Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao confronts the ancient Yin Gods, beings even older than Butcher, and unleashes his ultimate thunder technique.
• Drawing upon the Hongmeng Thunder Pond and the authority of the Thunder Emperor, he fuses countless forms of lightning—including Chaos, Yin-Yang, Five Elements, and tribulation lightning from past and future eras—into the Dutian Yuqing Divine Thunder.
• This thunder completely suppresses the Immortal Tribulation Sword Formula and destroys the nine-headed Yin God’s physical body. Ji Hao then uses the Hongmeng Divine Light and the Scripture of Deliverance to cleanse its Divine Souls of resentment and restore their awareness.
• Ji Hao transforms the thunder into a Dutian War Spear, inscribed with the Scripture of Deliverance. Empowered by faith from the Heavens and Myriad Realms, the spear delivers the remaining Yin Gods and Ghost Kings, destroying their bodies while liberating their souls.
• The battle devastates the entire world, but Ji Hao’s thunder-based Dao balances its excessive Nether Qi. The ruined world may eventually regain vitality, give birth to new Innate Deities, and return to a primordial state.
• The Benevolent Thought of Emperor Cang appears and thanks Ji Hao. He gives Ji Hao a scripture tome made from Nine-Colored Immortal Metal and warns him never to cross to the other side of the Sea of Boundaries. Ji Hao privately suggests that he may disregard this warning.
• The delivered Immortal Kings reappear as manifestations formed from their lingering obsessions and origins. They combine their Great Daos to create a powerful Heavenly Emperor Imprint.
• With Ji Hao’s intervention, their merged power forms a supreme Divine Dao Holy Sword, intended to let him command the Daoist Principles of all the Kings and exercise genuine Heavenly Emperor authority.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao demonstrates overwhelming growth and mastery over thunder, tribulation, faith, and deliverance. He is no longer merely defeating enemies; he is reshaping worlds and determining the fate of entire Dao systems.
• His concept of “deliverance” is revealed to include physical destruction when it frees beings from resentment and suffering. This reflects his increasingly ruthless but purposeful approach to salvation.
• Ji Hao becomes more ambitious and confident. Although warned away from the Sea of Boundaries, he is clearly tempted to pursue whatever lies beyond it.
• Emperor Cang’s Benevolent Thought remains grateful but conflicted. His warning suggests that the Sea of Boundaries contains a danger connected to Ji Hao’s future path.
• The reappearing Immortal Kings are no longer corrupted by hatred. Their cooperation indicates that, despite Ji Hao having destroyed their chance at true rebirth, they recognize or accept his role in restoring order.

Significant Themes

• Destruction as salvation: Ji Hao’s violent methods are framed as a form of deliverance, raising questions about whether annihilation can also be mercy.
• Authority and succession: The Holy Sword represents the transfer and consolidation of the Kings’ authority into Ji Hao’s hands, marking his evolution toward supreme imperial rule.
• Balance between opposing forces: Ji Hao’s lightning Dao counteracts the world’s Nether Qi, showing how destruction can restore balance and create the conditions for new life.
• The burden of destiny: The warning about the Sea of Boundaries and Ji Hao’s refusal to rule it out emphasize his willingness to challenge predetermined limits.
• Legacy and revenge: The Kings’ gift may be gratitude, but Ji Hao suspects it also makes him responsible for avenging them against their enemies.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao overwhelms the ancient Yin Gods and Ghost Kings, physically defeating them while spiritually freeing them through the Scripture of Deliverance.
• He exchanges words with Emperor Cang’s Benevolent Thought, who thanks him, rewards him with the scripture tome, and issues a grave warning.
• After returning, the Immortal Kings silently cooperate with Ji Hao, merging their Daos and allowing him to forge the Divine Dao Holy Sword.
• Ji Hao interprets their gift with suspicion, believing they may expect him to avenge their destruction and continue their unfinished struggle.

Ji Hao reforged the Divine Dao Emperor Sword with his Heavenly Emperor Saint Sword, restored Immortal King-level strength, and tracked the Pumo King to a hidden refuge. He confronted the Pumo King’s Pumo Clan and exposed the ancient being’s identity, leaving the Pumo Tree host stunned.

• Ji Hao fused the Divine Dao Emperor Sword and Heavenly Emperor Saint Sword into the Heavenly Emperor Divine Dao Holy Sword, then used it to escape the nether hell and recover fragments of his divine soul.
• Ji Hao resolved to hunt down the Pumo King and used his restored strength to travel to the Pumo Clan’s hidden region.
• More than a dozen Pumo Trees attacked Ji Hao, but he crushed them with a single strike and located an Ancient Coffin concealing the Pumo King.
• Ji Hao found a Pumo Tree hiding the Charred Staff and destroyed the tree’s Cursed Demonic Whiskers without being harmed.
• Ji Hao addressed the being within the staff as the Pumo King and mentioned their battle in Ancient Immortal, leaving the Pumo Tree host shocked by its ancestor’s identity.

Ji Hao revealed himself as the resurrected Thunder Emperor and unveiled his human-headed, dragon-bodied Thunder Ancestor Form. After the Pumo King’s strongest attack failed, Ji Hao prepared to kill him with the True Dragon Precious Technique.

• The Pumo King recognized Ji Hao’s thunder power as belonging to the supposedly slain Thunder Emperor, but refused to believe he had returned.
• Ji Hao summoned the Thunder Pond and formed the Thunder God Dharma Manifestation, reshaping his body into its human-headed, dragon-bodied form.
• The Pumo King unleashed his Immortal King imprint and the Pumo Tree’s destructive seeds, but Ji Hao’s divine radiance absorbed the attack.
• Ji Hao suppressed the Pumo King and struck at him with the True Dragon Dharma Manifestation as the Pumo King screamed in desperation.

