Chapter Summaries

Ji Hao and Wang Quan fought Anlan and Yutuo at the Heavenly Abyss, with Ji Hao overwhelming Anlan using the Thunder Emperor’s power and the Pingluan Art. Chicang summoned the Immortal-Slaying Platform and declared that Anlan and Yutuo would be executed, while Yutuo glimpsed a future filled with Immortal King blood.

• Anlan tried to escape through the Heavenly Abyss, but Wang Quan summoned the Thunder Emperor’s Mark and Ji Hao’s dharma body appeared.
• Ji Hao’s power killed Foreign Land Immortals with a glance and then battered Anlan, destroying his spear, shield, chariot, and mount.
• Ji Hao and his Humanoid Sword Embryo attacked Anlan with the Pingluan Art, while Wang Quan used the same art against Yutuo.
• Shi Hao and Meng Tianzheng worried that the Foreign Land had more Immortal Kings, as Ji Hao struggled to finish Anlan despite gaining the upper hand.
• Ji Hao tore open Anlan’s brow and drew out Immortal King blood, while Chicang summoned the Immortal-Slaying Platform and vowed to slay Anlan and execute Yutuo.
• Yutuo looked into the future and saw a Blood Sea of Immortal King blood beneath the execution blade.

Ji Hao continued overwhelming Yutuo as Wushang and the Foreign Land's Immortal Kings intervened. Twelve Kings gathered at the Heavenly Abyss, ready to pay its price to find and kill Ji Hao's True Body.

• Wushang attacked Ji Hao with his Bronze Battle Halberd, but Ji Hao blocked it with a backhanded punch and kept pursuing Yutuo.
• Ji Hao battered Yutuo, whose body was bound by the Order Divine Chain and dragged toward the Immortal-Slaying Platform.
• Wushang called for help, and eleven more Immortal Kings arrived at the Heavenly Abyss.
• The Foreign Land's Kings gathered in anger over Anlan's defeat and Yutuo's peril, while more Kings began awakening across their continent.
• The Kings resolved to risk crossing the Heavenly Abyss to find and kill Ji Hao's True Body.

Ji Hao confronted the overwhelming force of the Foreign Land and killed Yutuo with the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine, declaring war on its kings. He then charged into battle and repeatedly hammered Anlan, whose survival left the confrontation unresolved.

• The Vermilion Bird King offered to sacrifice himself by detonating the heavenly abyss sea of order, but Ji Hao refused and said he could protect the Nine Heavens with the Thunder Pond.
• Ji Hao beheaded Yutuo with the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine, destroying his divine soul and killing the peak Immortal King.
• Wushang and the Foreign Land's kings erupted in fury, and Ji Hao charged through the Heavenly Abyss toward them.
• Anlan rose to avenge Yutuo and thrust his spear at Ji Hao, but Ji Hao knocked him away and smashed his face with a conjured thunder hammer.
• Anlan survived the crushing blows, and Ji Hao continued hammering him as the battle shook the battlefield.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao, the Thunder Emperor, continues brutally overpowering Anlan. He smashes Anlan’s Immortal Shield and strikes both sides of his face with his enormous hammer, knocking out and shattering his teeth.
• Ji Hao declares that the second blow is revenge for the comrades Anlan killed during the Ancient Immortal Era.
• Anlan realizes that he may actually be killed. Abandoning pride and dignity, he focuses solely on survival and calls for Ancient Patriarch Kundi to come to his aid.
• In the Foreign Land, an Immortal receives Anlan’s message and uses the World Tree to hurry toward the Foreign Land’s central palace.
• Meanwhile, Shi Hao enters a strange trance. His soul seems to travel through the River of Time, allowing him to witness events involving his future self and the Skeleton Immortal Emperor.
• Shi Hao sees the Skeleton Immortal Emperor attempting to travel through time and kill his younger self, thereby erasing Shi Hao’s existence and altering history.
• The Skeleton Immortal Emperor ultimately avoids directly striking Shi Hao’s past self and instead influences the past by pushing Anlan into battle, suggesting that Anlan’s current confrontation may be part of a larger temporal scheme.
• In the vision, the future Shi Hao reaches an extraordinary level of power and invokes “He Transforms Freely, He Transforms Through Eternity,” but he is still defeated by the Daluo Sword Embryo. His body is split apart and reduced to countless drops of blood.
• After returning to the present, the young Shi Hao discovers a mysterious change in his Three Great Dao Flowers: a previously unseen, indistinct figure appears on the flower representing the future.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao: Displays overwhelming strength and controlled fury. His attacks are not merely personal revenge; he frames them as judgment on behalf of the Ancient Immortal Era’s dead.
• Anlan: His arrogance collapses into desperation. Faced with death, he becomes entirely focused on survival and seeks help from stronger figures in the Foreign Land.
• Shi Hao: Gains a terrifying glimpse into the future and begins to understand that his existence is connected to conflicts spanning multiple eras. His awareness of time, fate, and his own possible destruction deepens.
• Skeleton Immortal Emperor: Is portrayed as ruthless, powerful, and willing to violate the natural order by interfering with history. He seeks to erase Shi Hao before Shi Hao can grow into his future strength.
• Ancient Patriarch Kundi: Though not yet present, his anticipated arrival establishes him as a potentially decisive force against Ji Hao.

