Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Yu Tuo Immortal King’s Helpless Fury”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Shi Hao tries to stop the younger generation from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths from fighting, recognizing that many of them are descendants of the Primordial Ancient Realm who have been deceived by the Other Realm.
• The young survivors refuse to listen. They believe Shi Hao and his allies are corrupted “devils,” while the Other Realm has successfully manipulated them into rejecting their true origins.
• A chaotic battle begins. Shi Hao avoids attacking the descendants of the Primordial Ancient Realm whenever possible and instead targets pure-blooded Other Realm creatures and traitors.
• Shi Hao kills several powerful enemies, including the Void Beast, the Time Beast, and the Three-Headed King. The Other Realm also loses several important young prodigies because of his presence.
• As the battle concludes, the Heaven and Earth Bag and the Ten Realms Diagram attempt to withdraw with their respective young experts. Jiang Ming intercepts the Heaven and Earth Bag, overpowering it with his Immortal King-level body and the technique Demon Devours Heaven and Earth.
• Yu Tuo, enraged at the theft of the treasure he had borrowed from Wushang, tries to project his power into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. However, the altar and the entire Immortal Battlefield collapse, destroying his manifested arm.
• Jiang Ming collects the blood of the injured Peak Immortal King and absorbs the battlefield’s immense immortal laws and baleful energy.
• Empowered by this absorption, Jiang Ming’s presence becomes terrifying, combining the majesty of a Divine Lord with demonic power surpassing ordinary Immortal Kings.
• The chapter ends with Jiang Ming’s memories expanding as he walks into the Chaos Sea, where countless minor and medium worlds drift like bubbles in a deadly ocean of chaotic energy.

Character Developments

• Shi Hao: Demonstrates compassion and restraint by attempting to save the descendants of the Primordial Ancient Realm rather than treating them all as enemies. Once negotiations fail, he fights decisively against the genuine Other Realm forces and proves himself capable of changing the course of the younger generation’s battle.
• Jiang Ming: Shows overwhelming confidence and power. He treats the Heaven and Earth Bag as a tool rather than a threat, devours its attacking Dao laws, captures the treasure, and absorbs the energy of the collapsing battlefield. His cultivation and hidden techniques continue to advance rapidly.
• Yu Tuo: Suffers a humiliating setback. His authority is undermined when the borrowed Heaven and Earth Bag is seized, and his attempt to intervene ends with his arm being destroyed. His furious reaction reveals both his shock and his inability to control events.
• The descendants of the Primordial Ancient Realm: Their loyalty has been corrupted by fear, isolation, and self-interest. They knowingly reject the truth because returning to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths would mean inheriting a ruined world.
• The Ten Feral Beasts and their descendants: Their past suffering is emphasized, illustrating how the wars of the Immortal Ancient Era destroyed families and left many bloodlines weakened or incomplete.

Significant Themes

• Betrayal and historical distortion: The Other Realm has convinced descendants of the Primordial Ancient Realm that their true allies are enemies, reversing the truth of the ancient war.
• Cowardice and self-preservation: The younger generation chooses comfort and survival in the Other Realm over reclaiming its origins, showing how prolonged oppression can turn victims into collaborators.
• The tragedy of inherited war: The suffering of the Ten Feral Beasts and the fallen prodigies highlights how entire bloodlines were destroyed before their descendants could mature.
• Compassion versus necessity: Shi Hao’s reluctance to attack his own people contrasts with the brutal demands of war.
• Overwhelming power and transformation: Jiang Ming’s absorption of the battlefield represents his continued evolution beyond conventional cultivation limits and hints at a greater destiny connected to the Chaos Sea.
• The impermanence of worlds: The final image of worlds floating like bubbles in the Chaos Sea places the conflict within a much larger cosmic setting.

Important Character Interactions

• Shi Hao and the younger generation: Shi Hao repeatedly attempts to persuade them that they have been deceived, but they reject him and call him a devil.
• Shi Hao and the Other Realm natives: He deliberately focuses his attacks on pure-blooded Other Realm beings and traitors, especially the Void Beast, whom he considers more despicable for defecting.
• Jiang Ming and the Heaven and Earth Bag: Jiang Ming suppresses and captures the treasure, neutralizing its Dao laws and severing its connection to Yu Tuo and other Immortal Kings.
• Jiang Ming and Yu Tuo: Their indirect confrontation ends with Jiang Ming taking Yu Tuo’s treasure and Yu Tuo losing his manifested arm, leaving him furious and powerless.
• Jiang Ming and the collapsing battlefield: Rather than merely surviving the destruction, Jiang Ming absorbs the battlefield’s laws, blood, and baleful energy, turning the catastrophe into a source of power.

Jiang Ming gained new memories and revived the Zhurong Ancestral Witch Divine Form before helping the young cultivators safely enter the Ancient Immortal Platform. He sent Shi Hao inside with a message for Nannan, while the Ruthless Empress’s long-standing anger toward Jiang Ming came to light.