Ji Hao annihilated the Pumo King and erased his bloodline through karmic threads, then learned Shi Hao had gone to the Kun Peng Nest and traveled to the North Sea. There, he joined a group heading toward the nest and recognized signs that Shi Hao had already fought two divine birds.

• Ji Hao crushed the Pumo King’s imprint, burned the Pumo Tree, and used karma to destroy those connected to the Pumo King across the Three Thousand Provinces and Foreign Land.
• Foreign Land Immortal Kings sensed the karmic lightning and feared that the long-dead Thunder Emperor had returned.
• After learning Shi Hao had gone to the Kun Peng Nest with Gegu, Ji Hao left Stone Village and traveled to the northern end of the Desolate Domain.
• Ji Hao joined a young girl’s group sailing toward the nest and recognized his own blade technique on two wingless Divine Griffins.
• Ji Hao heard the surviving Griffins’ companions plan to intercept Shi Hao and warned them they would not get the chance.

Ji Hao crossed the dangerous sea to reach the Kun Peng Nest, effortlessly defeating the threats in his path and leaving the young girl a Supreme Hall technique inheritance. Inside the nest, he found Shi Hao and Gegu chasing cultivators for food.

• Ji Hao crushed two king-and-marquis-level experts who had schemed against the young girl and her companions.
• Ji Hao destroyed a flock of more than ten thousand sea bats with a gesture and gave the young girl a Supreme Hall technique inheritance.
• Ji Hao shattered a headless deceased Venerable and passed through the sea’s ghost ships and lurking horrors.
• Ji Hao reached the Kun Peng Nest through an ancient teleportation array and sensed the suppressive force governing the area.
• Ji Hao saw Shi Hao and Gegu chasing cultivators inside the nest, with Shi Hao riding Gegu and wielding a branch of Kunmu.

Chapter Summary: “Kunmu, Boastful Heavenly Court (Please Subscribe)”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The chapter explains the importance of Kunmu, or the World Tree, once a foundational object connecting Heaven, Earth, humanity, and the gods. The World Tree served as a Realm-Fixing Object, carrying the laws and Great Dao of an entire realm.
• The original World Tree was destroyed during the great battle of the Late Ancient Immortal Era by numerous Immortal Kings from the Foreign Land. Its destruction contributed to the incompleteness of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• The remaining branch of the World Tree had been obtained by Kun Peng and was now used by Shi Hao/Ji Hao as a weapon. Though immensely valuable, Ji Hao treated it casually, even considering it useful as a barbecue rack.
• Shi Hao and Gegu fought their way through the Kun Peng Lair, defeating Divine Descendants and Venerable Spiritual Bodies. Their partnership, later joined by a beautiful young girl, marked the beginnings of the bandit organization that would eventually dominate the Three Thousand Provinces.
• Ji Hao returned to the Kun Peng Lair but showed little interest in the Ten Fiends Precious Technique, since his cultivation had already reached the level of an Immortal King Giant approaching Quasi-Immortal Emperorhood.
• His real objective was a mysterious gate resembling the Gate of All Wonders. A river of condensed spiritual energy flowed from it, though Ji Hao considered this energy inferior to his own Tribulation Lightning Liquid.
• Passing through the gate, Ji Hao entered a frozen realm where time itself had stopped. Past, present, and future existed simultaneously, and the River of Time flowed through a world of absolute stillness.
• Ji Hao reflected on the lofty Dao of beginninglessness and endlessness, associated with Great Emperor Wu Shi, and compared it with his own Dao of the Three Pure Ones’ Cycle. Both had touched the boundary of the ultimate principle known as “One,” though the Great Dao remained endless.
• A small Black Paper Boat drifted down the River of Time. Ji Hao recognized it and immediately became uneasy, suggesting that he had encountered it before and understood its ominous significance.
• He seized the boat. As he held it, it displayed visions of flourishing life, death, the Six Paths of Samsara, and an entire ancient realm.
• A blood-red message on the boat read: “The Merger of All Realms is imminent. Boastful Heavenly Court, rest assured for now.”

Character Developments

• Ji Hao/Shi Hao is portrayed as overwhelmingly powerful and increasingly detached from ordinary treasures. He regards the Ten Fiends Precious Technique and spiritual-energy river as unimportant compared with his own cultivation and resources.
• Despite his confidence and supreme strength, Ji Hao becomes visibly troubled by the Black Paper Boat. His reaction reveals that he recognizes a serious, recurring threat connected to it.
• Ji Hao’s understanding of the Great Dao deepens as he considers the relationship between Wu Shi’s Dao of beginninglessness and endlessness, his own Three Pure Ones’ Cycle, and the ultimate concept of “One.”
• Gegu is established as Ji Hao’s powerful companion, fighting alongside him as they carve through the Kun Peng Lair.
• The addition of the unnamed Beautiful Young Girl begins the formation of the future bandit organization, expanding the central group beyond Ji Hao and Gegu.