Significant Themes

• Survival versus pride: Anlan’s desperation shows how quickly dignity and ambition disappear when faced with genuine annihilation.
• Revenge and historical justice: Ji Hao’s hammer blows symbolize punishment for crimes committed across ancient eras.
• The danger of altering history: The Skeleton Immortal Emperor’s time-traveling actions threaten to reshape the past, future, and even the meaning of existence itself.
• Fate and inevitability: Shi Hao witnesses his future defeat, raising questions about whether such visions are fixed destiny or events that can still be changed.
• Transformation and endurance: Despite Shi Hao’s future body being destroyed, his continued presence and the new figure in his Dao Flower suggest that destruction may lead to another stage of evolution.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and Anlan: Their confrontation is one-sided, with Ji Hao acting as executioner and Anlan reduced to pleading for assistance.
• Anlan and the Foreign Land: Anlan calls for Kundi, relying on the Foreign Land’s ancient powers and collective strength to survive.
• Shi Hao and the Skeleton Immortal Emperor: Their conflict extends beyond physical combat into a battle across time, with the Skeleton Immortal Emperor attempting to erase Shi Hao’s origin.
• Shi Hao and his future self: Shi Hao witnesses the future version of himself fighting at an Immortal Emperor level, linking his present development to a vast, dangerous destiny.
• The Skeleton Immortal Emperor and Anlan: By driving Anlan into battle rather than attacking directly, the Skeleton Immortal Emperor appears to use Anlan as a tool in his attempt to influence history.

Ji Hao’s hidden drop of blood transformed Shi Hao, awakening a powerful figure who confronted Anlan. As Anlan charged toward Emperor Pass, Shi Hao and the figure bearing the Nine-Story Ancient Pagoda prepared to fight him.

• Ji Hao recognized that the drop of blood he had brought from the future had triggered and reflected on the fixed events in Shi Hao’s history.
• The blood passed over Shi Hao’s three Great Dao Flowers, merged their figures through the Reincarnation Seals, and entered Shi Hao’s body to awaken him.
• Anlan left the other Immortal Kings to face Ji Hao and charged toward Emperor Pass with his Immortal War Spear.
• Shi Hao confronted Anlan, and another figure descended from a Dao Platform with the complete Nine-Story Ancient Pagoda above his head.
• The pagoda-bearing figure challenged Anlan and advanced with the aura of Heavenly Punishment.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Anlan is repeatedly overwhelmed as the Thunder Emperor, Ji Hao, attacks him with a massive Primordial Great Hammer empowered by thunder. Despite Anlan’s claims of invincibility, he is sent crashing through the starry skies.
• Shi Hao joins the assault in a transformed state. A phantom containing a drop of blood and the Reincarnation Imprint merges with him, creating the appearance of three peerless beings existing across the past, present, and future. With his Sword Embryo, Shi Hao repeatedly strikes Anlan and gains the upper hand.
• Ji Hao abandons his prolonged attempt to kill Anlan and targets Wushang instead. He severely cripples Wushang with a palm strike, overcoming Wushang’s Dharma Power Immunity through overwhelming strength.
• Wushang is rescued by several Immortal Kings, who activate the Firmament Slaughter Formation. Dark Matter and the Five Elements formation reinforce Wushang, greatly strengthening his Origin and defensive abilities.
• Ji Hao counters with the Immortal-Slaying Platform, using chains of order to restrain the Foreign Land’s Immortal Kings. The phantom guillotine executes multiple Kings, terrifying the others even though they possess revival abilities.
• Declaring himself the Hongmeng Thunder Emperor and master of the Heavens’ Lightning Tribulations, Ji Hao summons the Foreign Land’s own tribulation power. He forces the surrounding Immortal Kings to divide their attention between fighting him and surviving the lightning.
• Although Ji Hao is wounded and his manifestation’s power is gradually declining, he successfully wears down and terrifies the Foreign Land’s forces. The Immortal Kings conclude that only their strongest ancient expert can stop him.
• The Foreign Land summons Kundi, an ancient, exceptionally powerful being associated with the terrifying Immortal Refining Pot. The Pot strikes Ji Hao and wounds him, while Kundi emerges from his slumber and confronts the Thunder Emperor.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao/Thunder Emperor: Demonstrates extraordinary growth and dominance, fighting numerous Immortal Kings alone and using the laws of thunder, formations, and execution artifacts with increasing mastery. Though mentally and physically strained, he remains aggressive and confident.
• Shi Hao: Undergoes a major transformation, merging with a mysterious reincarnation-related phantom and displaying power capable of directly suppressing Anlan. His aura becomes one of complete invincibility.
• Anlan: His arrogance is repeatedly shattered. Once regarded as invincible, he is beaten back by both Ji Hao and Shi Hao and is left unable to control the battle.
• Wushang: Despite being badly injured, he remains a central pillar of the Foreign Land’s resistance. His preparation of the Firmament Slaughter Formation shows foresight and determination, but even the enhanced formation struggles against Ji Hao.
• Foreign Land’s Immortal Kings: Shift from confidence to fear and desperation. They resort to formations, revival techniques, coordinated attacks, and finally summoning Kundi.
• Kundi: Introduced as an ancient, terrifying expert whose power surpasses ordinary Giants. His awakening marks the arrival of a potentially decisive opponent.