• Jiang Ming absorbed new Dao memories and a half-step great thousand world flame, awakening the Zhurong Ancestral Witch Divine Form beyond the Immortal King level.
• Meng Tianzheng explained that the damaged Ancient Immortal Platform offered a dangerous chance at transformation, and most of the young prodigies, including descendants of the Primordial Ancient Realm, chose to enter.
• Jiang Ming used the Generals' Worship Platform and Reincarnation Disc to stabilize the platform and promised the entrants they would return safely.
• Jiang Ming stayed outside because his cultivation was too powerful for the platform, but told Shi Hao to give a masked woman the message, "Nannan, I miss you."
• Shi Hao entered the platform and was transported into space-time reincarnation as Jiang Ming anticipated meeting the Ruthless Empress.
• The Ruthless Empress's obsession with Jiang Ming had deepened after he shared centuries of affection with her in dreams and then disappeared, leaving her furious and searching for him.

Shi Hao encountered Samsara, a female immortal waiting in the River of Time, and drank the sole jug of wine she had brewed from the fortune of the Immortal Ancient Era. After gaining its benefits, he chose to attempt her dangerous next trial, believing he might be the hope she awaited.

• Jiang Ming sent the lingering obsessions of the Supreme Yin Human Emperor, the Solar Saint Emperor, and Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing behind the Samsara Immortal Platform to be reborn.
• The emperor flame carried Shi Hao through visions of darkness and destruction, showing him that it had protected him from the Darkness Prison.
• Shi Hao met a female immortal who revealed that his experiences were real and that she had verified a cycle of reincarnation and rebirth.
• Shi Hao drank the female immortal's rare Immortal Wine, which contained the condensed fortune of the Immortal Ancient Era, and entered Dao enlightenment.
• The female immortal recognized Samsara's connection to the Red Cord and to the figure on the Generals' Worship Platform, while Shi Hao chose to undergo her perilous next trial.

Chapter Summary: “Nannan, I Miss You”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Shi Hao accepts the karmic burden placed upon him by the peerless immortal maiden, proving that he is the hoped-for figure capable of carrying the future’s destiny.
• Red King, an Immortal King from the Other Realm, follows the River of Time across tens of millions of years to kill Shi Hao while he is still young. His actions threaten to alter the history and future of the entire Perfect World.
• The immortal maiden intervenes, intending to protect Shi Hao despite the enormous karmic backlash. She argues that Shi Hao is not truly a variable outside destiny, but someone naturally aligned with it.
• Red King’s attempt to interfere with fate causes backlash in the River of Time, as well as karmic and fateful consequences. In the Immortal Ancient Era, two powerful Immortal King Colossi—an icy woman wielding the Six Paths Reincarnation Wheel and a tall man accompanied by an ancient bell—also target Red King, seeking revenge for his slaughter of a peerless Immortal King.
• A mysterious woman in white, wearing a Ghost Face Mask, appears from the future. She is revealed to be the Ruthless Empress, whose connection to Shi Hao’s master, Jiang Ming, is strongly implied.
• Red King arrogantly challenges her, but the Empress overwhelms him. Using her evolved sword technique, Heavenly Flying Immortal, she destroys him in only three strikes. His body and soul are completely annihilated, and his remains are refined within a precious bottle.
• After defeating Red King, the Empress shows Shi Hao a crude drawing of a man and asks whether he has seen him. Shi Hao cannot clearly perceive the image because of the immense karma surrounding it.
• Shi Hao instead delivers Jiang Ming’s message to her: “Nannan, I miss you.”

Character Developments

• Shi Hao: Though still a child, Shi Hao is revealed to possess extraordinary importance to the future. He becomes more aware that powerful beings are willing to risk immense backlash because of his potential. His innocence and curiosity remain evident, especially in his humorous speculation about his master’s relationship with the masked woman.
• Peerless Immortal Maiden: She becomes firmly committed to protecting Shi Hao, even if doing so requires risking her existence and bearing severe karmic consequences. Her confidence in Shi Hao as the “greatest hope” is strengthened.
• Red King: His arrogance and overconfidence lead to his downfall. He underestimates both the consequences of disrupting destiny and the power of the future Empress. His death represents karmic retribution for his past crimes.
• Ruthless Empress: She is portrayed as an overwhelmingly powerful Immortal King Colossus. Her mastery of Jiang Ming’s sword techniques has developed into her own supreme art, and her confrontation with Red King demonstrates her decisive, ruthless nature. Her quiet question about the man in the drawing reveals a deeply personal emotional attachment.
• Jiang Ming: Although absent, he remains central through the techniques he taught the Empress and the message he entrusted to Shi Hao.

Significant Themes

• Karma, fate, and destiny: The chapter emphasizes that attempts to alter destiny create powerful backlash. Red King’s effort to kill Shi Hao disrupts a much larger chain of causality and ultimately contributes to his destruction.
• Cause and effect: Red King’s past actions—especially killing and attempting to refine another Immortal King—return upon him through the hostility of other supreme beings.
• Protection of hope: Shi Hao represents a possible future salvation, causing the immortal maiden and the Empress to intervene despite tremendous risks.
• Power and arrogance: Red King’s confidence collapses when confronted by someone genuinely stronger. His swift defeat shows that status and reputation cannot replace true mastery.
• Love and longing across time: The Empress’s search for the man in the drawing and Jiang Ming’s message suggest a relationship separated by time, death, or unreachable karmic barriers.

