Chapter Summaries

Shi Hao entered the legendary Fortune Source Grounds after the Thunder Emperor’s essence blood opened its gate, and the Transmuting Self Freedom Technique resonated with the place. Inside, he received the complete scriptures and the mysterious drop of blood appeared on his forehead again.

• Immortal King Aosheng called for Shi Hao to be captured and killed, but King Pan objected and said he had promised to protect him.
• The Xuanwu King arrived and took Shi Hao, the Master of the Forbidden Zone, and the Crystal Skull to a withered star, following the Thunder Emperor’s instructions.
• The Xuanwu King offered the Thunder Emperor’s essence blood, transforming the star into the Fortune Source Grounds and opening its entrance.
• Shi Hao entered the fissure and followed the path toward an ancient cave as the Transmuting Self Freedom Technique’s scriptures rang within him.
• Shi Hao realized he had received the complete scriptures, and a familiar drop of blood appeared on his forehead.

Shi Hao entered the mysterious stone chamber, where his presence revealed ancient scenes linking him to the Emperor Fall Era. Ji Hao reunited with Liu Shen, warned her of looming wars, and set out to test a method for advancing his Emperor Road across the Sea of Boundaries.

• Shi Hao stepped into the stone chamber, and the Transmuting Self Freedom Technique revealed ancient carvings that showed him amid events from the Emperor Fall Era.
• Ji Hao followed the Fortune Aura Path into a small world and found Liu Shen cultivating within a cocoon surrounded by the River of Time and ten thousand Faith Divine Nations.
• Ji Hao greeted Liu Shen and discussed their progress as Liu Shen described her slow recovery and continuing cultivation.
• Ji Hao warned Liu Shen that returning Foreign Land Giants could trigger a campaign of conquest, then recounted his recent battle and journey.
• Ji Hao left with Liu Shen and Little Pagoda, chose a site in the Sea of Boundaries, and used the Hongmeng Thunder Pond to reshape its laws.

Ji Hao established the Tribulation Lightning Heavenly River as a complementary source of creation and destruction throughout the Sea of Boundaries, bringing his path toward the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm closer. Liu Shen sent a willow leaf into a dying world through the river, where it began spreading her Dao as the world was renewed.

• Ji Hao shaped the lightning sea so creation and destruction arose together, then placed the Immortal-Slaying Platform in its crimson ocean of order to strengthen the river and guard it.
• The Tribulation Lightning Heavenly River flowed through worlds, nourishing their heavenly daos and supporting Ji Hao’s cultivation as he neared the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.
• Ji Hao observed Liu Shen accumulating power toward her own breakthrough and judged that the two of them might eventually challenge the Four Dark Emperors.
• Liu Shen became a towering willow within the Sea of Boundaries and sent a leaf drifting down the heavenly river into a broken Universe World.
• The river entered the dying world, greatly increased its spiritual energy, repaired its heavenly dao, and sparked celebration and faith that flowed into the world, river, and willow leaf.

Ji Hao helped Liu Shen establish a Divine Nation that spread the sacrificial spirit dao, and she began challenging the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm by sending her Dao Fruit into the River of Time. Ji Hao departed to continue healing and pursuing his own Emperor Road, leaving their reunion and future battles ahead.

• Ji Hao explained that Liu Shen would gain fortune as the sacrificial spirit dao spread through the Sea of Boundaries, and Liu Shen thanked him for his help.
• Liu Shen revealed her willow form and used her ten thousand spheres of light and supreme Dao Fruit to reach toward the River of Time.
• Karmic backlash and thunder punishment struck Liu Shen as her willow branches struggled to take root across the River of Time, while Ji Hao chose not to interfere.
• Ji Hao left Liu Shen to face her tribulation alone, glimpsing a future in which she would fight beside him against the darkness.
• Ji Hao parted from Little Pagoda and continued healing on a ruined island while contemplating his own path and watching other powerful beings.

Ji Hao encountered fallen Kings as he traveled the Sea of Boundaries, then overturned the Receiving Ancient Palace and fought its dark forces. After defeating several Dark Giants and a white tiger Immortal King, he faced a monstrous being with nineteen heads emerging from a rift.

