refusing to believe that a mere remnant soul could defeat him.
• He unleashes an overwhelming attack with the Emperor Blade. The strike spans countless eras, collapsing starry rivers, reversing time in places, and alarming powerful beings hidden throughout existence.
• Jiang Yun and the Dao Ancestor from the Transcendent Ancestral Land witness the attack. The Dao Ancestor panics and attempts to flee, while Jiang Yun remains behind and entrusts his Dao Ancestor Origin to the Immortal Emperor.
• The peerless Immortal Emperor effortlessly deflects the Emperor Blade with two fingers, revealing an enormous disparity between his strength and the Weird Immortal Emperor’s.
• Realizing that the Immortal Emperor is borrowing power from the Ancestral Artifacts and may have regained much of his former strength, the Weird Immortal Emperor attempts to escape.
• The Immortal Emperor seals the surrounding time and space, preventing the Weird Immortal Emperor from fleeing or relying on the River of Ages for survival.
• He crushes the Weird Immortal Emperor with a single palm and captures and annihilates all of his remnant souls. The Weird Immortal Emperor and the Emperor Blade disappear completely, marking the true death of an Immortal Emperor.
• After the battle, the peerless Immortal Emperor’s power rapidly fades. He explains that the Ancestral Artifacts are beginning to control him rather than the reverse.
• He gives the Ancestral Artifacts to Jiang Yun, revealing that they are the so-called “Immortal Emperor Opportunity.”
• The Immortal Emperor sends Jiang Yun back to his original realm, compressing a journey that had taken nearly ten thousand years into an instant. Jiang Yun awakens beside the Stone Jar and the battered ancient sword.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Demonstrates courage and loyalty by refusing to flee despite the overwhelming attack. He entrusts his Dao Ancestor Origin to the Immortal Emperor, showing faith in him and willingness to risk everything. After witnessing the Weird Immortal Emperor’s destruction, Jiang Yun gains a clearer understanding of the power required for the future final battle. He also receives the Ancestral Artifacts and a warning about the difficult path ahead.
• The peerlessly magnificent Immortal Emperor: Reveals that his apparent remnant-soul state conceals access to tremendous power through the Ancestral Artifacts. He proves capable of defeating the Weird Immortal Emperor effortlessly, but his victory comes at the cost of further being influenced by the artifacts. Despite fading away, he remains confident that he will eventually revive and participate in a future Sacrificial Era war.
• The Weird Immortal Emperor: Begins confident and contemptuous, but the Immortal Emperor’s effortless defense shatters his certainty. He becomes increasingly panicked upon realizing that he is outmatched and sealed in place. His final defeat represents the collapse of his long-held belief that he could always rely on future revival.
• The Dao Ancestor from the Transcendent Ancestral Land: His fear causes him to abandon the battlefield and attempt to escape, contrasting sharply with Jiang Yun’s resolve. His reaction exposes the difference between self-preserving cowardice and genuine courage under pressure.

Significant Themes

• True power versus perceived weakness: The Immortal Emperor’s remnant-soul form conceals strength vastly beyond the Weird Immortal Emperor’s expectations.
• Despair and the loss of immortality: Even an Immortal Emperor can face genuine fear and the possibility of complete erasure when revival is no longer guaranteed.
• Courage and trust: Jiang Yun’s decision to remain and support the Immortal Emperor contrasts with the Dao Ancestor’s flight, emphasizing that survival depends not only on strength but also on one’s choices.
• The danger of external power: The Ancestral Artifacts grant immense strength but threaten to control and consume their wielder, making power both a weapon and a burden.
• Destiny and future conflict: The Immortal Emperor’s foresight and warning suggest that Jiang Yun’s future path is important but extremely dangerous, while the coming Sacrificial Era war remains inevitable.
• The end of an era: The Weird Immortal Emperor’s complete annihilation and the Immortal Emperor’s fading mark the conclusion of an ancient conflict, while the transfer of the Ancestral Artifacts begins a new chapter centered on Jiang Yun.

Important Character Interactions

• The Weird Immortal Emperor taunts the peerless Immortal Emperor and challenges his claim of superiority.
• Jiang Yun silently places his trust in the Immortal Emperor by transferring his Dao Ancestor Origin to him.
• The Immortal Emperor is moved by Jiang Yun’s refusal to flee and begins to suspect that Jiang Yun represents the “third outcome” in his deductions.
• After defeating his ancient enemy, the Immortal Emperor speaks directly to Jiang Yun, entrusting him with the Ancestral Artifacts and cautioning him about the future.
• The chapter closes with Jiang Yun returning to his starting realm, now in possession of the Stone Jar, the ancient sword, and the newly inherited opportunity tied to the Ancestral Artifacts.

Chapter Summary: “Taking Stock!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun analyzes the Broken Emperor Sword, realizing it once belonged to a peerlessly powerful Immortal Emperor. Although damaged, it remains extremely dangerous and valuable. He decides to use it only in desperate circumstances because its origins may attract the attention of ancient monsters in the Four Great Origin Ancestral Lands.
• He reconstructs the history of the Stone Jar, distinguishing it from the so-called Immortal Emperor Opportunity:
  • The Stone Jar was an ancestral artifact containing a remnant of the Immortal Emperor’s soul.
  • The Immortal Emperor foresaw three possible futures after obtaining it.
  • The first involved dying alongside the Weird Immortal Emperor and entrusting hope to a successor.
  • The second involved reviving through the Stone Jar, which ultimately allowed the artifact to influence and potentially control him.
  • The third—the path ultimately realized—involved entrusting everything to Jiang Yun.
• The Transcendent Ancestral Land’s Dao Ancestor failed to make the sacrifice necessary to inherit the true Immortal Emperor Opportunity. Instead, the Weird Immortal Emperor’s false “opportunity” was likely a trap intended to lure and test future Dao Ancestors.
• The Immortal Emperor used the Stone Jar to regain peak strength and erase the Weird Immortal Emperor, but resisted allowing the artifact to completely corrupt and control him. He ultimately chose to fall from his peak, hide in Chaos, and leave the artifacts to Jiang Yun.
• Jiang Yun suspects the Stone Jar may be the same artifact later acquired by Chu Feng, though he cannot determine how it might eventually travel from the Transcendent Ancestral Land to the Small Underworld.
• Wary of the Stone Jar’s possible ability to influence and convert its host to the Calamity Plateau, Jiang Yun decides to store it inside the Broken Emperor Sword rather than within his body. He spends several thousand years placing his initial mark on the sword and securing the jar inside it.
• After realizing that more than ten thousand years have passed, Jiang Yun returns to the Underworld to assess the state of the worlds and reunite with Hou Ming.
• Hou Ming reports that the Eight Paths of Reincarnation remain at war with Heaven. Both sides have suffered heavy losses, but the Eight Paths still hold the advantage. Heaven’s Immortal Kings, however, have grown stronger through the prolonged conflict, preventing the Eight Paths from fully conquering the surrounding great worlds.
• Jiang Yun learns that no Dao Ancestors have violated the rule forbidding their direct intervention. The Primordial Beginning Dao Ancestor has remained especially mysterious and inactive.
• Several Immortal Kings have become powerful through battle, but none have yet advanced to the Dao Ancestor Realm. One or two may eventually have the potential to do so.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun becomes more cautious and politically aware. He recognizes that immense treasures can also be dangers, particularly the Stone Jar’s possible corrupting will. Rather than recklessly using either artifact, he plans to seek help from trusted Immortal Emperors such as Willow God—or possibly the Desolate Emperor—if the Stone Jar must be refined.
• He also demonstrates growing confidence and responsibility as a leader. Despite being disappointed by the lack of breakthroughs among the Immortal Kings, he understands that advancement to the Dao Ancestor Realm is extraordinarily difficult.
• The peerless Immortal Emperor is revealed as a figure of extraordinary willpower and sacrifice. He refuses to become a puppet of the ancestral artifact and entrusts his legacy to Jiang Yun.
• Hou Ming has spent the intervening millennia helping manage the war and remains deeply concerned for Jiang Yun. She feels guilty that the Eight Paths have not achieved total victory, but Jiang Yun reassures her that the situation is normal and that she has not failed.
• The Primordial Beginning Dao Ancestor becomes more mysterious, apparently occupied with an unknown matter and uninterested in the ongoing Immortal King War.

