Chapter Summaries

Ji Hao traveled to the North Sea Stone Forest in search of the Undying Scripture and boarded a Nether Ship to cross the black sea. After reaching a strange inverted world, he used the Time Pool to glimpse the Ruthless Emperor calling someone back to the Nine Heavens before her image vanished.

• Ji Hao traveled across Wuliang Heaven to the North Sea Stone Forest, intending to find the first part of the Undying Scripture.
• Ji Hao boarded a Nether Ship and studied visions of ancient bloodshed while it carried him through the deathly black sea.
• Ji Hao emerged into an inverted world with a thunder-filled Time Pool and investigated its power.
• Ji Hao connected to the Time Pool and saw the Ruthless Emperor urge someone to return quickly to the Nine Heavens before the vision shattered.

Ji Hao climbed a Superb Peak in the North Sea Stone Forest, overcame its thunder trial, and received a blessing and guidance from an ancient True Immortal thunder spirit. After others learned of his recent victories, he continued climbing and set a new record by ascending nine Superb Peaks in one day.

• Ji Hao recalled the looming threat of the Weird Race and resolved to cultivate quickly so he could help change the future battle.
• Ji Hao fought his way through the thunder attacks on a Superb Peak and reached its summit.
• The ancient thunder spirit's scriptures improved Ji Hao's understanding of thunder, and the spirit bestowed a Thunder Mark and blessing upon him.
• Cultivators recognized Ji Hao as the Thunder Emperor and spread news of his victories against powerful opponents.
• Ji Hao climbed nine Superb Peaks in one day, breaking the record.

Ji Hao headed into the North Sea Stone Forest’s Ultimate Trial Ground to seek the Undying Scripture, ignoring legendary peaks along the way. He forced his way onto the narrow path, awakening the ancient mountains, then saw a bizarre mist that even his immortal eyes could not pierce.

• Ji Hao found that the scripture recitations no longer helped complete his nearly perfected Human Dao and set out for the Undying Scripture.
• He passed peaks that had remained unclimbed for ages, despite learning that the Phoenix Girl and Wang Quan had conquered some of the region’s legendary trials.
• Ji Hao reached six ancient mountains and chose a narrow, dangerous path leading toward the Ultimate Trial Ground.
• An invisible force blocked Ji Hao, but he broke through with a punch, causing the enormous mountains to shake.
• Ji Hao resisted the overwhelming Daoist principles on the path as the mountains rumbled and rocks fell.
• Ji Hao opened his heavenly eye and saw bizarre mist that obscured everything beyond three feet.

Ji Hao overcame the Ultimate Trial Ground’s forty-nine Great Dao Chains, then was transported into a newly formed ancient realm of five-colored soil. There, he possessed a Primordial God-Demon Embryo and used its connection to the newborn world’s myriad Daos to perfect his Hongmeng Heavenly Dao.

• Ji Hao saw that the mist on the final trial path was made of karma and pressed onward despite its suppression.
• Forty-nine Great Dao Chains attacked Ji Hao, who broke them using the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao, the Thunder Emperor Technique, and the Wuji Seal.
• Karmic mist suddenly enveloped Ji Hao and transported him into a newly opened ancient realm filled with five-colored soil and newborn Dao laws.
• Ji Hao discovered a Primordial God-Demon Embryo and merged his Divine Soul with its body before it had developed a will.
• Ji Hao absorbed the realm’s primordial essence and myriad rules, bringing his Hongmeng Heavenly Dao closer to perfection as the embryo began evolving a firmament.

Ji Hao used the Cause of All Fruits to witness scenes from the past, then spent ten thousand years cultivating in a world of waning dharma. He met Shi Hao, who called himself Huang, and the two began an eagerly anticipated battle.

• Ji Hao’s divine eyes were destroyed as he saw the Footprint Emperor open the world and ancient realms fall beneath rains of Immortal King blood.
• Ji Hao arrived in a world of waning dharma, contemplated its principles, and cultivated for ten thousand years.
• Ji Hao discovered a divine mountain whose formation gathered the fortune of nine blessed lands and called out to its cultivator.
• Ji Hao and Shi Hao met inside the mountain, recognized each other as Red Dust Immortals, and exchanged the names Haotian and Huang.
• Ji Hao challenged Huang, and the two clashed, shaking heaven and earth.