Significant Themes

• The collapse of assumed invincibility: Anlan and the Foreign Land’s Immortal Kings, once seen as untouchable, are reduced to desperate defenders.
• Overwhelming individual power versus collective resistance: Ji Hao battles formations and entire groups of Immortal Kings, highlighting the terrifying strength of a single transcendent expert.
• Transformation and reincarnation: Shi Hao’s merging with the phantom and Reincarnation Imprint suggests the convergence of different temporal or existential aspects of himself.
• Persistence beyond death: The Foreign Land’s Kings rely on revival and undying techniques, while Ji Hao argues that even immortality cannot prevent eventual defeat.
• The cost of power: Ji Hao’s manifestations can recover through heavenly thunder, but mental exhaustion, accumulated wounds, and diminishing resources reveal limits to his seemingly endless strength.
• Escalation toward a greater reckoning: The battle expands from a clash between individual Kings into a confrontation involving ancient formations, supreme artifacts, and awakened primordial beings.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao repeatedly humiliates and attacks Anlan, treating him as an obstacle he cannot yet permanently eliminate.
• Shi Hao mocks Anlan’s boast of invincibility and joins Ji Hao in beating him back.
• Ji Hao cripples Wushang, prompting the Foreign Land’s Immortal Kings to intervene and construct the Firmament Slaughter Formation around him.
• Wushang attempts to destroy Ji Hao’s Immortal-Slaying Platform and rescue the Kings being executed, but the artifact proves impervious.
• Ji Hao taunts Wushang’s formation and challenges the entire group to defeat him, while Wushang defiantly accepts.
• The terrified Immortal Kings call upon Kundi, whose arrival immediately changes the balance of power. Kundi directly addresses Ji Hao after the Immortal Refining Pot wounds him, setting up the next confrontation.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The elderly powerhouse is revealed to be Kundi, one of the Foreign Land’s strongest surviving figures and the mastermind behind the earlier battle in the Sea of Boundaries.
• Kundi had spent years sleeping inside the Immortal Refining Pot while studying the Foreign Land’s Origin Ancient Artifact. He had proposed attacking the Primal Ancient Realm to obtain the artifact’s originating seed.
• Ji Hao’s assault on the Foreign Land, alongside Wang Quan, forces Kundi to awaken because the realm faces possible destruction.
• Kundi recognizes Ji Hao as the former enemy who survived the Sea of Boundaries battle and admits that he has long sought to kill him completely.
• Ji Hao, now calling himself the Thunder Emperor, confronts Kundi directly. Their battle erupts across heaven and earth, shattering space, disturbing the River of Time, and causing stars and worlds to collapse.
• Ji Hao is surprised by Kundi’s strength but fights him with genuine confidence, relying on his powerful Dharma Body rather than merely courage.
• The battle is not entirely one-on-one: Wushang, who has transformed his body into an array, and Kundi both attack Ji Hao. Their combined assault attempts to destroy Ji Hao’s Dharma Manifestation and trace it back to his true body.
• Ji Hao uses the Tai Chi Diagram, the Battle Saint Method, Yin-Yang power, Chaos Qi, and an Immortal Sword to defend himself and counterattack.
• Kundi’s Immortal Refining Pot demonstrates the ability to reverse time and bypass Ji Hao’s defenses, striking his shoulder. Ji Hao survives through his mastery of the Undying Scripture and his strengthened physical body.
• The chapter ends with Ji Hao unleashing his “Immortal and Undying” power and launching a devastating close-combat assault.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao has clearly advanced to an extraordinary level. Although he is using only a Dharma Body, he can contend with Kundi, a supreme Immortal King-level figure. His confidence is now based on real cultivation and foundations rather than youthful recklessness.
• Ji Hao’s mastery of the Tai Chi Diagram has finally caught up with his growth. Once considered impractical against stronger opponents, it now successfully neutralizes the combined attacks of Kundi and Wushang.
• His understanding of the Undying Scripture has deepened. He has not only mastered it but also derived later principles and incorporated them into his own Rune-based system.
• Kundi is established as an extraordinarily ambitious and dangerous ancient powerhouse. His title and name reflect his desire to become an Emperor, while his actions show his ruthless determination to eliminate Ji Hao.
• Kundi’s awakening demonstrates how seriously he regards the threat Ji Hao poses to the Foreign Land.
• Wushang is portrayed as another terrifying Immortal King-level combatant, capable of joining Kundi in suppressing Ji Hao.

Significant Themes

• Power gained through growth and preparation: Ji Hao’s transformation from a reckless warrior into a true supreme powerhouse is central to the chapter.
• Arrogance versus earned confidence: Both Ji Hao and Kundi possess immense pride, but Ji Hao’s confidence is presented as justified by his achievements, while Kundi’s imperial ambition borders on arrogance.
• The threat of the Great Reckoning: The Immortal Domain’s Kings interpret the battle as an early sign of the coming Great Reckoning. The conflict is therefore not merely personal but may signal a larger cosmic catastrophe.
• Overwhelming odds and group combat: Ji Hao repeatedly comments on the disadvantage of fighting several supreme enemies at once, highlighting the difficulty of resisting coordinated attacks even at the highest level.
• The endurance of the undying: Ji Hao’s survival after being struck by the Immortal Refining Pot emphasizes his indestructibility and the importance of his physical cultivation.
• Old grudges and historical consequences: The present battle grows directly out of the earlier Sea of Boundaries conflict, showing how past confrontations continue to shape the current war.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and Kundi exchange hostile words before engaging in a battle rooted in their shared history. Kundi reveals that he has been hunting Ji Hao for years, while Ji Hao mocks Kundi’s belief that fate favors him.
• Ji Hao, Kundi, and Wushang engage in a three-sided confrontation, with the two Foreign Land powerhouses coordinating their attacks to destroy Ji Hao’s Dharma Body.
• Ji Hao internally compares his situation to Shi Hao’s experience of being surrounded by enemies and reflects on the limitations of techniques such as One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones when used through a Dharma Body.
• The Immortal Domain’s Kings observe the battle from Emperor Pass. They recognize its terrifying scale, debate whether it marks the beginning of the Great Reckoning, and speculate about Ji Hao’s identity and history.

Ji Hao’s Dharma Manifestation defeated Kundi and routed the Foreign Land’s Immortal Kings as the Heavenly Abyss collapsed. He rescued the Original Imperial City, sealed off passage between the realms, and returned with his companions to Emperor Pass.

• Ji Hao fought Kundi and the surrounding Immortal Kings, killing several and forcing Kundi and the others to retreat.
• The Heavenly Abyss collapsed into a vast sea of destructive laws, placing the Original Imperial City and the Vermilion Bird King in danger.
• Ji Hao transformed a Tai Chi Diagram into an Other Shore Golden Bridge, drove the Immortal Kings back into the Foreign Land, and rescued the Original Imperial City.
• Ji Hao’s companions returned with him to Emperor Pass after the collapsed Heavenly Abyss blocked travel between the realms.