Significant Themes

• Power versus corruption: The Stone Jar represents the danger of relying on external power. Even an Immortal Emperor risks being controlled by the artifact he uses.
• Choice and sacrifice: The Immortal Emperor’s three possible futures emphasize how crucial courage and willingness to sacrifice are. The Transcendent Ancestral Land’s Dao Ancestor fails because he refuses to fight to the death.
• Legacy and trust: The Immortal Emperor entrusts his weapons and plans to Jiang Yun, placing faith in a later generation to succeed where others failed.
• The cost of strength: Greater power always demands a price. The Weird Immortal Emperors accept corruption for strength, while the peerless Immortal Emperor refuses to sacrifice his identity.
• Long-term cultivation and warfare: Ten thousand years of battle produce gradual growth but no immediate breakthrough, highlighting the enormous gap between the Immortal King and Dao Ancestor realms.
• History’s uncertainty: Jiang Yun can only speculate about the Stone Jar’s future movements, showing how events across different eras may be connected but remain impossible to fully predict.

Important Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and the peerless Immortal Emperor: Though the Immortal Emperor is no longer directly present, his decision to leave the Broken Emperor Sword and Stone Jar to Jiang Yun forms the chapter’s central relationship of trust and inheritance.
• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming: Their reunion reveals mutual concern and emotional closeness. Hou Ming is relieved by his return, while Jiang Yun immediately seeks news of the Underworld and the war.
• Jiang Yun and the Eight Paths of Reincarnation: Jiang Yun continues to view the war as a controlled training ground meant to develop future Dao Ancestors rather than simply a struggle for territory.
• Jiang Yun and the absent Dao Ancestors: He remains attentive to the behavior of powerful figures such as the Primordial Beginning Dao Ancestor, concerned that hidden plans may be unfolding beyond the visible war.

Chapter Summary: “Plans!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Hou Ming reports that despite more than ten thousand years of warfare, no Immortal King in Heaven has advanced to the Dao Ancestor Realm. Jiang Yun is disappointed that his plan to use the war to cultivate new Dao Ancestors has produced no obvious results.
• The Immortal King War has nevertheless shaken the All Heavens and Myriad Realms and is considered useful enough to continue indefinitely.
• Jiang Yun asks about the other Ancient Origin Lands:
  • Soul River has become increasingly active. Its Immortal Kings have secretly participated in the war under their own names, while its Dao Ancestors observe events closely.
  • Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit remains completely inactive. Jiang Yun reasons that its forces suffered enormous losses in the previous Sacrificial Era and recently lost three Dao Ancestors, leaving it weakened and unlikely to seek revenge.
  • Four Extremes Floating Soil has also sent Immortal Kings into the war, but its Dao Ancestors have largely ignored the conflict.
• The major concern is that the Dao Ancestors of the Four Extremes Floating Soil have begun frequent, unexplained communications with the Soul River. This is unusual because the two regions were formerly rivals or at least had little contact.
• Jiang Yun decides that the situation deserves caution, though he believes the continued growth of the Eight Paths of Reincarnation and the prosperity of the Ancient Underworld may be motivating other factions to cooperate.
• Hou Ming reveals that the Reincarnation Flame Jiang Yun brought her has strengthened her cultivation and allowed her to glimpse a possible path toward the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming share a tender emotional moment. Their former dual cultivation, initially performed to suppress the destructive effects of the Reincarnation Dao Flame and Hell Netherfire, has gradually developed into genuine affection and intimacy.
• They decide that the Immortal King War must continue for the foreseeable future—possibly until the Sacrificial Era—because more combat is needed to produce Dao Ancestors.
• Jiang Yun plans to return to Heaven and the All Heavens and Myriad Realms to investigate changes there, search for promising geniuses, and personally investigate the connection between the Soul River and Four Extremes Floating Soil.
• Before leaving, he and Hou Ming cultivate together for ten thousand years. Their opposing flames unexpectedly begin to merge, purifying their bodies and erasing strands of weird, ominous corruption from their Dao Ancestor forms.
• Hou Ming enters an Enlightenment state, while Jiang Yun departs to study the Stone Jar and its connection to the mysterious existence above Sacrificial Dao.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun becomes more strategically focused. Although disappointed by the lack of new Dao Ancestors, he accepts that the war must continue and prioritizes long-term preparation for the Sacrificial Era.
• He demonstrates growing confidence in the Ancient Underworld’s strength and its potential leadership among the Four Great Origin Ancient Lands.
• Jiang Yun’s interest in the Stone Jar deepens. He hopes to understand its power well enough to use it as a weapon capable of silently destroying even Dao Ancestors.
• Hou Ming experiences a major emotional and spiritual transformation. Once cold and detached after countless ages of cultivation, she now accepts love and affection as compatible with the Dao Ancestor Realm.
• Her cultivation improves significantly through the Reincarnation Flame, giving her hope of eventually reaching the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Hou Ming also commits herself more fully to Jiang Yun’s plans, promising to manage the Underworld while he investigates matters beyond it.