Ji Hao and Shi Hao fought to push past the limits of their cultivation, unleashing powerful techniques in a battle that shook the ages. Shi Hao manifested multiple transformed selves, but Ji Hao’s attempt to use the same technique failed, leaving him baffled.

• Ji Hao and Shi Hao began fighting, each seeking the pressure needed to break through his cultivation limit.
• Shi Hao used the Samsara Precious Technique, while Ji Hao countered with Heaven-and-Earth in the Sleeve and Heaven-and-Earth in the Palm.
• The two clashed with the Kun Peng Technique, lightning, and other secret arts, and their battle field threatened to destroy the surrounding world.
• Shi Hao formed a Dao Palace for his past, present, and future selves, then used He Transforms Freely, He Transforms Through the Ages to transform into multiple figures.
• Ji Hao tried to use the same technique but produced no effect, and he wondered why it had stopped working.

Ji Hao found that he could not use Desolation’s Transmuting Self Freedom Technique against its master, so he summoned his own One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones instead. The eight combatants resumed their battle, unleashing powers that shook the River of Time and left them grievously wounded.

• Ji Hao failed to activate the Transmuting Self Freedom Technique against Shi Hao and resolved to rely more on his own Emperor Law.
• Ji Hao realized that his reduced standing in the past’s spacetime let him summon the past, present, and future bodies with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• Ji Hao’s three temporal bodies emerged, including a future body wielding a Thunder Pond filled with heavenly lightning and the laws of the heavens.
• The eight combatants resumed their clash, unleashing techniques that shattered space and shook the River of Time.
• Ji Hao’s future body dominated with Chaotic Lightning, and the exchange left the combatants bleeding and exposed to the bone.

After returning to Ancient Immortal, Ji Hao opened Undying Peak with the White Bone Key and obtained the four pages of the Undying Scripture. The pages vanished after imprinting their contents in his mind, leaving him convinced that a powerful being had created the scripture.

• Ji Hao and Shi Hao ended their battle without declaring a winner, then each returned to his own time and space.
• At Undying Peak, Ji Hao witnessed a vision of the Nine Heavens collapsing into nineteen fragments and dismissed it to restore the mountain’s golden splendor.
• Ji Hao used the White Bone Key given by the Stone King to awaken and open Undying Peak.
• The mountain’s golden pages appeared, but the eruption destroyed the ancient medicines growing on its slopes, upsetting Ji Hao.
• Ji Hao touched the four pages, found he could read their unfamiliar script, and memorized the Undying Scripture as the pages and surrounding celestial bodies disappeared.

Ji Hao cultivated the Undying Scripture for a hundred thousand years while the war continued, and Wang Quan rose to prominence on the Border Wasteland Battlefield by killing powerful Foreign Land opponents. The chapter ended as a supreme Quasi-Immortal King appeared in response to Wang Quan’s attacks.

• Ji Hao absorbed the essence qi of the Greater Universe and completed a transformation that made his body undying and imperishable.
• A hundred thousand years passed while the war continued, and Wang Quan became the leading figure on the battlefield.
• Wang Quan used the Immortal Phoenix Slash and his Divine Soul Dao Sword to kill a fleeing True Immortal.
• A supreme Quasi-Immortal King appeared after Wang Quan killed two True Immortals in succession.
• Wang Quan had become a True Immortal thirty thousand years earlier after slaying an Innate Saint Spirit and using its body to repair flaws in his foundation.

After emerging from the Ultimate Trial Ground a hundred thousand years late, Ji Hao followed a thread of karma to the Gate of Origins and entered a deadly formation resembling the Sea of Boundaries. He spent thirty thousand years studying it, then prepared to leave through a teleportation array.

• Ji Hao realized karmic backlash had sent him a hundred thousand years into the future and warned himself not to interfere too much in the era’s war.
• Ji Hao used immortal blood to open the Gate of Origins and stepped into the passage beyond it.
• Ji Hao emerged into a deadly formation of world-like bubbles that resembled a simulated Sea of Boundaries.
• Ji Hao sat down to study the formation and cultivate, while the Gate of Origins vanished behind him.
• After thirty thousand years, Ji Hao decided to leave and traced a teleportation array in the earth.

