Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• During the refinement of the Nine-Colored Immortal Pill in Pan King’s City, Shi Hao stands beside Lin Xian and the Immortal Kings, absorbing the pill’s aura. The energy loosens the shackles in his body and temporarily eases the pain of his Immortal-Breaking Curse.
• A powerful tribulation descends, initially mistaken for the pill’s tribulation. It is revealed to be a Supreme Being Tribulation caused by Shi Hao’s breakthrough.
• Shi Hao successfully enters the Supreme Being Realm before the age of fifty, shocking the entire Immortal Realm and breaking the supposed age limit that no one could attain the realm before five hundred.
• Although True Immortals and Immortal Kings take notice, the Immortal Kings remain primarily focused on the far more valuable Nine-Colored Immortal Pills.
• The pill refinement faces an extraordinary heavenly calamity. Lin Xian shields the furnace with a technique resembling Wushang’s “Myriad Laws Immunity,” but the tribulation also manifests internally through Yin Fire and Karmic Fire.
• To complete the pills, Lin Xian sacrifices the Primordial Spirits of captured Immortal Kings from both the Immortal Realm and Foreign Realm. Their remaining cultivation is used to answer the tribulation, demonstrating that Immortal Pills require an equivalent life in exchange.
• The Nine-Colored Immortal Pills are successfully completed. Nine radiant suns appear, and Lin Xian distributes the pills to Immortal Kings who helped reinforce the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Pan King, Qi Yu, Hunyuan Immortal King, and other recipients publicly support Lin Xian and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, causing rival Immortal Kings to abandon their attempts to win the group over.
• While the second batch of pills is refined, Shi Hao finishes crossing his tribulation and stabilizes his new realm, though his breakthrough contains imperfections because it was aided by external power.

Character Developments

• Shi Hao: Achieves the Supreme Being Realm at an astonishingly young age. His accomplishment establishes him as an unparalleled prodigy, though his realm is not yet fully perfected because of the assistance from the Immortal Pill’s aura. His reputation rises dramatically, attracting both admiration and envy.
• Lin Xian: Demonstrates immense pill-refining skill and political influence. He protects the furnace, makes use of Immortal King Primordial Spirits, and distributes the completed pills fairly, winning the allegiance of powerful Immortal Kings.
• Hunyuan Immortal King: Acts as an expert adviser, explaining the nature of the tribulation and teaching Lin Xian how to respond to it.
• Immortal Kings of the Immortal Realm: Their attitudes shift toward supporting the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths after receiving the pills. Some are impressed by Shi Hao, but they still regard him as vulnerable until he matures.
• Older geniuses and veteran Supreme Beings: Become jealous of Shi Hao and dismiss his achievement as the product of privilege and connections.

Significant Themes

• Talent versus opportunity: Shi Hao’s breakthrough proves his extraordinary potential, but others attribute it to his access to Immortal King support and the Nine-Colored Immortal Pill.
• The price of defying heaven: The pill’s creation requires the sacrifice of Immortal King Primordial Spirits, emphasizing that great miracles demand an equivalent cost.
• Political alliances and influence: Lin Xian’s generosity transforms the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ position in the Immortal Realm, securing support from more than half of its Immortal King forces.
• Youth and unprecedented achievement: Shi Hao’s early breakthrough overturns established beliefs about cultivation limits and makes him a target of both admiration and hostility.
• Mortality beneath immortality: Even Immortal Kings, though seemingly eternal, can be sacrificed, exploited, or lost, provoking fear and grief among their peers.

Character Interactions

• Shi Hao remains close to Lin Xian and the Immortal Kings, benefiting directly from the pill-refinement ceremony.
• Hunyuan Immortal King advises Lin Xian during the dangerous tribulation, forming a cooperative relationship between the two.
• Lin Xian’s distribution of the pills earns praise from Pan King, Qi Yu, and other Immortal Kings, who openly declare their support for the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Rival Immortal Kings observe the growing alliance but withdraw after realizing they can no longer compete for influence.
• Female immortals and older cultivators react strongly to Shi Hao’s breakthrough: some seek marriage alliances, while others mock him as a “Pseudo-Supreme” whose success depends on connections.

