Chapter Summaries

After taking form as Emperor Jun on the Sun Star, a transmigrator decided to avoid becoming the Demon Emperor so he could escape the fate of his predecessor. He tried to break through to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm by using the Hetu Luoshu Diagram to comprehend the Heavenly Dao, but his attempt left him drained and unsuccessful.

• Emperor Jun took human form after absorbing the Sun Star’s Solar Trueflame and Primordial Spiritual Energy, and recalled his transmigration and inherited memories.
• Emperor Jun resolved not to become the Demon Emperor and worried that Taiyi might be drawn into the same dangerous fate.
• Emperor Jun cultivated beside Taiyi but could not cross the final barrier to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Emperor Jun used the Hetu Luoshu Diagram to seek insight into the Heavenly Dao, then returned to himself pale and exhausted.

After failing to find a path to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, Emperor Jun suspected the Primordial World was in a great calamity and left the Sun Star to seek a sensed opportunity. He reached Valley of Tang and moved toward its strongest flame aura, unaware that a middle-aged man had also entered the island.

• Emperor Jun failed to gain insight into a breakthrough from the chaotic Heavenly Dao and wondered whether the Dao-Devil Conflict, Dragon-Han Calamity, or another calamity was underway.
• Emperor Jun decided to leave the Sun Star, concealed his innate aura, set a warning formation around Taiyi, and prepared to travel using his Rainbow Transformation Art.
• Emperor Jun traveled east, refined his movement ability, and avoided interfering in conflicts among the living beings he encountered.
• Emperor Jun reached the East Sea, judged that the Dragon-Han Calamity was not underway, and identified a small island as Valley of Tang.
• Emperor Jun entered Valley of Tang and advanced through increasingly intense flames toward the opportunity he sensed, while an unknown middle-aged man entered the island shortly afterward.

Emperor Jun confronted the Fusang Tree in the Valley of Tang and overcame its flames with his Solar Trueflame. He branded the tree with his Primordial Spirit imprint, while Eastern Lord Duke's concealment began to fail.

• Emperor Jun found the Fusang Tree surrounded by many kinds of flames and challenged them with his Solar Trueflame.
• Eastern Lord Duke arrived, concealed himself, and waited for Emperor Jun and the Fusang Tree to weaken each other.
• Emperor Jun caught the Fusang Tree trying to steal a thread of his Solar Trueflame and used the Hetu Luoshu Diagram to summon power from the Sun Star.
• The Fusang Tree drew on the Valley of Tang's formation, but Emperor Jun transformed into his Three-legged Golden Crow form and burned through its defenses.
• Emperor Jun forced the suffering Fusang Tree to submit and branded it with his Primordial Spirit imprint.
• Eastern Lord Duke's aura leaked out, and Emperor Jun demanded to know who was there.

Emperor Jun obtained the Fusang Tree and escaped the collapsing Valley of Tang, but he and Eastern Lord Duke were hunted by Golden Immortals seeking Primordial Beings. After being cornered and repeatedly changing course, Emperor Jun returned to Eastern Lord Duke, who proposed they join forces.

• Emperor Jun withdrew his Solar Trueflame from the Fusang Tree and surrounded Eastern Lord Duke with it while questioning his intentions.
• The Valley of Tang shook, then rose and shrank along with the Fusang Tree before entering Emperor Jun's body.
• Emperor Jun fled as two Golden Immortals approached, and Eastern Lord Duke followed after hearing them discuss capturing Primordial Beings.
• Emperor Jun repeatedly changed direction to avoid Golden Immortals blocking his escape, while Eastern Lord Duke struggled to keep up.
• Emperor Jun returned to Eastern Lord Duke, who said their pursuers intended to hunt them and proposed joining forces.

Emperor Jun and Eastern Lord Duke fought the Demonic Cultivators pursuing them, killing two and injuring four with Solar Trueflame. The four remaining attackers were left badly burned, while Emperor Jun assessed that his flames could harm them.

