Chapter Summaries

After three thousand years of building the Heavenly Court and establishing merit-based ascension, the Linghao Incarnation entered the Immortal Domain and prepared to become a True Immortal. His breakthrough sent brilliant immortal ascension light across the Immortal Domain Fragment, drawing the attention of its powerful inhabitants.

• The Heavenly Court's Immortal Domain and merit system attracted cultivators and entire sects, while its members gained salaries and access to the Peach Banquet.
• Ji Hao created three thousand six hundred Peach Trees to host the Peach Banquet and hoped their immortal dao fragments would eventually revive King Pan.
• The Linghao Incarnation entered the stabilized Immortal Domain, sensed its longevity substance, and found several True Immortals but no Quasi-Immortal Kings.
• The Linghao Incarnation reflected on how longevity could weaken cultivators' drive to risk their lives for breakthroughs, then decided to make his final leap onto the Immortal Dao.
• The Linghao Incarnation's breakthrough flooded the Immortal Domain Fragment with brilliant ascension light, and awakened beings speculated about his identity and immense foundations.

Ji Hao’s Linghao Incarnation ascended to the True Immortal realm, while his Azure Emperor Incarnation completed a new cultivation system inspired by the inner world system. Ji Hao began cultivating the Inner Universe Technique and reached its Unity realm, though his system remained incomplete and could not yet lead to immortal ascension.

• The Linghao Incarnation survived an immense immortal ascension tribulation and became a True Immortal, surpassing Ji Hao’s Main Body in strength.
• The Azure Emperor Incarnation merged with Qingwei Heaven and returned to Ji Hao, bringing the creation of his own cultivation system to completion.
• Ji Hao faced the true creation tribulation as the Inner Universe Technique emerged as a new evolutionary path.
• Ji Hao entered the first realm, meditation, and then absorbed 129,600 strands of external pure qi to awaken his own qi in the qi consumption realm.
• Ji Hao developed dharma power by combining his divine energy with spiritual qi and described how cultivators in his system could nourish its Dao Lord.
• Ji Hao outlined the Unity realm, where the three primordial essences of heaven, earth, and man combined to give rise to mental power.

Ji Hao tested his newly created cultivation system by letting heavenly punishment destroy him, then resurrected through his undying true spirit and continued developing its secret realms. He left the chapter fighting through the tribulation of creating a method, with the power of his three systems united in an even stronger Heavenly Emperor.

• Ji Hao invoked heavenly punishment and let it destroy his body and divine soul, then rebuilt himself through his undying thoughts and true spirit.
• Ji Hao deduced that the primordial unity realm could let the dead persist in the Void God Realm as ghost immortals.
• Ji Hao developed the divine soul and Heaven Opening realms, creating an inner world that could grow through faith and fortune and gradually transform from illusion into reality.
• Ji Hao considered how to define the next realm of immortality, while Ruthless Emperor saw that he was creating an entirely new cultivation system.
• Ji Hao unleashed the power of his eight realms to break through the creation tribulation and united three great systems into an invincible Heavenly Emperor.

After surviving a nine-year creation tribulation and developing the Thunder Emperor Technique, Ji Hao appeared before the universe and began imparting his new cultivation system to all living beings. He taught its first five realms, with the remaining realms still to be expounded.

• Ji Hao endured the creation tribulation for nine years, created the Thunder Emperor Technique, and used it to suppress the lightning and absorb its power.
• Ji Hao realized that making the Immortal Domain Greater Universe real would require thousands or tens of thousands of years absorbing energy from the chaos at the Cosmic Frontier.
• During the Heavenly Court official selection, cultivators saw a projection of the Immortal Realm and Ji Hao's vast manifestation appear near the Cosmic Frontier.
• Ji Hao announced that he had created a new cultivation system and would impart the Dao to all beings.
• Ji Hao taught the first realm, meditation, and the second realm, qi consumption, as heaven and earth responded and tribulations struck.
• Ji Hao continued teaching the third, fourth, and fifth realms, lingering on Primordial Unity so living beings could comprehend its mysteries and condense their true spirits.