• Ji Hao suppressed a lost Immortal King and continued using the ashes of fallen Kings to make beacons for the Tribulation Lightning Heavenly River.
• Ji Hao blocked the Receiving Ancient Palace with lightning and knocked it out of the sky above the Sea of Boundaries.
• Ji Hao fought the palace's forces, annihilated their army, and used the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine to kill Dark Wushang.
• Ji Hao battered the white tiger Immortal King and other dark Kings, then struck at a rift opening where the palace had stood.
• A gigantic nineteen-headed creature emerged from the rift, and Ji Hao recognized it as a pinnacle Immortal King.

Ji Hao battled the nineteen-headed King formed from the fused souls of ancient Immortal Kings and revealed the prisons and Dark Imperial Palace connected to the Receiving Ancient Palace. He gained the upper hand, wounded his opponent, and used Sacred Offering to absorb two of its heads, then urged the monster to join him in ascending beyond kingship.

• The nineteen-headed monster demanded that Ji Hao merge with it, but Ji Hao refused and attacked with the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine and Panhuang Fist.
• Ji Hao pierced one of the monster's heads and saw Dark Prisons carrying ancient Heavenly Prodigies toward a Dark Imperial Palace.
• The monster unleashed its immortal beast spirits and killing techniques, while Ji Hao countered with the Suppression Sword Art and Divine Soul Sword Germ.
• Ji Hao struck the monster with the Hongmeng Thunder Pond, grievously wounding it and forcing it to merge its nineteen heads into a humanoid form clad in black-scaled armor.
• The monster pierced one of Ji Hao's arms with a hidden eye-beam, but Ji Hao severed its dragon body and cut off its Pixiu and Immortal Phoenix heads.
• Ji Hao sealed the two severed Kings' divine souls on an altar and absorbed them through Sacred Offering before challenging the remaining monster to ascend with him.

Ji Hao destroyed the nineteen-headed monster and the fallen forces of the Receiving Ancient Palace, then carried it toward the Other Shore. Meanwhile, Shi Hao survived the end of his first lifetime and continued rebirthing through successive lifetimes, reaching at least his seventh.

• Ji Hao killed the imprisoned kings and the nineteen-headed monster, refining its remains to restore his power.
• Ji Hao entered the Receiving Ancient Palace, slew its last fallen king, and steered the palace toward the Other Shore as Immortal Kings watched and one young Immortal King followed.
• Shi Hao's first lifetime ended after thirty thousand years, and a lightning tribulation reduced his body to charred remains.
• Shi Hao revived several years later, began a second lifetime, and opened more gates in his body as his Dao Fruit advanced.
• Before his fourth lifetime ended, Shi Hao built a grand array linking nine lands of fortune and used their essence to enter a fifth lifetime.
• Shi Hao continued through his sixth and seventh lifetimes.

After eight lives of cultivation, Shi Hao began merging with the heavenheart imprint, enduring the heavens’ resistance and a devastating tribulation. He survived the lightning and continued subduing the laws of the heavens.

• Shi Hao entered his eighth life after reaching four hundred thousand years of age and declared that he did not need heaven and earth’s recognition to rival Immortal Dao beings.
• At the twilight of his eighth life, Shi Hao fought the Thunder Emperor, and their battle carried them through the river of time before they returned to their respective eras.
• Several thousand years later, Shi Hao sensed changes around the Heavenly Gate and drew the myriad Daos into his body to form the heavenheart imprint.
• Shi Hao’s struggle against the imprint made cultivators experience a vision of stars destroying the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, but a sigh from a forbidden zone freed them from it.
• A heavenly tribulation struck Shi Hao with chaos-charged lightning, but his tempered flesh endured as he continued merging with the heavenheart imprint.

Shi Hao defeated Immortal Domain invaders who sought his Heavenheart Imprint, then endured decades of brutal battles and cultivation. He eventually survived an Immortal Ascension Tribulation in the Realm Graveyard and became an Immortal Dao expert in the End Dharma Era.

• Shi Hao awakened during his first emperor tribulation and killed Immortal Domain True Immortals and prodigies who attacked him for the Heavenheart Imprint.
• Shi Hao divided the Heavenheart Imprint among his enemies, let them fuse with it, and then slaughtered them all along with several True Immortals.
• Over the following millennia, Shi Hao fought at the Emperor Pass and against invading forces while Wang Quan guarded the realm from powerful beings trying to cross the Boundary Wall.
• After decades of ceaseless battles, Shi Hao refined his Five Secret Realms and began preparing to make his final transformation.
• Shi Hao drew his Immortal Ascension Tribulation away from the universe and into the Realm Graveyard, where he survived its devastating lightning and the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine.
• Shi Hao's Five Secret Realms resonated together, and he passed his tribulation to become an Immortal Dao expert.

