Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Summons!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The mysterious Sword Light is revealed to be aimed at the true Ancestors on Calamity Plateau rather than at a Weird Immortal Emperor.
• The sword tears through the great world’s barrier, carving a passage from the Sacrificial Sea directly into the Ancestral Land. It destroys numerous Weird Clan worlds before clashing with an Ancestor who emerges from a coffin within an exploding Calamity Land.
• The collision shakes the Heavens and Myriad Realms. Black mist obscures the battle, and the Ancestor alters causality so severely that nearly everyone’s memories of the event are erased. Only Dao Ancestors retain fragments of the incident.
• The chapter explains the overwhelming difference between the Immortal Emperor and Sacrificial Dao realms: Sacrificial Dao experts can casually distort laws, destiny, causality, worlds, and even the River of Ages.
• The sword’s attack causes Sword Light World to vanish, permanently opening the Sea of Realms passage between its two ends. This creates a direct route for reinforcements from Heaven’s All Ages to aid the Desolate Emperor.
• The Ancestral Land responds by ordering the Four Great Origin Ancient Lands to guard the passage and prevent Heaven’s Dao Ancestors from crossing.
• An Immortal Emperor Edict summons Hou Ming and other powerful Giants—including Hun Tian and experts from Soul River, the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, and the Four Extremes Floating Soil—to defend the passage.
• The summoned defenders are forbidden to refuse. Disobedience means being branded deserters and erased by an Immortal Emperor. In exchange, they are promised entry into the Ancestral Land and guidance from three Weird Immortal Emperors, potentially allowing them to advance into the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Immortal Emperors from the Ancestral Land restrain Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai by dragging them into battles across the River of Ages, ensuring that the Four Origin Ancient Lands’ Dao Ancestors will not face Immortal Emperor-level opposition.
• Jiang Yun becomes concerned both for Hou Ming and for the vulnerable world at the far end of the Sea of Realms, which is populated only by relatively weak Immortal Domain forces.
• Jiang Yun, Double-Pupil Bearer Shi Yi, and the Ten-Crowned King, Heavenly Prince, decide to investigate the disappearance of Sword Light World and ensure that the other end of the Sea of Realms has not been exposed to catastrophe.
• They reach the guarded passage, then secretly travel through Heaven Great World toward the Sea of Realms. Upon arriving, they find the gateway fully open and Heaven’s experts already attempting to cross and investigate.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Jiang Yun demonstrates increasing strategic awareness. He recognizes that the Desolate Emperor’s sword was likely a desperate move caused by mounting pressure within the Ancestral Land, while also understanding the enormous danger created by the newly opened passage.
• The Desolate Emperor is shown to be under severe pressure despite remaining powerful enough to attack the Ancestral Land directly. His sword serves both as an offensive strike and as a means of opening a reinforcement route.
• Hou Ming accepts her summons without hesitation. Although she has longstanding dissatisfaction and conflict with the Ancestral Land, she acknowledges her duty as a Weird Clan Dao Ancestor and Ancient Underworld Giant. Her calm departure reassures Jiang Yun that she had already anticipated this outcome.
• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming share a quiet emotional exchange: Jiang Yun worries about her, while she smiles and signals that he should not be concerned.
• Shi Yi and the Ten-Crowned King, Heavenly Prince support Jiang Yun’s concerns. Because they originated from the other end of the Sea of Realms, they understand how defenseless that world is and agree that it must be protected.
• The Four Origin Ancient Lands’ Giants cooperate under compulsion, regardless of their personal views, because the Immortal Emperor Edict combines overwhelming punishment with extraordinary rewards.
• Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai are prevented from interfering by an opposing Weird Immortal Emperor, highlighting the continuing conflict among the highest-level entities.

Significant Themes

• The terrifying hierarchy of power: The battle emphasizes that Sacrificial Dao beings exist beyond ordinary laws and causality, making even Immortal Emperors seem limited by comparison.
• Memory, causality, and reality: The Ancestor’s ability to erase the battle from history illustrates how fragile memory and recorded reality are before supreme existences.
• Duty versus personal loyalty: Hou Ming’s decision to obey the Ancestral Land despite her resentment shows the conflict between personal grievances and factional responsibility.
• Desperation at the end of an era: The Ancestral Land’s extreme summons, harsh punishments, and lavish rewards reveal how close the Sacrificial Era is to a decisive and potentially catastrophic climax.
• The cost of reinforcement: The opened passage offers Heaven’s All Ages a new route to aid the Desolate Emperor, but it also exposes the weaker world beyond the Sea of Realms to invasion.
• Silence before catastrophe: The lack of immediate attack by Heaven’s Dao Ancestors suggests that they are preparing a decisive assault, increasing the sense of impending conflict.

Ending

The chapter concludes with Jiang Yun, Shi Yi, and the Ten-Crowned King reaching the far end of the Sea of Realms. The protective Sword Light World has disappeared, leaving the gateway completely exposed. Heaven’s experts are already trying to cross, setting up a potential crisis for the weak world beyond and a major confrontation over control of the passage.

Chapter Summary: After the Sword Light Vanished!

Key Plot Points and Events

• After the Sword Light World disappears, powerful figures from Heaven’s All Ages consider exploring the other end of the Sea of Realms, the homeland of the Desolate Emperor.
• A newly ascended Dao Ancestor sends Immortal Kings to investigate. They discover that the region is vast and dangerous, then return without reaching its true destination.
• Tempted by the possibility of finding the Desolate Emperor’s inheritance and learning the secret of his rise, the young Dao Ancestor decides to lead an expedition himself.
• Jiang Yun, Shi Yi, and the Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince realize that they must prevent this. However, they cannot act openly because their identities and origins could expose them to attacks from Heaven’s Dao Ancestors.
• Just as the three prepare to intervene, Ye Fan, Wushi, and other Dao Ancestors arrive. Ye Fan and Wushi block the young Dao Ancestor’s path.
• Ye Fan firmly declares that the distant world is his homeland and refuses to allow the young Dao Ancestor to enter.
• The young Dao Ancestor challenges Ye Fan. Their first clash ends evenly, shocking him because Ye Fan entered the Dao Ancestor Realm later yet matches him in power.
• He then unleashes a more powerful sword technique, drawing the sword intent of countless cultivators from an entire Great World created within his sword. Even Ye Fan and the observing Dao Ancestors are impressed.
• The conflict escalates toward a full battle between Ye Fan and the young Dao Ancestor, but the Heavenly Sword Dao Ancestor intervenes.
• Speaking through his sword, the Heavenly Sword Dao Ancestor orders his disciple to stop. He announces that Heaven’s Dao Ancestors have agreed to establish new restrictions around the Sea of Realms, forbidding interaction between the two worlds.
• He emphasizes that the Desolate Emperor is fighting in the Ancestral Land and that the homeland must not become another battlefield. He also reveals that several Dao Ancestors from the other end are already fighting in the Sacrificial Sea.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Shows strategic caution and leadership. He disguises his recovered condition by maintaining the appearance of severe Dao injuries, preventing other Dao Ancestors from realizing his true strength. He is deeply moved when Ye Fan finally reaches the Dao Ancestor Realm.
• Ye Fan: Revealed to have successfully entered the Dao Ancestor Realm. He acts decisively to protect his homeland and refuses to compromise, demonstrating both confidence and a strong sense of responsibility.
• Wushi: Supports Ye Fan without hesitation. Though he says little, the ringing of the Wushi Bell makes his position clear and reinforces his intimidating presence.
• Shi Yi: Offers to confront the young Dao Ancestor but accepts that doing so could expose his Underworld origins and trigger a larger conflict.
• Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince: Prepares to use the World Tree when the situation becomes urgent, showing his willingness to defend the distant world despite the risks.
• The Young Dao Ancestor: Initially cautious, he becomes increasingly ambitious after imagining the rewards of finding the Desolate Emperor’s inheritance. His pride and competitive nature are provoked when Ye Fan refuses him and matches his first attack.
• Heavenly Sword Dao Ancestor: Acts as a senior authority and mediator. He prevents the dispute from becoming a major battle and establishes a broader political solution to protect the Desolate Emperor’s homeland.

Significant Themes

• Protection of one’s homeland: Ye Fan and Wushi defend the other end of the Sea of Realms not merely as territory but as a place tied to their origins and legacy.
• Ambition versus responsibility: The young Dao Ancestor’s desire for inheritance and advancement threatens to ignite a new conflict, while the older Dao Ancestors prioritize the larger war against the Weird Clan.
• Political restraint among supreme beings: Even powerful Dao Ancestors cannot act freely because revealing their identities may provoke Heaven’s factions and widen the war.
• Legacy and inheritance: The Desolate Emperor’s homeland carries immense symbolic and material value, attracting those who seek his secrets and power.
• Unity against the greater enemy: The Heavenly Sword Dao Ancestor argues that native and non-native Dao Ancestors should not divide themselves while facing the Weird Clan.
• Power concealed beneath appearances: Jiang Yun’s injuries are partly a disguise, while Ye Fan’s recent breakthrough proves that apparent age or experience does not necessarily determine strength.

Important Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun, Shi Yi, and the Ten-Crowned King debate whether to confront the young Dao Ancestor, ultimately deciding to wait for Ye Fan and Wushi.
• Ye Fan and the young Dao Ancestor engage in a tense verbal confrontation that turns into a Dao Ancestor-level battle.
• Wushi silently backs Ye Fan, creating a united front against the invading group.
• The young Dao Ancestor’s exchange with Ye Fan becomes personal as his pride is wounded by Ye Fan’s refusal and equal strength.
• The Heavenly Sword Dao Ancestor interrupts his disciple and reprimands the division between Heaven’s natives and outsiders, imposing a restriction designed to preserve peace.

Chapter Summary: “Ye Fan Reappeared!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The young Dao Ancestor withdraws with the Immortal Kings after Ye Fan’s return. The Heavenly Sword Dao Ancestor apologizes for the earlier tension and leaves his sword behind to guard the passage for ten thousand years.
• Ye Fan and Wushi travel to the opposite side of the Sea of Realms to establish restrictions, preventing beings from that world from crossing over and causing disturbances.
• Jiang Yun, Shi Yi, and Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince avoid returning to the troubled world on the other side of the sword’s light. They later separate:
  • Heavenly Prince goes to investigate a mysterious divine tree in the Heavenly World, which may surpass the World Tree.
  • Shi Yi returns to the Ancient Underworld to investigate the oldest Reincarnation Road, believing that a former Double-Pupil Bearer may have died there.
• Jiang Yun instead enters the immense passage within the Sacrificial Sea. He discovers countless corpses of extremely powerful beings, including Dao Ancestor-level entities from the Weird Ancestral Land. Their presence reveals that the Ancestral Land once attempted to destroy or close the passage but failed.
• The Four Origin Ancient Lands now guard different sections of the passage through separate Dao Fields because its vastness makes complete sealing impossible.
• Jiang Yun finds Hou Ming’s Dao Field and reunites with her. She explains that many Quasi-Dao Ancestor-level “ants” have been sent into the passage as expendable probes, while the powerful Dao Ancestors behind them remain hidden.
• Jiang Yun stays with Hou Ming to help stabilize the situation. For tens of thousands of years, the passage remains outwardly peaceful, but Immortal King battles and occasional Dao Ancestor conflicts continue throughout the Sacrificial Sea.
• Both sides prepare for a decisive confrontation. The Dao Ancestors of Heaven’s All Ages gradually gather, intending to eliminate the guarding Giants and seize the passage.
• A major turning point occurs when Willow God’s projection appears across the Sacrificial Sea, covered in the blood of a Weird Immortal Emperor. This demonstrates that she defeated her opponent in the Heavenforsaken Land Above Heaven.
• Her victory gives Heaven’s All Ages hope that she will soon join Desolate Emperor and the Ancient Heavenly Court experts in attacking the Ancestral Land. The Weird Clan and the Four Origin Ancient Lands realize that they may soon face overwhelming attacks.
• Seeing Hou Ming’s concern, Jiang Yun secretly asks what they would do if the Ancestral Land fell. He argues that they must prepare independently because the Ancestral Land has treated Ancient Origin Land Dao Ancestors as expendable guardians.
• Before Hou Ming can answer, numerous terrifying auras suddenly appear outside the passage, signaling the arrival of a major threat or battle.

Character Developments

• Ye Fan reappears as a powerful and authoritative figure, taking immediate action to secure both sides of the Sea of Realms.
• Heavenly Sword Dao Ancestor shows restraint and sincerity by apologizing and leaving his sword to guard the region, demonstrating a willingness to preserve peace.
• Jiang Yun becomes increasingly cautious and strategic. Rather than rushing into open conflict, he investigates the passage, supports Hou Ming, and begins planning for the possible collapse of the Ancestral Land.
• Hou Ming remains powerful and dependable, easily eliminating invading probes, but her confidence is shaken by the possibility of the Ancestral Land’s defeat and the coming war.
• Shi Yi follows a personal connection to his Double Pupils, seeking answers on the oldest Reincarnation Road despite the dangers of the Ancient Underworld.
• Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince pursues the mystery of the superior divine tree, showing his continued interest in rare and powerful cultivation opportunities.
• Willow God emerges as a decisive force, proving that she can defeat a Weird Immortal Emperor and dramatically alter the balance of power.
• Desolate Emperor remains engaged in a desperate solo struggle within the Ancestral Land, making the support of Willow God and the Ancient Heavenly Court crucial.