Ji Hao spread his Inner World Method across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, deepening his bond with the Heavenly Heart and preparing to introduce the Divine Dao. In the Strange World, Ye Fan and the Heavenly Court’s younger generation fought its Supreme Beings, and Ye Fan broke through to live a second life.

• Ji Hao imparted the cultivation realms to all living beings, planting a seed that would bless future practitioners of his method.
• Ji Hao saw that his Great Dao had taken root in the Heavenly Heart and anticipated the arrival of the Divine Dao.
• Ji Hao used the Haotian Mirror to send Ye Fan and the Heavenly Court’s core forces into the Strange World to grow through life-and-death battles.
• Ye Fan fought four Extreme Dao experts while absorbing their Dao principles, and the battle pushed his combat strength to a critical point.
• Ye Fan surpassed himself through the Dao of Fighting Immortals and lived a second life.
• Ye Fan unleashed the Heavenly Emperor Fist, empowered by his Immortal Domain and mental power.

Chapter Summary: “Spending Money to Spread the Dao”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ye Fan achieves Heavenly Emperor-level combat strength during the battle against the Supreme Beings. Using his overwhelming Heavenly Emperor Fist combined with powerful will, he suppresses and kills an Extreme Dao expert, absorbing the expert’s origin into the Creation Immortal Domain and further solidifying his transition from illusion toward reality.
• The Heavenly Court decisively wins the battle, killing twelve Supreme Beings. Ye Fan personally eliminates six, although many surviving enemies escape by using life-saving techniques and exploiting their geographical advantage.
• A Supreme expert from the Strange World attempts to intervene, but Great Emperor Wu Shi blocks him with the Beginningless Bell. This reverses the earlier situation, in which Wu Shi had been outnumbered by the Immortal Emperor and Strange World experts.
• On the Big Dipper’s Eastern Wasteland, Ji Hao travels in disguise while observing how his new cultivation system spreads throughout the universe.
• The new system becomes closely linked to merit and immortality. Teaching cultivators, transforming dead stars into Fortune Source Grounds, and protecting or guiding developing communities all earn merit. This inspires cultivators across the universe to devise systematic ways to accumulate merit and pursue immortality.
• Ji Hao returns to using his mysterious Fishing Rod, though only as an ordinary fishing rod rather than a multiversal artifact. After no fish bites for three days, he leaves behind a supreme technique engraved on a stone.
• A golden-scaled fish eventually takes the hook. Ji Hao rewards it with dragon blood, transforming it into a strange young dragon, then leaves it behind as a future opportunity.
• Ji Hao encounters several young cultivators practicing his new system and quietly leaves them opportunities. He recognizes that different cultivation methods suit different people, especially Buddhist and Daoist practitioners.
• Buddhism and Daoism begin flourishing under the new system, with Amitabha Buddha Great Emperor and Laozi jointly overseeing the Heavenly Court’s Education Department.
• The chapter ends with a massive Great Emperor Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier. A young cultivator attempts to become a Great Emperor despite another Emperor already existing in the era, provoking the Heavenly Dao’s strongest punishment. The tribulation manifests terrifying lightning, ancient beasts, and empowered Immortality Elixirs.

Character Developments

• Ye Fan: Reaches a new level of power, becoming comparable to a Heavenly Emperor in battle. His ability to combine mental will with fist intent allows him to suppress enemies before they can react. His foundation also grows stronger through absorbing the defeated expert’s origin.
• Great Emperor Wu Shi: Continues to demonstrate his extraordinary defensive and combat abilities by stopping the Strange World’s Supreme expert, reinforcing his reputation as someone extremely difficult to kill.
• Ji Hao: Shows a more relaxed and playful side after thousands of years of leisure. Although he avoids relying on his Golden Finger, he still uses his influence to create opportunities for others and promote his cultivation system.
• Amitabha Buddha and Laozi: Take on major educational roles within the Heavenly Court, helping spread the new cultivation path among Buddhist and Daoist communities.
• The Golden Fish: Receives dragon blood from Ji Hao and begins transforming into a unique dragon-like creature, suggesting a future character or opportunity.
• The unnamed tribulation challenger: Demonstrates extraordinary ambition by attempting to achieve Great Emperor status in an era that already possesses an Emperor.