Lin Xian used Nine-Colored Immortal Pills to restore ancient Immortal Kings and draw the Immortal Realm’s immortals to the Tianxuan Sect, while Shi Hao faced challenges from its prodigies. Lin Xian accepted no challenger as his disciple yet and went into seclusion, leaving Shi Hao to endure an uncertain stretch of daily battles.

• Lin Xian refined more Nine-Colored Immortal Pills, helping five Forbidden Zone Overlords attain Immortal Kinghood and drawing desperate True Immortals and Quasi-Kings to seek pills.
• Lin Xian founded the Tianxuan Great Sect and offered pills, medicines, and armaments as rewards for spreading its faith, bringing countless immortals and tribes to pay homage.
• The third batch of pills restored Number Two Under Heaven and Immortal Metal Daoist, while the Last Stone King independently attained Immortal Kinghood, strengthening the Primordial Imperial City.
• When Immortal Realm prodigies sought to challenge Shi Hao, Lin Xian allowed the contests and eventually offered to accept any Supreme Being who defeated Shi Hao at the same cultivation level as his direct disciple.
• Shi Hao struggled against challengers and then faced more than a hundred prodigy Supreme Beings each day after Extreme Dao Supremes suppressed their cultivation to fight him fairly.
• Shi Hao learned that Lin Xian had entered seclusion, and the Stone King warned that it could last hundreds or thousands of years.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Xian continues cultivating his unique Emperor Path by using his physical body as a “Seed” within the Land of Calamity. His Primordial Spirit Flower divides into three Dao Flowers, while the Five Qi Returning to the Origin completes the transformation of his body toward Immortality.
• He refines the blood of fallen Foreign Realm Undying Kings, using their dark essence as cultivation nourishment. Though the corrosive blood strengthens him, it also creates a dangerous second self that nearly challenges his control.
• Lin Xian forcibly purifies the dark king blood with a Dragon Roar Dao Chant, destroying the lingering will and resentment of the dead kings.
• He then attempts to refine a drop of Quasi-Immortal Emperor Blood. Its overwhelming dark origin nearly corrupts both his body and Primordial Spirit, threatening to turn him into a Fallen Immortal King.
• Lin Xian resists by invoking the principle “All beings as anchors, never fall into darkness.” The faith of countless races across the Nine Heavens, Ten Earths, and Immortal Realm protects his Primordial Spirit and counters the dark power.
• The struggle lasts over a hundred years, but the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Blood eventually gains the advantage because Lin Xian’s faith network is still too young and limited.
• As darkness overtakes his body and threatens his Primordial Spirit, Lin Xian consumes three Nine-Colored Immortal Pills refined from Longevity Medicine and Three-Lives Medicine. The pills suppress the corruption and push his cultivation to the Ninth Heaven of the Immortal King realm.
• His breakthrough creates a terrifying aura resembling World-Creation, shaking the Immortal Realm and convincing other Immortal Kings that he is approaching the Emperor realm.
• Lin Xian summons the Immortal Realm Kings and declares his intention to launch a full-scale campaign against the Foreign Realm. He plans first to destroy the Ancient Reception Hall and uncover the origin of the darkness.
• Responding to the True Dragon Horn and Thunder Emperor’s drums, numerous Immortal Kings gather, including Forbidden Zone Kings, Stone Clan experts, Number Two Under Heaven, and Immortal Metal Daoist.
• Lin Xian leads the army toward the Ancient Reception Hall while riding the subdued Fallen White Tiger Immortal King. The White Tiger realizes that Lin Xian has surpassed ordinary giants and may soon reach the Emperor level.