• Emperor Jun told Eastern Lord Duke that six Demonic Cultivators were surrounding them and led him east toward two of the pursuers.
• Emperor Jun unleashed Solar Trueflame on Fifth One and Sixth One, while Eastern Lord Duke’s Pure Yang Energy intensified the flames.
• Fifth One burned to ashes, and Emperor Jun caught and killed the badly wounded Sixth One with his Rainbow Transformation Art.
• Eastern Lord Duke suggested fighting the four remaining Demonic Cultivators, and Emperor Jun agreed before sensing them approach.
• Emperor Jun attacked the four while they searched for Fifth One and Sixth One, burning them and forcing them to flee with serious injuries.

Emperor Jun and Eastern Lord Duke defeated four Demonic Cultivators, and Emperor Jun claimed three of their Innate Spiritual Treasures. As Emperor Jun tried to leave, Wangshu, a Grand Luo Golden Immortal, stopped him and introduced herself.

• Emperor Jun and Eastern Lord Duke pursued the four Demonic Cultivators with Solar Trueflame, while the Fusang Tree secretly absorbed Pure Yang Energy.
• Boss led the four Demonic Cultivators in a coordinated attack on Emperor Jun, but Emperor Jun used the gathered Pure Yang Energy to amplify his Solar Trueflame and burn them to ashes.
• Emperor Jun took three of the five Innate Spiritual Treasures and gave the other two to Eastern Lord Duke before departing.
• Wangshu restrained Emperor Jun as he tried to leave, then released him and introduced herself as a Grand Luo Golden Immortal who had witnessed the battle.

Wangshu questioned Emperor Jun and Eastern Lord Duke about their origins, then explained that Luo Hou’s Demon Path was waging war against the forces resisting him. She invited the two to join the fight, and Eastern Lord Duke accepted while Emperor Jun remained uncertain.

• Emperor Jun identified himself as a being from the Sun Star, and Eastern Lord Duke revealed his origins in Zifu Continent.
• Wangshu told Emperor Jun and Eastern Lord Duke that the dragon, phoenix, and qilin clans had withdrawn after Luo Hou’s schemes and their leaders’ deaths.
• Wangshu explained that Luo Hou founded the Demon Path and that Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Ancestor Diandao, Ancestor Qiankun, and Ancestor Yinyang led resistance against him.
• Wangshu described the ongoing war between Luo Hou’s forces in the west and those resisting him in the east.
• Wangshu invited Emperor Jun and Eastern Lord Duke to fight Luo Hou, and Eastern Lord Duke agreed while Emperor Jun considered the offer.

Emperor Jun agreed to join Wangshu and Eastern Lord Duke in the Dao-Devil Conflict, choosing to pursue growth rather than retreat for safety. After more than a century of training and battles, they reached the fiercest border battlefield, where Emperor Jun had found a possible direction toward the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm but chose to keep learning before committing to it.

• Emperor Jun weighed the risks of fighting Luo Hou, then decided to join Wangshu and Eastern Lord Duke in facing the Demon Path.
• Wangshu led Emperor Jun and Eastern Lord Duke west from the East Sea, training their flight speed as they traveled.
• Emperor Jun studied Wangshu's flying technique, improved his speed and combat abilities, and displayed far greater comprehension than Eastern Lord Duke.
• Wangshu sought out hidden Demonic Cultivators along the way, and Emperor Jun tested his spells and divine abilities in their battles while Eastern Lord Duke struggled and sometimes needed rescuing.
• After more than a hundred years, Wangshu brought them to the border where the Dao-Devil Conflict raged most fiercely; Eastern Lord Duke advanced to the middle Golden Immortal stage, while Emperor Jun improved his combat skills and deduction.
• Emperor Jun found a direction that could lead him to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, but decided to witness more cultivation paths before choosing his own.

Emperor Jun and Eastern Lord Duke reached the Dao-Devil Conflict’s battlefield, where Wangshu showed them its devastation before leaving them to fight on their own. After three hundred years of combat, Emperor Jun encountered Wutian, a formidable Demonic Cultivator near the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.