Significant Themes

• The rise of a new Heavenly Emperor: Ye Fan’s breakthrough changes the balance of power and confirms the Heavenly Court’s dominance.
• Power of will and intent: Mental suppression proves capable of creating decisive openings even against supreme experts.
• Spreading the Dao through merit: Ji Hao’s cultivation system turns teaching, protection, and developing civilization into recognized paths toward immortality.
• Different paths for different cultivators: The chapter emphasizes that no single cultivation method suits everyone; Buddhist and Daoist practitioners may thrive better under Ji Hao’s peaceful, self-cultivating system than under the more combat-oriented Secret Realm Method.
• Guidance and opportunity: Ji Hao acts as a hidden benefactor, leaving techniques, bloodlines, and chances for advancement to those with talent or potential.
• The limits of power and mystery: Even as a Heavenly Emperor, Ji Hao remains unable to uncover the true origin of the Fishing Rod and its connection to the owner of the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin.
• Defying the established order: The final tribulation highlights the danger and grandeur of attempting to become an Emperor when the universe already has one.

Character Interactions

• Ye Fan battles the Supreme Beings and briefly clashes with the Strange World expert before Wu Shi takes over the confrontation.
• Yin Tiande and the Human King recognize Ye Fan’s transformation, with the Human King suggesting that he should now be called “Heavenly Emperor Ye.”
• Ji Hao interacts indirectly with future generations by engraving a supreme technique onto a stone, transforming the golden fish, and guiding young cultivators through hidden opportunities.
• Amitabha Buddha and Laozi cooperate as leaders of the Heavenly Court’s Education Department, symbolizing the integration of Buddhism, Daoism, and Ji Hao’s new cultivation system.
• The final scene shifts attention from established Heavenly Emperor-level figures to a young challenger confronting the entire Heavenly Dao in pursuit of supreme status.

Ye Fan endured a devastating tribulation and proved his Dao while Ji Hao remained unconcerned, having restrained his Heavenly Emperor’s Great Dao. Ye Fan became a second Great Emperor in the same lifetime, but discovered that he still stood within Ji Hao’s Great Dao.

• The universe recognized Ye Fan as the Human Sacred Body undergoing an emperor tribulation, and cultivators wondered whether he could attain the Dao while the Heavenly Emperor still reigned.
• Ye Fan fought through the lightning sea with his Six Paths Reincarnation Fist and the Cauldron of the Mother Qi of All Things, repeatedly rebuilding his shattered body as the tribulation struck.
• Ji Hao told An Miaoyi that he welcomed Ye Fan’s rise and quietly restrained the might of his Heavenly Emperor’s Great Dao, though he kept the Heavenheart Imprint for his plans.
• Ye Fan pierced through the myriad paths and overcame the Immortality Elixir phantoms, prompting Human Race cultivators across the universe to celebrate his attainment of the imperial throne.
• After the tribulation ended, Ye Fan stood above the myriad paths but realized that the Heavenly Emperor’s Great Dao still remained above him, while Ji Hao praised his achievement.

Ji Hao established the Divine Dao in the Human World and invested the Five Emperors to govern the universe under his authority. After suppressing Heaven’s punishment, he completed the investiture as faith power gathered at the Divine Sacred Altar.

• Ji Hao descended to the Heavenly Court’s former site with the List of Gods and the God-Beating Whip to begin the Divine Dao’s descent.
• The Heavenly Court mobilized, aligned the star domains, and prepared to invest its leaders as gods.
• Ji Hao chose Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, Azure Emperor, Shennong, Great Emperor Amitabha, and Laozi to rule as the Five Directions Five Emperors.
• Ji Hao invested the Five Emperors and divided the universe into five regions centered on the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Ji Hao suppressed the heavenheart imprint’s lightning punishment, and the completed altar gathered faith power into immortal fluid that gave cultivators insight.

Ji Hao established the divine Dao, claimed the Heavenly Emperor fruit position, and drew the universe’s Daos and creative power into himself, reaching a level approaching the Immortal King realm. He separated the Three Realms and summoned the Solar and Lunar Holy Emperors back as the Solar Star Lord and Lunar Star Lord.