Character Development

• Lin Xian: Advances from a powerful Immortal King to an existence nearing the Emperor realm. He demonstrates extraordinary control over darkness, immense willpower, and growing authority over the myriad races. His cultivation increasingly combines faith, physical transformation, and the refinement of dark power.
• Fallen White Tiger Immortal King: Becomes increasingly terrified and submissive toward Lin Xian. Once a dangerous fallen king, he now recognizes that Lin Xian’s strength has made resistance impossible and fears remaining his mount forever.
• Immortal Realm Kings: Initially cautious and doubtful, they become shocked by Lin Xian’s sudden growth and ultimately agree to follow him into a dangerous war.
• Qi Yu: Acts as a voice of caution, reminding Lin Xian that the Foreign Realm and Ancient Reception Hall may possess hidden powers and ancient monsters.

Significant Themes

• Faith as power and protection: The collective belief of countless beings strengthens Lin Xian and preserves his identity against corruption, though the chapter emphasizes that newly formed faith cannot yet rival ancient, deeply rooted inheritances.
• Resistance to darkness: Lin Xian’s struggle represents the conflict between retaining one’s true self and gaining power through dangerous dark origins.
• The limits of preparation and strength: Even immense faith proves insufficient against Quasi-Immortal Emperor blood, forcing Lin Xian to rely on additional resources such as the Nine-Colored Immortal Pills.
• Ascension and authority: Lin Xian’s expanding influence makes him resemble the ruler of the Immortal Realm, not merely the lord of the Nine Heavens.
• Unity against a common threat: The gathered Immortal Kings temporarily set aside their concerns to confront the Ancient Reception Hall and investigate the source of darkness.

Character Interactions

• Lin Xian battles the lingering wills within the refined blood of the Foreign Realm’s dead kings and suppresses them through his Dao Chant.
• The Dark Origin attempts to tempt him with promises of eternal glory and coexistence with darkness, but the faith of his followers answers with chants of his name.
• Qi Yu warns Lin Xian about the Foreign Realm’s hidden foundations, while Lin Xian confidently argues that no enemy can exceed the ancient monster of the Ancient Reception Hall.
• Lin Xian commands the Immortal Realm Kings to assemble for war, transforming his personal campaign into a united expedition.
• Riding the Fallen White Tiger, Lin Xian demonstrates his dominance; the beast’s fear and submission reveal the enormous gap between them.

Lin Xian led the Immortal Realm army to the Ancient Reception Hall, where he killed the Nine-Headed Monster and subdued the Fallen Immortal Kings. After the battle, he accepted the kings’ congratulations but warned that a greater calamity awaited beyond the Other Shore.

• Lin Xian demanded a century of tribute from the Nine-Headed Monster, who refused and attacked him.
• Lin Xian revealed his Sixth Secret Realm and severed the Nine-Headed Monster’s heads, while the Immortal Kings fought the Fallen Immortal Kings.
• Lin Xian unleashed a powerful sword strike and killed the Nine-Headed Monster, drawing the attention of powerful beings across the realms.
• The Fallen Immortal Kings attacked Lin Xian while he was weakened, but he crushed their bodies and imprisoned their primordial spirits.
• Qi Yu and the Immortal Realm army congratulated Lin Xian, who collected the Nine-Headed Monster’s origin black blood and led the kings into the Ancient Reception Hall.

After uniting the Immortal Realm’s kings under the Heavenly Court, Lin Xian sought enough Immortal Kings to raise him toward the Dao Ancestor’s throne. He traveled into the Sea of Realms looking for them, then returned with a plan to use the World Extinction beacon in the Foreign Realm.