Character Interactions

• The immortal maiden and Red King confront each other ideologically, with her defending Shi Hao and warning that fate itself will punish Red King.
• The two ancient Immortal Kings identify Red King as a target, combining personal vengeance with the desire to study or defeat his Dao of Time.
• Shi Hao witnesses the confrontation between Red King and the Empress, becoming awed by the strength of the woman his master described.
• The Empress speaks directly to Shi Hao after killing Red King, asking about the man in her drawing. Shi Hao responds by passing on Jiang Ming’s emotional message, creating a poignant connection between the past, present, and future.

Shi Hao relayed the Ruthless Empress’s and the reincarnation-bound woman’s messages to Jiang Ming, who wondered about his connection to the woman and resolved to bring her back. At the Immortal Battlefield’s Reincarnation Platform, Jiang Ming freed the gathered prodigies from their restrictions and learned that the Solar Saint Emperor, the Supreme Yin Human Emperor, and Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing expected to reach Supreme within ten years.

• The Ruthless Empress wounded the Red King in the River of Time, then sent Jiang Ming a threat through Shi Hao before disappearing.
• The peerless female immortal asked Shi Hao about Jiang Ming and sent him a teasing message, which left Shi Hao reflecting on his own romantic entanglements.
• Shi Hao returned to Jiang Ming and recounted what had happened; Jiang Ming puzzled over the woman’s resentment and gave Shi Hao romantic advice.
• Jiang Ming suppressed the Generals' Worship Platform and Reincarnation Disc, deciding he would find a way to restore the woman once she became an Immortal King.
• The prodigies returned to the Reincarnation Platform, and Jiang Ming used Words Follow the Law to remove the restrictions placed on them by Undying Ones.
• The Solar Saint Emperor, the Supreme Yin Human Emperor, and Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing told Jiang Ming they expected to break through to Supreme within ten years.

Jiang Ming’s secluded cultivation was interrupted when the Golden Three-Headed King projected himself into the Celestial God Academy to question the death of his descendant and the missing Heaven and Earth Bag. Jiang Ming seized Dugu Yun, devoured the King’s projection, and left Yu Tuo and An Lan wary of intervening.

• Jiang Ming spent months deriving the True Immortal chapter of the Great Freedom Dao Scripture while Shi Hao advanced to the middle stage of the Heavenly God Realm.
• The Golden Three-Headed King projected himself into the Celestial God Academy and demanded to know who killed his descendant and stole the Heaven and Earth Bag.
• Jiang Ming seized Dugu Yun, a descendant of the guardians, and tossed him onto the plaza before the academy’s great hall.
• Jiang Ming’s demonic shadow devoured the Golden Three-Headed King’s projection and sent a threat through the teleportation formation to the Other Realm.
• Yu Tuo and An Lan sensed Jiang Ming’s challenge but refrained from acting because crossing over could leave them badly injured.

Jiang Ming secured the Celestial God Academy’s position and set out for the Realm Tomb to seek opportunities that could advance his cultivation. There, he devoured a sea of ruined World Seeds, leaving the academy’s second elder stunned.

• Jiang Ming’s Demon Shadow devoured the Three-Headed Gold King, while the Holy Academy and Immortal Academy abandoned their designs on the Celestial God Academy.
• The Yuan Family gave up hope of rescuing Yuan Qing from the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning, and another half a year passed as gifted disciples neared the Void Dao Realm.
• Jiang Ming joined the Celestial God Academy’s expedition to the Realm Tomb and sent an incarnation with Meng Tianzheng to gather opportunities elsewhere.
• Less than half a month after arriving at the Boundary Sea, Jiang Ming spotted a crystalline sea of sand that the second elder warned the warship to avoid.
• Jiang Ming’s Demon Shadow swallowed the sand, which contained ruined World Seeds and the equivalent of thirty thousand years of arduous cultivation, and the second elder called him a freak.

Jiang Ming led the Celestial God Academy disciples through the Boundary Sea, devouring dangerous beings and dead worlds while protecting the group as they harvested Soul Seeds from Battle Spirits. The chapter ended with his Demon Shadow consuming a sealed Quasi-Immortal King, triggering Jiang Ming's transformation and the Great Freedom Dao Scripture's breakthrough.

• Jiang Ming's Demon Shadow consumed pearl-like world seeds, Star-Eating Grass, and dead worlds as the group traveled through the Boundary Sea.
• Jiang Ming rode a powerful Innate Divine Hound while the Second Elder reassured the watching disciples.
• Jiang Ming urged the elders and students to fight the Boundary Grave Battle Spirits, then rescued those in danger and helped the group claim their Soul Seeds.
• Shi Hao condensed a supreme-grade Soul Seed, and the group continued deeper into the Boundary Sea.
• Jiang Ming's Demon Shadow devoured a sealed Quasi-Immortal King, causing Jiang Ming to transform and the Great Freedom Dao Scripture to break through.

Jiang Ming reunited with Di Yourong, the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor's granddaughter, as she awakened beneath the Quasi-Immortal King-level Golden Fusang Tree. The tree carried them and the Celestial God Academy to the Land of Five Elements, where Jiang Ming and Di Yourong began cultivating together and the others searched for fortune.

• Jiang Ming identified the enormous Golden Fusang Tree as a Quasi-Immortal King-level World Tree and warned everyone not to provoke it.
• Di Yourong awakened atop the tree, recognized Jiang Ming, and called him her husband before falling into his embrace.
• Jiang Ming told Di Yourong to follow the tree to a land of fortune, then entered its flower bud with her to cultivate and aid their transformations.
• The Golden Fusang Tree crossed space with the Celestial God Academy following in a golden warship, then took root in the Land of Five Elements.
• Jiang Ming and the others arrived in an ancient universe filled with primordial five-elements mother qi, where five-elements ultimate dao origin might have formed.

Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Ming decides not to immediately seize every treasure on the Five-Elements Continent, intending to return later for its greatest fortunes. Ordinary Immortal Seeds are useless to him because he follows the “self as the seed” cultivation path and already possesses a Quasi-Immortal Emperor-grade flame seed.
• During three months on the continent, Jiang Ming makes major progress: his cultivation breaks through, and the Great Freedom Dao Scripture reaches a new realm.
• With Jiang Ming’s assistance, Imperial Daughter You Rong breaks through her shackles and enters the Great Emperor Realm. He also gives her a wisp of Quasi-Immortal Emperor Flame, greatly strengthening her future potential.
• Jiang Ming obtains the legacy of the former Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor—the Golden Crow Treasure Art, also called the Great Sun Nirvana Scripture.
• Jiang Ming and the Quasi-Immortal King World Tree absorb the Five-Elements Origin throughout the continent, preparing Jiang Ming’s body for a final transformation into a Peak Immortal King-level physique.
• The Celestial God Academy’s disciples uncover a sealed region containing the remnants of the terrifying Other Realm Immortal King known as the Heavenly Secrets Flower.
• The seal was created through the combined powers of Samsara and time, likely by Samsara Heavenly Venerable and Immortal King Wuzhong after a catastrophic battle. The region also contains a Heaven Seed connected to the Immortal Domain.
• The Heavenly Secrets Flower is revealed to have once been an enormous plant-like Immortal King whose roots devoured entire worlds and whose trumpet-shaped black flowers refined corpses into puppets.
• In the ancient battle, it fought Immortal King Wuzhong, the Reincarnation King, and a mysterious sword-wielding Immortal King. The still-immature Heavenly Secrets Flower and the sword expert ultimately perished together.
• The sword-wielding Immortal King secretly left behind a remnant soul. Millions of years later, he reappears to prevent the Heavenly Secrets Flower from escaping.
• Jiang Ming intervenes, asking the remnant soul to leave the Heavenly Secrets Flower to him so he can use its Life and Puppet Dao laws for his own advancement. The remnant soul agrees, and Jiang Ming’s Eternal Demon Lord avatar devours the flower.

2. Character Developments

• Jiang Ming: Advances significantly in cultivation, deepens his connection to the Five-Elements and Great Freedom paths, and continues building a body capable of reaching Peak Immortal King level. He demonstrates restraint regarding opportunities linked to Shi Hao, while still claiming the Heavenly Secrets Flower as a valuable resource.
• Imperial Daughter You Rong: Breaks into the Great Emperor Realm and gains a Quasi-Immortal Emperor Flame compatible with her Fire Dao. This gives her the possibility of eventually surpassing her grandfather.
• The Heavenly Secrets Flower: Its history changes from that of a sealed, nearly forgotten enemy into a revealed world-devouring Immortal King seeking revival. It remains powerful but is ultimately consumed by Jiang Ming.
• The sword-wielding Immortal King: Revealed to have survived through a remnant soul and a contingency plan, displaying foresight and continued hostility toward the Heavenly Secrets Flower.
• Shi Hao and the academy disciples: Discover only a limited and frightening fragment of the sealed battle, while Jiang Ming perceives the deeper historical truth.

3. Significant Themes

• Power through self-cultivation: Jiang Ming’s rejection of ordinary Immortal Seeds emphasizes his belief in transforming and strengthening himself rather than relying on external inheritances.
• Hidden history and incomplete truth: Different characters witness different layers of the ancient battle, showing how time, seals, and surviving remnants obscure the true past.
• Cycles of life, death, and survival: The Heavenly Secrets Flower survives death through its seal, while the sword expert survives as a remnant soul, reflecting the chapter’s focus on Samsara and persistence beyond physical destruction.
• Predation and transformation: The flower consumes worlds and turns corpses into puppets, while Jiang Ming reverses the dynamic by devouring the flower to obtain its laws and power.
• Fate and restraint: Jiang Ming acknowledges the significance of Shi Hao’s connection to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Flame and deliberately avoids disrupting that opportunity, suggesting awareness of destiny and the dangers of altering history.

4. Character Interactions

• Jiang Ming supports You Rong’s breakthrough by helping her overcome her cultivation limits and granting her the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Flame.
• Jiang Ming and the World Tree cooperate to consume the Five-Elements Origin and advance his physical transformation.
• The sword remnant confronts the resurrecting Heavenly Secrets Flower, revealing that both had survived in different forms after their ancient battle.
• Jiang Ming negotiates briefly with the sword remnant, requesting the Heavenly Secrets Flower as a resource. The remnant agrees after recognizing Jiang Ming as an extraordinary Immortal King-level junior.
• Jiang Ming’s Eternal Demon Lord avatar then decisively ends the conflict by swallowing the Heavenly Secrets Flower.

Jiang Ming devoured the Heavenly Secrets Flower, then secretly empowered Huo Ling'er with two Heaven Seeds and made her Meng Tianzheng’s disciple. He stayed hidden in the Immortal Tomb to grow stronger while leaving Shi Hao to face the trials ahead.