Significant Themes

• Long-term preparation and patience: Major breakthroughs may require countless epochs, and the absence of immediate results does not make the war meaningless.
• Hidden alliances and political uncertainty: The unexpected contact between Soul River and Four Extremes Floating Soil suggests secret plans developing among the Ancient Origin Lands.
• Love preserving humanity: Jiang Yun and Hou Ming’s relationship shows that even beings who have transcended ordinary life can retain emotion, tenderness, and human feeling.
• Harmony between opposites: Their Hell Netherflame and Reincarnation Dao Flame, despite representing opposing powers, can coexist and merge, symbolizing balance between yin and yang and the reconciliation of conflicting forces.
• Purification and corruption: Their dual cultivation removes hidden ominous contamination from their bodies, suggesting that even Dao Ancestors can be affected by darkness and require purification.
• The mystery of the Stone Jar and the higher realm: Jiang Yun’s investigation points toward the deeper origin of the Weird Clan, the Grand Sacrifice, and the mysterious figure above Sacrificial Dao.

Important Character Interactions

• Hou Ming comforts Jiang Yun after he learns that no new Dao Ancestors have appeared.
• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming discuss the activities of the Soul River, Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, and Four Extremes Floating Soil, combining their knowledge to assess possible threats.
• Hou Ming warns Jiang Yun not to underestimate secret cooperation between rival factions, while Jiang Yun urges attention toward strengthening their own forces.
• Jiang Yun celebrates Hou Ming’s renewed hope of advancement and reassures her of their closeness.
• Their relationship shifts from necessity-driven dual cultivation to genuine romantic affection and mutual support.
• During their ten-thousand-year cultivation session, their flames merge, strengthening both of them and eliminating their internal ominous corruption.

Chapter Summary: “Exploration!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun cautiously places a strand of Reincarnation Dao Flame into the ancestral artifact Stone Jar. The jar expands enormously and forcibly absorbs the flame, despite its apparent resistance.
• Inside the jar, Jiang Yun discovers that the flame is repairing faint cracks at its bottom. He concludes that the Stone Jar may lack conscious will but possesses an instinctive drive to restore itself.
• He speculates about the jar’s mysterious past, including whether it was damaged during an ancient battle or by the Ancestors of Calamity Plateau.
• Jiang Yun gives the jar more Reincarnation Dao Flame, then tests it with the Emperor Spear. The spear is absorbed and completely destroyed by the flame.
• The destruction unexpectedly creates a connection between Jiang Yun and the Stone Jar. He discovers that he can now control the Reincarnation Dao Flame inside it and launch it without warning.
• Realizing the jar can conceal the flame from perception, Jiang Yun recognizes it as a terrifying surprise weapon capable of threatening even Dao Ancestors. He abandons his plan to seek the Time Furnace, believing the Stone Jar is more compatible with the flame.
• Returning to the Underworld, Jiang Yun assesses the progress of the Eight Paths of Reincarnation after a hundred-thousand-year Immortal King War. Many have grown stronger, but none have reached the Dao Ancestor realm.
• He orders the war to continue and become more brutal, hoping continued conflict will produce a new Dao Ancestor.
• Jiang Yun reflects on his own cultivation, his alliances, and his failure to find Altar Fragments. He decides to search the distant Sacrificial Sea while concealing his intentions and preparing for a future breakthrough.
• After nearly ten thousand years of exploration, he discovers another Altar Fragment. The Stone Jar awakens and attempts to seize it, but the Broken Emperor Sword reacts and restrains the jar, preventing the fragment from being taken.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun becomes more cautious and analytical regarding the Stone Jar, but also grows more confident after learning to control its hidden power.
• He suffers the loss of the Emperor Spear but gains a far more dangerous weapon through the Stone Jar and Reincarnation Dao Flame.
• Jiang Yun shows increasing strategic maturity: he avoids attracting the attention of powerful Dao Ancestors, recognizes the value of long-term cultivation, and chooses to conceal his transformation.
• His reflections reveal anxiety about stagnation, though he believes his hundred thousand years of travel have accumulated enough insight for an eventual breakthrough.
• Jiang Yun’s leadership becomes harsher. He deliberately encourages continued warfare among his forces to accelerate their advancement.
• The Stone Jar is revealed to be more autonomous and dangerous than Jiang Yun expected, while the Broken Emperor Sword appears capable of restraining or suppressing it.

Significant Themes

• The danger of ancient artifacts: The Stone Jar’s origin, cracks, instincts, and ability to consume powerful treasures emphasize the unknowable danger of primordial relics.
• Power through sacrifice and loss: Jiang Yun loses the Emperor Spear but gains access to an extraordinary hidden attack, suggesting that misfortune can produce greater strength.
• Control versus instinct: Jiang Yun is unsure whether the Stone Jar possesses consciousness or merely follows an instinct to repair itself, highlighting the difficulty of understanding ancient artifacts.
• Cultivation through conflict: The Immortal King War is treated as a brutal but effective means of forcing advancement, raising questions about the cost of power.
• Patience and accumulation: Jiang Yun’s lack of immediate cultivation progress is balanced by the knowledge and experience gained through long-term travel.
• Secrets of the past: The Stone Jar, Reincarnation Dao Flame, and Altar Fragments all point toward ancient beings, the Grand Sacrifice, and powers beyond the current world.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and the Stone Jar: Their relationship changes from cautious experimentation to partial cooperation. After the Emperor Spear is destroyed, Jiang Yun gains limited control over the jar and its flame, though the jar still acts independently.
• Jiang Yun and the Eight Paths of Reincarnation experts: He evaluates their growth, praises their progress indirectly, and orders them to continue fighting more intensely in pursuit of Dao Ancestor breakthroughs.
• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming: The two discuss matters in the Underworld, reinforcing Hou Ming as one of Jiang Yun’s reliable Dao Ancestor-level allies.
• Jiang Yun and the Broken Emperor Sword: The sword remains mostly silent but intervenes when the Stone Jar tries to seize the Altar Fragment, suggesting a protective or suppressive connection.
• Jiang Yun and the absent Chu Feng: Jiang Yun humorously compares his troublesome Stone Jar with the apparently obedient version possessed by Chu Feng, wondering whether Chu Feng’s artifact is restrained by the influence of two Heavenly Emperors.