Significant Themes

• The World Tree as the foundation of reality: The destruction of Kunmu symbolizes the damage done to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Restoring the realm requires repairing its fundamental laws, not merely patching its surface.
• Power and detachment: Ji Hao’s casual attitude toward treasures once considered legendary emphasizes how far he has surpassed ordinary cultivators.
• Time, fate, and causality: The realm behind the gate embodies frozen time, where past and future coexist. It raises questions about whether events can be changed without disrupting reality.
• The endless pursuit of the Dao: Even reaching the boundary of “One” is presented as only the beginning. Beyond One lie Two, Three, and the myriad things, suggesting that cultivation has no final limit.
• Ominous prophecy and cosmic upheaval: The Black Paper Boat’s message warns that the “Merger of All Realms” is approaching, foreshadowing a major future crisis involving the Boastful Heavenly Court.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and Gegu operate as a highly effective combat partnership, overwhelming the inhabitants of the Kun Peng Lair.
• Their later alliance with the Beautiful Young Girl creates the initial core of the future bandit organization.
• Ji Hao interacts indirectly with the legacy of Great Emperor Wu Shi, comparing their respective Dao paths and acknowledging Wu Shi’s achievements.
• Ji Hao’s encounter with the Black Paper Boat is less a conversation than a confrontation with a familiar supernatural omen; his reluctant recognition of it suggests a deeper connection to past or future events.

Ji Hao read the Ruthless Emperor’s message across time, endured the resulting karmic backlash, and advanced into the Emperor-Light Immortal King domain. Meanwhile, Shi Hao mastered the Kun Peng runes, recovered with Kun Peng’s true blood, and received Immortal King essence blood from Ji Hao as he continued to grow.

• Ji Hao examined the Black Paper Boat and reflected on the coming war between the Foreign Land and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Ji Hao saw the Ruthless Emperor send the boat through the River of Time, and their exchange triggered a karmic backlash that he overcame and used to advance.
• The karmic backlash also struck the Ruthless Emperor, but the Three Realms and Six Paths helped her forge an undying samsara Treasure Wheel.
• Shi Hao comprehended the Kun Peng runes as the Kun Peng Nest collapsed, then absorbed Kun Peng’s true blood and healed his battered body.
• Shi Hao committed the Kun Peng Technique to memory, adding it to the Ten Fiends Precious Techniques he was nurturing.
• Ji Hao split an Immortal King’s essence-blood drop between Shi Hao and Gegu, then formed an Immortal Cauldron around Shi Hao.

Shi Hao sacrificed his Ten Grotto-Heavens to create the Unique Grotto-Heaven, while Ji Hao entered the Kun Peng Nest, recovered Tianhuang, and reforged it into an Immortal King's divine weapon. Ji Hao promised to find Kun Peng's Child and avenge Kun Peng against the Crippled Immortals.

• Shi Hao used Thunder Emperor blood essence to rebuild his Ten Grotto-Heavens into a single Unique Grotto-Heaven, then set out seeking a formidable opponent.
• Ji Hao entered the Kun Peng Nest and overcame its ancient formation and Kun Peng's powerful defensive strike.
• Ji Hao found Tianhuang broken into three pieces, and its deity awakened to reveal Kun Peng's history and ask him to protect her child.
• Ji Hao promised to find Kun Peng's Child and deal with the Crippled Immortals who had attacked Kun Peng.
• Ji Hao reforged Tianhuang with Chaos Divine Thunder and Primordial purple qi, restoring it as an Immortal King's divine weapon.

Ji Hao gave Shi Yi a powerful baptism with Thunder Emperor blood and guided him toward cultivating his double pupils, preparing him for a fair future duel with Shi Hao. Meanwhile, Shi Hao and Gegu returned to Stone Village with food and spoils, and their feast brought the villagers breakthroughs and renewed youth.

• Ji Hao descended into the Chaotic Ancient Era and used Thunder Emperor blood and Upper Realm laws to transform Shi Yi during a day-long baptism.
• Shi Yi thanked Ji Hao, who urged him to break cultivation limits, gave him a Ten Evils secret technique, and told him to rely on his double pupils.
• Ji Hao left Shi Yi stronger so he could one day fight Shi Hao as an equal and help resolve Shi Hao's lingering obsession.
• Shi Hao and Gegu returned to Stone Village with Fierce Beast meat, and the villagers feasted on it with diluted Kun Peng Wine.
• The feast helped several villagers break through, rejuvenated clan elders, and Shi Hao distributed spoils and weapons.

Chapter Summary: Emperor’s Fall Pagoda, Shi Hao Battles True Dragon Gegu Again

Key Plot Points and Events

• Shi Hao reunites with Ji Hao and Liu Shen and asks about the mysterious Little Pagoda he has been wearing in his hair.
• Ji Hao and Liu Shen reveal that the pagoda has an extraordinary history. It was once a nine-tiered Quasi-Immortal Emperor weapon that fought alongside a powerful being during the Emperor Fall Era. After its master was killed and its Dao principles shattered, the pagoda broke apart and scattered across the world.
• The current Little Pagoda is only a remnant. Other fragments are held by the Yin Yang Daoist and the master of Immortal-Slaying Ridge.
• Ji Hao refuses to explain the pagoda’s full origins, implying that Shi Hao is not yet strong enough to understand the secrets of that ancient era. Liu Shen confirms that the pagoda is severely incomplete, while Ji Hao advises them to let matters develop naturally.
• A month later, True Dragon Gegu kills a powerful Earth Dragon using the True Dragon Precious Technique, while Shi Hao practices the Grass-Character Sword Art. His Silver Sword Grass produces terrifying Sword Qi capable of cutting through stars.
• Ji Hao observes Shi Hao’s rapid growth and recognizes that his extraordinary talent, perseverance, and foundation—built from the Ten Evils Art and Immortal King Blood—will allow him to become exceptionally powerful.
• Believing that Shi Hao needs real combat rather than constant solitary training, Ji Hao creates a Small World from the Void and transforms the True Dragon Nest into a training ground.
• Shi Hao and Gegu prepare to fight seriously. Gegu wants to challenge Shi Hao again after losing when he was younger, insisting that his previous defeat occurred because Shi Hao took advantage of his immaturity.