Ji Hao found several Thunder Ponds in the Lightning Abyss and tried to claim them all for his Hongmeng Heavenly Dao. After binding the Thunder Ponds, he followed a newly revealed path into the abyss and reached an ancient stele.

• Ji Hao found multiple Thunder Ponds emerging from the Lightning Abyss and considered which one to choose.
• Ji Hao rejected choosing only one Thunder Pond and sealed the surrounding space to capture all four.
• Ji Hao used Primordial Purple Qi to imprint his Dao Fruit on the Thunder Ponds and forcibly put them away.
• Ji Hao observed the destruction caused by the Thunder Ponds and saw a cobblestone path appear in the abyss.
• Ji Hao followed the path and found a stele inscribed in the most ancient Immortal Script.

Ji Hao crossed into the Sea of Boundaries and forged the four Thunder Ponds into the Hongmeng Thunder Pond using Yuanshi primordial essence. The completed artifact transformed his thunder emperor dao fruit into a Quasi-Immortal King-level immortal dao fruit, and Ji Hao continued to pursue a greater goal.

• Ji Hao reached the Dam Boundary Realm after traveling through the Sea of Boundaries and entered the sea despite its power to trap and destroy powerful beings.
• Ji Hao crossed the Sea of Boundaries for ten thousand years and settled on an imperishable rock to study the four Thunder Ponds.
• Ji Hao created Yuanshi primordial essence from the cycle of world creation and destruction, then used it with hongmeng qi to fuse the four Thunder Ponds.
• Ji Hao's forging caused lightning tribulations across the Heavens and Myriad Realms to fluctuate, harming Heavenly Prodigies as the work continued for nine thousand years.
• Ji Hao completed the Hongmeng Thunder Pond, and the Thunder Emperor Battle Armor emerged as his thunder emperor dao fruit advanced to the Quasi-Immortal King level.

Ji Hao suppressed the immortal dao Thunder Emperor dao fruit with the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao dao fruit, overcoming the heavenly tribulation and reaching the peak of immortality as a War Immortal. His ascension light shone across the Sea of Boundaries, drawing countless gazes.

• Ji Hao began absorbing the Thunder Emperor manifestation, but its power clashed with the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao dao fruit and cracked his body.
• Ji Hao used the Sea of Boundaries Array to suppress the Thunder Emperor dao fruit and shattered the Thunder Emperor Technique's Precious Seal.
• The Immortal-Slaying Sickle descended from the tribulation, but Ji Hao's Hongmeng Thunder Pond destroyed and devoured it.
• Ji Hao suppressed the Thunder Emperor power with purple Hongmeng qi, merging the Quasi-Immortal King-level Thunder Emperor dao fruit into the Hongmeng dao fruit.
• Ji Hao attained the War Immortal fruit status and reached the pinnacle of immortality as his life experiences melded into his dao fruit.
• Ji Hao's immortal ascension light spread across the Sea of Boundaries, drawing countless gazes.

Ji Hao fought a wounded Fallen Immortal King in the Sea of Boundaries and used the power of the worlds and his Thunder Emperor Precious Technique to gain the advantage. He left the Fallen Immortal King badly damaged and reached for his divine soul imprint to learn why he had fallen.

• A Fallen Immortal King appeared amid darkness and attacked Ji Hao, seeking to use him to mend his wounds.
• Ji Hao and the Fallen Immortal King battled across the Chaos Sea, where the king wounded Ji Hao's arm and Ji Hao eventually forced him back with phoenix flames and thunder.
• Ji Hao invoked the power of the heavens and myriad worlds, then shattered the Fallen Immortal King's Fangtian Painted Halberd with the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique.
• Ji Hao refined his thunder techniques against the king, repeatedly blasting away dark matter and breaking his opponent's body apart.
• Ji Hao reached for the Fallen Immortal King's divine soul imprint, but the king resisted and warned that darkness was eternal.

Ji Hao dissected a Fallen Immortal King for ten thousand years to study the Immortal King realm, then discovered that the king’s dark essence contained a trace of quasi-immortal emperor blood. The blood unleashed overwhelming power that shattered Ji Hao’s body and darkened the surrounding Sea of Boundaries, but he retreated beyond its strongest range and suppressed the remaining dark matter.