Chapter Summary: “Cultivation!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Stone Jar is revealed to contain the true bodies of the two Heavenly Emperors, Desolate and Ye, hidden as mysterious seeds. Their avatars had acted throughout the Heavens and Myriad Realms while their real bodies remained dormant inside the jar.
• The Ancestors of the Calamity/Weird Plateau had once possessed the Stone Jar but failed to uncover its secrets. They deliberately allowed it to fall into the hands of a powerful Immortal Emperor, who later obtained it and eventually passed it into the chain of events that led to Chu Feng acquiring it.
• Jiang Yun’s arrival has altered the original timeline. The peerless Immortal Emperor who was supposed to perish has survived and vowed to return, while the Stone Jar’s self-awareness appears to remain, though only as a vague protective instinct.
• After failing to investigate the destroyed great world through the River of Ages, Jiang Yun spends more than a thousand years exploring it before continuing his journey through the Sacrificial Sea.
• He discovers enormous, dark-influenced “Ancestor Beasts” that feed on shattered worlds. Born at the Immortal King level, they possess strange divine bloodlines but little intelligence. Jiang Yun kills or captures many of them and absorbs their bloodlines, gradually strengthening himself.
• After roughly one hundred thousand years of travel, Jiang Yun reaches an opportunity to advance from the perfected Dao Ancestor Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm to the Peak Dao Ancestor Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm.
• He creates and observes millions of artificial great worlds, placing collected bloodlines within them so they can evolve through conflict and hardship. True Dragon, Qilin, Phoenix, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and countless other bloodlines each develop their own paths and attainments.
• Jiang Yun then separately tests his normal and Dark Dao Origin Bloodlines. Both eventually advance from the Immortal King Realm to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm after surviving or overcoming immense trials.
• He next evolves more than 7.28 million scriptures, techniques, methods, and arts in separate worlds, allowing them to reach their highest potential through the struggles of their inhabitants.
• Jiang Yun gathers all these perfected Dao Fruits and transforms himself into a furnace, attempting to fuse every bloodline, scripture, method, and art into a single supreme secret technique.
• This effort brings him to the Peak Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm, but he cannot complete the final fusion. He seeks something beyond ordinary perfection—an achievement that would grant him the beginnings of Immortal Emperor-level combat power.
• Just as he is about to give up, the Broken Emperor Sword activates and flies toward him, apparently seeking repair through his furnace fire. The normally silent Stone Jar also emerges, and its Reincarnation Dao Flame suddenly expands and engulfs Jiang Yun.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun demonstrates extraordinary ambition and ingenuity. Rather than merely advancing through conventional cultivation, he experiments with entire bloodlines, worlds, techniques, and Dao Fruits to push his foundation beyond historical precedent.
• His goal evolves from simply reaching the Peak Dao Ancestor Realm to becoming the strongest Dao Ancestor in history and gaining the ability to defend himself against Immortal Emperors.
• Jiang Yun becomes increasingly willing to use dangerous and unprecedented methods, including refining Ancestor Beast bloodlines, creating millions of artificial worlds, and burning his own Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit.
• The two Heavenly Emperors, Desolate and Ye, are recontextualized as hidden beings whose true bodies remain connected to the Stone Jar.
• The Stone Jar shifts from a passive artifact into an active and mysterious force, suggesting that its instincts or consciousness may still influence events.
• The Broken Emperor Sword also becomes an active participant, apparently recognizing Jiang Yun’s furnace fire as a means of restoring itself.

Significant Themes

• Ambition beyond limits: Jiang Yun refuses to accept the established boundaries of cultivation and seeks power beyond what even Immortal Emperors consider achievable.
• Evolution through conflict: Bloodlines, techniques, and living beings become stronger through struggle, death, and adaptation.
• Creation and experimentation: Jiang Yun acts like a creator, constructing worlds and observing how life, bloodlines, and Dao methods evolve.
• Perfection versus transcendence: The chapter distinguishes between perfecting every individual path and truly merging all paths into something beyond perfection.
• Fate and altered timelines: The original history surrounding the Stone Jar and the Immortal Emperor has changed because of Jiang Yun’s existence.
• The danger of power and corruption: The Sacrificial Sea distorts life, while the Stone Jar, Dark Dao Origin Bloodline, and Reincarnation Dao Flame all hint at forces whose true intentions remain uncertain.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun has no major direct conversation with other characters in the chapter, but he interacts extensively with the creatures and forces around him:
  • He confronts and defeats darkened Ancestor Beasts, later capturing them to refine their bloodlines.
  • He indirectly guides millions of bloodlines and living beings by placing them in artificial worlds and controlling the conditions of their evolution.
  • His Dao Origin Bloodline fights a son of a Heavenly Emperor and advances through that battle.
  • His Dark Dao Origin Bloodline battles and destroys millions of replicated Immortal King-level beings.
  • The Broken Emperor Sword independently approaches him, implying a developing bond or recognition.
  • The Stone Jar unexpectedly intervenes at the climax, engulfing him in Reincarnation Dao Flame and setting up the next major development.

Chapter Summary: “Rising Once Again!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun is in the middle of fusing millions of bloodlines, scriptures, laws, and techniques through furnace fire when the Stone Jar suddenly awakens and attacks him with the terrifying Reincarnation Dao Flame.
• Initially believing the Stone Jar is trying to destroy or devour him, Jiang Yun prepares to resist. However, the flame unexpectedly causes no harm. Instead, it tempers his body and strengthens the fusion of his powers.
• Jiang Yun realizes the Stone Jar deliberately released the flame to help him surpass the natural limits of the Dao Ancestor Realm. His goal is to achieve combat power comparable to an Immortal Emperor while still remaining a Dao Ancestor.
• The Reincarnation Dao Flame and furnace fire merge around him, forming a vast cocoon-like sphere. Jiang Yun remains in this state for several thousand years while the fusion progresses.
• During this period, the war in the Sacrificial Sea intensifies. Immortal Kings die frequently, Reincarnation Tokens spread through many worlds, and the influence of the Eight Paths of Reincarnation expands. Dao Ancestors begin appearing, though they still refrain from openly fighting.
• The Four Great Origin Ancient Lands become increasingly active. The Four Extremes Floating Soil joins the conflict, the Soul River reveals signs of Dao Ancestor activity, and Peacock Venerable briefly appears in the Sacrificial Sea searching for Altar Fragments.
• The Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit remains isolated, unaware that its three Dao Ancestors were already killed in a Transcendent Ancestral Land. The Ancestral Artifacts and opportunities they sought have instead fallen into Jiang Yun’s hands.
• After thousands of years, the Stone Jar withdraws the Reincarnation Dao Flame, and Jiang Yun returns from his furnace-fire state. His fusion is incomplete but has reached an initial stage, granting him combat power beyond the Dao Ancestor level.
• Jiang Yun tests his strength by striking across the River of Ages. Immortal Emperors throughout time detect the attack and mistake it for the power of a newly emerged, unstable Immortal Emperor—possibly from the Weird Clan or Calamity Plateau.
• Because the Stone Jar conceals Heaven’s Secrets, no one discovers Jiang Yun’s true identity or realizes that the attack came from a Dao Ancestor.
• Jiang Yun forms a preliminary connection with the Stone Jar and learns that its control over the Reincarnation Dao Flame allowed him to survive. The flame would still destroy anyone else, including an Immortal Emperor.
• Preparing to return to the Underworld and reunite with Hou Ming, Jiang Yun notices a new threat: countless evolved Ancestor Beasts are devouring worlds and burning away universal essence. Some now emit a faint Dao Ancestor-level aura.