Under pressure from the approaching Great Reckoning, Shi Hao began a desperate attempt to break through to the Immortal King realm, drawing the attention of the Immortal Domain. Just as his body survived the tribulation and his divine soul faced its greatest trial, Ao Sheng attacked him, and King Pan joined the Forbidden Zone remnants to stop the assault.

• Shi Hao watched Wang Quan fight alone for centuries and decided he could wait no longer to pursue the Immortal King realm.
• Shi Hao opened the treasures of his five secret realms and began his breakthrough, enduring severe injuries as his body repeatedly shattered and reformed.
• The Undying Land sent word to the Immortal Domain, where Shi Hao's former rivals and powerful Immortal Kings reacted to his attempt to become a king.
• Shi Hao's body passed the tribulation, but great Dao strikes battered his divine soul as he struggled to survive the next stage.
• Ao Sheng attacked Shi Hao through an Immortal Gate, nearly destroying him while he could not defend himself.
• The Master of the Forbidden Zone and the Crystal Skull, Golden Bone Palm, and Blood-Dripping Eyeball blocked Ao Sheng, while King Pan appeared and urged him to withdraw.

Ao Sheng tried to kill Shi Hao during his Immortal King Tribulation while other Immortal Kings and Shi Hao’s allies clashed or were forced to withdraw. With Shi Hao’s body cracking under the tribulation and Ao Sheng’s attacks, memories of a previous iteration began to surface.

• Ao Sheng prepared to strike King Pan, but Immortal King Yuanchu and Immortal King Taishi intervened, triggering a battle between Immortal Kings.
• Ao Sheng’s enormous hand struck the World Tree and defeated the golden-haired woman who tried to protect Shi Hao.
• Wang Quan returned to confront Ao Sheng, but a Bronze Great Halberd crossed the Thunder Abyss, forcing Wang Quan to protect the Primitive Emperor Pass while he fought Wushang.
• Shi Hao urged the Master of the Forbidden Zone and the others to retreat, but they stood against Ao Sheng as King Pan and Immortal King Taishi also intervened.
• Shi Hao wondered why he remembered dying at this tribulation before, then the intensified tribulation and Immortal King attacks began cracking his body.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Shi Hao enters a life-and-death battle while undergoing his Immortal King Tribulation. Already suffering under the pressure of the Great Dao Laws, he nevertheless challenges Immortal King Aosheng, determined to fight to the end.
• Aosheng attacks Shi Hao with the full strength of an Immortal King, believing Shi Hao is too weakened by the tribulation to resist. Shi Hao counters with a powerful punch, relying on his already perfected physical body despite his incomplete cultivation and untempered divine soul.
• The Kun Peng King, existing only as a remnant formed from lingering obsession, intervenes and blocks part of Aosheng’s attack. Aosheng dismisses him and claims that no one in the Immortal Domain can hold him accountable.
• Wang Quan warns Aosheng that his actions will bring about his own downfall, but Aosheng remains arrogant and confident in the support of the Immortal Kings.
• The Lightning Tribulation undergoes a major transformation. The laws of Heaven and Earth condense into the Thunder Tribulation Thunder Ancestor Dharma Manifestation, an embodiment of the strongest lightning-tribulation force in history.
• Shi Hao sees the Master of the Forbidden Zone and the other remnants being overwhelmed. He unleashes the Transmuting Self Freedom Technique, transforming into manifestations of Liu Shen, the Kun Peng, the Thunder Emperor, and the True Phoenix before merging their power into himself.
• His combat strength rises to the level of the Ten Evils, allowing him to fight Aosheng and attempt to reach Immortal King Taishi. However, the combined burden of the tribulation and his enemies still leaves him at a severe disadvantage.
• Ji Hao secretly assists the remnants by channeling fortune power from the Lightning Tribulation into them. He also uses a Reincarnation Imprint to retrieve their fragmented traces from the past, preserving them despite their apparent destruction.
• Ji Hao then withdraws to observe, recognizing that this battle is crucial to Shi Hao’s future development and will lay the foundation for his eventual confrontation with the Four Dark Emperors.
• The Master of the Forbidden Zone, the Golden Bone Palm, the Blood-Dripping Eyeball, and the Crystal Skull appear to shatter, but Ji Hao has already saved them. Shi Hao, unaware or unwilling to accept this, cries out in anguish.