• Ji Hao subdued the Fallen Immortal King with the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique and bound his divine soul in the Hongmeng Thunder Pond.
• Ji Hao dissected the Fallen Immortal King’s body, divine soul, and Dao Fruit for ten thousand years to study the Immortal King realm.
• Ji Hao found a strange dark symbol in the Fallen Immortal King’s divine soul and refined his body into a mass of dark essence blood.
• Ji Hao drew out a trace of nine-colored quasi-immortal emperor blood from the dark essence, and its aura overwhelmed him and spread darkness across the Sea of Boundaries.
• Ji Hao used the Void Seal to retreat tens of billions of worlds away, then isolated and suppressed the remaining dark matter with the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique and the Void Seal.

Ji Hao survived the corruption of Quasi-Immortal Emperor blood by cultivating for five thousand years, but he still could not break through the Immortal King realm. He ventured deeper into the Sea of Boundaries, encountered a deadly dark storm, and discovered that its rules made finding the way back difficult even for an Immortal King.

• Ji Hao used the Hongmeng Thunder Pond to suppress dark matter, but a trace of Quasi-Immortal Emperor blood escaped and gave birth to a dark will inside him.
• Ji Hao fought the darkness with the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique and secluded himself on the Sea of Boundaries for five thousand years, eventually containing the dark matter without letting it corrupt him.
• Ji Hao roamed the Sea of Boundaries and failed to find the insight needed to break through the Immortal King realm, so he continued strengthening his foundations.
• Ji Hao encountered a dark storm of Great Dao rules that had followed an Immortal King's death; it wounded him and ground away one of his arms.
• Ji Hao ventured farther into the Sea of Boundaries despite sensing danger and found that its rules had turned the waters into a cage, making the way back difficult to locate.

Chapter Summary: Prelude to the Great Reckoning

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao explores the dangerous Sea of Boundaries, where many Immortal Kings become trapped, perish, or are corrupted by the Dark Storm into Fallen Immortal Kings.
• He confirms that his karmic connection to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths can guide him home, eliminating the risk of becoming permanently lost. With this assurance, he continues deeper into the sea.
• Ji Hao kills a gigantic, corrupted Ancient Beast of True Immortal level with a single finger, demonstrating the overwhelming gap between his strength and that of ordinary True Immortals.
• He is then ambushed by a corrupted Immortal King. Fighting solely with his own power rather than borrowing strength from the Heavens and Myriad Realms, Ji Hao defeats and kills the opponent with the Thunder God Spear.
• Another clear-minded Immortal King observes the battle from a distance but chooses not to interfere.
• Over thousands of years, Ji Hao witnesses the vastness and dangers of the Sea of Boundaries, including battles between Immortal Kings, ancient ruins, and the remains and inheritances of powerful dead experts.
• He collects the remains and inheritance of one deceased Immortal King, showing respect and responsibility toward the dead.
• Ji Hao notices that many Immortal Kings are already returning from the depths of the sea, despite the Great Reckoning supposedly being an entire Epoch away. He realizes that, because crossing the sea can take millions of years, these returns are an early sign of future upheaval.
• The chapter outlines the coming catastrophe: returning Immortal Kings may discover their clans destroyed, provoking revenge and conflict; the Four Dark Emperors may harvest living beings to obtain the Skeleton Immortal Emperor’s scriptures; and these tensions will eventually lead to wars, the mobilization of the Dark Army, and the destruction of civilizations.
• Dark storms and other disasters at the far end of the Sea of Boundaries may force travelers to retreat, potentially causing further chaos.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao becomes more confident and secure in his expedition after confirming that karma can always guide him back home.
• His combat ability is emphasized: he can effortlessly destroy True Immortal-level beings and personally defeat corrupted Immortal Kings without relying on external power.
• He displays compassion toward corrupted beings by granting the Ancient Beast release rather than treating it merely as an enemy.
• His sense of responsibility is shown when he gathers the remains of a dead Immortal King whose inheritance he receives.
• Ji Hao also gains a broader understanding of the Sea of Boundaries and the historical forces that will shape the coming Great Reckoning.