Character Development

• Jiang Yun grows far beyond the ordinary limits of the Dao Ancestor Realm. He moves from fearing the Stone Jar to understanding that it is assisting his cultivation, demonstrating increased insight and composure.
• His ambition becomes clearer: he seeks to achieve “perfection beyond perfection,” breaking the historical limits that even figures such as Desolate Emperor and Pollen Emperor could not surpass.
• Jiang Yun successfully gains preliminary Immortal Emperor-level combat power while retaining his Dao Ancestor status, making him an unprecedented existence.
• His relationship with the Stone Jar changes significantly. Rather than treating it only as a dangerous artifact, he begins establishing communication with it and recognizing its deliberate assistance.
• Hou Ming remains in the Enlightenment Realm but is perceptive enough to sense and observe Peacock Venerable’s movements.
• Peacock Venerable is portrayed as an ancient, influential figure whose appearance signals possible catastrophe, though he does not act destructively in this chapter.
• The inhabitants of the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit are shown to be tragically ignorant, still expecting the return of their three Dao Ancestors despite their deaths.

Significant Themes

• Surpassing established limits: Jiang Yun attempts to achieve something thought impossible even within the Dao Ancestor Realm, continuing the tradition of legendary figures who broke the boundaries of cultivation.
• Transformation through danger: The Reincarnation Dao Flame first appears as a deadly threat but becomes the key force enabling Jiang Yun’s breakthrough.
• Hidden power and misunderstanding: Jiang Yun’s true strength is concealed, causing Immortal Emperors to misinterpret his attack and assume a new Emperor has emerged.
• The cruelty of fate and ambition: The Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit’s hopes are revealed to be meaningless, as the treasures and opportunities they sought have already gone to Jiang Yun.
• Escalating cosmic conflict: The Sacrificial Sea war expands, ancient lands become active, and new threats emerge, suggesting that the coming war will be even more dangerous.
• The uncertainty of identity and destiny: Jiang Yun now possesses Immortal Emperor-level power but remains technically a Dao Ancestor, creating a unique and unprecedented position.

Important Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and the Stone Jar: The central relationship of the chapter. The Stone Jar’s apparent attack becomes an act of assistance, and Jiang Yun begins to communicate with it at a preliminary level.
• Hou Ming and Peacock Venerable: Hou Ming is awakened by Peacock Venerable’s aura and observes his movements, deducing that Peacock may be searching for Altar Fragments.
• Immortal Emperors observing Jiang Yun’s strike: Several Immortal Emperors, including Luo and Meng Hai, sense the attack and speculate about its origin. A Weird Immortal Emperor assumes it may signal the birth of another powerful member of the Weird Clan.
• A supreme Above Heaven powerhouse and his Quasi-Immortal Emperor follower: They attempt to analyze the unfamiliar aura but fail because the Stone Jar blocks all divination.
• Jiang Yun and the Ancestor Beasts: The chapter ends with Jiang Yun discovering that the Ancestor Beasts have evolved to the point where some may possess Dao Ancestor-level strength, setting up the next major conflict.

Chapter Summary:

Dao Ancestor Ancestral Beast!

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• With the Stone Jar’s Reincarnation Dao Flame, Jiang Yun completes a feat beyond perfection, fusing his bloodlines, scriptures, techniques, and arts. Although still only at the Dao Ancestor Pinnacle, his combat power reaches the weakest level associated with Immortal Emperors.
• His achievement shocks the cultivation world. Immortal Emperors may regard him as merely a “Pseudo-Immortal Emperor” or Half-Step Immortal Emperor, but his true realm makes his strength extraordinarily unprecedented.
• Jiang Yun discovers that numerous Ancestor Beasts have surrounded and concealed themselves around him. Unlike their mindless behavior thousands of years earlier, they now appear organized, suggesting the presence of a Dao Ancestor-level Ancestor Beast directing them.
• He immediately begins hunting them. Using the Broken Emperor Sword, Jiang Yun erases individual Ancestor Beasts from both the present and the River of Ages, effectively making it as though they had never been born.
• A bloodthirsty Quasi-Dao Ancestor-level Ancestor Beast attacks him, but Jiang Yun effortlessly suppresses it. He spares it only because he wishes to study and absorb its bloodline.
• The remaining Ancestor Beasts realize the immense gap between themselves and Jiang Yun and flee in terror. However, Jiang Yun has already locked onto their auras and can track them wherever they escape.
• Jiang Yun then confronts the hidden Dao Ancestor-level Ancestor Beast, choosing to capture it alive rather than erase it with the Broken Emperor Sword.
• The Ancestor Beast releases millions of nearly identical clones through an innate treasure technique and briefly escapes Jiang Yun’s grasp. Jiang Yun counters by using the Broken Emperor Sword to annihilate every clone across the River of Ages.
• The Ancestor Beast repeatedly attempts concealment and flight, but Jiang Yun’s perception tracks it effortlessly. Realizing it cannot escape, the once-confident hunter finally becomes prey.
• In desperation, the Dao Ancestor Ancestor Beast stops fleeing and asks Jiang Yun what price it must pay to survive.

2. Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Reaches a new level of power and confidence. His perception, control over time and space, and ability to affect the River of Ages demonstrate that he has become the greatest Dao Ancestor in history. He is calm, decisive, and overwhelmingly dominant, but also shows strategic restraint by attempting to capture the strongest Ancestor Beast alive for bloodline research.
• Dao Ancestor Ancestor Beast: Initially intelligent, confident, and calculating, it plans to use the other Ancestor Beasts to weaken Jiang Yun before ambushing and devouring him. Its confidence collapses once it discovers that Jiang Yun can see through its concealment, destroy its clones, and track it across time. It ends the chapter frightened and reduced to begging for mercy.
• Other Ancestor Beasts: Their bloodthirsty instincts remain central to their behavior. Some attack recklessly, while the more rational beasts flee after recognizing Jiang Yun’s overwhelming strength.

3. Significant Themes

• Absolute strength overturns strategy: The Ancestor Beast’s ambush and elaborate plan are rendered meaningless by Jiang Yun’s superior power and perception.
• Hunter and prey reversal: Jiang Yun, once the hunted target, becomes the predator, while the Dao Ancestor Beast’s carefully prepared trap turns against it.
• Transcending traditional realms: Jiang Yun’s Dao Ancestor cultivation conceals combat power approaching that of an Immortal Emperor, emphasizing the difference between realm and actual battle strength.
• Fear and arrogance: The Ancestor Beast’s pride in its concealment and cloning techniques leads it to underestimate Jiang Yun. Its fear grows only after all its advantages prove useless.
• Erasure from existence and control over time: Jiang Yun’s sword can eliminate enemies from the River of Ages, showing that his power affects not only life and death but also the historical existence of his targets.

4. Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun confronts the surrounding Ancestor Beasts without speaking, destroying them before they can react.
• A Quasi-Dao Ancestor Beast attacks him directly, but Jiang Yun suppresses it effortlessly, demonstrating the vast gap between their levels.
• Jiang Yun and the Dao Ancestor Ancestor Beast engage in a battle of perception and concealment. The Beast relies on clones and hidden movement, while Jiang Yun tracks and destroys every escape route.
• At the end, the Ancestor Beast finally communicates with Jiang Yun in an ancient language, asking what it must sacrifice to be spared. Jiang Yun is surprised by its attempt to negotiate, but the chapter closes with the implication that its plea may have come too late.

Chapter Summary: “Taming a Mount!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun confronts a powerful Dao Ancestor-level Ancestor Beast and immediately attacks it, killing a nearby Immortal King-level Ancestor Beast in the process. He collects the creature’s soul and blood in his Stone Jar to strengthen his bloodline.
• Rather than kill the Dao Ancestor Ancestor Beast, Jiang Yun offers it a choice: submit and become his mount or die.
• The Ancestor Beast unleashes numerous innate divine arts involving space, time, resurrection, and even the illusory River of Ages. However, Jiang Yun effortlessly neutralizes every technique.
• When the beast attempts to flee, Jiang Yun suppresses it completely and exposes its extraordinary true form: a Qilin body with nine Ancestral Dragon heads, a Black Tortoise shell, and a Phoenix-like tail. Each dragon head possesses a Dao Ancestor-level ability.
• The beast eventually begs for its life and offers its true blood, but Jiang Yun rejects its attempts to bargain, recognizing that it is still secretly plotting resistance.
• Jiang Yun uses overwhelming force and psychological pressure to compel the beast to submit. He names it Long Qilin, mounts it, and promises that it will benefit if he eventually reaches an even higher realm.
• Jiang Yun returns from the Underworld along the Reincarnation Road to the Ancient Underworld, riding Long Qilin. His arrival shocks the surrounding Dao Ancestors, who regard the suppression of such a powerful Ancestor Beast as an unprecedented achievement.
• The Ancient Underworld’s Dao Ancestors discuss Jiang Yun’s growing influence. Some admire him, while others warn that his excessive prominence will provoke resentment and political opposition.
• Jiang Yun ignores these concerns and visits Hou Ming after being away for more than ten thousand years. He brings her onto Long Qilin’s back before taking her to a secluded place to cultivate together.
• Long Qilin remains inwardly resentful and considers escaping, but Jiang Yun sees through its intentions. He leaves the Broken Emperor Sword and a talisman behind to keep it under control while he and Hou Ming depart.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun demonstrates overwhelming strength, confidence, and strategic control. He does not merely defeat the Ancestor Beast; he breaks its will through a combination of force, threat, and temptation. His power now places him among—or perhaps above—the greatest Dao Ancestors in history.
• Jiang Yun also shows a practical attitude toward resources. He preserves the Immortal King Ancestor Beast’s blood and soul for his own cultivation rather than wasting them.
• Long Qilin is revealed to be an extraordinarily rare and powerful creature, combining the abilities and physical traits of several supreme divine beasts. Despite its pride and long history of dominance, it becomes fearful and helpless before Jiang Yun.
• Long Qilin does not truly submit emotionally. Its acceptance of Jiang Yun is born from survival instinct and the hope that Jiang Yun may eventually reach the Immortal Emperor realm, giving it a chance to advance beyond its own limits.
• Hou Ming is increasingly impressed by Jiang Yun’s progress. Although she is herself a powerful Dao Ancestor, his ability to tame Long Qilin makes him seem even more unfathomable. Her response is not jealousy or anger but genuine happiness, reflecting how deeply she has emotionally united with him.
• The other Dao Ancestors shift from viewing Jiang Yun as merely talented to recognizing him as a major power whose actions could reshape the Ancient Underworld’s balance.

Significant Themes

• Absolute power and submission: The chapter explores what happens when an ancient, proud powerhouse encounters someone vastly stronger. Long Qilin’s status and pride cannot protect it once Jiang Yun gains total control.
• The carrot-and-stick method: Jiang Yun combines intimidation with the promise of future benefits. He threatens Long Qilin with death while offering it the possibility of following him to a higher realm.
• Pride versus survival: Long Qilin finds becoming a mount deeply humiliating, yet survival forces it to suppress its dignity. Its internal conflict highlights the cost of powerlessness.
• Limits imposed by fate: Long Qilin believes the Heavenly Dao and natural balance prevent Ancestor Beasts from reaching the Immortal Emperor realm. Jiang Yun represents the possibility of breaking through those limits.
• Rising prominence and political danger: Jiang Yun’s achievements bring glory but also attract resentment. The Dao Ancestors recognize that someone who stands too far above others inevitably creates fear, suspicion, and opposition.
• Companionship and loyalty: Jiang Yun’s reunion with Hou Ming shows that, despite his rapidly increasing power, he continues to honor his agreements and maintain his closest relationships.
• Control versus genuine allegiance: Long Qilin obeys Jiang Yun but has not sincerely accepted him. The Broken Emperor Sword and talisman symbolize the difference between forced obedience and true loyalty.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and Long Qilin’s relationship is established as one of coercive master and reluctant mount. Jiang Yun remains alert to every sign of rebellion, while Long Qilin attempts to preserve its pride and secretly considers escape.
• Jiang Yun dismisses Long Qilin’s offers of negotiation, making clear that once its life is in his hands, it has no leverage.
• The Ancient Underworld’s Dao Ancestors react to Jiang Yun with admiration, caution, and unease. They acknowledge his unprecedented feat but prefer to observe rather than become involved in the conflicts his prominence may create.
• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming share a warm reunion. She is astonished by Long Qilin’s presence, but her admiration for Jiang Yun outweighs her surprise. Their shared ride and subsequent cultivation reinforce their intimacy and mutual trust.
• Long Qilin’s reluctant acceptance of Hou Ming as a second rider provides a brief humorous contrast to the otherwise domineering power dynamic, though Jiang Yun’s warning quickly restores its obedience.