• The Five Emperors comprehended the divine Dao as the List of Gods helped establish it throughout the universe.
• Ji Hao declared himself ruler of the Three Realms and used the List of Gods to turn the universe’s Daos into authorities of the divine Dao.
• Ji Hao claimed the Heavenly Emperor fruit position, adding a fourth Dao Fruit that supported and united his other three Dao Fruits.
• Ji Hao commanded the great Daos to return, gathering the universe’s origin Qi, ancient Great Emperors’ Dao traces, and creative power into himself.
• Ji Hao’s power surged to a level approaching the Immortal King realm, stunning living beings and Supreme Beings across the universe.
• Ji Hao ordered the Three Realms separated and the gods returned to their duties, bringing back the Solar and Lunar Holy Emperors as the Solar Star Lord and Lunar Star Lord.

Ji Hao invested the gods and appointed Ye Fan and the Ruthless Emperor to divine offices before spending ten thousand years in the Immortal Realm. Meanwhile, the Linghao Incarnation harvested a True Immortal’s origin in the Immortal Domain Fragment World and confronted three True Immortals who accused him of murder.

• Ji Hao appointed the Solar Holy Emperor and Lunar Holy Emperor as star lords, and named Ye Fan and the Ruthless Emperor to rule over the Mortal Realm and Void God Realm.
• Ye Fan accepted the Ziwei divine seal, gaining divine Dao laws and appearing in an Emperor’s Robe as the Central Heaven North Pole Emperor Ziwei.
• Over ten thousand years, the Immortal Realm filled with ascended cultivators while Ye Fan sealed his immortal nature and pursued the Red Dust Immortal Path.
• Ji Hao reflected that the Immortal Realm could not support a True Immortal and that he still needed to perfect his Inner World System.
• In the Immortal Domain Fragment World, the Linghao Incarnation used the Heaven-Mending Technique to absorb the origin of a True Immortal Corpse.
• Three True Immortals arrived, accused the Linghao Incarnation of killing their fellow cultivator, and faced his contemptuous challenge.

The Azure Emperor Incarnation completed the inner world system’s path to immortality through Nine Lives and Nine Deaths, while the Linghao Incarnation fought a growing force of True Immortals. The Azure Emperor Incarnation began his breakthrough in the Immortal Domain Fragment World as the battle against Linghao continued.

• The Linghao Incarnation fought several True Immortals, repelled their attacks, and faced a Great Summoning Technique that called more True Immortals into the Immortal Domain Fragment World.
• In the Peach Garden, Ji Hao sensed Linghao’s danger and prepared to intervene, but changed course when he detected the Azure Emperor Incarnation’s breakthrough.
• The Azure Emperor Incarnation emerged from Divine Deity Lake after twenty thousand years and completed an immortal method for the inner world system, using Nine Lives and Nine Deaths and a Dao Anchor.
• Ji Hao’s research into Duan De’s Reincarnation Seals and the List of Gods had helped establish the Earth Immortal Method as a route to immortality.
• The Azure Emperor Incarnation drew on the Haotian Mirror, gathered chaotic origin qi, and began transforming as his vast Immortal Domain expanded near the frontier of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

Ji Hao completed the Azure Emperor Incarnation’s transformation into an immortal and sent him to aid the Linghao Incarnation, who was overwhelmed by eighteen True Immortals in the Immortal Domain Fragment. Together, the incarnations fought back, and the Linghao Incarnation ended the chapter vowing to kill until no one dared call himself supreme.

• Ji Hao used the Haotian Mirror to send the newly transformed Azure Emperor Incarnation to the battlefield.
• The Linghao Incarnation fled from eighteen True Immortals, then trapped three pursuers with Time Zero and blasted them away.
• The Azure Emperor Incarnation arrived and attacked the True Immortals with the Thunder Emperor Technique: Five Thunder Orthodoxy.
• The True Immortals recovered and charged again, while the Linghao Incarnation taunted them and rejected their claim to the Immortal Domain’s majesty.
• The Linghao Incarnation’s killing intent surged as he declared that he would kill until no one in the world dared call himself supreme.