• Jiang Ming absorbed the Heavenly Secrets Flower’s remaining power and refused to take the unfinished Heaven Seed from its guardian.
• Jiang Ming secretly sent Huo Ling'er the Great Dao Treasure Vase and Five-Element Heavenly Seeds, transforming her cultivation and making her his disciple.
• Jiang Ming decided not to interfere with Shi Hao’s coming trials and resolved to build his strength while avoiding the Immortal Domain’s Immortal Kings.
• Meng Tianzheng accepted Huo Ling'er as his direct disciple after she emerged from seclusion as a Heavenly God.
• Jiang Ming healed Meng Tianzheng’s Dao injuries and gave him immortal metals, while encouraging him to nurture Shi Hao’s path of Self as the Seed.

After completing a Great Dao baptism in the Realm Tomb, Jiang Ming gave Di Yourong protection and left for the Immortal Mound to seek ancient Dao imprints. He reached the Immortal Monk King's sanctuary, while Di Yourong began recalling that Jiang Ming had visited her as an egg in the Emperor's Fall Era.

• Jiang Ming completed a year-and-a-half Great Dao baptism, raising his Fate Patterns to six stars and gaining the Footprint Emperor Step Technique.
• Jiang Ming gave Di Yourong a wisp of his Immortal King-level Purifying World White Lotus Flame and left her to cultivate by the Golden Fusang Tree.
• Di Yourong remembered a creepy uncle who had called her his wife while she was still an egg, but she could not understand how Jiang Ming had appeared in her grandfather's era.
• Jiang Ming crossed endless space to the Immortal Mound and climbed its hundred-thousand-zhang Heavenly Ladder in one step.
• Jiang Ming arrived at the ancient temple that had served as the Immortal Monk King's Dao sanctuary.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Ming remains at the ancient temple in Immortal Mound for three and a half months, immersing himself in the atmosphere of the Immortal Antiquity era and listening to the lingering Dao of the Immortal Monk King.
• His cultivation produces four types of lotus flowers—Golden, White, Black, and Scarlet—which astonish the prodigies who arrive later. Jiang Ming’s bones, blood, and Sanskrit chanting form a Dao hymn that benefits everyone throughout Immortal Mound.
• Jiang Ming obtains and masters most of the Immortal Monk King’s Sixteen-Foot Golden Body inheritance, reaching ninety percent proficiency. Since his body is already at the Peak Immortal King level, the technique is easy for him to learn.
• His Immortal Antiquity cultivation advances to the late True Immortal stage, while the Great Freedom Dao Scripture remains at the early True Immortal stage. He therefore continues cultivating in Immortal Mound for another six months.
• Shi Hao emerges from the temple and is surprised to find Jiang Ming there again. He respects Jiang Ming deeply because of the latter’s mentorship of Huo Ling’er and the extraordinary resources he has given her.
• Jiang Ming reflects on his family and companions, who have entered the ruined Immortal Domain. He trusts the Azure Emperor, Ye Fan, the Wushi Emperor, and Empress Nannan to repair it. Tingting has also become a Great Emperor and may eventually become a Red Dust Immortal through her obsession with reviving her mother.
• Shi Hao prepares to enter a perfect Cosmic Embryo and attempt the “Self as the Seed” cultivation path, aiming to break through into the Void Dao Realm.
• Inside the Cosmic Embryo lives Zixiao, an Innate Deity and its Ancestral God. She has repeatedly dreamed of a mysterious person and fears that the embryo—and perhaps she herself—has been claimed by a powerful outsider. Despite this fear, she feels a strange longing toward the person in her dreams.
• Meng Tianzheng encourages Shi Hao before his breakthrough. He admits that his own attempt at Self as the Seed failed because he lacked sufficient preparation and resources, but believes Shi Hao has an unprecedented opportunity through the perfect Cosmic Embryo.

Character Developments

• Jiang Ming grows significantly stronger through meditation and inheritance. His body approaches the level of an exceptional Immortal King Colossus, and his cultivation reaches the late True Immortal stage.
• Shi Hao becomes increasingly determined to follow the Self as the Seed path. He understands that Jiang Ming considers him suited for this method, even though he received no Heaven Seed.
• Huo Ling’er is portrayed as extraordinarily favored, possessing two Heaven Seeds, a crude Immortal Metal Furnace, and a Supreme Armament. Her relationship with Jiang Ming resembles that of a beloved daughter and protective father more than a conventional disciple.
• Tingting achieves Great Emperor status through her own efforts. Her unwavering desire to revive her mother gives her the firm obsession necessary for a possible future transformation into a Red Dust Immortal.
• Zixiao is introduced as a powerful, dignified, and isolated Innate Deity with the potential to become an Immortal King. Her dreams awaken emotional uncertainty and a desire for connection that conflicts with her fear of being controlled.
• Meng Tianzheng appears as a supportive elder and mentor, openly sharing the lessons of his own failed attempt to guide Shi Hao.