Significant Themes

• Strength above all else: Both the Weird Clan and Heaven’s All Ages sacrifice weaker beings to test defenses, showing that neither side is morally distinct when pursuing victory.
• Preparation amid apparent peace: The calm surrounding the passage is deceptive; every faction is secretly gathering forces for a decisive war.
• Loyalty and solidarity: Jiang Yun’s visit to Hou Ming reflects mutual trust and emotional support during an exceptionally dangerous period.
• Uncertainty and contingency planning: Jiang Yun recognizes that even the seemingly invincible Ancestral Land might fall, emphasizing the need to prepare for outcomes others refuse to contemplate.
• The changing balance of power: Willow God’s victory transforms the strategic situation, giving Heaven’s All Ages renewed hope while deeply alarming the Weird Clan.
• The cost of prolonged conflict: The Sacrificial Sea is filled with corpses and drifting blood, illustrating the enormous price paid by both sides in their endless struggle.

Character Interactions

• The Heavenly Sword Dao Ancestor respectfully apologizes to Ye Fan and entrusts his sword with guarding the passage.
• Jiang Yun shares his knowledge of the mysterious divine tree with Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince, helping guide his investigation.
• Jiang Yun warns Shi Yi to act cautiously when returning to the Ancient Underworld.
• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming reunite warmly in her Dao Field. He embraces and reassures her, affirming their close relationship.
• Jiang Yun explains his concerns about the long-term advantage of the Ancestral Land and the danger of their current mission.
• After Willow God’s victory becomes known, Jiang Yun and Hou Ming discuss its implications. Jiang Yun’s suggestion that the Ancestral Land might fall alarms her, but he insists that they must prepare for every possibility.
• The chapter ends with the sudden appearance of powerful auras outside the passage, interrupting their private discussion and foreshadowing an imminent confrontation.

Chapter Summary: “Return to the Peak!”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• A powerful group of ten Dao Ancestors from Heaven and All Ages suddenly arrives at the Sacrificial Sea passage, catching the defenders off guard.
• The Dao Ancestor Giant from the Four Extremes Floating Soil emerges gravely wounded. His body is covered in Dao Ancestor Laws, and an Ancient Blade has pierced through his chest. He has been crippled by a coordinated surprise attack.
• The Primordial Beginning Dao Ancestor reveals that Heaven and All Ages has launched a carefully planned, simultaneous assault. Battles have broken out in the Ancient Underworld, Soul River, Four Extremes Floating Soil, Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, and the Ancestral Land.
• The enemy has returned powerful Dao Ancestors from Above Heaven and the Heavenforsaken Land, greatly increasing its forces. Their strategy was to feign weakness, sacrifice Quasi-Dao Ancestors, and wait for the Four Origin Ancient Lands to become vulnerable after the Desolate Emperor’s sword strike.
• The wounded Four Extremes Floating Soil Giant flees toward the Desolate Wilderness, but the Primordial Beginning Dao Ancestor sends an assassin-like Dao Ancestor after him.
• Nine enemy Dao Ancestors divide into three groups to fight Hou Ming, Hun Tian, and the Giant from the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit. The Primordial Beginning Dao Ancestor declares that they intend to settle the accumulated blood debts of countless Sacrificial Eras.
• Hou Ming urges the other Giants to focus on survival, implying that the Ancestral Land may eventually revive and provide reinforcements.
• Jiang Yun remains concealed, recognizing that revealing himself prematurely would expose his weakened Primordial Spirit to the enemy’s hidden assassin.
• As Hou Ming begins losing ground against three powerful opponents, Jiang Yun uses the Stone Jar and its Reincarnation Dao Flame, threatening to return the jar to the Ancestral Land and reveal its connection to the mysterious figure sought through the Grand Sacrifice.
• The Stone Jar responds by healing Jiang Yun’s Grand Dao Wounds and Primordial Spirit. The Sword Light within him also becomes fully controllable.
• Jiang Yun’s strength returns to the Peak Dao Ancestor level, and he once again enters the profound and mysterious realm. The Chaos Grand Dao submits to him, while the River of Ages manifests beneath his feet.

2. Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Begins the chapter cautious and weakened, focused on concealing himself and surviving. He understands that his damaged Primordial Spirit makes him vulnerable to assassination. By the end, the Stone Jar completely heals him, restores his peak power, and allows him to regain control over the Sword Light and reenter his highest combat state.
• Hou Ming: Demonstrates composure and leadership despite being surrounded by three formidable enemies. Her advice that survival is the greatest victory reveals her strategic awareness and indirectly instructs Jiang Yun not to act recklessly.
• Primordial Beginning Dao Ancestor: Acts as the commander of the invasion. He displays complete confidence, coordinates the attacks, and treats the destruction of the Four Origin Ancient Lands as a long-prepared campaign.
• Four Extremes Floating Soil Dao Ancestor Giant: His sudden crippling exposes the enemy’s ruthless tactics and superior preparation. His panic and flight show how overwhelming the situation has become.
• Hun Tian and the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit Giant: Initially shaken by the scale of the invasion, they regain their resolve after hearing Hou Ming’s words and fight despite the overwhelming odds.
• Stone Jar: Appears initially passive and unresponsive, but reacts to Jiang Yun’s threat. Its Reincarnation Dao Flame heals him, suggesting that it possesses extraordinary power and may be connected to deeper secrets surrounding the Grand Sacrifice.

3. Significant Themes

• Strategic preparation versus immediate strength: Heaven and All Ages succeeds because it has planned for ages, concealed its true forces, and waited for the Four Origin Ancient Lands to weaken.
• Survival amid overwhelming catastrophe: Hou Ming emphasizes that staying alive is currently more important than winning. The chapter presents survival as a necessary condition for future resistance and revenge.
• Hidden forces and concealed identities: The enemy’s surprise assault, invisible assassin, returning Dao Ancestors, and the Stone Jar’s mysterious origins all reinforce the importance of secrets and unseen preparations.
• The cost of past conflicts: The invasion is framed as retaliation for countless destroyed worlds and accumulated suffering across the Sacrificial Eras, suggesting that the present battle is the result of ancient blood debts.
• Recovery and transformation: Jiang Yun’s healing is not merely physical restoration; it marks his return to a higher state of understanding and power. His control over the Sword Light shows that past suffering and wounds were part of his eventual transformation.
• The importance of timing: Jiang Yun must balance the need to help Hou Ming with the danger of exposing himself too soon. The chapter highlights restraint, patience, and choosing the correct moment to act.

4. Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming: Hou Ming’s public warning about survival is secretly directed at Jiang Yun, answering his earlier concerns about whether he should intervene or escape. Their interaction shows mutual understanding despite their lack of direct conversation.
• Primordial Beginning Dao Ancestor and the invading Dao Ancestors: He commands them to divide into groups, target the remaining Giants, and prevent any escape, establishing his authority and the disciplined nature of the invasion.
• Jiang Yun and the Stone Jar: Jiang Yun attempts to force the jar into helping him by threatening to expose its connection to the Grand Sacrifice. The jar responds decisively, healing him and restoring his power.
• Hou Ming and the other Giants: Her determination encourages Hun Tian and the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit Giant to suppress their fear and fight back rather than surrender to despair.
• The invaders and the Four Extremes Floating Soil Giant: Their coordinated ambush and pursuit demonstrate the enemy’s willingness to concentrate forces against individual targets and eliminate them before reinforcements can arrive.
  The chapter ends with Jiang Yun fully restored and back in the profound, mysterious realm, poised to reenter the battle at the height of his power.

Chapter Summary: “Battle for the Passage!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun enters a mysterious realm that restores his confidence and gives him immense hidden power. However, he conceals his true strength, continuing to appear as a severely injured Pseudo Dao Ancestor.
• Heaven’s All Ages launches a coordinated assault near the passage, sending ten Dao Ancestors—including four Giants—to attack the forces of the Four Origin Ancient Lands.
• Hou Ming is surrounded by a Giant and two powerful Dao Ancestors. Though heavily outnumbered, she fights recklessly with Hell Netherflame, destroying worlds and burning one enemy’s Dao Ancestor Artifact.
• The attackers deliberately sacrifice the Giant’s artifact to distract Hou Ming, allowing the other two Dao Ancestors to ambush and grievously injure her. She refuses to retreat and prepares to perish alongside them by igniting her Dao Ancestor Origin.
• At the critical moment, Jiang Yun appears, rescues Hou Ming, and places her inside his inner world. He declares that he will take her away, threatening to kill anyone who interferes.
• The enemy dismisses Jiang Yun as a weakened Pseudo Dao Ancestor and attacks him. Jiang Yun secretly withstands their attacks with ease, pretending to be badly injured while constructing a spacetime passage to the Ancient Underworld.
• He escapes through the passage with Hou Ming. The pursuing Dao Ancestors hesitate, suspecting a trap, but prepare to follow him and destroy the Ancient Underworld.
• The Ancient Underworld Source and the oldest section of the Reincarnation Road suddenly erupt with power beyond the Dao Ancestor Realm. Simultaneously, the foundations of the Soul River, Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, and Four Extremes Floating Soil also awaken.
• The Four Origin Ancient Lands devastate Heaven’s All Ages’ forces. Several invading Dao Ancestors are instantly annihilated, while others are severely wounded. The ancient lands also suffer losses, but the battlefield’s balance shifts dramatically.
• Jiang Yun returns to the Ancient Underworld and discovers that its situation is even more desperate than expected.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Becomes more confident after accessing the mysterious realm but remains cautious, hiding his true strength. His primary concern is protecting Hou Ming, and he finally abandons his usual restraint to rescue her. He also demonstrates strategic intelligence by enduring attacks, feigning weakness, and escaping through a self-created spacetime passage.
• Hou Ming: Shows extraordinary courage and loyalty. Despite being severely wounded and completely surrounded, she refuses to retreat and fights with a willingness to sacrifice herself. Her thoughts reveal that she is at peace with dying because she believes Jiang Yun has already escaped.
• Hun Tian and the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit’s Giant: Reveal their cunning and self-preservation. Rather than obeying the order to defend the passage to the death, they gradually move the battle away from it, leaving themselves an avenue of escape.
• Heaven’s All Ages’ Dao Ancestors: Display ruthless coordination and tactical deception, using one Giant’s artifact as bait to create an opening for Hou Ming’s ambush. However, they underestimate Jiang Yun and are later devastated by the awakening powers of the ancient lands.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and loyalty: Hou Ming’s willingness to die defending the passage contrasts with Jiang Yun’s determination to save her.
• Hidden strength and deception: Jiang Yun’s false appearance allows him to mislead his enemies, while his opponents also rely on feigned openings and sacrificial tactics.
• Conflict between duty and survival: Hun Tian and the other Giant technically remain in battle while quietly retreating, illustrating how survival instincts can override orders.
• The limits of mortal power: The eruption of the Four Origin Ancient Lands reveals forces far beyond the Dao Ancestor Realm, emphasizing the terrifying foundations of the ancient realms.
• Shifting battlefield balance: Neither side achieves a clear victory; instead, hidden powers and sudden interventions repeatedly transform the situation.

Important Character Interactions

• Hou Ming battles three Dao Ancestors while Jiang Yun watches, waiting until her life is truly threatened.
• Jiang Yun suddenly embraces and removes Hou Ming from the battlefield, overruling her attempt to sacrifice herself.
• Jiang Yun confronts the three attackers and warns them that he will take one of them with him if they pursue him.
• The Dao Ancestors mock Jiang Yun’s weakened state and reference his earlier victory over Wan Xing, leading them to underestimate him.
• The ancient powers of the Four Origin Ancient Lands intervene collectively, crushing Heaven’s All Ages’ assault and forcing the surviving combatants into a new crisis.

Chapter Summary: “The Second Ancestor!”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Netherworld Prison Dao Ancestor remains near death after suffering severe injuries in the previous battle. Two other Dao Ancestors under his command have died, while more than half of the Eight Paths of Reincarnation have been killed or wounded.
• Jiang Yun gives his Dao Ancestor Essence Blood to the surviving members of the Eight Paths, orders them to repair the Ancient Underworld, and has defensive formations established throughout it.
• Shi Yi remains unharmed because he was exploring the oldest Reincarnation Road. The Ten-Crowned King is still absent, searching for Heaven’s oldest Jianmu to improve his World Tree. Jiang Yun’s primary concern becomes Hou Ming, whose injuries are extremely serious.
• Jiang Yun brings Hou Ming back to his Dao Field and cultivates with him to help heal him. However, Hou Ming is too badly injured to guide the Hell Netherflame properly, making their recovery slow.
• Elsewhere, Heaven’s All Ages succeeds in opening a passage to the Ancestral Land, but only a small number of Giants and Dao Ancestors manage to pass through because the Four Great Origin Ancient Lands retaliate at great cost.
• Reinforcements eventually arrive from the Ancestral Land, including more than five Dao Ancestors who enter the Ancient Underworld and fight Heaven’s forces in the passage. Similar battles erupt in the other Origin Ancient Lands.
• Despite the arrival of reinforcements, the Desolate Emperor’s battlefield worsens. More Immortal Emperors awaken in the Ancestral Land, while the Willow God is forced to fight multiple Weird Immortal Emperors.
• Driven by fury after watching his soldiers die, the Desolate Emperor unleashes another devastating sword strike. His Sword Light ravages the Ancestral Land and cleaves the Ancestral Land Ancestor in two, seemingly suppressing him.
• The Heavens and Myriad Realms celebrate, believing the Desolate Emperor has finally created an opportunity to destroy the Ancestral Land and end the endless calamities.
• Jiang Yun remains unconvinced, knowing that the Ancestral Land possesses deeper and more terrifying secrets.
• His fears are confirmed when a second figure, possessing power equal to the first Ancestor, emerges from the deepest part of the Ancestral Land after a sacrificial ritual performed by the Weird Clan.
• The awakening of this second Ancestor causes massive changes throughout the Ancestral Land and the Four Origin Ancient Lands. Manifestations appear in the oldest Reincarnation Road, the Soul River, the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, and the Four Extremes Floating Soil.
• The Plateau also revives several Weird Immortal Emperors previously killed by the Desolate Emperor and the Willow God. This reveals that the Plateau can resurrect its Immortal Emperors, though the process takes tens of thousands of years.
• The revived Immortal Emperors dramatically shift the battle. The Willow God is forced to confront four enemies directly, while the Desolate Emperor must fight two Ancestors and several Weird Immortal Emperors simultaneously.
• The Ancestral Land’s hidden forces fully emerge, giving the Weird Clan a decisive numerical advantage in Dao Ancestors. The Ancient Heavenly Court and Heaven’s All Ages suffer severe losses, including the deaths of many of the Desolate Emperor’s eight hundred veteran soldiers.
• The Desolate Emperor is unable to save his allies because the two Ancestors and the Weird Immortal Emperors sever the surrounding time and space, isolating him from the rest of the battlefield.