Character Developments

• Shi Hao: Becomes increasingly desperate and resolute, abandoning concern for his own survival. His bloodlust and Dao Heart reach a new level as he fights through extreme pain, using battle to force the sublimation of his potential. His transformations demonstrate his growing mastery of the Transmuting Self Freedom Technique.
• Immortal King Aosheng: Reveals his arrogance and ruthlessness. He regards Shi Hao as a potential future threat but attempts to kill him before he can complete his breakthrough. His confidence in the backing of the Immortal Domain makes him dismissive even toward powerful ancient remnants.
• Ji Hao: Acts as a powerful overseer and hidden protector. He recognizes the deeper significance of Shi Hao’s transformation and quietly rescues the endangered remnants, showing concern and responsibility despite allowing Shi Hao to undergo the trial.
• Kun Peng King: Even in a weakened, posthumous state, he intervenes to protect Shi Hao. His sacrifice highlights his lingering loyalty and courage.
• Master of the Forbidden Zone and the other remnants: Fight beyond their limits to protect Shi Hao, suffering catastrophic damage but ultimately being preserved by Ji Hao.

Significant Themes

• Sublimation through battle: Shi Hao’s breakthrough is not merely a cultivation advancement; it is a spiritual and Dao-level transformation forged through mortal danger.
• Defiance against overwhelming fate: Shi Hao knowingly fights despite having almost no chance of victory, embodying courage, responsibility, and refusal to surrender.
• Arrogance and downfall: Aosheng’s contempt for others and certainty in his own invincibility foreshadow Wang Quan’s warning that those who act recklessly bring about their own destruction.
• Inheritance and transformation: By taking on the forms of legendary beings such as Liu Shen, the Kun Peng, the Thunder Emperor, and the True Phoenix, Shi Hao draws upon the strengths and legacies of earlier supreme figures.
• The hidden workings of destiny and reincarnation: Although the remnants appear to perish, Ji Hao preserves their imprints, suggesting that apparent destruction may be part of a larger cosmic process.
• Preparation for future wars: This battle is presented as the second of Shi Hao’s three defining struggles, strengthening him for his eventual fight against the Four Dark Emperors.

Character Interactions

• Shi Hao directly challenges Aosheng and repeatedly attacks him despite the tribulation’s pressure.
• Aosheng clashes with the Kun Peng King, breaking apart the latter’s already damaged remnant.
• Wang Quan openly warns Aosheng and challenges his belief that the Immortal Domain will protect him.
• The Master of the Forbidden Zone fights Immortal King Taishi in an attempt to reach and save Shi Hao.
• Ji Hao observes Shi Hao’s battle, evaluates his transformation, empowers the endangered remnants, and preserves their fragments through reincarnation.
• The chapter ends with Ji Hao reassuring the rescued remnants that they should rest, while Shi Hao cries out in refusal, still believing the battle and their apparent deaths remain unresolved.

After Immortal Kings Ao Sheng, Taishi, and Yuanchu killed Shi Hao during his tribulation, Ji Hao intervened from the Sea of Boundaries and suppressed the three kings beneath a Five-Finger Mountain. Ji Hao then began his breakthrough toward the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm as the Sea of Boundaries blessed him.

• Ao Sheng, Taishi, Yuanchu, and the lord of Burial Immortal Ridge attacked Shi Hao and crushed his Divine Soul, killing him as blood rain fell across the universe.
• Ao Sheng reached to destroy Shi Hao's corpse, but Ji Hao sent a great hand from the Lightning Tribulation and condemned the Immortal Kings for killing his disciple.
• Ji Hao transformed his hand into a Five-Finger Mountain and suppressed Ao Sheng, Yuanchu, and Taishi for three hundred thousand years.
• In the Sea of Boundaries, Ji Hao declared that he would break through the king realm and ascend toward emperorhood.
• Ji Hao's Dao Tree blossomed with immortal flowers, his Quasi-Immortal Emperor presence deepened, and the Sea of Boundaries' origin descended to bless him.

Ji Hao attained the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, established his Dao, and extinguished the Dark Storm before setting out for the dark Other Shore. At the end of the Sea of Boundaries, he reached a massive embankment and faced a terrifying storm of taboo power rising from beyond it.