The Linghao Incarnation unleashed the Six-Directions Blood Sea Killing Array against the Immortal Domain’s True Immortals, but its slaughtering influence threatened to drive him into cultivation deviation. With help from the Azure Emperor Incarnation and the Qingping Sword’s Divine Deity, he regained control and continued exploring the Dao of End as the battle raged.

• The Linghao Incarnation’s Great Dao veered toward slaughter, so the Azure Emperor Incarnation used the Chaos Green Lotus Immortal Pool and Three Lights Divine Water to calm him.
• The Linghao Incarnation severed four heads from a nine-headed Crow, then used the Six Zhuxian, Yuan Tu, and Abi Swords to create the Six-Directions Blood Sea Killing Array and overwhelm him.
• The nine-headed Crow unleashed his Great Sun Golden Crow Wings, but the Linghao Incarnation split his body apart as eight more True Immortals joined the fight.
• A Kun Peng and a True Phoenix attacked, while the Azure Emperor Incarnation’s warning and the Qingping Sword’s Divine Deity helped the Linghao Incarnation suppress his murderous thoughts.
• The Linghao Incarnation recognized that the Blood Sea was an evil deviation from the righteous Dao of End and sent Yuan Tu and Abi to fight while he gripped the Qingping Sword.
• The Azure Emperor Incarnation trapped True Immortals with his inner world and Five-Colored Divine Light as the Linghao Incarnation drew everything around him inward and made the heavenly rules collapse.

The Linghao Incarnation completed the Dao of Annihilation, destroyed a damaged Quasi-Immortal King Artifact, and killed nineteen True Immortals in the Immortal Domain. After returning to Ji Hao, his Creation and Abolition Dao Fruits advanced to the Quasi-Immortal King level, though he still had to keep his power hidden while completing his nine-lifetime Red Dust Immortal Path.

• The Linghao Incarnation brought the Blood Sea to nothingness and completed the Dao of Annihilation as the Immortal Domain’s myriad paths and laws began to collapse.
• A True Immortal attacked the Linghao Incarnation and the Azure Emperor Incarnation with a damaged Quasi-Immortal King Artifact, but the Linghao Incarnation destroyed it and killed its wielder with two sword strikes.
• The Linghao Incarnation slew eighteen more True Immortals, absorbing their bodies and Great Daos to strengthen the Abolition Dao Fruit.
• The Linghao Incarnation sacrificed his immortal body, and the Haotian Mirror retrieved his annihilation essence and returned it to Ji Hao.
• Ji Hao’s Creation Dao Fruit and Abolition Dao Fruit advanced together, with the Abolition Dao Fruit reaching the Quasi-Immortal King level, while Ji Hao held back from using that power until he completed his Red Dust Immortal Path.
• Radiant Immortal Light poured from Ji Hao and surrounded the Heavenly Court.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao reaches his seventh life, gaining terrifying power through the fusion of his Four Dao Fruits and the Dao of the Three Pure Ones’ Cycle. He briefly approaches Immortal Ascension but deliberately severs the Immortal Ascension Light, choosing to strengthen his foundation rather than prematurely become a Quasi-Immortal King.
• His seventh transformation creates enormous visions: the Heavenly Emperor appears within Yuanshi Grand Luo Heaven, and a supreme Dao sound suppresses all other Paths throughout the world. His power becomes so great that even the Immortal Realm he created risks collapsing under his presence.
• Believing his strength is finally sufficient, Ji Hao traces Emperor Zun through karma and time using Chuanying’s connection. He rides the golden Dragon Horse into the Chaos Sea to confront him.
• The meeting is framed as the greatest Heavenly Emperor battle since the Mythological Era. Ji Hao hopes not only to defeat Emperor Zun, but also to determine whether he can be rescued from Darkness and potentially recruit him into the Heavenly Court.
• The chapter confirms that Emperor Zun is still alive, residing near the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Great Emperor Wu Shi had previously sensed his survival and remains emotionally conflicted because Emperor Zun had been his childhood idol.
• Ji Hao and Emperor Zun finally meet. Their conversation reveals that Emperor Zun’s ancient arrangements, including the seal on the Primordial Ancient Star, have been exposed and disrupted by Ji Hao.
• Emperor Zun attacks first with the merged Nine Secrets and a world-destroying Heaven-Opening technique. Ji Hao counters with “Chaos Opens, Myriad Phenomena End,” combining creation and destruction to challenge Emperor Zun’s Immortal Dao.
• Their collision shakes the Chaos Sea, the two connected worlds, and the surrounding spacetime. The battle begins as an unprecedented clash between two supreme Heavenly Emperors.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao demonstrates exceptional restraint and long-term vision by refusing immediate ascension. He prioritizes building an unshakable foundation and intends to perfect his own path by studying Emperor Zun’s Red Dust Immortal state.
• His confidence has grown enormously. He openly declares himself more remarkable than Emperor Zun and seeks not merely victory, but the opponent’s Fortune and Dao insights.
• Ji Hao also reveals a strategic and pragmatic side. He regards Emperor Zun as the era’s greatest hidden danger and believes defeating him alone will give the world time to prepare for the coming invasion of the Darkness Beings.
• Emperor Zun is portrayed as immensely proud and domineering. Despite his hidden weakness and apparent corruption by Darkness, he remains confident in his invincibility and refuses to acknowledge that his ancient plans may no longer be under his control.
• Great Emperor Wu Shi is shown as emotionally affected by Emperor Zun’s survival. Having once viewed him as an ideal, Wu Shi now recognizes the danger he represents and wonders whether his own preparations will be effective.