2. Character Developments

• Jiang Yun becomes more cautious and strategic after realizing that even the Ancient Underworld and the Four Origin Ancient Lands are not truly secure. He prioritizes preservation, defense, and Hou Ming’s recovery rather than being distracted by the wider battle.
• Hou Ming is revealed to be in extremely critical condition. His injuries prevent him from participating effectively in joint cultivation, making his healing a slow and uncertain process.
• The Desolate Emperor demonstrates extraordinary growth and battle power. Though he has only recently entered the Sacrificial Dao Realm, he manages to severely injure and nearly defeat an Ancestor. However, his strength is not enough to overcome the Ancestral Land’s deeper foundations.
• The Willow God is pushed to her limits. After initially holding back three Weird Immortal Emperors, she becomes overwhelmed when revived enemies increase the number of opponents to five, forcing her into a desperate struggle for survival.
• Shi Yi remains outside the main conflict and continues investigating the oldest Reincarnation Road and the origins of the Double-Pupil Bearers.
• The Weird Clan reveals greater unity and preparedness. Their Immortal Emperors perform an ancient sacrificial ritual, exposing their knowledge of the second Ancestor and their ability to revive fallen Immortal Emperors.

3. Significant Themes

• False victory and hidden threats: The Desolate Emperor’s apparent triumph over the Ancestral Land Ancestor briefly gives the worlds hope, but the emergence of a second Ancestor shows that the enemy’s true strength has not yet been revealed.
• The limits of individual power: Even the Desolate Emperor’s astonishing sword strike cannot end the conflict. Great personal strength may change a battlefield, but it cannot overcome the Ancestral Land’s vast reserves and deeper mysteries alone.
• Hope versus despair: The Heavens celebrate the Desolate Emperor’s victory, only to have their hope crushed by the second Ancestor and the revival of the Weird Immortal Emperors.
• Endurance and sacrifice: Jiang Yun’s efforts to preserve the Eight Paths, the Desolate Emperor’s fury over his fallen soldiers, and the Willow God’s continued resistance all emphasize the immense sacrifices required to survive the war.
• The enemy’s near-immortality: The Plateau’s ability to resurrect Weird Immortal Emperors gives the Weird Clan a structural advantage and creates the terrifying impression that their forces cannot be permanently eliminated.
• The awakening of ancient powers: The second Ancestor’s emergence triggers changes across multiple ancient lands, suggesting that the entire cosmological order is connected to the Ancestral Land and may be entering a new phase.

4. Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming: Jiang Yun personally cultivates with Hou Ming to aid his recovery, demonstrating trust and concern. Their cooperation is hindered by the severity of Hou Ming’s injuries.
• Jiang Yun and the Eight Paths of Reincarnation: Jiang Yun protects the surviving members by granting them Essence Blood and directing them to rebuild the Ancient Underworld.
• The Desolate Emperor and the Ancestral Land Ancestor: Their duel reaches a turning point when the Desolate Emperor’s sword strike cleaves the Ancestor in two, though the apparent victory leads to the awakening of an even greater threat.
• The Willow God, Meng Hai, and Luo Tianxian: The three Immortal Emperors struggle against the Weird Clan’s forces. Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian join the Willow God after the enemy’s revival, but they can only reduce, not eliminate, the overwhelming pressure.
• The Weird Clan and the second Ancestor: The Weird Immortal Emperors and Dao Ancestors perform an elaborate sacrificial ritual, using slain enemies as offerings to awaken the hidden Ancestor.
• The Desolate Emperor and his soldiers: The Emperor is emotionally affected by the deaths of his longtime followers, but the enemy’s control over time and space prevents him from intervening and saving them.
  Overall, the chapter transforms a moment of apparent victory into a far greater crisis: the Desolate Emperor nearly defeats one Ancestor, but the awakening of a second Ancestor and the resurrection of fallen Weird Immortal Emperors leave the forces of Heaven and the Ancient Heavenly Court in an increasingly desperate position.

Chapter Summary: “Five Hundred Thousand Years of Bloody War!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun realizes the hopelessness of the current war after a second Weird Ancestor appears and numerous previously slain Weird Immortal Emperors resurrect. He learns that the Plateau Ancestral Land possesses immense reserves: ten Ancestors and ten Weird Immortal Emperors, all capable of repeated revival.
• The forces of Heaven’s All Ages continue battling the Weird Clan across the Sacrificial Sea and the passage leading toward the Ancestral Land. Dao Ancestors from both sides die in enormous numbers, while great worlds are destroyed.
• The Ancestral Land repeatedly sends reinforcements to the Four Origin Ancient Lands, temporarily reducing pressure on the enemy and allowing Jiang Yun, Hou Ming, and others to recover.
• Over five hundred thousand years, Ye Fan, Wushi, and Qing Emperor distinguish themselves through repeated victories. Each eventually breaks into the Dao Ancestor Giant Realm, becoming major powers capable of guarding the Sea of Realms.
• Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince returns but immediately enters secluded cultivation, hoping to advance toward the Immortal Emperor Realm. Jiang Yun doubts that he—or even the newly advanced Ye Fan, Wushi, and Qing Emperor—can achieve this within the current Sacrificial Era.
• Jiang Yun’s injuries fully heal with the Stone Jar’s assistance. He secretly maintains the illusion that he remains severely wounded and unable to fight at full strength.
• Hou Ming survives Jiang Yun’s treatment but loses his status as a Dao Ancestor Giant. Other casualties are far worse: two Dao Ancestor Giants die completely, while Hun Tian survives only as a weakened remnant soul.
• Within the Soul River, Peacock Venerable’s use of resources to save Hun Tian creates resentment. The Soul River’s Dao Ancestors also grow suspicious of Peacock Venerable’s past selfish actions and his refusal to fight openly.
• God Emperor completes his transformation after nearly a million years and enters the Dao Ancestor Realm. While undercover in the Soul River, he discovers internal divisions and learns of a hidden passage connecting the Soul River Source to the Ancestral Land.
• God Emperor consults Jiang Yun about using this passage to lure Heaven’s All Ages into a new conflict—the Soul River War. Jiang Yun approves but warns him to prioritize survival because a terrifying entity exists deep within the Soul River.
• God Emperor plans to incite conflict within the Soul River and spread the information about the hidden passage indirectly, preserving his cover.
• Jiang Yun instructs him to protect Ye Fan, Wushi, and Qing Emperor during the coming battle.
• The Soul River War begins soon afterward, with the newly ascended Dao Ancestors of Heaven’s All Ages attacking the Soul River. For the first time, Ye Fan, Wushi, and Qing Emperor lead the assault.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Jiang Yun becomes increasingly strategic and realistic. He accepts that the Ancestral Land’s revival abilities make victory nearly impossible in the present lifetime, but he continues planning for future opportunities. His interaction with God Emperor shows his willingness to treat former juniors as equals once they reach the Dao Ancestor Realm.
• Hou Ming survives due to Jiang Yun’s sustained treatment, though his realm falls from Dao Ancestor Giant. Their long recovery period emphasizes Jiang Yun’s loyalty and medical or restorative abilities.
• Ye Fan, Wushi, and Qing Emperor grow from promising newcomers into Dao Ancestor Giants through five hundred thousand years of warfare. Their rise echoes Desolate Emperor’s earlier legendary advancement.
• Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince returns and withdraws into seclusion, motivated by the success of the younger generation and determined to pursue the Immortal Emperor path.
• God Emperor matures into a Dao Ancestor and proves capable as an undercover agent. Despite his new status, he continues to respect Jiang Yun, while Jiang Yun encourages him to regard them as fellow Daoists.
• Peacock Venerable becomes increasingly isolated within the Soul River. His favoritism toward Hun Tian and past selfish actions fuel internal distrust.
• Hun Tian survives but is reduced to a fragile remnant soul, dependent on Peacock Venerable and the Soul River’s resources.
• Jiang Yun and God Emperor cooperate closely, combining Jiang Yun’s strategic judgment with God Emperor’s intelligence network inside the Soul River.

Significant Themes

• The overwhelming power of the Weird Clan: The Ancestral Land’s endless revivals and vast number of Ancestors make the war fundamentally unequal and seemingly unwinnable.
• Endurance and sacrifice: Dao Ancestors are treated as expendable resources, and the Sacrificial Era becomes a prolonged struggle defined by mass death.
• Generational succession: Ye Fan, Wushi, Qing Emperor, and God Emperor rise while older figures decline, suggesting that the future of the war rests with a new generation.
• The difficulty of transcendence: Entering the Dao Ancestor Giant Realm is extraordinary, but finding a personal Immortal Emperor’s Path is portrayed as vastly harder and potentially requiring multiple Sacrificial Eras.
• Strategy over brute force: Since direct victory is impossible, Jiang Yun and God Emperor rely on infiltration, misinformation, internal division, and carefully chosen battles.
• Loyalty versus selfishness: Peacock Venerable’s favoritism contrasts with Jiang Yun’s efforts to protect allies and prepare for future generations.
• Decay and impermanence: The ruined Ancient Underworld Reincarnation Road symbolizes how war has destroyed old institutions and left only remnants of the past.

Ending

The chapter concludes with the outbreak of the Soul River War. Led by the newly elevated Ye Fan, Wushi, and Qing Emperor, Heaven’s All Ages launches an assault on the Soul River, setting the stage for a major confrontation involving the hidden passage to the Ancestral Land and the terrifying secrets buried within the Soul River Source.

Summary of “Battle of the Soul River!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Heaven’s All Ages launches a major assault on the Soul River, led by the young Dao Ancestor Giants Ye Fan, Wushi, and Qing Emperor.
• The attack shocks the Four Origin Ancient Lands, which are forced to recognize Heaven’s extraordinary rise. Unlike their stagnant Emperor Light Immortal Kings, Heaven has produced numerous young Dao Ancestors in less than a million years.
• The Soul River is blockaded, with Heaven’s forces surrounding it. Peacock Venerable, enraged by the invasion, leads the Soul River Dao Ancestors in resistance.
• Ye Fan battles Peacock Venerable directly. Peacock has recovered from his former injuries and regained Giant status, but Ye Fan’s Heavenly Emperor Fist repeatedly matches his powerful attacks. Ye Fan becomes even more eager to fight, viewing powerful enemies as necessary trials on his path toward becoming an Immortal Emperor.
• Qing Emperor confronts Hun Tian. Using the Chaos Green Lotus, he draws Hun Tian into a fierce battle on the Soul River.
• Wushi faces a powerful Dao Ancestor from the Ancestral Land. The enemy mocks him as a lower-realm cultivator and boasts of having slain countless Dao Ancestors.
• The Ancestral Land Dao Ancestor attacks with phantoms formed from the Dao Fruits of fallen experts. Wushi’s Time-Space Grand Dao easily destroys both a sword-wielding phantom and a deadly curse-based attack by accelerating their decay or shattering them outright.
• Realizing Wushi’s immense potential, the Ancestral Land Dao Ancestor decides he must kill him before he can mature into an even greater threat. He begins merging his many Dao Fruits to unleash his strongest attack.
• Meanwhile, the other young Dao Ancestors of Heaven engage the Soul River’s forces in a massive battle.
• Taking advantage of the chaos, Jiang Yun secretly approaches the source of the Soul River. God Emperor, who has escaped his opponent through an illusion, joins him there.
• Jiang Yun and God Emperor investigate the Soul River’s true source, a place God Emperor had previously explored at great personal risk.
• When Jiang Yun probes the source with divine sense, the Soul River reacts defensively. Dao Ancestor phantoms emerge from the water, but Jiang Yun destroys them with a single punch.
• The Soul River then produces a humanoid entity made from its own water. This being possesses immense intelligence and the power of a Dao Ancestor Giant. Jiang Yun orders God Emperor to retreat and draws the Broken Emperor Sword to confront it.