Chapter Summary: The Battle Ends, Wang Changsheng the Darkness Being

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao, Wang Quan, and the Vermilion Bird King arrive at Emperor Pass after the major battles against the Foreign Land. Their arrival is celebrated with nine tolls of Emperor Pass’s great bell—the highest welcome reserved for Immortal Kings.
• The people of the Nine Heavens hail the Immortal Kings, especially because they defeated major enemies such as Anlan, Yutuo, and Wushang. Shi Hao and his companions are also honored because of their connection to these powerful figures.
• Many factions immediately begin trying to curry favor with Shi Hao, Desolation, and the others, recognizing that their ties to the Immortal Kings could determine their future status.
• Wang Quan recognizes Shi Hao’s advancement into the Escape One Realm and gives him the Wang Family’s powerful Pingluan Art, dismissing objections from the Wang Family members.
• Wang Quan then discovers that members of his bloodline have been corrupted by darkness. The revelation exposes Wang Changsheng, head of the Wang Family, as a Darkness Being.
• Wang Changsheng attempts to preserve himself by killing several of his own children, claiming they were responsible for contact with Dark Matter. He publicly offers to exile himself to the Lower Realm for a million years as punishment.
• Ji Hao sees through the deception, recognizing that Wang Changsheng is not merely a corrupted descendant but has effectively always been a Dark Immortal King.
• Wang Changsheng abandons his false humility and reveals that he had been hiding his true nature. He explains that, after an accident during cultivation and a fall from the Receiving Ancient Palace, his divine soul and bones were scattered across the Border Wasteland.

Character Developments

• Shi Hao is shown to have entered the Escape One Realm, marking a major rise in strength and status. His connection to the Immortal Kings makes him even more influential.
• Wang Quan demonstrates both generosity and authority by giving Shi Hao the Pingluan Art while rejecting the Wang Family’s attempts to control his inheritance.
• Ji Hao is portrayed as perceptive and calm, immediately seeing through Wang Changsheng’s staged repentance.
• Wang Changsheng is exposed as a ruthless and calculating Darkness Being. His willingness to kill his own children reveals that his apparent concern for the Wang Family is purely a disguise.
• The younger generation—including Cao Yusheng, the Lunar Jade Rabbit, Gegu, Qin Hao, and others—react with pride, excitement, or unease as Shi Hao’s position changes.
• Members of the Golden Clan become terrified of possible retaliation, while the Wang Family initially assumes Wang Quan’s arrival will strengthen their prestige.

Significant Themes

• Power reshaping social relationships: The arrival of the Immortal Kings immediately changes how people treat Shi Hao and his allies, revealing widespread opportunism and political maneuvering.
• False loyalty and corruption: Wang Changsheng’s public sacrifice of his children exposes the hollowness of his claims of family responsibility and repentance.
• The hidden influence of darkness: The corruption of the Wang bloodline suggests that the Foreign Land’s influence reaches deeply into the Nine Heavens’ most ancient families.
• Justice versus political survival: Wang Changsheng tries to manipulate the idea of punishment to escape judgment, but Ji Hao’s insight prevents the deception from succeeding.
• Inheritance and legitimacy: Wang Quan’s gift to Shi Hao challenges the Wang Family’s assumptions that bloodline alone grants ownership of ancestral powers.

Important Character Interactions

• The people of Emperor Pass honor the Immortal Kings, while Shi Hao and his companions greet them with admiration.
• Cao Yusheng and the Lunar Jade Rabbit jokingly celebrate Shi Hao’s newfound protection and influence.
• Wang Quan praises Shi Hao’s cultivation and personally grants him the Pingluan Art, provoking discomfort among the Wang Family.
• Wang Quan confronts the Wang Family’s dark corruption, while Wang Changsheng attempts to shift blame onto his children.
• Wang Changsheng kills his own descendants before the assembled crowd, but Ji Hao directly exposes the act as a calculated performance.
• The chapter ends with Wang Changsheng openly acknowledging that his true identity and connection to darkness had long been concealed.

Chapter Summary: “Settling All Scores, Clearing the Names of the Seven Clans of the Border Wasteland”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao confirms that the Darkness Beings were connected to the Longevity calamity and captures Wang Changsheng, leaving him for Wang Quan to deal with.
• Wang Quan discovers that members of his family had been corrupted by Dark Matter. Ji Hao uses Tribulation Lightning Liquid to cleanse the Wang Family across Emperor Pass and the Nine Heavens.
• The cleansing expels the Dark Matter from their Origins, strengthens their bloodlines, and causes several breakthroughs. Wang Quan’s return to the Immortal King Realm also elevates the entire Wang Family into an Immortal King clan.
• Rather than celebrating the defeat of the foreign enemies, Ji Hao insists that internal traitors and persecutors must first be punished.
• The Vermilion Bird King learns the truth about the decline of the Seven Clans of the Border Wasteland. Their descendants had been falsely branded as the “Blood of Sin,” forced to fight on the front lines, and gradually driven toward extinction.
• The Feng Clan is identified as the main force behind the persecution. Other powerful clans, including the Jin Family, Pixiu Clan, and Du Clan, supported or participated in the campaign.
• The current Feng Clan ancestor admits that he targeted the descendants of the Seven Kings because the Vermilion Bird King had killed his father, Feng Xingyi. Ji Hao clarifies that Feng Xingyi had been corrupted by Dark Matter, making his execution necessary to protect Nine Heavens.
• Though the Feng ancestor acted out of grief, resentment, and fear, Ji Hao refuses to excuse him because his actions caused countless innocent deaths. The Feng ancestor and several Feng Clan leaders are executed.
• The Vermilion Bird King conducts a broader purge of the clans responsible for persecuting the Blood of Sin lineage.
• When the purge seems complete, Ji Hao reveals that another crime remains unresolved: the betrayal involving his disciple Desolation, who was handed over to the Foreign Land.
• Ji Hao summons Matriarch Jin from the dungeon, setting up the next reckoning.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao becomes increasingly uncompromising and judicial. He acts not only as a powerful protector but also as an arbiter correcting historical injustices within Nine Heavens.
• Wang Quan experiences shock and sorrow upon learning of the corruption within his descendants, but ultimately regains his standing and restores his family’s Immortal King bloodline.
• Wang Xi and other Wang Family prodigies benefit from the cleansing, with Wang Xi advancing rapidly into the Hualing Realm.
• The Vermilion Bird King changes from a newly returned Immortal King into an avenger of the Seven Clans. His anger reflects both outrage at their persecution and grief over the destruction of a once-great lineage.
• The Feng Clan ancestor is portrayed as a tragic but culpable figure. His resentment began with his father’s execution, but grief, cowardice, and misplaced hatred led him to persecute innocent people. By the end, he is overwhelmed by regret and ages visibly before being executed.
• The descendants of the Seven Kings, including Shi Hao, Shi Yi, and Qin Hao, are vindicated. Their inherited stigma is exposed as a fabricated injustice rather than a legitimate accusation.
• Matriarch Jin is suddenly removed from imprisonment and brought before Ji Hao, appearing terrified and unaware of why she has been summoned.