Significant Themes

• Foundation versus immediate power: Ji Hao rejects an easy breakthrough, emphasizing that true supremacy requires a stable foundation rather than rapid advancement.
• The burden of supreme strength: Ji Hao’s power is so great that the world itself may not be able to withstand him, highlighting the distance between powerful beings and the fragile realms they inhabit.
• Legacy and succession: The confrontation pits the ruler of the ancient Heavenly Court against the current Heavenly Emperor, turning their battle into a contest between eras.
• Darkness and redemption: Emperor Zun’s corruption raises the possibility that even a fallen supreme figure might be recovered, though Ji Hao is prepared to destroy him if necessary.
• Pride and destiny: Both emperors possess absolute confidence in their own greatness, making the battle as much a clash of wills and legacies as of techniques.
• Preparation for a greater war: The duel is presented as the final major conflict before the Darkness Beings’ attack, giving the heroes a chance to eliminate internal threats and prepare for the coming catastrophe.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and Emperor Zun exchange sharp, confrontational dialogue. Ji Hao mocks Emperor Zun’s inability to restore his old arrangements, while Emperor Zun reacts with murderous fury after realizing Ji Hao knows about his secrets.
• Ji Hao treats Emperor Zun as both an enemy and a potential source of knowledge, seeking to understand the Red Dust Immortal realm through their battle.
• Great Emperor Wu Shi’s past admiration for Emperor Zun contrasts with his present suspicion and concern, emphasizing Emperor Zun’s fall from revered ruler to hidden threat.
• The chapter ends with the two Heavenly Emperors beginning a catastrophic battle, each using techniques capable of creating or destroying worlds.

Ji Hao fought Dark Emperor Zun, the hidden force who had replaced Emperor Zun and tried to refine the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. After both Heavenly Emperors unleashed their strongest techniques, Ji Hao grievously wounded his opponent and pursued his fleeing Divine Soul with Immunity to All Techniques.

• Ji Hao learned that Dark Emperor Zun had secretly replaced the real Emperor Zun and had sought to refine the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths into an Immortal Cauldron.
• Dark Emperor Zun revealed his darkness power and attacked Ji Hao with a sublimated Nine Secrets: Jie, layered with other secret techniques to multiply his strength.
• Ji Hao countered with the Flying Immortal Technique and his Supreme Secret Technique, then clashed with Dark Emperor Zun using Nine Secrets Merged as One.
• Dark Emperor Zun summoned his Immortal Cauldron and Dao manifestation, but Ji Hao's end-of-days technique tore apart his immortal body.
• Dark Emperor Zun's Divine Soul fled after Ji Hao's pinnacle strike, and Ji Hao rebuked him before advancing with Immunity to All Techniques.