Character Developments

• Shi Hao: Becomes increasingly curious about the Little Pagoda and begins to understand that it is far more dangerous and significant than it appears. His cultivation and mastery of the Grass-Character Sword Art improve greatly, showing his growing combat potential.
• Ji Hao: Acts as a powerful mentor and protector. He deliberately withholds knowledge about the Emperor Fall Era so it will not hinder Shi Hao’s development, while also arranging a serious battle to accelerate his progress.
• Liu Shen: Displays deep knowledge of ancient weapons and recognizes the Little Pagoda’s extraordinary past, though even she admits that its current condition is difficult to understand.
• True Dragon Gegu: Shows rapid growth and increased confidence. Rather than becoming arrogant after improving, he remains determined to overcome his earlier defeat and seeks a fair rematch with Shi Hao.
• True Dragon: Is pleased by Gegu’s attitude and growth, seeing that he has become more disciplined and less arrogant than in the past.

Significant Themes

• The weight of ancient history: The Little Pagoda represents forgotten conflicts and powers from an era so remote that even its origins cannot easily be explained.
• Growth through battle: Ji Hao emphasizes that genuine combat is necessary for Shi Hao to turn his exceptional potential into true strength.
• Incomplete power and restoration: The Little Pagoda’s broken state mirrors the loss and fragmentation of ancient legacies, while its remaining power hints at what it could become if restored.
• Humility and perseverance: Gegu’s willingness to challenge Shi Hao again, despite his earlier defeat, reflects the importance of persistence without arrogance.
• Mentorship and protection: Ji Hao balances shielding Shi Hao from dangerous knowledge with giving him opportunities to face meaningful challenges.

Character Interactions

• Shi Hao questions Ji Hao and Liu Shen about the Little Pagoda, but Ji Hao gives only cryptic answers, believing that learning too much too early could hinder Shi Hao’s growth.
• Liu Shen and Ji Hao discuss the pagoda’s ominous background and agree not to interfere with its fate.
• Ji Hao observes Shi Hao’s training and praises his progress, recognizing the advantages of his foundation and natural talent.
• Ji Hao then directly intervenes by creating a controlled battlefield where Shi Hao and Gegu can fight without danger.
• Gegu openly challenges Shi Hao to a rematch, while the True Dragon approves of Gegu’s determination and improved character.

Shi Hao and Gegu escalated their sparring match in the True Dragon Nest, each revealing powerful abilities. Shi Hao summoned the Empyrean Tribulation Light, which Gegu blocked with his true dragon essence before revealing his human form.

• Shi Hao and Gegu began their clash in earnest, trading hundreds of physical blows without either gaining an advantage.
• Shi Hao conjured an immortal phoenix that Gegu narrowly dodged, though it destroyed a nearby mountain summit.
• Shi Hao announced the end of their warm-up and unleashed blood and qi that shook the True Dragon Nest.
• Shi Hao used the Samsara Bone to manifest the power of his former Heaven Bone as Empyrean Tribulation Light.
• Gegu blocked the light with his true dragon essence and revealed his youth form clad in Dragon Scale Battle Armor.

Shi Hao defeated Gegu in a contest of strength and made the True Dragon acknowledge him as big brother. On the River of Time, Ji Hao completed his inner world cultivation system and transformed into a living manifestation of the Heavens and Myriad Realms.

• Shi Hao overwhelmed Gegu’s six techniques with his Unique Grotto-Heaven and struck him down with a single palm.
• Shi Hao wounded Gegu with the Grass-Character Sword Art, then used his Myriad Forms True Dragon Seal to overpower the True Dragon.
• Gegu admitted defeat and accepted Shi Hao as his big brother without resentment.
• Ji Hao reviewed Emperor Cang’s scripture and completed his inner world system for attaining kingship.
• Ji Hao merged the yin and yang worlds into his body, transforming his physique, mind power, and divine power.
• Ji Hao realized that his body was a cosmos and that qi was another form of a world’s manifestation.

Ji Hao merged his inner Universe World into his body, establishing the Realm King path and using his past, present, and future selves to open samsara. He intercepted a fragment of the Great Dao of Samsara, but his newly forming Heavenly Dao resisted him, so he struck his own inner world to force it to awaken its survival instinct.