• Lin Xian refused to proclaim himself emperor, declared that the worlds on this side of the Dam should be unified, and ordered the Foreign Realm conquered while the Burial Domain was to be brought under the Heavenly Court through submission.
• Lin Xian defeated the three remaining giants of the Immortal Realm in a sparring match, explained his Emperor Path, and showed them passages from the Primordial True Interpretation.
• Lin Xian promised that the first to break the Foreign Realm would become the Heavenly Court’s first crown prince, and Qi Yu and the other two giants joined the Heavenly Court.
• Lin Xian sensed that the Immortal Realm’s providence was insufficient, traveled through the Sea of Realms seeking more Immortal Kings, and found the vast shattered realms difficult to navigate.
• King Pan proposed using World Extinction to guide Immortal Kings back from the Sea of Realms, and Lin Xian decided to light it in the Foreign Realm, where the kings could confront any arrivals.

Chapter Summary: “At Worst, Sink the Foreign Realm”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Immortal Realm launches an unprecedented invasion of the Foreign Realm after the True Dragon Horn announces Immortal King Tianxuan’s decree.
• Nearly one hundred Immortal Kings, including forces from the Immortal Realm and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, gather for the assault. Their objective is to destroy the Foreign Realm before the coming upheaval and eliminate a major threat from their rear.
• The army breaks through the Foreign Realm’s defenses with overwhelming force. At Undying City, the three Quasi-Undying Kings initially believe the vast enemy force must be an illusion, but one is instantly obliterated, confirming the invasion is real.
• Number Two Under Heaven sounds the True Dragon Horn, while Immortal Metal Daoist leads the advance with the Immortal King Burial Shroud and Iron-Blood Battle Banner.
• The younger generation from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths joins the offensive. Shi Hao, Ten-Crown King Tianzi, Banished Immortal, Shi Yi, the Skyhorn Ant, Cao Yusheng, the Lunar Jade Rabbit, and others massacre Foreign Realm forces and hunt down its prodigies.
• The restoration of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ incomplete Great Dao has allowed its cultivators to recover their true potential. Formerly disadvantaged experts now overpower Royal Clan and Imperial Clan opponents.
• An Undying King sends a projection to avenge slain Foreign Realm prodigies, but he is intimidated by the Immortal Kings surrounding the battlefield. The Immortal Kings focus on suppressing the Foreign Realm’s laws and constructing a formation to prevent the realm’s Great Dao from causing unexpected damage.
• Qi Yu orders the activation of the World Extinction, a powerful beacon that exposes the Foreign Realm’s coordinates and can summon Immortal Kings, Dark Kings, and other dangerous beings from the Sea of Realms.
• The Foreign Realm’s giants desperately attempt to stop the beacon, fearing that hostile or uncontrollable experts from the Sea of Realms will be drawn to their homeland. The Immortal Kings refuse to retreat, declaring that they are willing to sink the Foreign Realm entirely.
• The beacon’s activation reveals the immense World Origin Sea, where lost and wandering beings suddenly detect the Foreign Realm’s location and turn their attention toward it.

Character Developments

• Immortal King Tianxuan is established as the central authority behind the campaign. His rise has strengthened not only himself but also the people who followed him into the Immortal Realm.
• Shi Hao demonstrates overwhelming growth, easily killing Foreign Realm prodigies and embodying the renewed strength of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• The younger generation—including Tianzi, Banished Immortal, Shi Yi, the Skyhorn Ant, Cao Yusheng, and the Lunar Jade Rabbit—shows that they have reached a level appropriate for future Immortal Kings.
• The Heavenly Immortal Academy expert explains that his sudden strength is not a personal breakthrough but the result of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ foundations being repaired.
• The Foreign Realm’s defenders experience despair and helplessness as their supposedly impregnable defenses collapse instantly before the united Immortal King army.
• Qi Yu reveals a ruthless strategic mindset by choosing to expose the Foreign Realm to even greater dangers rather than allow it to survive as a threat.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming unity and power: The Immortal Realm, Nine Heavens, and Ten Earths unite in a campaign on a scale unseen since the fall of the Heavenly Court.
• Restoration of lost potential: The repaired Great Dao allows formerly weakened cultivators to reclaim their natural strength, showing that past inferiority was caused by flawed circumstances rather than lack of talent.
• Total war and annihilation: This is not a defensive battle or limited campaign. The invaders intend to destroy the Foreign Realm completely and accept catastrophic consequences to achieve victory.
• The danger of exposure: Lighting the World Extinction transforms the Foreign Realm from a hidden power into a visible target in the Sea of Realms, making its destruction—or invasion by even more terrifying beings—possible.
• The scale of cosmic conflict: The appearance of the World Origin Sea and the realm-crossing nature of the summoned forces emphasize that the battle affects countless eras, universes, and civilizations.