Ji Hao defeated Dark Emperor Zun, separated his corrupted divine soul from his body, and began examining Emperor Zun’s past through karmic retribution. The chapter left Emperor Zun’s history revealed up to his rise as a Supreme Heavenly Emperor called Emperor Zun.

• Dark Emperor Zun burned his origin and fought Ji Hao in a battle that shattered the chaos around them.
• Ji Hao suppressed Dark Emperor Zun, destroyed the Immortal Cauldron, and bound him with heavenly regulations.
• Ji Hao used the Qiankun Cauldron and karmic power to sever Emperor Zun’s divine soul from his body, then destroyed the body through nine cycles of creation and destruction.
• Ji Hao saw that nearly eighty percent of Emperor Zun’s remaining divine soul was corrupted, while Emperor Zun’s true self lay dormant within it.
• Ji Hao activated Cause of All Fruits and learned that Emperor Zun came from the Primordial Ancient Star, became Heavenly Venerable Wuliang, and later transformed into Emperor Zun, a Supreme Heavenly Emperor.

Ji Hao comprehended Emperor Zun’s nine-life transformations, advanced into his eighth life, and helped Emperor Zun destroy Dark Emperor Zun and recover. Emperor Zun agreed to join Ji Hao’s Six Imperial Lords and took the title Emperor Gouchen Shanggong Huangtian.

• Ji Hao explored Emperor Zun’s memories and learned how his transformations and battle on the Road to Immortality had led to his corruption as Dark Emperor Zun.
• Ji Hao grasped the Red Dust Immortal Path and began his eighth life, transforming his body and gaining the ability to draw on the power of chaos.
• Ji Hao revived Emperor Zun’s golden Divine Soul and helped him sever his karmic ties to Dark Emperor Zun.
• Emperor Zun and Ji Hao joined forces to erase Dark Emperor Zun, leaving behind only sacred dark matter.
• Ji Hao gave Emperor Zun a Chaos Golden Elixir and invited him to join the Six Imperial Lords, explaining his plan to forge the Real Realm.
• Emperor Zun accepted the title Emperor Gouchen Shanggong Huangtian and took his place on the List of Gods.

The Taihao Incarnation prepared to become a War Immortal by creating a dark version of himself to force a life-or-death battle. In the Chaos Sea, Dark Taihao emerged with a replicated Heavenly Emperor-level divine soul Dao Fruit and threatened his creator.

• The Taihao Incarnation explained that the Dao of Fighting Immortals sought transcendence and resolved to risk his remaining life transforming into a War Immortal.
• The Taihao Incarnation decided to use dark matter from Emperor Zun to create a dark version of himself as both an opponent and a test of the Weird Race's power.
• In the Chaos Sea, the Taihao Incarnation used innate sacred body dao embryo true blood to restore his strength for the coming battle.
• The Taihao Incarnation poured dark matter over his old body, and it revived him while forming a dark Dao Fruit.
• Dark Taihao appeared as a young man, declared that his creation had been a mistake, and promised to show the Taihao Incarnation a nightmare.

Taihao Incarnation fought Dark Taihao, whose transformation into a True Immortal pushed him to the brink. Under the pressure, Taihao Incarnation completed his Fighting Immortal transformation into a War Immortal and faced Dark Taihao on equal terms.

• Dark Taihao unleashed a torrent of darkness, and Taihao Incarnation attacked with the Immortal Phoenix Technique and overwhelming fists.
• Dark Taihao regenerated from Taihao Incarnation’s blows, struck with claws and corruption, then began ascending into the immortal Dao.
• Dark Taihao became a True Immortal and wounded Taihao Incarnation, while Ji Hao watched from afar and prepared to intervene.
• Taihao Incarnation endured the assault, gained sudden insight into the Fighting Immortal Path, and began transforming as Dark Taihao tried to stop him.
• Dark Taihao tore Taihao Incarnation apart with a Quasi-Immortal King-level strike, but Taihao Incarnation emerged as a War Immortal and met his next punch evenly.