• Ji Hao transformed his Universe World into origin qi within his body and named his unique cultivation realm Realm King.
• Ji Hao drew his past selves and future self together across the River of Time, then offered his inner world to revive the sealed Great Dao of Samsara.
• Ji Hao combined his past, present, and future selves and intercepted a fragment of the Great Dao of Samsara, drawing it into his inner world.
• Ji Hao found that the Heavenly Dao forming within his world resisted the Dao of Samsara, so he struck the world with his Emperor Fist to provoke its survival instinct.
• Ji Hao wounded his Qiankun Primordial Qi Precious Body, and scenes of universes perishing and stellar rivers collapsing appeared within the blood-colored world.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• As the Universe World faces destruction, its accumulated spiritual remnants form a Heavenly Dao Prototype, allowing the spirituality of Heaven to emerge.
• The Universe Will accelerates its maturation, while the surviving beings of the Heavens and Myriad Realms pray for survival. Their collective will strengthens the Heavenly Dao, demonstrating how humanity can influence divinity.
• Ji Hao uses his Innate True-Nature True Spirit to sever part of his Divine Soul and merge it with the Heavenly Dao. Seven-Colored Auspicious Clouds and divine phenomena appear as the fusion begins.
• The Taboo Law of Samsara awakens within Ji Hao. He realizes that the previous Samsara was only a physical structure without true spiritual principles, while his own Samsara Principles possess spirit but initially lack form.
• Ji Hao unites these two aspects and begins establishing a genuine Six Paths of Samsara. This reconnects severed karmic ties, giving beings hope of rebirth but also trapping them in an endless cycle of suffering.
• The Six Paths fully materialize in both the Yin and Yang Heavens. Six shadowy Grotto-Heavens restore souls and True Spirits, allowing the dead to reincarnate between the Yin and Yang realms.
• The Yin and Yang Heavenly Daos are born. Ji Hao’s Divine Soul merges with them, making him the true Lord of Heaven and enabling him to control the Origin Dao Principles.
• His body, Divine Soul, and Dao Fruit complete their transformation, allowing him to achieve the Realm King Dao Fruit and become the Lord of Qiankun Fortune. His power becomes nearly boundless, though it still does not produce the qualitative breakthrough needed for the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit.
• The birth of Samsara also strengthens the Yuanshi Grand Luo Heaven. Ji Hao absorbs vast amounts of spiritual and Hongmeng Qi, further connecting his inner Heavens and Myriad Realms with the Greater Universe.
• The newly formed Samsara begins receiving the dead. Deceased souls cross the Nether Road and the Naihe Bridge, where attachments and obsessions fall into the turbid river. Scenes from their former lives replay as they proceed toward reincarnation.

Character Development

• Ji Hao evolves from a powerful cultivator into a cosmic ruler whose Divine Soul becomes part of the Heavenly Dao. He gains authority over the Yin and Yang Heavens and becomes the embodiment of Heaven’s will.
• He demonstrates increasing insight into Samsara despite not specializing in it, suggesting that the suppressed Great Dao of Samsara is using him as a vessel to reappear.
• Ji Hao remains cautious and introspective. He questions whether the Samsara he created is truly genuine and recognizes both its promise of rebirth and its danger as an endless cycle of suffering.
• His transformation unifies his physique, Divine Soul, and Dao Fruit, greatly expanding his strength and laying the foundation for future advancement.

Significant Themes

• Life, death, and rebirth: Samsara offers the dead another chance at life while ensuring that existence remains trapped in an endless cycle.
• Hope amid destruction: Even during the collapse of worlds, living beings’ desire to survive creates and empowers the Heavenly Dao.
• Humanity shaping divinity: The prayers and survival instincts of living beings directly influence Heaven, reversing the usual relationship between gods and mortals.
• Order arising from chaos: The destruction of the world leads to the formation of new cosmic laws, Heavenly Daos, and a structured reincarnation system.
• Karma and attachment: Reincarnation reconnects karmic consequences, while powerful obsessions can survive death and influence the cycle.
• Transcendence versus imprisonment: Samsara gives beings hope against annihilation but may also prevent them from escaping the “Sea of Bitterness.”

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao interacts primarily with the Heavenly Dao, merging part of his Divine Soul with it and ultimately becoming its controlling will.
• The living beings of the Heavens and Myriad Realms influence the Heavenly Dao through collective prayer, creating an indirect relationship between mortal will and divine power.
• Ji Hao also engages intellectually with the Great Dao of Samsara, studying the Scriptures and Principles that emerge within his mind.
• The deceased souls interact with the newly formed Samsara, crossing the Nether Road and Naihe Bridge while shedding memories, karma, and attachments before reincarnation.

Chapter Summary: “Other Shore Golden Bridge vs. River of Time”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao completes the creation of a limited reincarnation cycle between the Two Realms. The river carries the lingering emotions, desires, grudges, and obsessions of the dead, making it a form of reincarnation within a confined “cage.”
• Because reincarnation is an unprecedented and taboo achievement in the Sea of Boundaries, a terrifying Heavenly Lightning Tribulation descends.
• The River of Time also rises against Ji Hao. It manifests as an enormous, world-spanning wave capable of reflecting the birth and destruction of countless worlds and threatening to drag Ji Hao from his elevated state into the river.
• Ji Hao confronts the tribulation instead of retreating. His Five-Colored Immortal Lotus supports him as his five paths of evolution begin showing signs of merging.
• His Tai Chi Diagram transforms into the Other Shore Golden Bridge, which stretches across the River of Time and blocks its assault. Despite the river’s immense power and the passage of what seems like tens of millions of years, the bridge remains completely unshaken.
• The River of Time eventually withdraws, and the Golden Bridge returns to the Tai Chi Diagram. Ji Hao falls out of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor state and must replenish his strength with Chaos Essence Qi.
• The apparent end is revealed to be only a prelude. The Great Dao of Samsara stirs sealed laws and awakens the Karmic Great Dao.
• The Power of Karma begins preparing a more dangerous attack—not by striking Ji Hao directly, but by using an external enemy to exploit his exposed position. Fragments of time reveal Ji Hao to the Weird Race, setting up the next threat.

Character Development

• Ji Hao: Demonstrates extraordinary courage and determination by directly challenging both Heavenly Punishment and the River of Time. His ability to briefly reach the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and wield the Other Shore Golden Bridge shows his growing mastery and the increasing unity of his cultivation paths. However, the battle also proves that he has not yet permanently crossed into that realm, leaving him physically and spiritually exhausted.
• Shi Hao: Mentioned as an example of how karmic power operates. His concealment of karma and use of He Transforms Through Eternity were aided by the backlash of karma against the Skeleton Immortal Emperor, allowing him to gain the crucial time needed to reach the Emperor realm.
• Skeleton Immortal Emperor and Huangtian Emperor: Their past actions illustrate the danger of violating karmic laws. The Skeleton Immortal Emperor’s attempt to reverse time and kill Shi Hao ultimately caused karmic backlash that contributed to his own destruction.
• The Weird Race: Becomes newly aware of Ji Hao’s location and existence through the manipulation of time fragments, positioning them as potential agents of the next karmic attack.