Significant Themes

• Cultivation through enlightenment and inheritance: Jiang Ming’s meditation demonstrates how understanding and resonance with an ancient Dao can provide benefits comparable to tens of thousands of years of ordinary cultivation.
• Fate versus self-determination: Shi Hao must forge his own path without relying on a Heaven Seed, while Zixiao fears losing control of her destiny to an unknown powerful being.
• The importance of obsession: Tingting’s determination to revive her mother is presented as the foundation for reaching the Red Dust Immortal realm.
• Mentorship and familial bonds: Jiang Ming’s relationship with Huo Ling’er goes beyond formal teacher and disciple, while Meng Tianzheng supports Shi Hao by passing on the lessons of his own failures.
• Potential and cosmic destiny: The Cosmic Embryo represents both an immense opportunity for Shi Hao and the birthplace of Zixiao, whose existence is tied to the embryo’s ability to evolve into a Middle Thousand World.
• Karmic connections: Zixiao’s recurring dreams suggest an unseen bond with a mysterious person, foreshadowing an important future relationship or conflict.

Character Interactions

• The prodigies indirectly benefit from Jiang Ming’s cultivation, receiving enlightenment from the Dao resonance of his body and chants.
• Shi Hao encounters Jiang Ming after leaving the temple and treats him with admiration because of Jiang Ming’s influence on Huo Ling’er.
• Jiang Ming’s thoughts reveal his protective affection for Huo Ling’er, his concern for his family, and his confidence in the allies protecting the Immortal Domain.
• Zixiao internally struggles with the possibility that the person appearing in her dreams may be connected to the mysterious force threatening her independence.
• Meng Tianzheng and Shi Hao discuss the Self as the Seed method. Meng Tianzheng offers both encouragement and a warning based on his own unsuccessful experience, while Shi Hao confirms that he is prepared to take the risk.

Jiang Ming sent Shi Hao into the Cosmic Embryo to cultivate under the care of the Innate Female Immortal Lord, giving him gifts for her. After a year, she helped Shi Hao find a Great Dao Treasure and asked him to invite Jiang Ming inside so they could hide together until they became Immortal Kings.

• Jiang Ming gave Shi Hao an Empress Purple Dragon Robe and a sword for the Innate Female Immortal Lord, then sent him into the Cosmic Embryo.
• The Innate Female Immortal Lord confronted Shi Hao, accepted Jiang Ming's gifts and letter, and let him cultivate inside the Cosmic Embryo.
• Jiang Ming secretly met the Innate Female Immortal Lord in their dreams each day, but she refused to leave the Cosmic Embryo.
• After a year, the Innate Female Immortal Lord agreed to help Shi Hao and brought him to a naturally formed Great Dao Treasure for cultivation.
• The Innate Female Immortal Lord asked Shi Hao to tell Jiang Ming to join her inside, since she feared the future and wanted them to become Immortal Kings before emerging.

Jiang Ming cultivated beside the cosmic embryo seed and gained the Kun Peng King’s Dao traces, while Shi Hao completed Self as the Seed. After Shi Hao relayed a message from the woman inside the embryo, Jiang Ming refused to visit her and moved the seed into his Inner Heaven and Earth.

• Shi Hao cultivated with the Original True Solution while Jiang Ming communed with the cosmic embryo seed and advanced his Great Freedom Dao Scripture.
• Jiang Ming discovered the fallen Kun Peng King, learned the Kun Peng Secret Technique from his Dao traces, and gave him a drop of precious liquid to help him.
• Shi Hao emerged and found Jiang Ming holding the cosmic embryo while Meng Tianzheng had advanced toward the True Immortal realm.
• Shi Hao told Jiang Ming that the woman inside the embryo wanted his company, but Jiang Ming refused to go inside and had Shi Hao repair the embryo with the Mending Heaven Stone.
• The woman angrily called Jiang Ming heartless, and he moved the cosmic embryo into his Inner Heaven and Earth before telling Shi Hao to leave now that he had succeeded with Self as the Seed.

Jiang Ming continued his secluded cultivation, strengthened his Inner Heaven and Earth, and became a True Immortal through three cultivation methods. Meanwhile, Shi Hao’s exploits at the academies drew attention to the Celestial God Academy’s Immortal King Estate, which Jiang Ming planned to explore to advance further.

• Meng Tianzheng celebrated the discovery of an invincible path as Shi Hao departed and Jiang Ming stayed behind to cultivate.
• Over the following month, Jiang Ming placed the restored Kun Peng King in an Immortal Spring within his Inner Heaven and Earth, which contained nine Immortal Spring Eyes.
• Jiang Ming’s body grew comparable to a humanoid longevity medicine as he reflected on the realms, the Other Realm’s ambitions, and the ancient Immortal Kings’ search for the world’s hidden truth.
• At the Celestial God Academy, Shi Hao defeated opponents from the Immortal Academy and Holy Academy, and the younger generation turned its attention to the academy’s Immortal King Estate.
• Jiang Ming had reached True Immortal through the Current Era Method, the Immortal Antiquity Method, and the Great Freedom Dao Scripture, while his five Dao Palace Deities continued their slow transformation through the Shrouding Method.

Jiang Ming entered the Immortal Estate’s central region to find the Skyhorned Ant’s preserved remains, hoping to save its soul and obtain the Immortal Scripture. He revived the Skyhorned Ant with Fortune Lotus Dew and gained the incomplete Immortal Scripture, then reflected on how it would strengthen his cultivation.