Character Developments

• Ye Fan demonstrates supreme confidence and an increasingly aggressive pursuit of strength. Rather than being intimidated by Peacock Venerable’s resilience, he welcomes the battle as a way to temper his body and pursue the Immortal Emperor’s Path.
• Qing Emperor is presented as a powerful and dignified Giant capable of directly challenging Hun Tian. His Chaos Green Lotus form reflects both his ancient origin and formidable cultivation.
• Wushi proves the terrifying potential of his Time-Space Grand Dao. His calm destruction of the Ancestral Land Dao Ancestor’s attacks establishes him as perhaps the most dangerous of the three, prompting his opponent to attempt an all-out killing move.
• Peacock Venerable has recovered fully and regained his status as a Giant, but his jealousy toward Heaven’s young experts reveals insecurity and frustration over his own inability to discover an Immortal Emperor’s Path.
• The Ancestral Land Dao Ancestor begins arrogantly but becomes serious after witnessing Wushi’s strength. He recognizes Wushi as a future catastrophe and abandons restraint.
• Jiang Yun acts strategically rather than joining the main battlefield. His careful investigation and decisive response show both caution and overwhelming power.
• God Emperor demonstrates planning and resourcefulness by escaping his battle through an illusion and coordinating with Jiang Yun to reach the Soul River’s source.

Significant Themes

• Youth versus stagnation: Heaven’s young Dao Ancestors represent vitality, ambition, and continuous growth, while the ancient experts of the Four Origin Ancient Lands have become stagnant despite their long lives.
• The importance of mindset: The chapter suggests that joining the Weird Clan damaged the hearts and fighting spirit of the Four Origin Ancient Lands’ experts, causing their failure to advance.
• Legacy and inspiration: Heaven’s young cultivators were inspired by the legends of Desolate Emperor, Ye Fan, Wushi, and Qing Emperor, showing how heroic deeds motivate future generations.
• The pursuit of the Immortal Emperor’s Path: Ye Fan and Wushi’s battles emphasize that true advancement requires confronting powerful enemies and surviving life-and-death struggles.
• Hidden dangers and strategic warfare: The main battle serves as a distraction while Jiang Yun and God Emperor carry out a covert mission at the Soul River’s source, revealing that victory may depend on more than battlefield strength.
• The Soul River as a living or self-protective entity: Its source reacts instinctively to intrusion, first creating phantoms and then forming a powerful humanoid guardian, suggesting that the Soul River possesses deeper mysteries and intelligence.

Character Interactions

• Ye Fan and Peacock Venerable exchange insults before engaging in a direct and destructive duel.
• Qing Emperor and Hun Tian confront each other with mutual recognition of their extraordinary origins and abilities.
• Wushi ignores the Ancestral Land Dao Ancestor’s provocation, answering his arrogance through overwhelming mastery of time and space.
• The Ancestral Land expert’s comments deliberately provoke Peacock Venerable and Hun Tian by implying that the Ancestral Land surpasses the Soul River.
• Jiang Yun and God Emperor cooperate through a secret plan, with God Emperor relying on Jiang Yun’s strength and judgment near the dangerous Soul River source.
• The chapter ends with Jiang Yun facing the newly formed Soul River humanoid alone while protecting God Emperor from the emerging threat.

Chapter Summary: “Ruthless Appears!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun confronts the humanoid being formed from Soul River Water, whose Dao Ancestor Giant-level strength and regenerative ability make it extremely difficult to kill. Even after Jiang Yun cuts it apart with the Broken Emperor Sword, it rapidly reconstructs itself.
• Realizing that the Soul River giants may soon return, Jiang Yun decides to end the battle quickly. He summons the Stone Jar, which unexpectedly acts on its own and releases an overwhelming suction force.
• The Stone Jar absorbs the Soul River humanoid completely, along with nearly half of the Soul River Water at the Soul River Source. Its abilities prove completely ineffective against the Stone Jar, which appears to be a natural enemy of the Soul River’s power.
• Jiang Yun and the God Emperor discover an ancient passage within the remaining Soul River Water, apparently connecting to the Ancestral Land. When they attack and investigate it, a terrifying roar comes from within.
• Jiang Yun immediately hides himself and the God Emperor inside the Stone Jar, concealing their presence. A black-furred hand belonging to a being on the level of a Weird Immortal Emperor emerges from the passage, but it cannot remain for long and retreats after failing to find the intruders.
• Peacock Venerable arrives, realizes that nearly half of the Soul River’s source water has vanished, and is consumed by fury. He assumes Ye Fan’s group deliberately distracted him while others plundered the Soul River and investigate its secrets.
• Peacock Venerable resumes his battle with Ye Fan and unleashes his full strength. Despite being newly advanced to the Dao Ancestor Giant realm, Ye Fan withstands the attacks and grows stronger as the battle continues, astonishing Peacock Venerable.
• Seeking reinforcements, Peacock Venerable sends a feather into the passage. Numerous powerful Weird Dao Ancestors, including Dao Ancestor Giants, emerge from the Ancestral Land and shift the battle in the Soul River’s favor.
• Ruthless Emperor arrives with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, having silently entered the Dao Ancestor Giant realm. She joins Ye Fan, Qing Emperor, and Wushi, while Heaven’s All Ages sends nearly all its remaining forces to support them.
• Despite the arrival of the four supreme fighters, the endless reinforcements from the Ancestral Land gradually overwhelm Heaven’s All Ages. Young Dao Ancestors and Immortal Kings suffer heavy casualties, with many being killed or crushed under the numerical disadvantage.
• Recognizing that continuing would result in total annihilation, Ye Fan, Qing Emperor, Wushi, and Ruthless decide to retreat. They have already killed many powerful enemies but must fight their way out of the Soul River.
• Peacock Venerable and Hun Tian refuse to let them escape. They focus their forces on the four leaders, fearing their immense future potential and worrying that the Soul River will decline because of the loss of its source water.
• Wushi uses the Wushi Bell to open a passage through space and time, but Peacock Venerable and Hun Tian combine their power with the Soul River Water to shatter the bell’s protective radiance and threaten the escape route.
• Jiang Yun watches from concealment and realizes that he may need to intervene, but fears that doing so will expose his actions and ruin his previous plans.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Demonstrates overwhelming combat strength but recognizes the extraordinary durability of the Soul River Water. His Stone Jar is revealed to possess a devastating, previously unknown ability against Soul River forces. Jiang becomes more cautious after provoking an entity beyond the Dao Ancestor realm and is forced to consider whether to reveal himself to save his allies.
• God Emperor: Acts alongside Jiang Yun and understands the danger posed by the Stone Jar. He agrees that its existence and abilities must remain secret.
• Ye Fan: Shows astonishing growth in battle. Though newly advanced to the Dao Ancestor Giant realm, he withstands Peacock Venerable’s full power and appears capable of developing into a figure comparable to the greatest legendary powerhouses.
• Peacock Venerable: Suffers a major emotional and strategic blow from the loss of half the Soul River’s source water. His anger turns into desperation, causing him to summon reinforcements and focus obsessively on killing Ye Fan and the other leaders.
• Ruthless: Makes her dramatic entrance as a Dao Ancestor Giant, wielding the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and immediately reinforcing the endangered Heaven’s All Ages forces.
• Qing Emperor and Wushi: Fight alongside Ye Fan and Ruthless against the overwhelming Ancestral Land forces. Wushi becomes crucial to the group’s attempted retreat through his bell’s spatial-temporal power.
• Young Dao Ancestors and Immortal Kings: Their vulnerability becomes clear when faced with the Soul River’s vast numbers and powerful Weird beings, highlighting the gap between elite giants and ordinary battlefield forces.

Significant Themes

• The hidden power of ancient treasures: The Stone Jar’s ability to effortlessly suppress the Soul River Water suggests that ancient artifacts may possess powers beyond even Jiang Yun’s understanding.
• The danger of probing forbidden secrets: Investigating the Ancestral Land passage summons an existence on the Weird Immortal Emperor level, showing that the Soul River’s deepest mysteries are protected by terrifying forces.
• Potential versus experience: Ye Fan and the other young giants possess extraordinary talent, but their lack of experience and the enemy’s superior numbers force them into retreat.
• The cost of war: The battle causes heavy losses among Dao Ancestors and Immortal Kings, demonstrating that even powerful cultivators can be treated as expendable in a conflict of this scale.
• Strategic retreat and survival: Heaven’s All Ages is strong enough to kill major opponents but cannot win against the Soul River’s reinforcements. Retreat becomes necessary rather than dishonorable.
• Fear of future enemies: Peacock Venerable’s determination to eliminate Ye Fan, Qing Emperor, Wushi, and Ruthless reflects the fear that their potential could eventually threaten the Soul River’s strongest figures.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and the God Emperor cooperate to attack the Ancestral Land passage and later agree to conceal the Stone Jar’s capabilities.
• Jiang Yun’s actions indirectly trigger Peacock Venerable’s fury and the arrival of Ancestral Land reinforcements.
• Peacock Venerable battles Ye Fan personally, initially expecting an easy victory but becoming increasingly alarmed by Ye Fan’s rapid improvement.
• Ruthless joins Ye Fan, Qing Emperor, and Wushi, transforming the group into a powerful quartet capable of resisting multiple Dao Ancestor Giants.
• Peacock Venerable and Hun Tian cooperate to block the group’s escape, breaking through Wushi’s defensive formation.
• Jiang Yun secretly observes the crisis and faces a major decision: remain hidden to preserve his plans or intervene to rescue the four surrounded giants.

Chapter Summary: “Unexpected Developments!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• A massive black, fur-covered hand emerges from the ancient passage and attempts to seize Ye Fan, Qing Emperor, Wushi, and Ruthless.
• The hand carries genuine Immortal Emperor-level power, overwhelming the Soul River, shattering Dao Ancestor manifestations, and destabilizing Wushi’s time-space passage.
• The Weird Dao Ancestors, including Peacock Venerable and Hun Tian, immediately kneel in submission, unable to oppose the Ancestral Land’s Immortal Emperor.
• The four targeted heroes realize they are being captured for transformation into Weird beings. The Ancestral Land intends to cleanse their memories, remake their bodies and souls, and absorb them into its forces.
• They resist but are completely suppressed. Even suicide is impossible under the great hand’s control.
• Jiang Yun considers intervening with the Broken Emperor Sword and Stone Jar, but recognizes that he could likely block only one attack and would be unable to withstand a prolonged confrontation with an Immortal Emperor.
• At the critical moment, Willow God reaches across time and space from another battlefield. A willow branch stabilizes Wushi’s collapsing passage, repels the Weird Dao Ancestors, and protects the four heroes.
• The black hand attacks Willow God’s branch and acknowledges her past victory over one of the Weird race’s Immortal Emperors. Willow God releases Immortal Emperor power through the branch and successfully transports Ye Fan, Qing Emperor, Wushi, and Ruthless to safety.
• The black hand attempts to seize the branch using time-space laws, but Willow God employs ancient Sacred Sacrificial Scripts from the Immortal Ancient era to escape into the River of Time and Space.
• The black hand pursues her, and both Immortal Emperor-level beings disappear into the river, leaving the Soul River forces terrified.
• The Soul River suffers severe destruction, while half of its Source Water is secretly taken during the chaos.
• Peacock Venerable blames Ye Fan and the others, orders an investigation, and threatens anyone suspected of involvement. However, Jiang Yun has already departed after ensuring God Emperor remains undercover.
• Jiang Yun returns to his Dao field in the Ancient Underworld and uses the stolen Soul River Source Water to heal the remaining cracks in his Primordial Spirit.
• Meanwhile, the wider war changes: revived Weird Immortal Emperors and reinforcements from the Ancestral Land allow it to gain the upper hand against Desolate Emperor’s Ancient Heavenly Court.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Faces an agonizing choice between risking everything to save his allies and preserving his long-term plans. Though frustrated that Ye Fan and the others attacked without sufficient preparations, he prepares to fight if necessary. After their rescue, he focuses on healing his Primordial Spirit with the Soul River Source Water and continues acting cautiously.
• Ye Fan, Qing Emperor, Wushi, and Ruthless: Their confidence and potential are contrasted with their helplessness before true Immortal Emperor power. They demonstrate strong resolve by refusing to become Weird beings and preferring death, though they are ultimately saved by Willow God.
• Willow God: Displays extraordinary power and courage by intervening across endless time and space while already fighting several Weird Immortal Emperors. She not only rescues the four heroes but also outmaneuvers the black hand and preserves her branch.
• Peacock Venerable: His fear and obedience before the Immortal Emperor reveal the strict hierarchy of the Weird forces. Afterward, his fury over the Soul River’s destruction and stolen Source Water exposes his possessiveness and desperation to recover the treasure.
• God Emperor: Receives Jiang Yun’s instructions to remain undercover and prioritize survival, reinforcing his role as a hidden agent within the enemy’s territory.
• The Ancestral Land’s Immortal Emperor: Is portrayed as ruthless and predatory, willing to devour even allied Weird Dao Ancestors while seeking to capture Willow God’s branch for study.