• Wangshu brought Emperor Jun and Eastern Lord Duke to the blood-soaked battlefield, and they reflected on the living beings who had died there.
• Wangshu reminded them that the conflict was a fight for survival, then parted from them to return to her own battlefield.
• Emperor Jun and Eastern Lord Duke traveled to the eastern camp and fought together before separating so Eastern Lord Duke could fight on his own.
• Over the next three hundred years, Emperor Jun fought more than a hundred battles, earned renown, and used his speed to control his fights.
• After Emperor Jun narrowly evaded a surprise attack, he faced Wutian, a Demonic Cultivator close to breaking through to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.

Emperor Jun fought Wutian, Luo Hou’s sole acknowledged disciple, after learning of Wutian’s reputation and facing his Demonic Qi and unusual means. Their battle escalated into a contest of endurance, and its growing disturbance drew Daluo Golden Immortals to investigate.

• Emperor Jun recognized Wutian as Luo Hou’s disciple and challenged his claim that the earlier attack had only been a test.
• Emperor Jun and Wutian exchanged more than a hundred blows with their spiritual treasures, neither gaining a clear advantage.
• Wutian’s Demonic Qi made Emperor Jun’s Solar Trueflame uncontrollable and disrupted his Magical Power during their close-quarters fight.
• Emperor Jun combined the Solar Trueflame with flames from the Fusang Tree to keep Wutian’s Demonic Qi from invading his body.
• As both fighters rapidly expended their power in an endurance contest, their battle drew Daluo Golden Immortals from both sides to investigate.

Emperor Jun fought Wutian and resisted his demonic mind attack with Solar Trueflame, but Wutian broke through to Daluo Golden Immortal and pursued him. Emperor Jun escaped with Shen Yingqiang, leaving Wutian impressed by his speed but unable to catch him.

• Wutian wrapped himself in a giant figure of Demonic Qi and attacked Emperor Jun with blows that assailed his mind.
• Emperor Jun used the Solar Trueflame to destroy the demonic figure, leaving both fighters wounded.
• Wutian revealed that he intended to kill Emperor Jun and broke through to Daluo Golden Immortal, while Wangshu was held back by a Demonic Cultivator.
• Emperor Jun fled with the Rainbow Transformation Art, and Wutian pursued him after sensing his aura.
• Wutian tore open space to intercept Emperor Jun, but Emperor Jun changed direction and escaped with Shen Yingqiang.

Emperor Jun escaped Wutian after their battle and returned to the Eastern Primordial Desolation Base Camp, where he reflected on his gains and delayed his breakthrough until he found his own path. Eastern Lord Duke visited to praise his reputation and urge him to seek an Ancestor as a master, but Emperor Jun dismissed him and reconsidered their shallow relationship.

• Wutian failed to catch Emperor Jun despite repeatedly tearing through space, then left the battlefield as the Daluo Golden Immortals returned to their camps.
• Emperor Jun reviewed his fight with Wutian and concluded that the three hundred years of battle had strengthened his foundation, though he still had not determined his path to Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Eastern Lord Duke told Emperor Jun that stories of his draw with Wutian had spread and suggested that an Ancestor might take him as a disciple.
• Emperor Jun rejected Eastern Lord Duke's advice and asked him to leave, angering Eastern Lord Duke.
• After Eastern Lord Duke departed, Emperor Jun reflected that they had never shared a deep friendship and set aside thoughts about Eastern Lord Duke's future.

Emperor Jun continued fighting Demon Path cultivators and building his foundation as the Dao-Devil Conflict grew more violent. Luo Hou appeared on the battlefield and challenged Hongjun and the other three ancestors to a decisive battle at Mount Sumeru in three thousand years, leaving Emperor Jun to wonder whether he could survive the coming clash.