• Jiang Ming used the Footprint Emperor’s footwork to bypass the Immortal Estate’s formations and reach the Skyhorned Ant’s hidden remains.
• Jiang Ming reassured the Skyhorned Ant’s Primordial Spirit, showed it the cocoon containing the Kun Peng King, and offered to save it in exchange for the Immortal Scripture.
• Jiang Ming poured Fortune Lotus Dew onto the Skyhorned Ant’s shed shell and used a scale to trace the Immortal Scripture’s origins.
• Jiang Ming found that the Immortal Scripture was incomplete but quickly mastered the portions that could temper his body to Peak Immortal King level.
• The Skyhorned Ant used its shell and preserved blood essence to reconstruct its body and begin transforming inside a cocoon of light.
• Jiang Ming considered how the Immortal Scripture, the Original True Solution, and his sword arts would aid him while reaffirming that his core method was his self-created Great Freedom Dao Scripture.

Shi Hao and Little Skyhorned Ant learned the Immortal Scripture in Jiang Ming’s Immortal Estate, then set out for the North Sea Stone Forest while Jiang Ming cultivated. Swept into a turbulent passage of backward-flowing space-time, they encountered the masked woman Jiang Ming had called his master’s wife, who rescued them.

• Jiang Ming showed Shi Hao and Little Skyhorned Ant the Skyhorned Ant King’s final battle and taught them the Immortal Scripture.
• Little Skyhorned Ant learned that his father was undergoing nirvana, while Jiang Ming stayed behind to cultivate the legacies of the Skyhorned Ant King and Qilin King.
• Jiang Ming gained insight into several great daos through cultivation and dreams of Zixiao, Samsara, and a female Immortal King who practiced Primordial Simplicity.
• After less than three months at the Celestial God Academy, Shi Hao and Little Skyhorned Ant left for the North Sea Stone Forest to seek the Immortal Scripture.
• Half a month later, Shi Hao and Little Skyhorned Ant were swept into a passage of backward-flowing space-time, where they met the Ghost Face Mask woman Jiang Ming had told them about.
• The masked woman noticed Shi Hao and Little Skyhorned Ant and rescued them when the unstable temporal passage endangered them.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Shi Hao and the Skyhorned Ant encounter the Ruthless Empress while crossing a violently distorted section of the River of Time. She has already reached the realm of an Immortal Emperor.
• Shi Hao recognizes her as Jiang Ming’s wife, based on information connected to the light cocoon and their previous meeting. The Skyhorned Ant doubts this and believes she is far too powerful to be merely someone’s wife.
• The Empress, arriving from the true main branch of time, receives information about the alternate timeline and understands the complicated karmic connection between her counterpart and Jiang Ming.
• She realizes that Jiang Ming is an anomaly from another time and space who entered the Chaotic Ancient Era. Rather than merely severing the ages, as the Desolate Heavenly Emperor did, Jiang Ming is attempting to continue and reopen them, even forcing his way toward the main timeline.
• The Empress briefly questions Shi Hao about Jiang Ming’s influence on his development. She concludes that Shi Hao is the foundation of this time and space and that his death or corruption could cause the collapse of history.
• Shi Hao delivers Jiang Ming’s message that he misses her and will return. The Empress destroys a mysterious red karmic thread around her wrist, dismissing it as troublesome but weak.
• Before disappearing, she expresses regret at having arrived at the wrong time and hopes Jiang Ming will succeed in helping Shi Hao sever the ages.
• Shi Hao and the Skyhorned Ant return to the North Sea, but the Skyhorned Ant has already forgotten the Empress and their conversation. Shi Hao realizes that time and space are erasing the event.
• Remembering a future in which the world is destroyed and the Willow God is reduced to a charred tree, Shi Hao vows to change the future.
• Jiang Ming appears after Shi Hao calls his name through the power of Cause and Effect and Fate. Shi Hao recounts what happened, though his memories are already fading.
• Jiang Ming understands that the meeting occurred in a branch of time and space. He resolves to open a path through the past, transform that branch into the main timeline, and alter the course of history.

Character Developments

• Shi Hao: Becomes increasingly determined to resist the predetermined destruction he has glimpsed. His concern for Jiang Ming and the Ruthless Empress deepens, and he takes responsibility for changing the future and protecting the Willow God.
• Jiang Ming: Learns that he exists as an anomaly in a branch timeline and embraces an even more ambitious goal: merging or converting that branch into the main line of history.
• Ruthless Empress: Remains emotionally restrained, but her words reveal regret over arriving at the wrong moment and concern for Jiang Ming’s struggle. She accepts the limits of her ability to interfere and hopes for his success.
• Skyhorned Ant: Provides a skeptical and somewhat humorous contrast to Shi Hao, but his erased memories demonstrate the instability and danger of their contact with the Empress.

Significant Themes

• Fate versus free will: The characters struggle against a future that appears fixed, especially the destruction Shi Hao has witnessed.
• Time, causality, and memory: Events in alternate branches can be erased from history, leaving only fragmentary recollections. Cause and effect remain powerful even across reincarnations and timelines.
• Sacrifice and isolation: Continuing or severing the ages requires extraordinary strength and may isolate the one attempting it from everyone else.
• Love across time and space: Jiang Ming and the Empress remain connected despite different eras, alternate counterparts, and the erasure of memory.
• Changing history: Jiang Ming’s decision to turn a branch into the main timeline introduces the possibility of rewriting destiny rather than merely surviving it.