Significant Themes

• The overwhelming gap between realms: True Immortal Emperor power is shown to exist on an entirely different level from even the strongest Dao Ancestors.
• Loss of identity and corruption: The Ancestral Land’s practice of remaking geniuses into Weird beings presents transformation and the erasure of memory as a fate worse than death.
• Sacrifice and intervention: Willow God risks confrontation with an Immortal Emperor and withstands an attack to save others, emphasizing the importance of self-sacrifice.
• Caution versus recklessness: Jiang Yun’s anger at the heroes’ poorly prepared assault highlights the dangers of acting without sufficient support in a war involving Immortal Emperor-level enemies.
• Ancient powers and time: The conflict relies heavily on time-space passages, Sacred Sacrificial Scripts, and the ability to reach or escape through different eras.
• The escalating war: The Ancestral Land’s reinforcements and revived Immortal Emperors shift the broader balance of power against Desolate Emperor and the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Treasure born from death: The Soul River Source Water contains the transformed souls and Dao Fruits of countless powerful beings, making it both a priceless cultivation resource and a symbol of the Ancestral Land’s horrifying practices.

Character Interactions

• The black hand dominates and intimidates the Weird Dao Ancestors, forcing even powerful figures such as Peacock Venerable to submit.
• Jiang Yun mentally criticizes Ye Fan and the others for failing to secure Immortal Emperor-level protection, while still being prepared to risk himself for them.
• Willow God directly challenges the black hand, whose words acknowledge her reputation and previous defeat of a Weird Immortal Emperor.
• The confrontation between Willow God and the black hand becomes a contest of time-space mastery, ending with Willow God’s escape and the black hand’s pursuit.
• Jiang Yun later instructs God Emperor to remain hidden and protect himself, demonstrating trust and concern despite the dangerous circumstances.

Chapter Summary: “The Specter of Defeat and Destruction!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Desolate Emperor’s forces face an overwhelming disadvantage. Willow God, the only fully powered Immortal Emperor on their side, is forced to confront five Weird Immortal Emperors. Desolate Emperor himself, newly entered into the Sacrificial Dao Realm, must fight two veteran Ancestors simultaneously.
• Over the next 200,000 years, Heaven’s All Ages produces more Dao Ancestors and Dao Ancestor Giants through continuous warfare. Battles serve as a brutal method of cultivating the strong and eliminating the weak.
• Jiang Yun secretly completes the healing of his Primordial Spirit and Grand Dao Wounds. His fused bloodlines, laws, scriptures, and techniques reach a higher state, allowing him to approach the Immortal Emperor Realm. He only lacks a final opportunity to break through.
• The Ancient Underworld becomes politically divided. Reinforcements from the Ancestral Land, realizing they may never be allowed to return, form factions to challenge Netherworld Prison Dao Ancestor and the former ruling powers.
• Jiang Yun’s companions—Hou Ming, Evil Emperor, Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince, Double-Pupil Bearer Shi Yi, and Black Bird—form the beginnings of a powerful alliance. Most have become Dao Ancestor Giants, while Shi Yi and the Heavenly Prince begin exploring their own Immortal Emperor Paths.
• Ye Fan spends 200,000 years fighting Dao Ancestor Giants instead of cultivating in seclusion. His War Immortal and Red Dust Immortal paths merge, and battle-tempering elevates him to the forefront of the Dao Ancestor Giants.
• Battles with Ancestral Land experts reveal that Di Yi survived, fully recovered, and is attempting to break through into the Immortal Emperor Realm. This news alarms the older generation because another Weird Immortal Emperor would worsen the already desperate situation.
• Jiang Yun contacts Ye Fan in the Sacrificial Sea and warns him to remain vigilant. He also urges Ye Fan to protect the worlds beyond the Sea of Realms and prepare for the possible collapse of Heaven’s All Ages.
• Jiang Yun discovers that Ancestral Land Dao Ancestors have occupied the ruins of the Ancestral Sacrificial Altar and are repairing it with Immortal Emperor Sacrificial Scripts and mysterious treasures. This strongly suggests that the Grand Sacrifice is approaching.
• The chapter ends with the realization that defeat, destruction, and the death of countless beings may be imminent. Desolate Emperor, Willow God, and the other Immortal Emperors continue fighting mainly to buy time for future generations.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Secretly recovers from his injuries and reaches a near-perfect state on the path toward becoming an Immortal Emperor. Though others believe him crippled and stagnant, he is confident that he can surpass Di Yi and break through first.
• Desolate Emperor: Faces unprecedented pressure from two Sacrificial Dao Ancestor opponents. His strength and potential remain extraordinary, but he is denied the time needed to grow.
• Willow God: Becomes the central defender of Desolate Emperor’s side, restraining up to three Weird Immortal Emperors but now forced to withstand five.
• Ye Fan: Develops rapidly through constant combat and becomes one of the strongest Dao Ancestor Giants. His next challenge is discovering his own Immortal Emperor Path.
• Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince: Finds a method related to the evolution of the World Tree while traveling to Heaven, bringing him closer to an Immortal Emperor breakthrough.
• Shi Yi: Uses the remnants of an ancient Double-Pupil Bearer’s Dao Marks to clarify his own path toward the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Di Yi: Revealed to have survived his previous defeat and recovered completely. His planned breakthrough represents a major future threat.
• Netherworld Prison Dao Ancestor: Recovers and becomes a Dao Ancestor Giant, but loses much of his former control as rival factions emerge within the Ancient Underworld.

Significant Themes

• Desperate resistance against inevitable destruction: The balance of power has shifted decisively toward the Ancestral Land, making defeat appear unavoidable.
• Hidden strength and misjudgment: Jiang Yun’s apparent weakness conceals extraordinary progress, demonstrating the danger of judging a character by outward appearances.
• Growth through battle: The chapter emphasizes that life-and-death combat is the fastest way to temper geniuses, as shown by Ye Fan and the many new Dao Ancestors.
• Political fragmentation: Shared enemies do not eliminate internal conflict. The Ancient Underworld’s factions emerge because powerful beings fear losing autonomy and being permanently abandoned.
• Legacy and succession: The older generation fights not necessarily to win, but to preserve time and foundations for those who come after them.
• The cost of power and time: Even supreme talents require immense periods to reach the Immortal Emperor Realm, while the approaching Grand Sacrifice threatens to arrive before they can mature.
• Hope amid catastrophe: Although the present situation seems unsalvageable, Jiang Yun and his allies continue preparing for survival and future reversal.

Important Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and Ye Fan: Jiang Yun confirms Di Yi’s return and warns Ye Fan about the danger. He entrusts Ye Fan with protecting the worlds beyond the Sea of Realms and preparing for the possible destruction of their current order.
• Jiang Yun and Di Yi: Their past conflict remains central. Jiang Yun defeated Di Yi before and remains confident that he can reach the Immortal Emperor Realm ahead of him.
• Jiang Yun and his allies: Jiang Yun’s influence helps unite Hou Ming, Evil Emperor, Shi Yi, the Ten-Crowned King, and Black Bird into a rising faction within the Ancient Underworld.
• Netherworld Prison Dao Ancestor and the reinforcements: Their relationship deteriorates as the reinforcements, unable to return to the Ancestral Land, form an independent faction and challenge his authority.
• Desolate Emperor’s side and the Ancestral Land: Their conflict escalates toward a final confrontation, with the Ancestral Land actively repairing the Ancestral Sacrificial Altar in preparation for the Grand Sacrifice.

Chapter Summary: “Spanning Ancient and Modern Times!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Desolate Emperor battles the two Ancestors of the Plateau’s Ancestral Land alone. He bears immense pressure because the Pollen Emperor has already fallen, Willow God is not strong enough to reach the Sacrificial Dao Realm, and Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai are severely weakened.
• The Ancestors’ power is overwhelming. They can manipulate countless Great Daos, erode the River of Ages, and destroy karma, fate, and reincarnation. The Desolate Emperor suffers numerous wounds from curses, destruction, time, and other forces.
• One Ancestor attempts to persuade him to abandon the battle, arguing that all past glory is meaningless and only the Grand Dao is eternal. The other threatens him and launches an attack.
• The second Ancestor uses a terrifying darkness-based technique, the same method that once contaminated and crippled the Pollen Emperor’s evolutionary path. However, the Desolate Emperor breaks through the darkness with a devastating sword strike, heavily wounding him.
• The spectators of Heaven’s All Ages and the Ancient Heavenly Court are inspired by the Desolate Emperor’s survival and victory. Even the hostile Dao Ancestors of the Four Origin Ancient Lands are awed by his strength.
• The Desolate Emperor is immediately injured by the other Ancestor’s attack. This reveals the central weakness of the battle: although he can defeat either Ancestor individually, he cannot withstand both simultaneously.
• Refusing to give up, the Desolate Emperor uses “Self-Transformation into Freedom” and “Self-Transformation into Myriad Ages,” creating countless clones across different times and spaces.
• The Ancestors counter by producing their own clones through the power of the Ancestral Land. This neutralizes the Desolate Emperor’s usual numerical advantage and causes hope among the spectators to collapse.
• The Desolate Emperor’s clones reveal that their true purpose is not merely to overwhelm the Ancestors. They use ancient Dao talismans to reverse time and shatter the barrier between eras.
• The end of the previous Sacrificial Era appears, including the scene of the Pollen Emperor’s death. Drawing on the power of heaven, earth, and even the Ancestral Land, her fallen figure begins to regain life.
• The chapter ends on a cliffhanger: the Pollen Emperor may be revived from the era in which she perished.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Desolate Emperor: Demonstrates extraordinary endurance, determination, and tactical intelligence. Though badly wounded and outnumbered, he refuses to surrender or abandon the people behind him. His sword strike proves that he surpasses either Ancestor in a one-on-one confrontation. His final strategy shows that he has been concealing a deeper purpose behind his clone technique.
• The Two Ancestors: The first takes a condescending but seemingly sincere approach, claiming that he once possessed humanity and ambition before realizing that only the Grand Dao mattered. The second is more direct and aggressive, relying on overwhelming force. Their cooperation demonstrates that their greatest advantage is not individual strength but their ability to fight together and draw endlessly on the Ancestral Land.
• Pollen Emperor: Though dead and previously regarded as unable to change the situation, she becomes central again through the Desolate Emperor’s manipulation of time. Her possible revival offers the first real hope of an ally capable of reaching the Sacrificial Dao Realm.
• Jiang Yun: Provides a clear assessment of the battle. He recognizes that the Desolate Emperor has no hope in the current era unless he finds assistance, but his understanding shifts when the Desolate Emperor reveals his time-spanning plan.
• The Spectators: The people of Heaven’s All Ages and the Ancient Heavenly Court regard the Desolate Emperor as their last spiritual pillar. Their fear and prayers emphasize how much the fate of all living beings depends on him.

Significant Themes

• Solitude and Responsibility: The Desolate Emperor fights alone because the survival of all living beings depends on him, emphasizing the burden of being the final protector.
• Humanity Versus Pure Power: The Ancestors claim that humanity, glory, and emotion are ultimately meaningless, while the Desolate Emperor insists that he still possesses humanity and refuses to become like them.
• Hope Against Despair: The battle repeatedly raises and destroys hope. The Desolate Emperor’s sword strike inspires everyone, but his injuries and the Ancestors’ superior numbers make victory appear impossible.
• Innovation Beyond Established Power: Traditional methods such as clones fail against the Ancestors, forcing the Desolate Emperor to use them for an unexpected purpose: breaking the barriers between eras.
• Time, Death, and Reversal: The chapter explores whether death is truly final for beings who can manipulate the River of Ages. The possible resurrection of the Pollen Emperor suggests that the past may still be changed or reclaimed.
• The Cost of Great Power: Every major attack causes severe consequences. The Pollen Emperor’s path was contaminated, and the Desolate Emperor is repeatedly wounded even when he damages his enemies.

Important Character Interactions

• The first Ancestor tries to convince the Desolate Emperor that his attachments to the world are meaningless.
• The Desolate Emperor rejects both Ancestors’ philosophies, declaring that his humanity distinguishes him from them.
• The second Ancestor responds with direct violence, while the first later attacks after the Desolate Emperor wounds his companion.
• The Desolate Emperor’s actions inspire the Ancient Heavenly Court, Heaven’s All Ages, and even opposing Dao Ancestors.
• His manipulation of time forces the two Ancestors to confront the return of an enemy they believed permanently defeated: the Pollen Emperor.

Chapter Summary: “Hope!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Desolate Emperor’s use of Sacrificial Dao power begins forcibly altering spacetime, karma, fate, reincarnation, and the established outcomes of history. The two Weird Ancestors realize that he may become a Variable capable of reaching a realm beyond Above Sacrificial Dao, something they have never been able to control.
• The Desolate Emperor attempts to reflect all of ancient and modern history in order to revive the long-dead Pollen Emperor. The Pollen Evolution Path briefly reawakens as countless remnants and powers flow into her reconstructed figure.
• Luo Tianxian responds to the Desolate Emperor’s call and prepares to sacrifice herself so that the Pollen Emperor can fully return. She considers this worthwhile because the Pollen Emperor’s revival would give All Heavens another Sacrificial Dao combatant.
• Terrified of the consequences, the two Ancestors and their countless incarnations across spacetime attack. The Ancestral Land unleashes overwhelming power, destroying the Pollen Emperor’s newly formed figure and stopping the resurrection.
• The Desolate Emperor reveals that the attempted resurrection was only a secondary strategy. He accelerates time instead, forcing the future to arrive prematurely and connecting the present battlefield to a later Sacrificial Era.
• A mysterious future Sacrificial Dao being crosses time and space to aid him. He arrives in golden radiance with a Great Cauldron and attacks the two Ancestors with the Heavenly Emperor Fist.
• The newcomer is revealed indirectly to be the future Ye Fan, though his identity remains hidden from the Ancestors. His arrival creates a second major Variable and gives the Desolate Emperor a true ally of equal realm.
• The two Ancestors admit that the appearance of two Sacrificial Dao beings in one spacetime was beyond their calculations. However, they insist that the Ancestral Land possesses a much deeper foundation.
• Their Sacrificial Dao runes awaken an ancient presence buried beneath the Calamity Plateau. A third Sacrificial Dao Ancestor emerges from the Ancestral Land, proving that the Desolate Emperor and future Ye Fan still face overwhelming danger.