• Ji Hao completed his breakthrough as the Sea of Boundaries’ Heavenly Dao and countless worlds celebrated his ascension.
• Ji Hao suppressed the Dark Storm with a glance and sealed it within the ancient artifact.
• After twenty thousand years, Ji Hao joined his companion in crossing the Sea of Boundaries toward the dark Other Shore.
• Ji Hao followed the Receiving Ancient Palaces to the end of the Sea of Boundaries and found a massive embankment beyond which lay a dark expanse.
• Ancient experts on nearby islands warned Ji Hao not to approach, as a storm of black Order Divine Chains surged from behind the embankment.

Ji Hao entered the Dark Land behind the Embankment, shielding others from a Quasi-Immortal Emperor storm before facing the land’s deadly laws and defenses. He pressed onward and found vast remains of powerful beings, including a sea of bones stretching beyond sight.

• Ji Hao cut through the Great Dao storm, protected the beings on nearby islands, and warned them to leave before an unprecedented upheaval.
• Ji Hao discovered the remains of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor array bearing Emperor Cang’s aura and continued into the Dark Land.
• Ji Hao passed the corpses of powerful Immortal Kings and advanced into the desolate land despite its changed Great Dao laws.
• Ji Hao’s immunity field shattered the dark Order Divine Chains and absorbed their runes into the Divine Dao Immortal Tree.
• Ji Hao found a boundless sea of bones and mourned the countless beings who had perished there.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao travels through the Black Territory, passing countless skeletons and remains of beings sacrificed by Emperor Cang. The sight reminds him that Cang’s rise to Emperorhood was built on mass slaughter, including the deaths of his own followers.
• He enters the ruined Dark Heavenly Court, a vast palace complex now empty and corrupted. Its formations, Immortal Metal, and sacred materials have deteriorated under the influence of darkness.
• After leaving the Dark Heavenly Court’s territory, Ji Hao reaches the edge of the Dark Land. He encounters the remains of powerful Immortal Kings, including the corpse of the Footprint Emperor, who had once come to suppress the Chaos but ultimately perished.
• Ji Hao discovers another enormous palace complex marked by a blood-covered stele reading “Heavenly Court.” The entire region is filled with deathly energy and Dark Origin power, confirming that this is another manifestation of the corrupted Dark Heavenly Court.
• Emperor Cang finally responds from the central palace. He identifies Ji Hao and initially offers to spare him if he leaves.
• Cang claims that Ji Hao is naïve and defends his past actions, arguing that he sacrificed his followers to help them reach a higher realm and escape the limits of cultivation.
• Ji Hao rejects this justification, insisting that a true Heavenly Emperor must protect living beings and accept responsibility rather than use authority to decide who lives or dies.
• The chapter ends with the conflict becoming physical. Emperor Cang attempts to force Ji Hao to bow and submit to reincarnation, but Ji Hao answers with a powerful punch and a golden decree formed from Dao Laws, directly challenging Cang.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao is portrayed as resolute, morally uncompromising, and increasingly confident in his identity as a Heavenly Emperor. Despite the immense pressure of Emperor Cang’s presence, he refuses to kneel or accept judgment from another Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Ji Hao’s understanding of leadership becomes clearer: he views the title of Heavenly Emperor as a duty to safeguard all life, not as permission to wield absolute power.
• Emperor Cang is revealed as a tragic but thoroughly corrupted figure. He was once a ruler who protected living beings and united powerful Immortal Kings, but his obsession with surpassing his limits led him to sacrifice his subjects, his son, and eventually himself to darkness.
• A possible Benevolent Thought of Emperor Cang briefly appears, showing that some remnant of Cang’s former self may still exist. However, this aspect ultimately withdraws, leaving behind the colder and more ruthless Emperor Cang.

Significant Themes

• The corruption of power: Emperor Cang’s transformation demonstrates how the pursuit of transcendence can destroy morality and turn a protector into a tyrant.
• Responsibility versus authority: Ji Hao argues that leadership is an obligation, not a privilege to control life and death.
• Sacrifice and justification: Cang claims his sacrifices were meant to elevate his followers, but the chapter questions whether forced sacrifice can ever be justified by promises of power or salvation.
• Resistance to fate and reincarnation: Ji Hao refuses to let even an Emperor define his destiny, erase his sins, or send him into reincarnation.
• The remnants of the past: The ruined Heavenly Court, dead Immortal Kings, and corrupted remains of Emperor Cang’s former empire symbolize the collapse of an age and the consequences of darkness.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and Emperor Cang engage in a philosophical confrontation before fighting. Cang treats Ji Hao as a naïve junior and demands submission, while Ji Hao directly condemns Cang’s actions and denies his claim to true Heavenly Emperorhood.
• Emperor Cang offers Ji Hao a chance to leave and later promises to protect his True Spirit if Ji Hao bows during reincarnation. Ji Hao rejects both offers as attempts to impose Cang’s authority upon him.
• Their verbal conflict escalates into a clash of principles: Cang represents power pursued at any cost, while Ji Hao represents righteous rule and the protection of living beings.
• The chapter concludes with Ji Hao launching the first direct attack, setting up an imminent battle between the two powerful figures.