Character Interactions

• Shi Hao warmly treats the Empress as his master’s wife and delivers Jiang Ming’s message to her.
• The Empress questions Shi Hao’s relationship with Jiang Ming and evaluates whether Jiang Ming has improperly interfered with his growth.
• She and Shi Hao discuss Jiang Ming’s disappearance, his attempt to continue the ages, and the dangers surrounding Shi Hao’s existence.
• The Skyhorned Ant challenges Shi Hao’s assumptions and later forgets the entire encounter, highlighting the Empress’s fading influence on the timeline.
• Shi Hao urgently reports everything to Jiang Ming, prompting Jiang Ming’s decision to challenge the structure of time itself.

Chapter Summary: “Lost Himself in the Waves”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Ming concludes that the Ruthless Empress who appeared likely came from the Sacred Ruins Era. Her decision to sever the red thread of karma amid turbulent time and space may create serious consequences in the future.
• He advises Shi Hao and the little Skyhorned Ant to focus on cultivation rather than worry about mysteries they are currently too weak to understand.
• Jiang Ming remains at the North Sea, meditating on the paper boat left by the Ruthless Empress. Using the blood on it, he absorbs fragments of her Great Dao and gains profound enlightenment.
• While Jiang Ming cultivates, Shi Hao and the Skyhorned Ant explore the North Sea Stone Forest, whose mountains contain inheritances left behind by Supremes, True Immortals, and Immortal Kings.
• Their true objective is the Ultimate Trial Grounds, where Shi Hao hopes to obtain a more complete inheritance of the Immortal Scripture. The region also contains mysteries connected to time travel and the possible appearance of the Immortal-Refining Pot.
• To enter without disrupting the time-space passage, Jiang Ming seals his cultivation and transforms into a God-Beating Stone using an advanced version of the Seventy-Two Transformations. He rides on Shi Hao’s head and accompanies him.
• Jiang Ming passes the True Immortal-level transformation technique to Shi Hao, while telling the Skyhorned Ant to focus on mastering his father’s inheritance and the abilities suited to his own lineage.
• Shi Hao breaks through the entrance formation by force, fulfilling the trial’s requirement that entrants prove their strength.
• Ghostly beings emerge from an ancient coffin and a stone carving. Jiang Ming uses his mastery of karma and fate to make them perceive terrifying consequences if they attack, causing them to retreat.
• Protected by Jiang Ming’s intimidating karmic power, Shi Hao reaches the Ultimate Trial Grounds without facing resistance.
• Upon entering, Shi Hao senses time and space shifting again. The chapter clarifies that the Ruthless Empress recognized him as the person she sought, but the timing was wrong: she was looking for the future Shi Hao after he became an Immortal Emperor.

Character Developments

• Jiang Ming: Shows rare uncertainty and melancholy as he wonders whether his journey through the Chaotic Ancient Era will cause him to lose himself in the tides of history. His cultivation advances through contact with the Ruthless Empress’s Dao, while his control over karma, fate, and transformation techniques becomes increasingly impressive. Despite sealing his cultivation, he continues protecting and guiding his disciples.
• Shi Hao: Becomes more determined to pursue the Ultimate Trial Grounds and the Immortal Scripture inheritance. He gains confidence from Jiang Ming’s presence and receives a powerful, complete version of the Seventy-Two Transformations.
• Little Skyhorned Ant: Feels urgency after sensing Jiang Ming’s hidden sadness and his own weakness. He is surprised that Jiang Ming can read his thoughts and is reminded to strengthen the inheritance passed down by his father.
• Ruthless Empress: Though absent from the present events, her influence remains central. Her severing of the karmic red thread and the remnants of her Dao shape Jiang Ming’s cultivation and deepen the chapter’s time-space mystery.

Significant Themes

• The danger of interfering with time and fate: Jiang Ming worries that the Ruthless Empress’s actions and his own presence may create unknown karmic consequences.
• Strength and understanding: Jiang Ming repeatedly emphasizes that insufficient strength limits one’s ability to understand deeper truths.
• Teacher and disciple bonds: Jiang Ming protects Shi Hao and the Skyhorned Ant, shares powerful techniques, and guides them according to their individual potential.
• Identity across time: The chapter explores how the same person can be recognized across different eras, while changes in cultivation and historical position make encounters mistimed or incomplete.
• Power through karma and consequence: Jiang Ming defeats threats not through direct combat, but by forcing enemies to perceive the deadly consequences of attacking him.
• Loneliness and uncertainty: Jiang Ming’s quiet sadness suggests that navigating countless eras may threaten his sense of self and belonging.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Ming comforts Shi Hao and the Skyhorned Ant but refuses to reveal more about the Ruthless Empress, believing excessive knowledge would harm them.
• Shi Hao and the Skyhorned Ant silently recognize Jiang Ming’s sadness and become more motivated to cultivate.
• Jiang Ming shocks Shi Hao by transforming into a God-Beating Stone and later gives him the advanced Seventy-Two Transformations.
• He rejects the Skyhorned Ant’s immediate request to learn the technique, directing him toward his inherited abilities instead.
• Jiang Ming uses his karmic authority to intimidate the Ghost Immortals and other monsters, clearing the way for Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao’s entry into the Ultimate Trial Grounds begins the next stage of his journey toward understanding time, space, reincarnation, and his future identity as an Immortal Emperor.