Character Interactions

• The Immortal Kings operate in coordinated unity, with Number Two Under Heaven and Immortal Metal Daoist leading the assault while others suppress the Foreign Realm’s laws.
• The younger cultivators fight independently across the battlefield, confronting rivals from the Foreign Realm and proving their restored strength.
• A Heavenly Immortal Academy expert kills a former enemy after a prolonged battle and explains to him why the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths have suddenly become stronger.
• An Undying King’s projection attempts to intervene after his clan’s prodigies are killed, but he is forced into silence by the sheer presence of the Immortal Kings.
• The Foreign Realm’s giants oppose the activation of the World Extinction, while Qi Yu and the Immortal Realm’s forces deliberately proceed, accepting the risk of attracting even more powerful enemies.
• The chapter ends with lost beings in the Sea of Realms noticing the Foreign Realm’s exposed coordinates, setting up the arrival of new and potentially uncontrollable forces.

The Foreign Realm lit World Extinction, drawing countless kings from the Sea of Realms into a battle that threatened to destroy both realms. Lin Xian arrived and overwhelmed the invading giants, while Demon King Pu shocked the battlefield by turning against the Foreign Realm.

• Kundi and the Foreign Realm's kings tried to stop the kings crossing the Sea of Realms, while the Immortal Realm fought to hold them back.
• Kundi called on Demon King Pu to guard the Foreign Realm's World Tree and invited allies from the Sea of Realms to join the battle.
• Butcher fired arrows from across the Sea of Realms, killing Fallen Immortal Kings, and Lin Xian arrived on the White Tiger King's back.
• Lin Xian destroyed Qu Cong's gourd, killed the Blade King with the Human Emperor Banner, and faced Kundi, Qu Cong, and Demon King Pu together.
• Demon King Pu uprooted the Foreign Realm's World Tree and struck Qu Cong with it, leaving the battlefield stunned.