Significant Themes

• Justice and retribution: The chapter emphasizes that victory over external enemies is incomplete while internal corruption and injustice remain.
• Historical truth and false accusations: The “Blood of Sin” label is exposed as a political fabrication that destroyed a meritorious clan.
• Inherited guilt versus individual responsibility: The descendants of the Seven Kings suffered for alleged ancestral crimes, while the Feng Clan’s later descendants are judged for their own actions rather than their ancestor’s heroic reputation.
• The consequences of hatred and grief: The Feng ancestor’s personal sorrow becomes resentment, then persecution, demonstrating how unresolved trauma can corrupt judgment.
• Restoration and purification: Ji Hao’s lightning removes Dark Matter from the Wang Family, symbolizing both physical cleansing and the restoration of a bloodline’s rightful status.
• The complexity of justice: Even righteous punishment brings sorrow. The Vermilion Bird King feels no triumph in executing members of his own people, showing that vengeance cannot undo the suffering already endured.
• The danger of power and political influence: Once powerful clans gained authority, they used it to eliminate rivals and suppress inconvenient truths.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and Wang Quan cooperate to expose and cleanse the Wang Family’s corruption.
• Wang Xi speaks on behalf of the Wang Family, while the family later expresses gratitude to Ji Hao.
• Ji Hao protects heroes such as Meng Tianzheng and Shi Hao from the Vermilion Bird King’s overwhelming Immortal King pressure.
• The Vermilion Bird King confronts the clans responsible for persecuting the Seven Kings’ descendants and forces the truth into the open.
• Ji Hao challenges the Feng ancestor’s justification, distinguishing his father’s necessary execution from the later persecution of innocent descendants.
• The Feng ancestor kneels before the Vermilion Bird King and confesses his guilt, but neither regret nor family history saves him.
• At the chapter’s close, Ji Hao directly confronts Matriarch Jin, accusing her faction of the betrayal involving Desolation and beginning a new phase of punishment.

Chapter Summary: Reshaping the Heavenly Abyss, Thunder Sea Heavenly Domain

Key Plot Points and Events

• Matriarch Jin realizes too late that the powerful figures gathered at Emperor Pass—including Ji Hao, Meng Tianzheng, and other supreme experts—have exposed her crimes. When she begs Meng Tianzheng for help, he refuses to intervene. Ji Hao then destroys her Supreme Being body with a single strike.
• Ji Hao sentences the Jin Family according to their past contributions and crimes. Members with battle merits are allowed to offset their offenses, while those without sufficient merit are exiled to the Primordial Ancient Mine. Most of the family is purged because they had avoided genuine battlefield service under Matriarch Jin’s corrupt leadership.
• An Immortal King Imperial Decree prevents the Jin Family from resisting through its powerful ancestral formation. The purge concludes with the execution of the principal offenders, restoring order within Emperor Pass.
• Nine Heavens celebrates its victory over the Foreign Land. The Supreme Beings host a grand banquet for the Immortal Kings, recognizing that Nine Heavens has entered a new era of strength and security.
• After the banquet, Ji Hao examines the shattered Heavenly Abyss. Concerned that its damage will drain Nine Heavens’ origin, he reconstructs its laws using the Thunder Pond and transforms the passage between the two realms into a vast Thunder Sea.
• This new passage, named the Thunder Sea Heavenly Domain, is infused with Heavenly Punishment Karma. It suppresses laws and weakens physical bodies, making it extremely costly for Foreign Land Immortal Kings to cross into Nine Heavens.
• Though creating the domain nearly exhausts Ji Hao’s fundamental power, he subsequently heals and guides the Supreme Beings who supported him. Using Tribulation Lightning Liquid, he removes their hidden injuries and helps them comprehend deeper Dao principles.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao / the Thunder Emperor: Demonstrates absolute authority by executing Matriarch Jin, but also shows restraint by sparing Jin Family members who possess genuine battle merits. He acts as both judge and protector of Nine Heavens. His reconstruction of the Heavenly Abyss establishes him as a supreme guardian willing to expend nearly all his strength for the realm’s future.
• Matriarch Jin: Her arrogance and internal betrayal lead directly to her destruction. Her death symbolizes the consequences of prioritizing family power and internal conflict over the defense of Emperor Pass.
• Meng Tianzheng: Although he refuses to save Matriarch Jin, he receives Ji Hao’s healing afterward. The hidden injuries from his failed attempt to cultivate the Body as the Seed are finally repaired, restoring him to the appearance and vitality of his youth. His sealed Dao Fruit continues developing within his former Great Bow, suggesting that he may eventually become a True Immortal.
• The Jin Family: Its former status as a Longevity Family cannot protect it from judgment. The family’s decline reveals how corruption among its leaders caused most members to abandon their responsibilities.
• The Supreme Beings of Nine Heavens: They gain renewed hope and potential for advancement after Ji Hao removes their concealed injuries and grants them insights into the Great Dao.