Character Developments and Interactions

• The Desolate Emperor demonstrates extraordinary resolve and strategic depth. Even after his attempt to revive the Pollen Emperor fails, he remains calm because he had anticipated the Ancestors’ interference and prepared another plan. His abilities evolve under pressure, allowing him to connect with future spacetime.
• The two Weird Ancestors experience genuine fear and uncertainty for the first time. Their belief that they could calculate every future is shaken by the Desolate Emperor and the future Sacrificial Dao being. Nevertheless, they remain confident in the Ancestral Land’s hidden strength.
• The Pollen Emperor briefly returns through the Desolate Emperor’s reflection of history, representing the possible restoration of a destroyed civilization. Her attempted revival is ultimately crushed.
• Luo Tianxian willingly chooses self-sacrifice to restore the Pollen Emperor, showing her devotion to the Pollen Evolution Path and her willingness to place the survival of All Heavens above her own existence.
• Future Ye Fan arrives without needing an explanation, immediately understanding the battlefield and acknowledging the Desolate Emperor’s struggle. His silent nod and instant attack establish their mutual recognition and alliance.
• Jiang Yun moves from despair toward cautious hope after recognizing the future powerhouse as Ye Fan. He begins to imagine that the predetermined future may no longer be inevitable, though he knows the odds remain poor.
• Current Ye Fan becomes obscured by chaotic laws because his future self has entered the present. His existence appears to overlap across past, present, and future, preventing even close companions such as Wushi, the Qing Emperor, and Ruthless from clearly perceiving him.
• The Ancient Heavenly Court and beings throughout All Heavens are emotionally encouraged by the future ally’s arrival. For the first time, the Desolate Emperor is no longer fighting completely alone.

Significant Themes

• Hope amid overwhelming despair: The chapter’s central theme is the sudden emergence of hope through future intervention, even though the ultimate enemy remains stronger than expected.
• The instability of fate and history: The Desolate Emperor’s actions challenge the idea that the past and future are fixed. History can be reflected, reversed, accelerated, or altered by beings beyond conventional causality.
• Limits of omniscience and control: The Ancestors’ calculations fail to account for both the Desolate Emperor’s potential and the future Sacrificial Dao being. Their admission that they are not omnipotent marks a major ideological setback.
• Sacrifice for the greater good: Luo Tianxian’s willingness to give up her life for the Pollen Emperor reinforces the value placed on civilization and collective survival over individual existence.
• Variables and unpredictable evolution: The rise of multiple Sacrificial Dao beings demonstrates that the future can generate possibilities even the Ancestral Land cannot suppress or predict.
• Escalating power and hidden foundations: Just as victory begins to seem possible, the emergence of a third Ancestor reveals that the Ancestral Land’s true strength is still concealed.

Overall Significance

The chapter transforms the battlefield from a hopeless struggle between the Desolate Emperor and two Ancestors into a larger confrontation involving past, present, and future. The failed resurrection of the Pollen Emperor is offset by the arrival of future Ye Fan, creating genuine hope that destiny can be rewritten. However, the awakening of a third Sacrificial Dao Ancestor immediately raises the stakes again and suggests that the Ancestral Land still possesses forces capable of overwhelming even two allied Heavenly Emperors.

Chapter Summary: “The Third Ancestor”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The appearance of the mysterious Third Ancestor from the Weird Clan’s Ancestral Land shatters the remaining hope of Heaven’s All Ages and the Ancient Heavenly Court. Even the Weird Clan’s Immortal Emperors are shocked, since the Third Ancestor had previously existed only as an unconfirmed legend.
• A second terrifying aura briefly emerges from the depths of the Ancestral Land, suggesting that an even more powerful or unknown entity may exist there, though it quickly disappears.
• The Third Ancestor battles the expert from the future in an unreachable expanse of time and space, while the Desolate Emperor fights the two other Ancestors. Despite his immense strength, the Desolate Emperor is under overwhelming pressure because he has only recently entered the Sacrificial Dao Realm.
• The Weird Clan launches an all-out assault. Dao Ancestors and Immortal Emperors from the Ancestral Land attack the Ancient Heavenly Court across countless battlefields, turning the heavens and great worlds crimson with blood.
• The arrival of the Third Ancestor confirms that the Sacrificial Era has entered its final battle. The Ancient Underworld, Soul River, Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, and Four Extremes Floating Soil instinctively begin absorbing the corpses, souls, and blood of beings throughout the universe, preparing to strengthen themselves as the era ends.
• The Willow God is surrounded by at least four Weird Immortal Emperors and is forced into a desperate battle. Elsewhere, Immortal Emperors Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian are besieged by the Weird Clan.
• Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian undergo Ultimate Sublimation, restoring their former peak power at the cost of complete and irreversible death. They choose to fight at full strength rather than preserve themselves.
• Inspired by them, numerous Dao Ancestors from Heaven and All Ages abandon any hope of survival. Some enter the Sacrificial Sea to fight the Weird Clan, while others attack the Four Origin Ancient Lands to settle old grudges and weaken these ancient powers for the future.
• Countless cultivators join the final struggle. The newly advanced Dao Ancestor Man performs a Blood Sacrifice with his sword, killing a Weird Dao Ancestor and triggering a devastating annihilation through the passage. His final resolve is to “open heaven and earth” and suppress calamity for those who come after.
• Wushi, the Qing Emperor, and Ruthless prepare to enter the battle and die alongside the others. However, the Desolate Emperor tells them to survive, retreat into the Sword Light World, and wait for the future. They are swept away, along with Ye Fan, when the surrounding space undergoes Great Annihilation.
• Jiang Yun is deeply shaken by their departure and realizes that choosing to live and preserve hope for the future may require more courage than dying in battle. He suppresses his own desire to fight and hides within his Dao field.
• After an unknown span of time, all the heavens become a sea of blood, and even the Ancient Underworld’s Reincarnation Road is buried beneath countless Dao Ancestor corpses. The final battle above the Ancestral Land reaches its climax.

Character Developments and Interactions

• The Desolate Emperor demonstrates both overwhelming courage and strategic foresight. Although trapped between two Ancestors, he still arranges for Wushi, the Qing Emperor, Ruthless, and Ye Fan to survive for the future.
• The future expert is forced into a dangerous battle with the Third Ancestor while being limited by concerns about damaging his own originating time and space.
• The Third Ancestor changes the balance of power completely. His emergence reveals that the Weird Clan has concealed forces far beyond what even its Immortal Emperors understood.
• Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian reaffirm their loyalty to the legacy of the Pollen Emperor. Their Ultimate Sublimation shows that they value a final, meaningful stand over continued existence.
• The Willow God is pushed into one of her most difficult battles and cannot assist the other battlefields, emphasizing the overwhelming strength and coordination of the Weird Clan.
• Man develops from a newly advanced Dao Ancestor into a heroic martyr. His sacrifice embodies the determination of Heaven’s cultivators to protect future generations.
• Wushi, the Qing Emperor, and Ruthless initially choose death in battle, but the Desolate Emperor’s command forces them to confront a more difficult duty: surviving and carrying hope into the future.
• Jiang Yun undergoes a moment of emotional and moral conflict. Though he wants to join the desperate charge, he ultimately accepts the necessity of survival and concealment.

Significant Themes

• The end of an era: The chapter presents the Sacrificial Era as reaching its irreversible conclusion, with civilizations, worlds, and ancient powers all facing extinction.
• Sacrifice for future generations: The characters repeatedly give up their lives, power, or chance of survival so that those who come later may inherit a better path.
• Courage in death and life: Dying in battle is portrayed as noble, but the Desolate Emperor reveals that enduring, retreating, and preserving hope can demand even greater courage.
• Legacy and succession: The older generation fights to create opportunities for future cultivators, while the surviving younger generation becomes responsible for continuing their struggle.
• Fate versus hidden variables: The future expert’s presence changes the timeline and causes the previously unknown Third Ancestor to emerge, suggesting that altering history creates unforeseen consequences.
• Unity in catastrophe: Formerly separate cultivators and factions set aside individual concerns and join a common final battle against the Weird Clan.
• The instinct of ancient powers: The Ancient Underworld, Soul River, and other Origin Ancient Lands act like living entities, instinctively feeding on the destruction of the era and revealing that cosmic catastrophe is part of their nature.

Overall Significance

The chapter marks the transition from prolonged conflict to the true final war of the Sacrificial Era. The Weird Clan reveals unprecedented strength through the Third Ancestor, while Heaven’s forces respond with mass sacrifice and uncompromising resistance. Although most combatants choose to die fighting, the Desolate Emperor preserves a small group for the future, establishing survival—not merely victory—as the central hope amid the destruction.

Summary: “The Fourth Ancestor! The Beginning of the End!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Desolate Emperor battles the First and Second Ancestors alone above the Ancestral Land, while a mysterious expert from the future remains occupied fighting the Third Ancestor in a separate spacetime.
• Realizing that directly destroying the Ancestral Land is nearly impossible because it can regenerate itself, Desolate Emperor launches a massive assault, slaughtering countless strange creatures and devastating parts of the Plateau.
• His true objective is revealed: using his incarnations across countless eras and spaces, he attempts to merge the Ancestral Land with his own Grand Dao and fundamentally transform its nature.
• The First and Second Ancestors panic, recognizing that such a transformation could allow Desolate Emperor—and not the strange race—to resurrect endlessly. They summon the Third Ancestor for aid.
• The future expert prevents the Third Ancestor from returning by using the Great Cauldron to seal spacetime and shatter the passages connecting the eras.
• The First and Second Ancestors burn their Sacrificial Dao origins and reveal monstrous true forms covered in powerful, ancient beast-like entities. These creatures attack Desolate Emperor’s countless incarnations across time and space.
• At the crisis point, the Fourth Ancestor emerges from a coffin buried in the deepest part of the Ancestral Land. His grotesque, colossal form immediately stabilizes the entire Ancestral Land and stops Desolate Emperor’s transformation.
• With the Fourth Ancestor’s arrival, the Third Ancestor is able to affect the battle from the Ancestral Land, while all three Ancestors work together to freeze the River of Ages and eliminate Desolate Emperor’s incarnations.
• Desolate Emperor’s true body is exposed, severely wounded, and struck by the combined attacks of the three Ancestors. Though his body reforms, he is on the verge of death.
• His followers in the Ancient Heavenly Court despair and attempt to rescue him, but enemy forces prevent them from reaching the Ancestral Land. The future expert also tries to intervene, but the Third Ancestor blocks him.
• At the last moment, Willow God breaks through the Immortal Emperor battlefield, enters the Ancestral Land, and carries Desolate Emperor’s injured body away.
• The Ancestors unleash a devastating final assault, collapsing spacetime and throwing the River of Ages into chaos. Willow God and Desolate Emperor disappear, leaving the three Ancestors standing victorious.

Character Developments

• Desolate Emperor: Demonstrates extraordinary courage, strategy, and sacrifice. Rather than merely attacking the Ancestral Land, he reveals a long-planned attempt to alter its fundamental nature through Grand Dao resonance. Even while heavily damaged and losing his incarnations, he remains resolute. His defeat underscores both his terrifying potential and the overwhelming power of the Ancestors.
• First and Second Ancestors: Initially confident in the Ancestral Land’s ability to recover, they become visibly alarmed when they understand Desolate Emperor’s plan. Their fear shows that they regard him as an unprecedented threat, potentially more dangerous than Pollen Emperor.
• Third Ancestor: Acts as the crucial stabilizing force, attempting to return to the Ancestral Land and later freezing spacetime to prevent the future expert from rescuing Desolate Emperor.
• Fourth Ancestor: Makes a shocking entrance as an immensely powerful, grotesque being from the deepest Ancestral Land. His arrival reverses the battle immediately and establishes him as a force capable of decisively suppressing Desolate Emperor’s plan.
• Future expert: Shows strong tactical awareness by recognizing the danger to the Ancestral Land and trapping the Third Ancestor. However, even he cannot overcome the Ancestors’ coordinated control of spacetime.
• Willow God: Evolves from a combatant defending against many Immortal Emperors into a decisive rescuer. Her intervention preserves Desolate Emperor from immediate destruction, revealing deep loyalty and tremendous strength.

Significant Themes

• Hope against overwhelming despair: Desolate Emperor’s resistance and Willow God’s rescue suggest that defeat is not necessarily the end, even when the enemy appears unbeatable.
• Sacrifice and determination: Desolate Emperor knowingly risks his existence and foundation to attack the root of the calamity, while the Ancestors burn their origins to stop him.
• The struggle over the source of power: The conflict is not merely about defeating individuals; it centers on control of the Ancestral Land, the source of the strange race’s endless resurrection.
• The limits of destruction: The Ancestral Land’s ability to regenerate makes ordinary attacks meaningless, forcing Desolate Emperor to attempt a deeper transformation rather than simple annihilation.
• Escalation of cosmic conflict: The appearance of the Fourth Ancestor reveals that the enemy’s true strength is even greater than previously known, marking the battle as the beginning of an apparent endgame.
• Fate versus defiance: Although history seems to repeat Pollen Emperor’s defeat, Desolate Emperor and Willow God resist the predetermined outcome by creating a narrow possibility of survival.