Chapter Summary: Heavenly Emperor Lin

• Collapse of the Foreign Realm: As the Foreign Realm World Tree is uprooted, time and space collapse. The battle between the kings tears apart the starry sky, destroys heaven and earth, and threatens to bury the entire era.
• Demon King Pu’s “Betrayal”: Demon King Pu shocks both sides by claiming he has always belonged to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. The Foreign Realm kings are enraged and confused, since they had revived him at enormous cost and regarded him as one of their greatest leaders.
• Lin Xian’s Revelation and Transformation: Demon King Pu dissolves into light and merges with Lin Xian. It is revealed that “Demon King Pu” never truly existed as an independent being; he was Dark Lin Xian, concealed within the Foreign Realm. The World Tree becomes the pillar of Lin Xian’s inner universe, greatly amplifying his power and allowing him to approach the pinnacle of the King Realm.
• Defeat of the Foreign Realm Leaders: Lin Xian effortlessly suppresses Kundi, the Foreign Realm’s strongest expert, using the Great Luo Sword Embryo and the Human Emperor Banner. He then defeats Red King in only a few moves. The remaining Foreign Realm giant is also killed when the Immortal Realm kings and the forces of the Nine Heavens join together.
• Birth of the Heavenly Emperor: The cultivators of the heavens acclaim Lin Xian as the Heavenly Emperor Lin. Although he has not fully entered the Emperor Realm, his ability to kill supreme giants makes his combat strength comparable to legendary emperors. Even the Immortal Realm kings accept his authority and title.
• Pursuit and Reckoning: With the Foreign Realm’s giants destroyed, its Undying Kings flee toward the Sea of Realms. Number Two Under Heaven and the Immortal Realm kings pursue them, while Shi Hao, Meng Tianzheng, the Stone Clan, and other forces begin exterminating those responsible for the Foreign Realm’s invasion and past atrocities.
• Dispute over the Foreign Realm’s Survivors: Some Immortal Kings demand the complete annihilation of the Foreign Realm’s population, while others argue that its ordinary inhabitants are descendants of the same original civilization as the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and should not be punished for the crimes of their ancestors.
• Lin Xian’s Judgment: Lin Xian rules that all Foreign Realm cultivators must be killed to eliminate the methods and influence of darkness, but ordinary mortal life should be preserved. Their civilization will be replaced, and they will be taught the Immortal Realm and Nine Heavens cultivation systems. Over many generations, their corrupted spirits and culture can be reshaped.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Lin Xian completes his long-hidden infiltration and reveals overwhelming power, establishing himself as the dominant figure of the age. His decision to preserve mortals while eliminating cultivators shows both ruthlessness toward darkness and a strategic interest in spreading his own path of faith.
• Demon King Pu is recontextualized as a disguise or vessel for Dark Lin Xian rather than a true traitor, turning the Foreign Realm’s greatest investment into the source of its destruction.
• Kundi and Red King move from confidence and outrage to helplessness and death, symbolizing the collapse of Foreign Realm authority.
• The Immortal Realm and Nine Heavens forces shift from mutual combatants to allies, united against the Foreign Realm and increasingly willing to recognize Lin Xian’s leadership.

Major Themes

• Deception and long-term strategy: Lin Xian’s hidden identity demonstrates the power of patience, infiltration, and manipulation.
• The rise of a new ruler: Lin Xian’s transformation marks the emergence of a figure whose authority is based not only on cultivation but on decisive military power.
• Justice versus extermination: The kings debate whether collective punishment is justified, contrasting vengeance with the preservation and reform of innocent life.
• Darkness, corruption, and renewal: The chapter presents darkness as something that can be eradicated from cultivation and culture, while ordinary beings may be remade through education across generations.

Lin Xian turned the conquered Foreign Realm into Heavenly Court territory and captured returning Sea of Realms kings, drawing many worlds into his domain. After five hundred thousand years of training against the Dark Bone Staff, Huang became an Immortal King Shi Hao, whose rise offered hope that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths might produce two Emperors.

• Lin Xian settled in the Foreign Realm, distributed territories to allies, and captured the returning Giant Zixiao, who submitted and joined the Heavenly Court with the remnants of his race.
• Lin Xian used the Foreign Realm as a trap for returning Sea of Realms kings, bringing clear-minded rulers and their realms into the Heavenly Court while suppressing the primordial spirits of those who had gone mad.
• After king-level dark blood stopped nourishing him, Lin Xian left the Dam and trained against the Dark Bone Staff in the Ancient Reception Hall for five hundred thousand years.
• During Lin Xian’s training, young cultivators attained the Dao, and Huang created his own methods and became an Immortal King through Mortal World Immortal Transformation.
• Immortal King Shi Hao ventured into the Sea of Realms, slew Fallen Immortal Kings, and fought a dark Giant, astonishing the kings with his strength and potential to become an Emperor.

Lin Xian refined his path by balancing light and darkness, then visited the Burial Domain with Shi Hao to seek an Emperor Path. There, the Burial Lord revealed that beings beyond the Sea of Realms viewed everyone in their world as livestock, and Lin Xian urged them to resist.