• Emperor Jun learned from Wangshu that Daluo Golden Immortals had been falling as the Demon Path grew increasingly reckless, so he fought more cautiously while seeking to strengthen his foundation.
• Luo Hou appeared on a Twelfth-Grade Black Lotus and unleashed pressure so immense that Emperor Jun could neither fly nor use the Rainbow Transformation Art.
• Hongjun, Ancestor Diandao, Ancestor Qiankun, and Ancestor Yinyang appeared to confront Luo Hou and discussed the stalemate between the Dao and Demon sides.
• Luo Hou declared that he would set up the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation on Mount Sumeru in three thousand years and challenged the four ancestors to decide who would claim the Primordial Desolation's fortune.
• Emperor Jun watched the challenge and wondered whether he could survive the aftermath of the coming battle.

Hongjun and the other three ancestors debated whether to accept Luo Hou’s challenge to fight atop Mount Sumeru in three thousand years. They agreed to face him and began discussing the dangers of his Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, while Hongjun suspected Karmic Tribulation Qi was clouding their judgment.

• Luo Hou challenged Hongjun and the other three ancestors to meet him atop Mount Sumeru, and Hongjun urged them to return and consider the matter carefully.
• Hongjun argued that they should refuse because Luo Hou had prepared for the battle, but Diandao, Qiankun, and Yinyang insisted they could not retreat.
• Hongjun agreed to accept the challenge after the other three ancestors said they would go.
• The ancestors discussed Luo Hou’s Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation and resolved to be cautious, though Yinyang dismissed some of Hongjun’s concerns.
• Hongjun recognized that Karmic Tribulation Qi might be affecting them and noticed Yinyang seemed unusually arrogant, but he had no way to warn him.

The Four Ancestors accepted Luo Hou’s challenge to fight at Mount Sumeru in three thousand years and resolved to defend the Eastern Primordial Desolation’s Karmic Luck. Emperor Jun prepared to break through to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, but learned the Four Ancestors would preach the Dao at the Eastern Primordial Desolation Base Camp, giving him reason to postpone his breakthrough.

• The Four Ancestors linked their minds to the Heavenly Dao, and Luo Hou challenged Hongjun, Inversion, Yin Yang, and Heaven and Earth to meet him at Mount Sumeru.
• Hongjun warned the other Ancestors that Luo Hou might use the coming battle to attack the Eastern Primordial Desolation and increase the Demon Path’s Karmic Luck.
• The Ancestors agreed they had to defend the Eastern Primordial Desolation because its Karmic Luck was essential to their struggle against Luo Hou.
• Emperor Jun returned to the Eastern Primordial Desolation Base Camp and prepared to break through to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm before the coming battle.
• The Four Ancestors accepted Luo Hou’s challenge and announced they would preach the Dao for a thousand years at the Base Camp, beginning in three hundred years.
• Emperor Jun decided to wait for the Four Ancestors’ preaching before pursuing his breakthrough.

Emperor Jun prepared to hear the Four Ancestors preach the Dao, while watching Daoist Lihuo, whose greed and mark made him a potential threat. The palace opened and revealed a vast space for every listener, leaving Emperor Jun marveling at the Four Ancestors’ use of Space Laws as the preaching was about to begin.

• Living beings flocked to the eastern base camp after news spread that the Four Ancestors would preach the Dao, and Emperor Jun noticed Daoist Lihuo greedily watching him and Eastern Lord Duke.
• Emperor Jun suspected the preaching was meant to strengthen the eastern Primordial Desolation and gather its luck before a decisive battle against the Demon Path.
• The Four Ancestors had agreed to preach the Dao to strengthen eastern cultivators without revealing the foundations of their own cultivation.
• After three hundred years of preparation and minor skirmishes, Emperor Jun joined the cultivators waiting outside the palace as its doors opened.
• The cultivators entered according to their rank, and Emperor Jun discovered that the palace and each Prayer Mat contained separate spaces shaped by Space Laws.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained that the Four Ancestors’ impending battle with Luo Hou would decide the Dao-Devil Conflict, then began a 2,700-year preaching alongside Ancestor Yinyang, Ancestor Qiankun, and Ancestor Diandao. Emperor Jun gained insights from each lecture and became deeply absorbed in Hongjun’s display of three thousand Laws, wondering whether the unnamed Dao was the Immortal Dao.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun announced that the battle against Luo Hou would likely bring Demon Path cultivators into the Eastern Primordial Desolation and offered Daoist Sect Fortune blessings to those who joined the resistance.
• Ancestor Yinyang preached for 250 years, giving Emperor Jun insights into Yin Yang even though his strong Yang energy kept him from balancing the two.
• Ancestor Qiankun preached for 250 years, and Emperor Jun gained insights that made him feel close to breaking through to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Ancestor Diandao expounded the Dao of Inversion, causing some listeners to suffer clashes with their paths while Emperor Jun considered how reversed perspectives could aid cultivation.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun manifested three thousand intertwined Laws as he preached, drawing Emperor Jun and nearly everyone present into his teaching.