Chapter Summary: “A Warning”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun reunites with Hou Ming in her Dao Field after spending ten thousand years training in the Sacrificial Sea. He explains that he explored its deepest regions and captured a powerful Dao Ancestor-level Ancestor Beast, Long Qilin, intending to tame it as a mount.
• Hou Ming expresses concern over the beast’s danger, but Jiang Yun assures her that Long Qilin’s rebellious nature can be subdued through punishment and control.
• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming begin another session of joint cultivation, combining the Reincarnation Dao Flame and Hell Netherflame. Their opposing flames gradually fuse, generating a terrifying new power that contains both immense vitality and absolute destructive force.
• Their cultivation produces visions of ancient Chaos beings, primordial monsters, blood-covered creatures, and battles across the River of Ages. These are only phantoms and recorded remnants of the two Grand Dao Fires, so neither cultivator pays them attention.
• Jiang Yun discovers that the fusion of their flames is burning away and purifying traces of strange, “weird” power within Hou Ming. He keeps this secret, knowing that if the Weird Ancestral Land learned he could neutralize its corruption, powerful Weird Immortal Emperors might capture him for investigation.
• After another thousand years, Hou Ming senses that Long Qilin is attempting to escape her Dao Field. Jiang Yun prevents her from intervening and uses a simple Grand Dao symbol to expose the beast’s illusory decoy and locate its hidden true body.
• Long Qilin is initially terrified because Jiang Yun previously defeated it effortlessly, but it becomes indignant when Jiang Yun does not personally appear and merely sends a symbol against it. Believing it can still escape, it continues using its innate secret arts.
• The Grand Dao symbol follows Long Qilin into the Void, freezes its escape, and combines with another symbol that emerges from the beast’s body. The symbols transform into a radiant ring that expands and slips over Long Qilin’s nine dragon heads, beginning Jiang Yun’s promised punishment.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun is shown to have grown immensely stronger after his long training in the Sacrificial Sea. His confidence and control are evident in his ability to capture a Dao Ancestor-level beast and suppress it remotely with a single symbol.
• He is also increasingly cautious and politically aware. He recognizes the enormous danger of revealing that his power can purify weird corruption and deliberately conceals this ability.
• Hou Ming remains reserved and detached from outside affairs, but her concern for Jiang Yun reveals the deepening trust and intimacy between them. Joint cultivation has eased the pain caused by Jiang Yun’s flames and strengthened her cultivation.
• Long Qilin remains proud, powerful, and rebellious, but its confidence is undermined by Jiang Yun’s overwhelming control. Despite its ability to contend with many Dao Ancestors, it is psychologically dominated by its earlier defeat and becomes frightened once its escape attempt is exposed.

Significant Themes

• Power and submission: Long Qilin’s failed escape emphasizes the gap between ordinary Dao Ancestors and Jiang Yun, portraying his authority as nearly absolute.
• Union of opposites: The fusion of the Reincarnation Dao Flame and Hell Netherflame symbolizes the balance of life and destruction, creation and annihilation, and the unusual bond between Jiang Yun and Hou Ming.
• Secrecy and survival: Jiang Yun’s concealment of his ability to purify weird power highlights the dangers of possessing a unique strength in a world ruled by ancient factions and powerful hidden beings.
• Cultivation beyond time: The thousand-year cultivation session illustrates the vast timescale of the world and the idea that profound breakthroughs require patience, endurance, and repeated refinement.
• Illusion versus reality: Long Qilin’s false body is exposed by Jiang Yun’s Grand Dao symbol, reinforcing the theme that superior perception and Dao power can strip away all disguises.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming interact with increasing familiarity and mutual concern. Hou Ming worries about the dangers posed by Long Qilin, while Jiang Yun calmly reassures her and prevents her from wasting effort on it.
• Their joint cultivation is both a literal cultivation method and a sign of their growing closeness. Their flames’ unprecedented fusion reflects the compatibility developing between them.
• Jiang Yun and Long Qilin maintain a master-and-subordinate relationship rooted in fear and overwhelming strength. Long Qilin’s attempted rebellion is met not with Jiang Yun’s direct appearance, but with a dismissive and highly controlled warning through the Grand Dao ring.
• The chapter ends with Long Qilin trapped and facing the consequences of its disobedience.

Chapter Summary: “Blood River’s Provocation!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Long Qilin, a proud Dao Ancestor-level ancestral beast and natural king of the ancestral beasts, is completely subdued by Jiang Yun.
• Jiang Yun reveals that he had secretly implanted Grand Dao symbols inside Long Qilin, allowing him to track him at will. Two casually drawn symbols merge into a Chaos ring that binds all nine of Long Qilin’s Ancestral Dragon heads.
• Long Qilin’s immense physical strength and innate abilities prove useless against the ring. As it tightens, he suffers severe injuries and realizes that Jiang Yun’s power far surpasses that of ordinary Dao Ancestors.
• Facing death, Long Qilin submits and agrees to become Jiang Yun’s mount. The Chaos ring loosens but remains hidden around his necks as a warning against betrayal. Long Qilin then assumes his original form and obediently lies within Hou Ming’s Dao Field.
• Jiang Yun remains undisturbed throughout the confrontation, focusing instead on joint cultivation with Hou Ming. Hou Ming is deeply impressed by how effortlessly he tamed Long Qilin and gains further insight into the Grand Dao through their cultivation.
• After ten thousand more years, Jiang Yun and Hou Ming end their secluded cultivation. Hou Ming expresses regret that she cannot yet accompany Jiang Yun on his travels because she still needs to pursue her cultivation insights.
• Just as Jiang Yun prepares to leave, violent thunder and Heavenly Dao runes appear above Hou Ming’s Dao Field, seemingly attempting to destroy it.
• Jiang Yun angrily strikes at the thunder while Hou Ming unleashes her own power. Their combined fury is sensed throughout the Ancient Underworld, the Reincarnation Road, and the Sacrificial Sea, terrifying countless powerful beings.
• Hou Ming vows to hunt down whoever dared attack her. Jiang Yun and Hou Ming jointly deduce that the attack originated from the Blood River Dao Ancestor’s Dao Field, raising the question of why Blood River would provoke Hou Ming again.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: His overwhelming strength is emphasized. He can subdue a Dao Ancestor-level beast without appearing personally or exerting visible effort. His mastery of Grand Dao symbols has reached a level far beyond ordinary Dao Ancestors, placing him in a class of his own.
• Long Qilin: His arrogance collapses completely. He goes from believing he could dominate the Dao Ancestor Realm to recognizing that he is powerless before Jiang Yun. His submission transforms him from a rebellious threat into a docile mount.
• Hou Ming: She remains cold and powerful, but her emotional connection to Jiang Yun is evident. She is pleased rather than threatened by his strength and continues to deepen her cultivation through their partnership. Her ruthless nature resurfaces when her Dao Field is attacked.
• Blood River Dao Ancestor: Though he does not appear directly, he is identified as the apparent source of the attack. His actions suggest either extraordinary confidence, hidden support, or a mysterious plan, since he already suffered a humiliating defeat at Hou Ming’s hands.