Significant Themes

• Justice and accountability: Status, lineage, and past prestige cannot excuse betrayal or cowardice. Punishment is determined by both guilt and genuine contributions.
• The consequences of corruption: Matriarch Jin’s behavior influences the entire Jin Family, showing how the misconduct of leaders can bring ruin upon those beneath them.
• Sacrifice for collective survival: Ji Hao nearly exhausts himself to repair the Heavenly Abyss and protect Nine Heavens from future invasions.
• Transformation and renewal: The broken boundary between realms is reshaped into a defensive domain, while Meng Tianzheng is physically and spiritually renewed.
• Strength through unity and merit: Nine Heavens’ victory comes not only from powerful rulers but also from the accumulated battlefield contributions of its defenders.
• The rise of Nine Heavens: The presence of multiple Immortal Kings marks a dramatic shift from a previously vulnerable realm to one capable of deterring entire Foreign Land forces.

Character Interactions

• Matriarch Jin appeals to Meng Tianzheng for protection, but he responds with disappointment rather than assistance, emphasizing his rejection of internal strife.
• Ji Hao confronts the Jin Family collectively, balancing punishment with recognition of individual battle merits.
• Wang Quan supports the purge by issuing an Immortal King Imperial Decree, ensuring that the Jin Family cannot hide behind its ancestral formation.
• The Supreme Beings honor Ji Hao during the victory banquet and later receive his personal guidance and healing.
• Ji Hao’s interaction with Meng Tianzheng is especially significant: by repairing Meng’s hidden injuries, he restores the elder’s potential and brings him closer to completing the Body as the Seed path.

Chapter Summary

Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao, the Thunder Emperor, reveals that Meng Tianzheng’s previous display of strength was only a fraction of his true power. He repairs the damage caused by Meng’s forced breakthrough, greatly enhances his potential, and helps him reach the pinnacle of the Human Dao.
• Ji Hao explains the Red Dust Immortal Path: remaining in the mortal world, repeatedly experiencing life and death, and eventually becoming powerful enough that the passage of time can no longer affect one’s body. Meng Tianzheng accepts this dangerous path rather than choosing an easier route to immortality.
• Ji Hao then offers Shi Hao a perilous method of deepening his foundation. Although it could dissolve all his cultivation and reduce him to an ordinary mortal, Shi Hao accepts without hesitation.
• Ji Hao casts the legendary Immortal-Bending Curse onto Shi Hao. Meng Tianzheng is alarmed because the curse once contributed to the death of the injured Kun Peng, but Ji Hao explains that Kun Peng’s injuries were the primary reason he failed to endure it.
• Ji Hao prepares to depart. Shi Hao becomes emotional, comparing Ji Hao’s departure to the disappearances of Little Pagoda and Liu Shen. Ji Hao encourages him to continue growing so they can fight together in the future.
• Ten years later, Shi Hao enters a profound Nirvana within a Dao cocoon above Stone Village, attempting to break into the Supreme Being realm at an extraordinarily young age.
• His transformation attracts Qin Hao, other young cultivators, Xuanwu, the Master of the Forbidden Zone, the Crystal Skull, and several ancient beings. They are stunned by the possibility that Shi Hao could become the youngest and strongest Human Dao Supreme Being in history.
• The chapter ends as Heaven and Earth tremble, Stone Village shakes repeatedly, and immense Essence Qi and starlight gather around Shi Hao, signaling that his breakthrough is reaching a critical stage.

Character Developments

• Meng Tianzheng is restored and elevated, with his potential expanded far beyond that of an ordinary Supreme Being. His courage and commitment are emphasized when he chooses the dangerous Red Dust Immortal Path, consistent with his earlier willingness to cultivate Body as the Seed.
• Shi Hao demonstrates extraordinary determination and confidence. He willingly accepts the Immortal-Bending Curse despite its danger and begins a transformation that may make him a historic Supreme Being. His brief emotional response to Ji Hao also reveals his attachment to his mentors and companions.
• Ji Hao acts as a powerful guide and protector. He recognizes Meng Tianzheng’s and Shi Hao’s exceptional talent, gives them opportunities for greater advancement, and expresses hope that Shi Hao will eventually stand beside him in battle.
• Xuanwu has partially recovered and now remains in Stone Village, mentoring and protecting the younger cultivators. His judgment gives credibility to the enormity of Shi Hao’s achievement.
• The ancient Immortal King remnants are shaken by Shi Hao’s progress and begin to recognize that he may become a defining figure of the chaotic age.

Significant Themes

• Choosing difficult paths over easy success: Both Meng Tianzheng and Shi Hao willingly accept dangerous methods that promise greater ultimate achievements.
• Potential and perseverance: The chapter stresses that extraordinary talent must be matched by courage, endurance, and a willingness to risk everything.
• Mentorship and succession: Ji Hao guides the next generation while hoping Shi Hao and others will eventually join him as equals.
• Parting and reunion: Ji Hao’s departure reflects the repeated losses in Shi Hao’s life, but the promise of meeting again in the future provides hope.
• Transformation through life and death: Meng’s Red Dust Immortal Path and Shi Hao’s Nirvana both involve cycles of destruction, rebirth, and transcendence.
• Breaking historical limits: Shi Hao’s potential breakthrough challenges established myths and suggests the emergence of a new legendary era.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and Meng Tianzheng share a respectful exchange in which Ji Hao offers guidance and Meng accepts the Red Dust Immortal Path.
• Ji Hao warns Shi Hao about the dangers of the Immortal-Bending Curse, while Shi Hao confidently reassures his friends that he can survive it.
• Shi Hao and Ji Hao share an emotional farewell, with Ji Hao promising to wait for Shi Hao in the future and Shi Hao vowing to catch up.
• Xuanwu provides a cautious assessment of Shi Hao’s breakthrough, tempering the excitement of Qin Hao and the other young cultivators.
• The ancient beings observe Shi Hao’s transformation with awe, recognizing that they may be witnessing a once-in-history event.