Emperor Jun advanced to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm while listening to Hongjun preach, but his exceptional comprehension nearly caused him to lose himself in the Heavenly Dao. After being pulled back by mysterious calls from another world, he wondered whether that world was connected to the Primordial Heavenly Dao.

• Emperor Jun combined insights from Hongjun and other Dao paths to begin forging his own path, and Hongjun noticed his progress alongside Eastern Lord Duke's imitation of Hongjun's methods.
• Emperor Jun smoothly broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm and entered a deep comprehension of the Heavenly Dao.
• Emperor Jun nearly lost his consciousness and merged completely into the Heavenly Dao, but mysterious calls pulled his mind back into his body.
• Emperor Jun realized the calls seemed to come from a world and, after they faded, wondered if that world was connected to the Primordial Heavenly Dao.
• Emperor Jun overcame his fear and tried to comprehend the Heavenly Dao again.

Emperor Jun concluded that the faint calls he sensed came from the Heavenly Realm and considered whether to embrace the destiny of becoming Heavenly Emperor while still following his own path. After the thousand-year preaching ended, the Ancestors prepared to return to their abodes and recover for Luo Hou’s challenge in one thousand seven hundred years.

• Emperor Jun sensed faint calls from a world and concluded it was likely the Heavenly Realm, a world fated to be connected to him.
• Emperor Jun considered becoming Heavenly Emperor but planned to assess events as they unfolded and remain firm in his chosen path of commanding countless Laws.
• Emperor Jun reviewed his gains from reaching the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, kept Daoist Lihuo’s mark to investigate his intentions, and sensed that the Heavenly Dao was incomplete.
• Emperor Jun resumed listening to Hongjun’s teachings, gaining new insights after his breakthrough while Hongjun watched him safely return to cultivation.
• After the thousand-year preaching ended, Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the other three Ancestors agreed to return to their Daoist Abodes and prepare for Luo Hou’s challenge in one thousand seven hundred years.

The Four Ancestors received merit for preaching the Dao and realized the Dao-Devil Conflict was a struggle to spread their teachings, but the decisive battle was only 1,700 years away. Luo Hou rejected Ancestor Yinyang’s appeal to delay the conflict, and after the Ancestors dispersed, Emperor Jun awoke from his meditation.

• Merit Golden Clouds arrived escorted by Qilins, then split among the Four Ancestors, with Hongjun receiving the largest share.
• The Four Ancestors realized that preaching the Dao had earned them merit and increased their fortune, but they had too little time to spread their teachings before the decisive battle.
• Ancestor Qiankun wondered whether Luo Hou would postpone the battle, while Ancestor Yinyang angrily sent his resentment to Luo Hou through the Heavenly Dao.
• Luo Hou learned what the Ancestors had realized, dismissed the need to spread teachings before victory, and concealed his Heavenly Secret with the World-Ending Black Lotus.
• Hongjun persuaded Ancestor Yinyang not to act, and the Four Ancestors departed before the other Primordial Origin Golden Immortals left the palace.
• A hundred years after the others left, the remaining beings awoke, including Emperor Jun.