Ji Hao and Emperor Cang fought a devastating battle in the Dark Heavenly Court, trading Quasi-Immortal Emperor weapons and powers that shattered the palace and created new worlds. The battle continued across time and space, with Emperor Cang questioning why Ji Hao risked his life for others.

• Emperor Cang suppressed his benevolent thoughts and attacked Ji Hao with a withered hand, but Ji Hao met the blow with his fist and shook the Dark Heavenly Court apart.
• Ji Hao drew the Divine Dao Holy Sword, while Emperor Cang countered with a Bone Ruler and Bone Seal; Ji Hao’s Thunder Pond deflected the seal.
• Ji Hao and Emperor Cang sent their weapons to clash separately and fought directly, with Ji Hao taunting Emperor Cang about falling into darkness.
• Their battle tore through the River of Time and split the universe, forming new worlds as their weapons fought within newborn primordial universes.
• Emperor Cang asked why Ji Hao risked his life for others while their struggle darkened starry skies and extinguished countless lives.

Ji Hao fought Emperor Cang in the Chaos Sea and defeated him with the Divine Dao Heavenly Emperor Sword, but did not kill him. Emperor Hong arrived and confronted Ji Hao, setting up a battle against the two Dark Emperors.

• Emperor Cang used his sacrificial altar and blood to try to sacrifice Ji Hao, who broke through the altar with the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine and his Sword Qi.
• Ji Hao and Emperor Cang fought across the Chaos Sea, unleashing their strongest attacks as their battle reached its decisive stage.
• Ji Hao called for the other Dark Emperors and invoked the Divine Dao Heavenly Emperor Sword, crushing Emperor Cang and tearing apart his divine soul.
• Emperor Cang re-formed and retreated while Ji Hao turned toward another threat instead of pursuing him.
• Emperor Hong appeared on a purple-gold road, addressed Emperor Cang, and declared that they would send Ji Hao on his way.

Ji Hao fought Emperor Cang, Emperor Yu, and Emperor Hong alone as the three Quasi-Immortal Emperors tried to suppress him and sent an army of fallen kings toward the Immortal Domain. Though Ji Hao wounded Emperor Cang and grew stronger during the battle, the emperors’ curses and attacks kept him under pressure, and he awaited a helper who had yet to arrive.

• Emperor Yu and Emperor Hong joined Emperor Cang, and Ji Hao challenged all three to fight him.
• Ji Hao’s sword qi clashed with the emperors’ power, and he broke the tip of Emperor Yu’s spear while suffering a wound that would not heal.
• Ji Hao tore Emperor Cang’s body apart and trapped it in the Hongmeng Thunder Pond, but Emperor Yu freed him with a spear strike.
• Emperor Yu ordered an army led by fallen kings to cross the Sea of Boundaries and attack the Immortal Domain while Ji Hao remained occupied fighting the three emperors.
• Emperor Hong cursed Ji Hao and Emperor Cang attacked with sacrificial power, while Emperor Yu’s spear wounded Ji Hao’s palm.
• Ji Hao dismissed the emperors’ claims and continued fighting, expecting a helper who had not yet arrived.

Ji Hao fought Emperor Cang, Emperor Yu, and Emperor Hong through the River of Time while Liu Shen completed her transformation at the Tribulation Lightning Heavenly River. The Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit broke through from king to emperor as Ji Hao welcomed her arrival into the battle.

• Ji Hao wounded Emperor Cang with the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine and battled the three Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors with his transformed dragon and phoenix arms.
• Emperor Yu and Emperor Hong joined forces against Ji Hao, who countered their attacks with the Panhuang Fist and the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine.
• The Tribulation Lightning Heavenly River transformed into an Imperial Dao River, while Liu Shen used faith power and the emperor fire to cleanse her darkness and complete her transformation.
• Ji Hao trapped two emperors and sent heavenly lightning and emperor fire to the heavenly river's source to help Liu Shen break through.
• Liu Shen established her Dao, became a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, and appeared as a towering willow tree bearing countless divine nations.