Shi Hao endured the final trials of his tribulation and became a Human Dao Supreme Being in his early thirties, but his breakthrough accelerated the End Dharma Era across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. As Heaven and Earth began merging and reclaiming spiritual energy, Shi Hao calmly observed the changes and sought to understand their deeper cycle.

• Shi Hao survived the tribulation’s scarlet and purple beams and karmic fire, entering the Supreme Being realm before continuing along a perilous road strewn with Supreme Being bones.
• Shi Hao completed his ascent, breaking the taboo boundary of five hundred years and becoming a Human Dao Supreme Being.
• The Immortal Domain learned that the End Dharma Era was approaching, and its powers considered closing the Immortal Gate to avoid the upheaval.
• The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths began merging as spiritual energy dwindled, lifespans shortened, and cultivators across the realm panicked.
• Shi Hao reflected that the end of Dharma was part of a repeating cycle and continued studying the changing world while remaining composed.

Shi Hao resisted the Blade of Mandate of Heaven as the End Dharma Era devastated the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, while his cultivation continued to advance. A century later, a party from the Immortal Domain arrived in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and disparaged the Lower Realm, though an elderly Celestial reminded them to respect its Immortal Kings.

• Shi Hao fought off the Blade of Mandate of Heaven as its first wave killed cultivators and forced survivors to flee toward the Chaos Realms or the Immortal Domain.
• The decay of Heaven and Earth weakened Divine Medicine and Longevity Medicine, while Shi Hao endured repeated attacks and rapidly improved his cultivation.
• Ji Hao appeared within the Heavenly Dao of the Nine Heavens and acknowledged that he had set the Blade of Mandate of Heaven's descent in motion.
• A hundred years passed as Wang Quan guarded the Heavenly Abyss, the Vermilion Bird King slept, and many young Supreme Beings traveled to the Immortal Domain for exchanges.
• A party from the Immortal Domain arrived in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, complained about the Lower Realm, and was cautioned by an elderly Celestial to respect the land that had given birth to Immortal Kings.

Shi Hao rejected the Immortal Domain’s coercive invitation and Meng Tianzheng appeared to defend the Nine Heavens Lineage, challenging a True Immortal. As they fought, Meng Tianzheng destroyed his bow to reunite his completed Dao Fruits and emerge in a second life, ready to continue the battle.

• An arrogant Supreme Being from the Immortal Domain presented Shi Hao with an Immortal King Imperial Decree, but Shi Hao refused and suppressed the youth who attacked him.
• The Immortal Domain’s visitors threatened to take Shi Hao by force, and Gegu accused them of using the Peach of Immortality Feast as a pretext for imprisonment.
• Meng Tianzheng appeared and challenged the True Immortal, using his Mandate of Heaven Blade Technique to break the immortal’s attack.
• Meng Tianzheng destroyed his Great Bow, revealing that it contained his former body and Dao Fruit, which had been sealed and nurtured inside it.
• Meng Tianzheng’s two Dao Fruits merged, granting him a second life and greatly increasing his combat strength as the real battle began.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Tianzheng successfully enters his second life, proving that he has embarked on the Red Dust Immortal Path rather than becoming a conventional True Immortal.
• Shi Hao recognizes that this path may be especially compatible with his own Secret Realm cultivation system.
• Meng Tianzheng challenges Ao Bing, a True Immortal from the Immortal Domain, declaring that he will show him the power of a Human Dao Emperor.
• Using his damaged Great Bow and arrows formed from the Laws of the Great Dao, Meng Tianzheng:
  • Pierces and kills a True Immortal.
  • Slaughters multiple Immortal Domain Supreme Beings.
  • Creates chaos among the Immortal Domain forces and helps Shi Hao and the others escape their encirclement.
• Ao Bing becomes enraged and personally attacks Meng Tianzheng. He uses powerful Immortal King techniques, while other Supreme Beings lend him their strength through a formation.
• Despite being technically a Supreme Being, Meng Tianzheng directly suppresses Ao Bing in battle. He withstands the destruction of stars and the surrounding universe, then wounds Ao Bing repeatedly with the Great Bow.
• Meng Tianzheng mocks Ao Bing’s status as a True Immortal, arguing that actual combat experience can overcome the difference between realms.
• Several Immortal Domain observers debate whether to intervene. They decide to wait, since their primary mission is protecting the Thunder Emperor’s disciple, not assisting the Ao Family.

Character Developments

• Meng Tianzheng completes a major transformation. By abandoning the safer route of merging with his Dao Fruit to become an ordinary Immortal, he risks everything to pursue the more difficult Red Dust Immortal Path.
• His decision reflects his pride, conviction, and willingness to follow his own Dao rather than accept a conventional form of immortality.
• His million years guarding Emperor Pass are shown to have forged extraordinary combat instincts. He is not merely powerful in cultivation; he is an exceptionally experienced and ruthless battlefield fighter.
• Shi Hao gains a deeper appreciation for Meng Tianzheng’s path and begins considering how it relates to his own cultivation.
• Ao Bing is exposed as overconfident. He initially regards Meng Tianzheng as an insignificant Human Dao cultivator but is forced to confront a vastly stronger and more experienced opponent.
• The observing Immortal Domain cultivators reveal political divisions: they are unwilling to risk conflict with the Ao Family for someone outside their direct obligations.