Significant Themes

• Reincarnation and cosmic taboo: Creating reincarnation is portrayed as an act powerful enough to threaten the established order of the universe and provoke divine punishment.
• Defiance against fate and time: Ji Hao refuses to be swept away by the River of Time, symbolizing resistance to the control of history, destiny, and cosmic laws.
• The limits of power: Although Ji Hao can temporarily wield Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level strength, he cannot yet sustain it. His victory over the river is therefore impressive but incomplete.
• Karma as delayed justice: The Power of Karma does not necessarily punish wrongdoing immediately. Instead, it accumulates and strikes at the most decisive moment, often through another person’s actions.
• Creation versus established order: Ji Hao’s reincarnation system challenges ancient laws that have remained sealed for countless ages, provoking both heavenly punishment and karmic retaliation.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and the Heavenly Tribulation: The lightning acts as a cosmic judgment against his creation of reincarnation, while Ji Hao actively confronts it.
• Ji Hao and the River of Time: Their struggle forms the central confrontation. The river attempts to overwhelm and cast him down, but the Other Shore Golden Bridge protects him.
• Ji Hao and the Other Shore Golden Bridge: The Golden Bridge, formed from the Tai Chi Diagram’s Yin-Yang power, functions as his shield and boundary, stabilizing reality and preventing the River of Time from reaching him.
• Ji Hao and Karma: Though Karma does not attack him directly, it exposes him and prepares to use the Weird Race or another powerful enemy as an indirect weapon.
• Shi Hao and the Skeleton Immortal Emperor: Their past conflict demonstrates how karmic backlash can empower a victim and cause an aggressor’s destruction.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao is attacked across time by the Black Sacrificial Master, a supreme End-of-the-Road being from the Black Blood Era. The enemy’s massive hand reaches from the future and resonates with a similar attack from the past, threatening to erase Ji Hao and all of his Other Selves through karmic connections.
• The Black Sacrificial Master’s power spreads Dark Matter and Ominous Substance throughout the River of Time, altering the Great Dao and attempting to force Ji Hao into mutation. Ji Hao counters with the Heavenly Dao Divine Soul, Supreme Forgetfulness Saber, Yin Heavenly Dao, True Phoenix fire, and Thunder Emperor techniques, purifying and absorbing the ominous corruption.
• Just as Ji Hao is about to be killed, the Huangtian Emperor—also called Desolation—intervenes from the future. Wielding the Desolation Sword, he cuts apart the Black Sacrificial Master’s hand and seals away the surrounding darkness and Chaos.
• Desolation unleashes multiple sword strikes across different eras, severing the River of Time and disrupting the Black Sacrificial Master’s attack. His strength is revealed to be near the Sacrificial Dao, placing him among the most powerful End-of-the-Road Immortal Emperors.
• The Black Sacrificial Master’s main body continues fighting Desolation on The Plateau, joined by several other terrifying End-of-the-Road beings representing different forms of Eerie Substance. Their battle becomes an epoch-shaking confrontation across Eternity.
• As Ji Hao prepares to return to the Chaotic Ancient Era, he is intercepted by Great Dark Heaven, or Heitian, the Black Sacrificial Master’s son and a powerful Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Heitian spreads Dark Matter through the River of Time, triggering a massive Dark Turmoil. Countless worlds and living beings become corrupted, mutate, and fall into darkness.
• Ji Hao responds by entering the Quasi-Immortal Emperor domain through the Five-Color Dao Lotus. His Light of Creation purifies the corrupted worlds, freeing countless beings and earning him the title Heavenly Emperor.
• Heitian declares that all the Heavens will eventually fall and attacks Ji Hao. Ji Hao accepts the challenge, fully activating his primordial body, inner secret realms, and Emperor Light before striking back.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao demonstrates remarkable resistance to the power of an End-of-the-Road being. His experience with the Eerie Substance allows him to neutralize and even consume the ominous corruption rather than succumb to it.
• He recognizes the limits of his current strength: even his Other Selves and karmic defenses are helpless before the Black Sacrificial Master. This forces him to confront the vast gap between Quasi-Immortal Emperor, Dao Ancestor, and End-of-the-Road realms.
• Ji Hao’s power advances significantly. The Five-Color Dao Lotus helps him return to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor domain, while his Light of Creation establishes him as a protector of countless worlds.
• Desolation/Huangtian Emperor is revealed as an extraordinarily powerful warrior, nearly reaching the Sacrificial Dao. His intervention shows that he remains capable of influencing events despite being trapped on The Plateau.
• Great Dark Heaven/Heitian is portrayed as a confident and merciless inheritor of the Black Sacrificial Master’s darkness. His belief in the inevitability of his race’s victory drives him to initiate a new catastrophe.