Important Character Interactions

• Desolate Emperor directly challenges the First and Second Ancestors, forcing them to abandon their confidence and join forces.
• The First and Second Ancestors summon the Third Ancestor when Desolate Emperor threatens the Ancestral Land’s fundamental nature.
• The future expert intercepts the Third Ancestor, creating a separate high-level battle over control of spacetime.
• The Fourth Ancestor’s arrival reunites the Ancestors’ strategic advantage and allows them to suppress Desolate Emperor completely.
• Willow God intervenes personally, shields Desolate Emperor with Sacrificial Dao Laws, and carries him away despite the Ancestors’ combined attacks.
• The chapter ends with the three Ancestors remaining in control of the battlefield, while Desolate Emperor and Willow God vanish into the collapsed River of Ages.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• The battle in the Sacrificial Dao Realm reaches its apparent conclusion. The Desolate Emperor and the Willow God can no longer be detected anywhere in Eternal Space-Time after the destruction caused by the final battle.
• The four Ancestors of the Ancestral Land defeat a powerful expert from the future. Although he fights desperately and attempts to alter history, they severely damage his Sacrificial Dao foundation, forcing him to retreat through a shattered passage of time.
• Believing the Desolate Emperor and the future expert defeated, the Ancestors decide to begin the Grand Sacrifice and annihilate the Heavens and Myriad Realms, sparing only the “Spring Seedlings.”
• Before they can act, the Desolate Emperor’s final contingency activates. Blood left behind by his past incarnations gathers into a formation that draws power from Eternal Space-Time and the Heavens and Myriad Realms. The resulting attack severely wounds all four Ancestors, though none are killed.
• The Ancestors retreat to recover and announce that the Grand Sacrifice has begun. The Weird Clan prepares to eliminate the remaining powerful opponents before destroying all hope in the Heavens and Myriad Realms.
• Weird Immortal Emperors surround Immortal Emperor Meng Hai and Luo Tianxian, both of whom had been revived through remnants preserved by the Pollen Emperor.
• Meng Hai, unable to restore his shattered emperor body, detonates himself and ignites his Primordial Spirit Fire, sacrificing his life to kill one Weird Immortal Emperor.
• Luo Tianxian, driven beyond her limits, sacrifices her Primordial Spirit to summon the entire Pollen Evolution Path. A terrifying Nine-Colored Flower appears, carrying her remnant soul and the power of a Dao Fruit beyond the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• The flower kills and purifies two Weird Immortal Emperors before withering away. Luo Tianxian admits that she never truly reached the Sacrificial Dao Realm, then disappears permanently.
• With every major Immortal Emperor-level defender dead, the Heavens fall into darkness. The surviving Weird Immortal Emperors descend upon the Sacrificial Sea, signaling the next stage of the Grand Sacrifice.

2. Character Developments

• The Desolate Emperor is confirmed to have vanished, but his final hidden attack demonstrates his foresight, resilience, and continued resistance even after apparent defeat. His sacrifice wounds the Ancestors and delays their victory once more.
• The future expert is portrayed as a determined but isolated warrior. Despite knowing he cannot defeat four Ancestors, he fights to preserve a chance for his own future and refuses to surrender.
• The four Ancestors become increasingly confident and ruthless. Their belief in their invincibility leads them to initiate the Grand Sacrifice, though the Desolate Emperor’s final attack proves they are still vulnerable.
• Immortal Emperor Meng Hai transforms from a traditionally gentle and mild figure into a decisive martyr. He consciously gives up his life to destroy an enemy and reduce the future burden on the living.
• Luo Tianxian fully embraces self-sacrifice. Rather than simply die in battle, she gives up her Primordial Spirit to awaken the ultimate power of the Pollen Evolution Path, becoming the final expression of its strength.
• The Pollen Emperor’s legacy remains central through Luo Tianxian’s connection to the Pollen Path. Luo’s final attack suggests that her will and the Pollen Emperor’s influence have become nearly indistinguishable.

3. Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and resistance: The chapter repeatedly shows characters choosing death in order to weaken the enemy or preserve hope for future generations.
• Defiance against inevitable destruction: Although the Ancestors appear victorious, the Desolate Emperor, Meng Hai, and Luo Tianxian each create meaningful setbacks, proving that defeat does not erase the value of resistance.
• Legacy and inherited will: The Desolate Emperor’s blood formation and Luo Tianxian’s summoning of the Pollen Path demonstrate how the dead continue to influence history through techniques, disciples, and prepared measures.
• Hope amid annihilation: The chapter is overwhelmingly tragic, yet the sacrifices ensure that the Weird Clan does not achieve an effortless victory. Even doomed resistance retains moral and strategic significance.
• The limits of power: The future expert and Luo Tianxian both wield extraordinary strength but remain unable to reach or surpass the Sacrificial Dao Realm fully. Their struggles emphasize the gulf between Immortal Emperor-level beings and the Ancestors.
• The cyclical nature of catastrophe: Great Annihilations repeatedly erase time and space, while Sacrificial Eras rise and fall. The Grand Sacrifice represents another recurrence of the same cosmic destruction.

4. Character Interactions

• The Ancestors discuss the disappearance of the Desolate Emperor and Willow God, debate the danger posed by the future expert, and collectively overpower him.
• The Third Ancestor attempts to psychologically undermine the future expert by emphasizing his loneliness and inability to change history, but the expert responds through continued battle rather than words.
• The Desolate Emperor indirectly confronts the Ancestors through his blood formation, wounding all four and forcing them to acknowledge the power and dignity of his final move.
• Meng Hai reassures Luo Tianxian before sacrificing himself, asking her not to waste effort saving him and explaining that his death can lessen the pressure on future survivors.
• Luo Tianxian witnesses Meng Hai’s death and responds by abandoning all restraint, choosing an even greater sacrifice against the Weird Immortal Emperors.
• The Weird Immortal Emperors shift from overwhelming confidence to fear when the Nine-Colored Flower appears, fleeing rather than directly confront its power. Their retreat underscores the devastating force of Luo Tianxian’s final attack.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• The Weird Immortal Emperors begin the Grand Sacrifice from an Ancestral Sacrificial Altar built from the remains of countless beings. They declare that the current Sacrificial Era has ended, and a corrupting weird aura begins spreading through the Sacrificial Sea.
• The final resistance of Heaven’s All Ages collapses:
  • Dao Ancestor Wan Xing refuses to surrender to a Weird Dao Ancestor Giant. After his physical body is destroyed, his Primordial Spirit is tortured and completely eroded by black mist.
  • His master, Primordial Beginning Dao Ancestor, responds by burning his Primordial Spirit and detonating his body, killing several Weird Dao Ancestors in the resulting explosion.
  • Ancient Saber Dao Ancestor and Heavenly Sword Dao Ancestor likewise sacrifice themselves, using their Dao Fruits and Primordial Spirits to drag powerful enemies down with them.
• Other Dao Ancestors follow their example, choosing death over submission. Their sacrifices inflict losses on the Weird Clan but cannot stop the Grand Sacrifice.
• The neutral Ancestor Beasts of the Sacrificial Sea are among the first victims of the spreading weird aura. Long Qilin can only watch helplessly as they are destroyed.
• In the Heavenforsaken Land Above Heaven, the Ancient Heavenly Court makes its last stand. An artifact left by Desolate Emperor opens a spatial-temporal escape route, allowing only a few survivors to flee. The remaining forces are annihilated, including the leader of Desolate Emperor’s eight hundred personal guards. This marks the complete defeat of the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• As worlds collapse and countless beings die, the Ancient Underworld’s Reincarnation Road activates. The Eight Paths of Reincarnation begin repairing the road and receiving the enormous number of departing souls.
• The surviving Dao Ancestors launch one final symbolic attack on the Ancestral Sacrificial Altar. They burn their origins, leave behind Grand Dao inheritances, and charge toward the Weird Immortal Emperors, declaring that their Dao will not be extinguished. The Immortal Emperors dismiss them as “ridiculous” and “pathetic,” and all the Dao Ancestors perish.
• Immortal Kings and weaker beings continue attempting resistance, but their deaths have no effect. Their bodies, souls, and Primordial Spirits are drawn into various forbidden locations, the Reincarnation Road, the Soul River, or the sacrificial altar as offerings or sources of power.
• Eventually, every Dao Ancestor and Immortal King in Heaven’s All Ages dies. The weird aura spreads through all worlds, killing even ordinary Immortals, cultivators, and mortals. Forbidden Zones and hidden experts are destroyed as well.
• The ancient divine tree Jianmu also falls. The Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince tries to save it, with Jiang Yun and Shi Yi accompanying him. The World Tree manages to preserve only one branch before Jianmu’s vast body collapses under the weird aura.

2. Character Developments

• Jiang Yun experiences profound grief and helplessness. Though he understands that Desolate Emperor may eventually revive the fallen heroes, he cannot emotionally distance himself from the deaths occurring across the heavens. He chooses to remain hidden because he lacks the strength to change the outcome directly.
• Primordial Beginning Dao Ancestor shifts from controlled endurance to furious despair after witnessing Wan Xing’s death. His suicide attack reflects both his grief and his refusal to submit.
• Wan Xing demonstrates absolute loyalty and integrity by choosing self-destruction rather than surrender, becoming one of the chapter’s clearest examples of defiance.
• Ancient Saber Dao Ancestor, Heavenly Sword Dao Ancestor, and the other Dao Ancestors accept death as the only remaining form of resistance. Their sacrifices transform defeat into a final declaration of principle.
• Long Qilin is confronted with the fragility of the beings he once shared the Sacrificial Sea with. His sorrow is deepened by the knowledge that Jiang Yun’s protection is the only reason he has survived.
• Shi Yi and the Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince remain silent observers for much of the destruction, but the Heavenly Prince ultimately acts when Jianmu is threatened. His intervention saves only a branch, emphasizing both his compassion and the overwhelming power of the sacrifice.
• The Weird Immortal Emperors are portrayed as utterly merciless. Their refusal to acknowledge the Dao Ancestors’ final resistance reveals their confidence, cruelty, and complete emotional detachment.

3. Significant Themes

• Defiance in the face of inevitable destruction: The Dao Ancestors cannot win, but they refuse to surrender, turning their deaths into acts of resistance.
• The transmission of legacy: By carving down their Grand Dao imprints before dying, the Dao Ancestors attempt to ensure that future Sacrificial Eras will have inheritors.
• The tragedy of helplessness: Jiang Yun, Long Qilin, and others understand the suffering around them but lack the power to prevent it.
• The collapse of an age: The destruction of the Ancient Heavenly Court, Jianmu, and the Dao Ancestors symbolizes the end of an entire civilization and cosmic era.
• Sacrifice and remembrance: Although the present is filled with despair, Jiang Yun believes the dead may one day be revived by Desolate Emperor. Their deaths therefore carry both immediate tragedy and the possibility of future restoration.
• The indifference of overwhelming power: The Weird Immortal Emperors treat the final resistance as insignificant, emphasizing the vast gap between the surviving forces and the power behind the Grand Sacrifice.
• Life, death, and reincarnation: As worlds perish, the Reincarnation Road becomes increasingly important, preserving the movement of souls even while physical existence is erased.