Significant Themes

• Absolute power and hierarchy: The chapter contrasts ordinary Dao Ancestors with Jiang Yun, who has transcended the limits of their realm. Even a being as powerful as Long Qilin is reduced to helpless submission.
• Pride versus survival: Long Qilin’s immense pride is shattered when he must choose between becoming a mount and dying. His surrender shows that survival can overcome even the strongest arrogance.
• Hidden preparation and control: Jiang Yun’s unnoticed Grand Dao symbols demonstrate the importance of foresight and concealed techniques. Long Qilin’s fate was effectively decided before he realized he was being restrained.
• Devotion and partnership: Hou Ming’s bond with Jiang Yun grows stronger through joint cultivation. His power does not create jealousy or fear in her; instead, it reassures and delights her.
• Provocation and consequences: The attack on Hou Ming’s Dao Field recalls Blood River’s previous defeat and suggests that challenging supreme powers carries enormous risks. The chapter ends by building suspense around Blood River’s motives.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and Long Qilin: Their interaction is almost entirely one-sided. Jiang Yun silently restrains and tracks Long Qilin, while Long Qilin struggles, panics, and finally begs for mercy. Their relationship is established as one of absolute dominance and submission.
• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming: They cultivate together for thousands of years, exchanging insights through their linked hearts and shared comprehension of the Grand Dao. Hou Ming admires Jiang Yun’s strength, while Jiang Yun understands her regret at being unable to travel with him.
• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming versus the attacker: Both react immediately and furiously to the assault on Hou Ming’s Dao Field. Their synchronized deduction identifies Blood River’s Dao Field as the likely source, setting up the next confrontation.
• The wider Dao Ancestor community: Other Dao Ancestors sense the clash and speculate cautiously, recalling Blood River’s earlier defeat. Their fear highlights the extraordinary status of Jiang Yun and Hou Ming and the danger of interfering in their affairs.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The mysterious newcomer’s identity remains unknown, but Hou Ming and Jiang Yun investigate the attack on Hou Ming’s Dao Field. Hou Ming confirms that Blood River Dao Ancestor was responsible and immediately retaliates.
• Hou Ming launches a full-force palm strike infused with Hell Netherflame at Blood River’s Dao Field. The attack destroys the Dao Field, annihilates its defensive Blood Dao, shatters nearby Reincarnation Roads, and kills many Reincarnation Foragers.
• Blood River emerges and denies responsibility, accusing Hou Ming of provoking internal conflict within the Weird Lineage. Hou Ming presents images and information suggesting that the attacker possessed overwhelming blood qi and a Weird Clan aura—traits strongly implicating Blood River.
• Hou Ming declares that she will kill Blood River unless he explains himself. The other Underworld Dao Ancestors attempt to stop her, fearing the loss of a powerful ally, punishment from the Ancestral Land, and the possible withholding of future Sacrificial Scripts.
• Hou Ming ignores their warnings and attacks Blood River directly. Surprisingly, Blood River withstands her assault without being overwhelmed, despite having been decisively inferior during their previous confrontation.
• Blood River reveals that his strength has dramatically increased. He claims the attacker used the Thunder Grand Dao rather than the Blood Dao and offers to end the matter if Hou Ming stops pursuing him.
• Hou Ming refuses, and their battle escalates across the Underworld and the River of Ages. The conflict devastates Reincarnation Roads, threatens the Ancient Underworld itself, and sends destructive shockwaves throughout the Heavens and Myriad Realms.
• Jiang Yun secretly stabilizes key locations and protects Reincarnation Slaves, while the other Dao Ancestors eventually intervene because the battle begins damaging their own Dao Fields.
• As Blood River’s Blood Dao gradually falls behind, he withdraws an Altar Fragment from his body. His aura weakens, but an Imperial Edict emerges from the fragment, radiating an authority powerful enough to alarm every Dao Ancestor.
• The chapter ends with Blood River demanding that Hou Ming and Jiang Yun respectfully receive the Ancestral Land Imperial Edict, implying that the Edict is the source of his sudden increase in power and may carry the Ancestral Land’s authority.

Character Developments

• Hou Ming is shown to be fiercely decisive, ruthless, and unwilling to tolerate betrayal or manipulation. Even overwhelming destruction and the risk of tearing apart the Underworld do not make her retreat.
• Blood River Dao Ancestor displays newfound confidence and vastly improved strength. However, his composure begins to crack as the battle continues and he realizes Hou Ming may still defeat him. His use of the Altar Fragment and Imperial Edict reveals that his power was enhanced through an external, highly significant object.
• Jiang Yun acts as a cautious observer and strategist. He recognizes that Blood River’s strength has changed unusually quickly, supports Hou Ming by taking a clear position beside her, and secretly protects the Reincarnation Slaves from the battle’s aftermath.
• The other Dao Ancestors prioritize preserving the Underworld’s strength and avoiding punishment from the Ancestral Land rather than defending Blood River personally. Their neutrality ends only when the conflict threatens their own Dao Fields.

Significant Themes

• Retribution and betrayal: Hou Ming views Blood River’s suspected attack as a betrayal requiring decisive punishment, while Blood River attempts to portray her retaliation as unjustified internal conflict.
• Power and hidden advantages: Blood River’s sudden rise reveals that concealed artifacts or external authority can radically alter the balance between ancient Dao Ancestors.
• Political control and obedience: The Ancestral Land Imperial Edict represents authority above the Underworld Dao Ancestors, raising the question of whether even powerful beings must submit to its commands.
• The cost of conflict: The battle demonstrates how a struggle between Dao Ancestors can devastate entire realms and endanger countless weaker beings.
• Self-preservation and responsibility: The other Dao Ancestors avoid involvement to protect themselves, while Jiang Yun takes responsibility for shielding the Reincarnation Slaves and preserving the Underworld’s foundations.

Character Interactions

• Hou Ming confronts Blood River directly, accusing him of attacking her Dao Field and threatening to kill him.
• Blood River counters by denying involvement and accusing Hou Ming of manufacturing a pretext to create internal strife.
• The other Dao Ancestors plead with Hou Ming to stop, citing the Grand Sacrifice, the Underworld’s need for strength, and possible punishment from the Ancestral Land.
• Jiang Yun does not attack Blood River but visibly supports Hou Ming by standing beside her, signaling his alignment.
• During the battle, the Dao Ancestors move from detached observers to reluctant participants in the dispute when the destruction begins damaging the entire Underworld.
• Blood River ultimately invokes the Ancestral Land Imperial Edict, attempting to force Hou Ming and Jiang Yun into submission through its authority.