Significant Themes

• Defiance of established paths: Meng Tianzheng rejects the ordinary route to immortality in favor of creating or pursuing a more difficult path through the mortal world.
• Combat experience versus realm superiority: The chapter emphasizes that a higher cultivation realm does not guarantee victory. Experience, technique, willpower, and battle mastery can overturn an apparent difference in status.
• Pride and personal conviction: Meng Tianzheng would rather risk death than betray his own understanding of the Dao.
• The power of human achievement: A Human Dao cultivator can challenge and defeat Immortals through perseverance and refinement.
• Political indifference and factionalism: The Immortal Domain’s powerful figures prioritize family interests and assigned missions over justice or collective solidarity.

Character Interactions

• Meng Tianzheng and Shi Hao: Shi Hao observes Meng Tianzheng’s transformation and recognizes the potential relationship between the Red Dust Immortal Path and his own system.
• Meng Tianzheng and Ao Bing: Their confrontation moves from contempt to open hostility. Ao Bing assumes superiority because of his True Immortal status, while Meng Tianzheng answers with overwhelming combat power and openly belittles him.
• Meng Tianzheng and the Immortal Domain Supreme Beings: Meng Tianzheng treats them as targets rather than serious threats, killing them rapidly with long-range Law arrows.
• Ao Bing and the other Supreme Beings: The Supreme Beings support Ao Bing by forming a power-enhancing formation, attempting to compensate for his inability to defeat Meng Tianzheng alone.
• The observing Immortal Domain cultivators: They discuss whether to intervene, ultimately choosing neutrality unless Meng Tianzheng is close to death, revealing their pragmatic and faction-driven outlook.

Meng Tianzheng defeated Ao Bing’s nine-step attack before the Golden Crow True Immortal Jin Chen stopped their battle and invited Shi Hao to the Immortal Domain. As Shi Hao reached King Pan City with the Master of the Forbidden Zone and other ancient beings, Ji Hao encountered a dark body left by Liu Shen in the Sea of Boundaries and continued his journey toward the Other Shore.

• Meng Tianzheng broke Ao Bing’s saber and grievously wounded him, but Jin Chen intervened and ended the fight, then gave Shi Hao an invitation to the Immortal Domain.
• The Master of the Forbidden Zone and the Crystal Skull, Golden Bone Palm, and Blood-Dripping Eyeball agreed to accompany Shi Hao, and the Master told him the Realm Annihilation incense could protect him there.
• Ji Hao found a dark willow tree on an island and read Liu Shen’s stone inscription, learning that the tree was a body she had left behind while studying dark matter.
• Ji Hao left Dark Liu Shen undisturbed and continued through the Sea of Boundaries, enduring a storm that carried traces of Emperor Script.
• Shi Hao traveled with Jin Sheng and his uncle to King Pan City, whose immense scale astonished him.

Shi Hao entered King Pan City for the Flat Peach Banquet and angered his escorts by stealing divine medicine from the Peach Garden. At the banquet, his confrontation with Ao Gan led them to the Supreme Arena, where Ao Gan attacked with the Ao Family’s Immortal King Scripture.

• Jin Chen explained that the Peach Banquet had begun early because the Thunder Emperor’s power had alarmed the Immortal Kings, and Shi Hao entered King Pan City with Zi Kun and Bai Ze.
• At the Crow Clan inn, Shi Hao saw an arena and proclaimed himself the Strongest Supreme in History.
• Shi Hao admired the treasures of the King Pan Residence, tried to dig up its paving stones, and stole two divine plants from the Peach Garden, infuriating Bai Ze, Zi Kun, and the Pan Family.
• At the banquet, Shi Hao insulted Ao Gan and challenged the Ao Family’s authority, so they agreed to fight in the Supreme Arena.
• Ao Gan revealed that his ancestor had joined another Immortal King in attacking Liu Shen, then unleashed the Ao Family’s Immortal King Scripture and charged Shi Hao with Light Sword Wings.

Shi Hao overwhelmed Ao Gan in the arena, destroying his weapons and defeating him so completely that his life rested in Shi Hao’s hands. The Immortal Domain crowd learned of Shi Hao’s age and past, while the Ao Family reeled from its prodigy’s defeat.

• Shi Hao countered Ao Gan’s supernatural powers with his Grass-Character Sword Art and the might of his five secret realms.
• After twelve hundred exchanges, Shi Hao wounded Ao Gan, pierced his chest, and held him aloft as the crowd watched.
• Shi Hao destroyed the Immortal Halberd-Axe and defeated Ao Gan’s attempted sneak attack, leaving him powerless and captured.
• Ao Kun cried out for his brother, and the Ao Family’s experts struggled to accept Ao Gan’s crushing defeat.
• The crowd discussed Shi Hao’s past battles against Foreign Land experts and marveled that he had attained the Dao at such a young age.

Shi Hao defeated Ao Gan, Huntian, and Pan Yi in succession at the arena, then challenged all three at once to push himself further. Their combined attack awakened the power of his third Supreme Bone and brought him into the divine forbidden domain, where he became invincible within the human Dao domain.

• Shi Hao released Ao Gan after he admitted defeat, and told him he would give him time to catch up until he could no longer see him in the distance.
• Huntian challenged Shi Hao and conceded after he suppressed her with the Nine Transformations of the True Dragon.
• Shi Hao defeated Pan Yi after a fierce battle, advancing his Secret Realm Method as golden lotuses spread around him.
• Shi Hao demanded that Ao Gan, Huntian, and Pan Yi fight him together, and they accepted his challenge.
• The three Heavenly Prodigies wounded Shi Hao, but his third Supreme Bone united his five secret realms and awakened the divine forbidden domain.
• Shi Hao overcame their combined assault and declared that he would let them experience his newly awakened power.