4. Important Character Interactions

• Primordial Beginning Dao Ancestor and Wan Xing: Their master-disciple bond is highlighted when Primordial Beginning tries to save Wan Xing and is forced to watch his death. This drives him to sacrifice himself.
• Wan Xing and the Weird Dao Ancestor Giant: Wan Xing rejects the enemy’s offer of surrender, while the Weird Giant tortures and destroys him as an example of the fate awaiting those who resist.
• Jiang Yun and Long Qilin: Jiang Yun’s protection is indirectly contrasted with the deaths of the Ancestor Beasts, reminding Long Qilin why he survived while they did not.
• Jiang Yun, Shi Yi, and the Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince: The three silently witness the destruction together. They later descend together when Jianmu is threatened, showing a moment of shared concern amid their usual separation.
• Dao Ancestors and the Weird Immortal Emperors: The Dao Ancestors make a final collective declaration of resistance, but the Immortal Emperors respond with contempt, reinforcing the chapter’s tragic imbalance of power.
• Ten-Crowned King Heavenly Prince and Jianmu: The Heavenly Prince attempts to preserve Jianmu with the World Tree, ultimately saving only one branch as the ancient divine tree is destroyed.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The fragment of Jianmu is purified through the combined efforts of the Ten-Crowned King, the Heavenly Prince, and Jiang Yun, preserving Jianmu’s final trace.
• The remaining weird black mist begins spreading toward the former Sword Light World and threatens the Immortal Domain—the homeland of the Desolate Emperor and many of the surviving protagonists.
• To protect the Immortal Domain without revealing their presence in the Ancient Underworld, Jiang Yun and his companions first attempt to construct a barrier. They realize, however, that any obvious barrier could expose them to the Weird Clan.
• They decide instead to destroy the surrounding spacetime, hiding the Immortal Domain within chaotic spacetime so that only an Immortal Emperor could locate or restore it.
• Before they can complete this plan, Heaven’s All Ages is completely destroyed by the Grand Sacrifice. Countless beings perish, worlds are blood-sacrificed, and the Sacrificial Sea becomes saturated with corpses, resentment, and darkness.
• The Weird Clan searches for every remaining survivor or hidden refuge, determined to eliminate all knowledge of the final battle and prevent powerful figures from being reflected back into existence.
• The Weird Immortal Emperors declare victory, believing that the Ancestral Land and Calamity Plateau remain invincible. They acknowledge, however, that the Desolate Emperor, the Willow God, the Pollen Emperor’s attempted return, and future experts crossing into the present had created unprecedented complications.
• Most Weird Immortal Emperors retreat into slumber to recover. Di Yi’s Guardian remains behind and secretly establishes formations around the Ancestral Sacrificial Altar.
• Jiang Yun infiltrates the altar and discovers that some sacrificial energy is being diverted through a spacetime passage toward the Ancestral Land rather than being offered normally.
• He concludes that the energy may be intended to restore or protect Di Yi, suggesting that Di Yi survived and may become Jiang Yun’s enemy again in a future Sacrificial Era or another spacetime.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun demonstrates increased mastery over weird aura and grows more cautious and strategic. Rather than recklessly attacking the Ancestral Sacrificial Altar, he investigates its formations and withdraws after learning what he can.
• The Ten-Crowned King and the Heavenly Prince continue cooperating with Jiang Yun to protect the Immortal Domain and preserve the possibility of future resistance.
• The Desolate Emperor is remembered as the greatest unexpected Variable of the Sacrificial Era. His rise to the Sacrificial Dao Realm and assault on the Ancestral Land gravely wounded the Weird Clan, though his ultimate fate remains unknown.
• The Willow God carries away the Desolate Emperor after his body collapses, leaving his survival uncertain.
• Di Yi’s Guardian is revealed to be carrying out a hidden plan connected to Di Yi, making him an even more ominous threat.
• Di Yi is implied to remain alive or capable of revival, setting up a future confrontation with Jiang Yun.

Significant Themes

• Resistance amid inevitable destruction: Although Heaven’s All Ages falls, Jiang Yun and his allies still strive to preserve the Immortal Domain and future hope.
• Sacrifice and survival: The protagonists must accept morally painful measures—such as hiding their homeland in spacetime—to ensure that some life survives the Grand Sacrifice.
• The persistence of hope: The Weird Clan seeks to erase every witness and possibility of revival, yet the survival of hidden worlds, Jianmu’s trace, and possible future figures shows that hope cannot be completely extinguished.
• Uncertainty and fate: Even the Weird Immortal Emperors’ calculations fail to account for the Desolate Emperor, the Willow God, and future interventions. Jiang Yun senses that fate has not finished arranging his conflict with Di Yi.
• The illusion of absolute victory: The Weird Clan claims complete triumph, but its need to recover fallen Immortal Emperors and secretly restore Di Yi reveals that its victory is not as secure as it believes.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun, the Ten-Crowned King, and the Heavenly Prince cooperate closely in purifying Jianmu’s fragment and protecting the Immortal Domain.
• The three debate the dangers of constructing a visible barrier and ultimately agree to conceal the Immortal Domain within turbulent spacetime.
• Jiang Yun and his companions silently mark those who betrayed Heaven’s All Ages and defected to the Four Great Origin Ancient Lands, promising that they will eventually be punished.
• The Weird Immortal Emperors reflect on the Desolate Emperor’s battle against them, the Willow God’s intervention, the Pollen Emperor’s attempted revival, and the future powerhouse who fought the Third Ancestor.
• Jiang Yun observes Di Yi’s Guardian from hiding, investigates his formations, and realizes that their conflict is likely destined to continue.

Chapter Summary: “After the Great Annihilation!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After the Great Annihilation, Jiang Yun, Shi Yi, and the Ten-Crowned King work together at the far end of the Sea of Realms. They shatter spacetime and create turbulent currents to prevent enemies from locating that region.
• Shi Yi and the Ten-Crowned King return to their cultivation grounds and enter seclusion, determined to find their own Immortal Emperor Paths. The destruction of Heaven’s All Ages convinces them that only greater strength can change the future.
• Jiang Yun instead cultivates with Hou Ming for ten thousand years. During this period, the Weird beings complete their devastation of Heaven’s All Ages, exterminating nearly all surviving life and discovering and killing the hidden descendants protected by the Dao Ancestors.
• After leaving Hou Ming, Jiang Yun senses that his breakthrough opportunity lies not in seclusion but in the destroyed Heaven’s All Ages and the Sacrificial Sea. He travels there to seek enlightenment through experience.
• In the Sacrificial Sea, he finds Heaven almost impossible to recognize. The once-glorious realm has become a dead island surrounded by blood-red waves, darkness, and the remnants of countless destroyed civilizations.
• Jiang Yun senses the dying lament of Heaven’s Heavenly Heart Dao Fruit. Although he is moved by its grief, he cannot save Heaven and leaves without confronting the Weird beings who remain there.
• He travels through the millions of worlds of Heaven’s All Ages and finds no living humans, beasts, or even insects. The Weird beings have erased nearly every trace of the previous era and transformed some of their own members into Forbidden Zones to monitor future civilizations.
• Jiang Yun discovers that powerful Dao Ancestors secretly preserved their Dao Marks and inheritances within mountains, rivers, stars, and other aspects of nature. He comprehends and integrates these inheritances into his own Dao arts over hundreds of thousands of years.
• Rather than completely consuming or destroying the inheritances, Jiang Yun preserves traces of them so future beings may continue to cultivate and retain hope.
• Eventually, he turns his attention to the Ancestral Sacrificial Altar in the depths of the Sacrificial Sea. He realizes that it functions as a beacon and transfer station for the “Spring Seedlings”—surviving descendants released by the Ancestral Land to begin new evolutionary civilizations.
• Understanding that the altar is central to the recurring cycles of destruction and rebirth, Jiang Yun uses his near-Fortune-level strength to infiltrate it unnoticed.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Becomes increasingly mature, patient, and purposeful. Instead of rushing into battle, he chooses observation, travel, and the absorption of ancient inheritances. His Dao arts grow increasingly complete, bringing him close to the Immortal Emperor Realm. He also develops a sense of responsibility toward future generations by preserving the inheritances he encounters.
• Shi Yi and the Ten-Crowned King: Deeply affected by the destruction of Heaven’s All Ages, they withdraw into seclusion and focus entirely on pursuing their Immortal Emperor Paths.
• Hou Ming: Serves as Jiang Yun’s cultivation companion for ten thousand years, helping him reach a state where breakthrough is constantly within reach.
• The Weird beings: After completing the annihilation, they divide their roles. Some return to the Ancestral Land, some become Forbidden Zone guardians, and others remain as foundations for future sacrifices and civilizations.

Significant Themes

• The brutality of cyclical destruction: The chapter reveals that a Grand Sacrifice is not merely a war but the near-total erasure of an entire civilization and its history.
• Hope preserved through inheritance: Although the Weird beings attempt to erase all traces of the past, powerful Dao Ancestors leave hidden legacies for future generations.
• Growth through experience rather than isolation: Jiang Yun’s path differs from the others. He seeks enlightenment by walking through ruined worlds and comprehending the remnants of past civilizations rather than simply meditating in seclusion.
• Memory and historical continuity: The preserved Dao Marks represent the hope that future civilizations can inherit the achievements of the dead.
• Restraint and long-term strategy: Jiang Yun refuses to act recklessly against the Weird Clan, recognizing that the time is not yet right and that survival requires patience.
• Cycles of life, death, and rebirth: The Spring Seedlings and Ancestral Sacrificial Altar reveal how new civilizations are deliberately cultivated after each Grand Sacrifice, ensuring the continuation of the cycle.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun collaborates with Shi Yi and the Ten-Crowned King to secure the far end of the Sea of Realms.
• Shi Yi and the Ten-Crowned King share a reaction of grief and resolve after witnessing the devastation of Heaven’s All Ages.
• Jiang Yun and Hou Ming spend ten thousand years cultivating together, after which Jiang Yun departs to follow his sensed opportunity.
• Jiang Yun indirectly encounters the dying will of Heaven through the Heavenly Heart Dao Fruit, whose grief affects him emotionally.
• Though he encounters the legacies of many former Dao Ancestors—including some who had once opposed him—Jiang Yun sets aside old enmities and treats their inheritances as valuable contributions to the future.
• The chapter ends with Jiang Yun moving toward the Ancestral Sacrificial Altar, setting up a likely confrontation or discovery involving the Weird Clan and the mechanism behind the next Sacrificial Era.

Chapter Summary: “Ancestral Sacrificial Altar!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yun secretly infiltrates the Ancestral Sacrificial Altar, the Weird Clan’s most sacred site and the channel through which they seek contact with their origins.
• The altar is covered with remnants of destroyed universes, each reduced to grains of sand after being consumed by past Grand Sacrifices. Countless living beings, Dao Fruits, civilizations, and fallen Immortal Emperors have become offerings.
• Several phantoms of Weird Immortal Emperors preside over the ritual, while the Weird Dao Ancestors kneel below in reverence. Because everyone assumes no one could infiltrate such a heavily guarded place, Jiang Yun remains undetected.
• Jiang Yun learns the deeper purpose of the Grand Sacrifice: it is intended to awaken traces of a primordial existence connected to the Weird Clan, the Ancestral Land, the Calamity Plateau, and the origin of the weird power.
• Hidden among the altar’s laws, Jiang Yun begins comprehending the Immortal Emperor and Ancestor Sacrificial Scripts. The Stone Jar on his body conceals and protects him when the altar briefly senses his presence.
• After the Weird Immortal Emperor phantoms depart and Heaven’s All Ages is completely sacrificed, Jiang Yun continues studying the Ancestor-level scripts for another two or three hundred thousand years.
• He eventually senses a mysterious disturbance in spacetime and hears an ancient sigh from the altar. The force of the sigh destroys his body and soul, but the Stone Jar reconstructs him.
• With the Stone Jar’s assistance, Jiang Yun witnesses a vague primordial figure emerging within the deepest part of the altar. The figure appears to gaze across the Ancestral Land, Above Heaven, the Four Origin Ancient Lands, and other fundamental locations throughout existence.
• The figure disappears almost immediately, unable to remain in the world. Its brief appearance confirms that the primordial being truly exists and that the Grand Sacrifice can draw out its traces.
• At the same moment, an Ancestor in the Ancestral Land awakens from a dream, suggesting that the event has been sensed by the highest powers of the Weird Clan.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yun: Demonstrates extraordinary courage, patience, and ambition by infiltrating the altar and remaining hidden for hundreds of thousands of years. Rather than merely surviving, he uses the enemy’s sacred ritual to study the source of their power and expand his understanding of the Immortal Emperor’s Path. His shock at the primordial figure’s appearance also deepens his awareness of the true scale of the conflict.
• Weird Immortal Emperors: Their phantoms are portrayed as immensely powerful and devout guardians of the Grand Sacrifice, but they remain ignorant of its ultimate purpose.
• Weird Dao Ancestors: They act as completely reverent servants during the ritual, too fearful to interfere with the altar or even look toward it.
• The primordial being: Though seen only as a blurred figure, it is established as an existence far beyond ordinary Immortal Emperors and possibly beyond the Ancestors. Its apparent exhaustion and inability to remain manifested suggest a tragic, withdrawn nature.
• The Ancestors: Their awakening at the end hints that they may now recognize or investigate the primordial being’s brief manifestation.

Significant Themes

• The impermanence of glory: Entire universes and civilizations, no matter how powerful, eventually become mere grains of sand within the altar after the Grand Sacrifice.
• Sacrifice and exploitation: The Weird Clan’s sacred ritual is built upon the destruction of countless worlds and living beings, turning their lives and achievements into fuel for an unknown purpose.
• The limits of knowledge: Even the Weird Immortal Emperors do not understand what they worship, while the Ancestors themselves disagree about whether the primordial being exists.
• Power hidden within history: Ancient Sacrificial Scripts preserve the fundamental laws and secrets of earlier eras, allowing Jiang Yun to gain insight from the ruins of past sacrifices.
• The danger of truth: Learning the source of the Weird Clan’s power brings Jiang Yun immense benefits but also exposes him to forces capable of destroying his body and soul instantly.
• Existence and withdrawal: The primordial figure appears to have sacrificed itself and grown weary of the world, suggesting that the ultimate being the Weird Clan seeks is not seeking power or revival.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Yun and the Weird Clan: Jiang Yun remains concealed directly above the kneeling Weird Dao Ancestors and near the Emperor phantoms, exploiting their unquestioning devotion and assumptions about the altar’s security.
• Jiang Yun and the Stone Jar: The Stone Jar repeatedly protects him—first by concealing him when the altar senses his presence, and later by reconstructing his body and soul after the primordial sigh destroys him. It also allows him to perceive events beyond his normal abilities.
• Jiang Yun and the primordial figure: Their interaction is indirect but pivotal. Jiang Yun witnesses the figure’s appearance and backward gaze, gaining confirmation of a truth the Weird Clan has sought across countless eras.
• The Ancestors and the primordial being: Although they are not shown directly interacting, the figure’s manifestation awakens an Ancestor, implying that the event may provoke a response from the highest level of the Weird Clan.