Significant Themes

• The struggle against inevitability: The Black Sacrificial Master treats history as something already determined, while Ji Hao and Desolation act as variables capable of disrupting the established cycle.
• Darkness versus creation: Dark Matter and Eerie Substance corrupt life and the Great Dao, while Ji Hao’s Light of Creation restores worlds and symbolizes renewal.
• The limits of individual power: Ji Hao’s Other Selves, cultivation, and defenses are shown to be insufficient against the highest realm, emphasizing the overwhelming scale of the End-of-the-Road beings.
• Sacrifice and resistance: Desolation fights despite being trapped and surrounded, embodying defiance against overwhelming forces.
• Cycles of destruction: The Black Epoch and Dark Turmoil reveal a repeating historical pattern in which the Heavens are repeatedly destroyed, corrupted, and rebuilt.
• The rise of a new leader: Ji Hao’s purification of the worlds causes living beings to recognize him as the Heavenly Emperor, marking his transformation from a powerful cultivator into a figure of universal hope.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and the Black Sacrificial Master: Their confrontation is one-sided at first, with the Black Sacrificial Master viewing Ji Hao as an insignificant ant. Ji Hao survives only through his specialized techniques and Desolation’s intervention.
• Desolation and the Black Sacrificial Master: Desolation directly challenges and wounds the Sacrificial Master’s attack, provoking a furious response and reigniting their ancient conflict on The Plateau.
• Ji Hao and Great Dark Heaven: Heitian dismisses Ji Hao as a temporary variable, while Ji Hao rejects his claim that darkness is inevitable. Their battle begins after Ji Hao purifies the corrupted Heavens and restores hope to countless beings.
• Ji Hao and the living beings of the Heavens: Though they do not meet him directly, the worlds recognize Ji Hao’s creation light as salvation and collectively grant him the title Heavenly Emperor.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao and Great Dark Heaven (Heitian) exchange a single blow, and their Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level power creates an entire great world.
• Heitian mocks Ji Hao as an unusually talented but insignificant Immortal King and urges him to submit to the dark race. Ji Hao rejects him, declaring himself the Heavenly Emperor and vowing to eliminate darkness and protect the Heavens and Myriad Realms.
• The two unleash their accumulated Dao techniques and engage in a catastrophic battle across the Sea of Worlds, Chaos, the Sea of Boundaries, and the River of Time.
• Although Ji Hao possesses Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level combat strength, Heitian’s superior life essence and cultivation give him a decisive advantage. Ji Hao is repeatedly beaten apart, his Divine Soul nearly shattered, and his body destroyed several times.
• Ji Hao survives through his five cultivation systems, his Other Selves, the Qiankun Primordial Qi Precious Body, Fortune Immortal Light, and the support and Divine Power of the Heavens and Myriad Realms.
• Ji Hao’s Immortal King weapon, the Heavenly Emperor Divine Dao Holy Sword, is destroyed by Heitian’s eye beams, demonstrating the overwhelming gap between an Immortal King Vessel and true Quasi-Immortal Emperor power.
• Ji Hao repeatedly diverts his strength to shield the Immortal Domain and other worlds from the battle’s aftermath, while Heitian dismisses the countless living beings as worthless “ants.”
• After a thousand years of combat, Ji Hao gradually improves. He begins to suppress Heitian at times and eventually pierces him with a powerful fist, seriously injuring him for the first time.
• However, Ji Hao’s own Origin is nearly exhausted, his body becomes illusory, and Heitian’s Dao injuries continue to erode him. His attempts to fully break into the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and form a Divine Embryo repeatedly fail because he lacks sufficient divine essence.
• The chapter ends with faith from beings across the past, present, and future gathering around Ji Hao. Prayers and titles honoring the Heavenly Emperor fill the River of Time, suggesting that the key to victory lies in his identity and responsibilities as Heavenly Emperor.

2. Character Developments

• Ji Hao: Displays complete fearlessness and refuses to submit despite being at a disadvantage. He grows through prolonged combat, gradually extending the time he can maintain Quasi-Immortal Emperor strength. His defining development is his acceptance of the Heavenly Emperor’s responsibility: he protects ordinary beings not because he considers himself a saint, but because the title obliges him to do so.
• Great Dark Heaven/Heitian: Remains arrogant and contemptuous, viewing all beings beneath his level as insignificant. His confidence is shaken when Ji Hao survives for a thousand years and finally wounds him seriously, provoking genuine anger.
• The living beings of the Heavens and Myriad Realms: Their fear and prayers evolve into powerful, unified faith in Ji Hao. Their worship links the River of Time and becomes an important source of potential strength.

3. Significant Themes

• Defiance against overwhelming power: Ji Hao continues fighting despite the vast difference between his Immortal King essence and Heitian’s Quasi-Immortal Emperor existence.
• Responsibility versus indifference: Ji Hao protects weaker beings because he is their Heavenly Emperor, while Heitian’s disregard for them reveals the cruelty and alienation of the dark side.
• Faith as power: The prayers of countless beings across time become a tangible force, implying that collective belief may enable Ji Hao to overcome his limitations.
• Transformation and perseverance: Ji Hao’s repeated destruction and revival symbolize his struggle to transcend the Immortal King realm.
• The burden of a title: “Heavenly Emperor” is not merely an honorific; it may be the crucial principle or destiny that allows Ji Hao to find a path to victory.

4. Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and Heitian repeatedly exchange ideological insults alongside their attacks. Heitian emphasizes the insignificance of Immortal Kings, while Ji Hao counters that even powerful beings once rose from humble origins.
• Their opposing attitudes toward the weak are central to their conflict: Ji Hao shields the worlds and their inhabitants, whereas Heitian considers them disposable.
• The battle is also an interaction between Ji Hao and the faith of his followers. Prayers from people he saved in different eras converge through the River of Time, surrounding and empowering him as the Heavenly Emperor.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao draws on immense Faith Power through the Divine Dao and the List of Gods, restoring the Divine Dao Heavenly Emperor’s fruit position and healing the wound inflicted by the Great Dao Blade.
• The List of Gods fully awakens: the positions of all 365 Divine Deities shine, their projections gather around Ji Hao, and he ascends beyond the constraints of time, karma, and the universe.
• Ji Hao regains genuine Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level power. Unlike his previous forced elevation, he can now wield this realm’s strength naturally and confidently.
• He declares that he and Great Dark Heaven are finally fighting at the same level. Great Dark Heaven, however, relies on his High Priest bloodline and countless years of experience.
• Enraged and humiliated after failing to kill Ji Hao during their thousand-year battle, Great Dark Heaven burns his bloodline and Essence Qi to increase his strength, accepting the risk of damaging his future cultivation.
• Great Dark Heaven launches a devastating attack infused with his own Dao, his father’s Supreme Great Dao, and Immortal Emperor bloodline power.
• Ji Hao counters effortlessly with the Heaven Opening Seal, shattering Great Dark Heaven’s black palm and overpowering the bloodline enhancement.
• Ji Hao then uses the River of Time and strikes Great Dark Heaven’s true body, exploding it into Quasi-Immortal Emperor blood and black mist.
• The chapter ends with a threatening reversal: a terrifying dark aura begins forming within the mist, suggesting that Great Dark Heaven may possess another transformation or trump card.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao: Completes his transformation into a true Divine Dao Quasi-Immortal Emperor. He gains mastery rather than merely borrowing or forcing power, becoming vastly more confident, calm, and dominant. His control over time, restoration, and creation demonstrates that his abilities now surpass ordinary Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• Great Dark Heaven: His confidence collapses into rage and desperation. His failure to defeat Ji Hao wounds his pride, and he sacrifices his bloodline and future cultivation in an attempt to win. His inability to control his emotions contrasts with Ji Hao’s composure, though the dark energy after his apparent destruction hints that he remains dangerous.

Significant Themes

• True strength versus borrowed power: Ji Hao’s naturally mastered Divine Dao power is contrasted with Great Dark Heaven’s dependence on inherited bloodline power and his father’s Dao.
• Composure versus emotional instability: Ji Hao remains calm and analytical, while Great Dark Heaven’s anger causes him to burn his own resources and fight recklessly.
• Ascension and transformation: Ji Hao’s rise represents a genuine change in existence, allowing him to transcend time, karma, and the universe.
• Pride, humiliation, and legacy: Great Dark Heaven fears becoming remembered as the one who failed to defeat Ji Hao, while Ji Hao mockingly reframes that humiliation as an “honor.”
• Destruction and creation: Great Dark Heaven specializes in overwhelming destruction, but Ji Hao can reverse devastation and recreate reality, symbolizing his superior control over the battlefield.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao taunts Great Dark Heaven by claiming that their battle is now equal and by dismissing him as someone dependent on his elders’ bloodline.
• Great Dark Heaven responds with fury, insisting that his long cultivation and inherited lineage make him superior.
• Ji Hao repeatedly belittles Great Dark Heaven’s emotional loss of control and calls his power a desperate struggle.
• Their verbal confrontation mirrors the physical battle: Great Dark Heaven relies on rage and explosive force, while Ji Hao answers with calm precision and overwhelming technique.
• Ji Hao’s destruction of Great Dark Heaven’s body appears decisive, but the emerging dark god-like aura leaves their conflict unresolved.

Ji Hao unleashed One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and fought Great Dark Heaven and a Soul River monster with his manifested past and future bodies. He severed the temporal fork to stop Great Dark Heaven’s escape, while the Lingbao future body pressed the attack to suppress and kill the foes.

• Great Dark Heaven used a sacrificial banner made from a Dao Ancestor and a Heaven-Measuring Ruler against Ji Hao, but Ji Hao damaged the banner and destroyed Great Dark Heaven’s arrows with the Heavenly Emperor Divine Dao Holy Sword.
• Ji Hao used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones to summon his Yuanshi past body, Daode body, and Lingbao future body, each a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Great Dark Heaven called a Soul River monster for aid, and the four Ji Haos attacked the two opponents across the River of Time.
• Ji Hao manifested the Heavenly Emperor Dharma Form and fought Great Dark Heaven alongside his Yuanshi past body, while the Daode and Lingbao bodies battled the Soul River monster.
• The Yuanshi past body and Lingbao future body joined their powers to unleash the Existence-Nonexistence Seal, tearing apart both opponents’ dharma bodies.
• Great Dark Heaven detonated the sacrificial banner and fled toward a temporal fork, but Ji Hao severed time and struck him and the Soul River monster; the Lingbao future body then unleashed another attack.

Ji Hao prepared Shi Hao and Shi Yi for their destined duel, while news of the Shi clan’s old betrayal spread through the Void God Realm. On the day of the battle, both young Supreme Beings arrived before a vast crowd and faced each other, confident in their strength.

• Ji Hao absorbed the ominous substance of the Four Extremes Floating Soil and glimpsed three people descending into the Chaotic Ancient Era before losing sight of them.
• News spread that the Great Demon God and Shi Hao had repeatedly attacked the Rain Clan, exposing how Shi Yi had received Shi Hao’s stolen Supreme Bone.
• Shi Yi emerged from seclusion at the Butian Pavilion, and he and Shi Hao agreed to fight in the Void God Realm the following month.
• Shi Hao trained, then relaxed with Shi Qingfeng and Gegu before Liu Shen opened a passage for him to reach the battlefield.
• Shi Yi arrived before a vast gathering of powerful beings, and Shi Hao made a spectacular entrance through Liu Shen’s passage.
• Shi Hao challenged Shi Yi, and both brothers declared confidence in their own strength as the duel was about to begin.