Significant Themes

• The dangers of exploration and corruption: The Sea of Boundaries tests not only physical strength but also the mind and identity of those who enter it.
• Karma and destiny: Ji Hao’s karmic bond with the Nine Heavens provides a path home and protects him from the fate of those who become lost.
• The hierarchy of power: The chapter stresses the enormous differences between True Immortals, Immortal Kings, and even stronger beings.
• The inevitability of conflict: The return of countless Immortal Kings, old grudges, destroyed clans, and dark ambitions will inevitably trigger widespread war.
• Civilization under threat: The coming Great Reckoning is presented as a catastrophe capable of destroying entire cultivation civilizations.
• Inheritance and legacy: The writings and remains left behind by dead Immortal Kings represent both the rewards of the Sea of Boundaries and the continuation of their ambitions.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao interacts violently with two corrupted beings: he mercifully destroys the Ancient Beast and battles the corrupted Immortal King in a direct confrontation.
• A clear-minded Immortal King watches Ji Hao defeat the corrupted expert but remains detached, reflecting the Sea of Boundaries’ indifferent and individualistic atmosphere.
• Ji Hao’s relationship with the dead Immortal King whose inheritance he claims is indirect but respectful, as he preserves the remains rather than treating them as mere spoils.
• More broadly, the chapter depicts Immortal Kings from different civilizations and races encountering one another, settling grudges through battles that foreshadow the larger conflicts of the Great Reckoning.

Ji Hao discovered that the Ancient Medicine growing beside him was connected to the Fake Medicine Seller, a Supreme Giant pursuing the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm. He used the Spiritual Root to study the Fake Medicine Seller’s Dao, while the two became linked through a secret technique.

• As a devastating Dark Storm approached, other Immortal Kings prepared to return early, but Ji Hao continued toward the Other Shore.
• After several thousand years, Ji Hao found another Immortal King legacy and began cultivating in seclusion.
• A Spiritual Root appeared on Ji Hao’s island, where its three flowers formed a tiny figure, a shifting weapon, and a stream of light that tempered them.
• Ji Hao recognized the Ancient Medicine as connected to the Fake Medicine Seller and examined the Supreme Giant’s many Dao Fruits and gathered Great Daos.
• Ji Hao linked himself to a portion of the Spiritual Root, allowing him to comprehend the Fake Medicine Seller’s Emperor-Light Dao as the Fake Medicine Seller studied Ji Hao’s Great Dao.

After spending a million years traversing the Sea of Boundaries, Ji Hao awoke in a desolate world after a devastating battle and glimpsed the formation of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Still badly depleted, he recovered in the Hongmeng Thunder Pond and turned nearby colossal beasts into food while refining the body of a captured Immortal King.

• Ji Hao absorbed the Fake Medicine Seller's accumulated Dao principles, then left the island to fight and kill returning Immortal Kings in the Sea of Boundaries.
• A million years passed as Ji Hao battled dangers, including a Fused Monster, before his injuries forced him into a healing slumber that carried him to an unknown world.
• Ji Hao explored a barren universe and saw nineteen fragments of heaven and earth separating to form the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, then awoke from the vision.
• Starlight washed over Ji Hao, but his origin remained exhausted after his long journey and battles through the Sea of Boundaries.
• Ji Hao killed and cooked several colossal beasts, then focused on the Immortal King's body lying in the Hongmeng Thunder Pond, where thunder purified its dark matter and refined its essence.

After restoring himself in the Sea of Boundaries, Ji Hao set out for the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, where he could not yet become an Immortal King because of karmic suppression. In the Late Ancient Immortal Era, a Foreign Land Immortal King appeared at the Border Wasteland Battlefield, signaling the beginning of an assault on the Nine Heavens.

• Ji Hao concluded that traveling backward through time had burdened him with karma that prevented him from breaking through to the Immortal King realm.
• After fifty thousand years of recovery, Ji Hao followed the Cause of All Fruits and the Footprint Emperor's tracks toward the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Ji Hao recalled that the coming fall of the Ancient Immortal era would follow the Thunder Emperor's death, when dark matter and the Foreign Land's Immortal Kings overwhelmed the Nine Heavens.
• A figure from the Foreign Land arrived at the Border Wasteland Battlefield, and his Immortal King pressure shook the Nine Heavens and the Immortal Domain.
• Immortal Kings recognized the attack as a harbinger of the Great Reckoning, and the Foreign Land targeted the Nine Heavens partly because a Rotten Wooden Chest had been discovered there.