• Lin Xian caught the Dark Emperor Staff, used wish power and his Three-Flower Primordial Spirit to resist its darkness, and helped Bone Emperor Bro derive an emperor art.
• Lin Xian emerged from seclusion, guided the Immortal Kings, and promised to help them pursue the Emperor Realm before taking Shi Hao to the Burial Domain.
• Lin Xian and Shi Hao entered the Burial Domain with the White Tiger and met the awakened Burial Lord, progenitor of the Burial Domain and Chicken Raiser's grandfather.
• The Burial Lord revealed that he had visited the Other Shore and believed its inhabitants regarded all beings in their world like free-range Phoenixes.
• Lin Xian told the Burial Lord and the others that they could challenge the forces treating them as livestock if they dared to take another step.

Lin Xian persuaded the Burial Lord to join the Heavenly Court against the Dark Turmoil and opened the Burial Domain’s Origin Ancient Artifact, freeing the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor. They planned to raise allies and exploit divisions among the Dark Dao Ancestors, while the Burial Lord narrowly survived the resurrected emperor’s suspicion.

• Lin Xian gave the Burial Lord half of the final volume of the Primordial True Interpretation, and the Burial Lord pledged the Burial Domain to fight the Dark Faction and surrendered the Origin Ancient Artifact.
• Lin Xian, Shi Hao, and the Burial Lord went to open the artifact, where Medicine Seller arrived and was captured to serve as an ingredient for Nine-Colored Immortal Pills.
• Lin Xian struck the Origin Ancient Artifact with the Great Luo Sword Embryo, released an Emperor Crown, and subdued it with the emperor flame, restoring the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Lin Xian and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor discussed preparing Quasi-Immortal Emperors and potentially turning Dao Ancestor Jiuyou Ao against the other Dark Dao Ancestors.
• The White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor nearly killed the Burial Lord after sensing a Dark Creature, but Lin Xian explained that the Burial Domain had joined the Heavenly Court.

Lin Xian revealed the Underworld’s connection to the great calamities and established the Heavenly Court’s authority across the Dam World. After a hundred thousand years of spreading its teachings, he attained the Dao and became a faith Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

• Lin Xian explained that the Ancient Underworld was the source of the turmoil and that the Heavenly Court faced tribulation because it opposed the Underworld.
• Lin Xian revealed that the Primordial Heavenly Emperor was his master and identified the Primordial True Interpretation as his scripture, then gave the Burial Lord its remaining half-volume.
• The Burial Lord pledged loyalty to the Heavenly Court, and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor acknowledged him as a descendant and resolved to spread his Dao Lineage in the Burial Domain.
• The Burial Lord ordered the Burial Domain to cooperate with the Heavenly Court and worship statues of the Primordial Immortal Emperor, the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor, and Heavenly Emperor Lin.
• The Heavenly Court united the Burial Domain, Immortal Realm, and Foreign Realm, and devotional faith gathered around Lin Xian over a hundred thousand years.
• Lin Xian attained the Dao and became a faith Quasi-Immortal Emperor as the Great Dao crowned him with a crystalline Emperor Crown.

After attaining the Dao, Lin Xian sparred with the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor across the River of Time and used his power to give the dead a chance to return. He joined the revived Primordial Heavenly Emperor and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor to plan their next steps, then the Three-Life Bronze Coffin revealed visions of a terrifying future.

• The White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor congratulated Lin Xian on attaining the Dao and sparred with him, carrying their battle across past eras.
• Lin Xian altered history to give doomed beings a chance at survival, restoring the True Dragon Immortal King and awakening the surviving Primordial Spirits of the Kun Peng King, Nine Nether, and others.
• Lin Xian stopped short of resurrecting the Thunder Emperor after the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor warned that the resulting causality was too great to bear.
• The Primordial Heavenly Emperor's Light Primordial Spirit joined Lin Xian and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor, and the three revealed that the Grand Luo Emperor Sword concealed the Three-Life Bronze Coffin.
• Lin Xian and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor saw visions of a willow tree and a being fighting seven emperors, leaving the Primordial Heavenly Emperor wondering what threat could unite both factions.

Lin Xian feigned death in the Nine Dragons Bronze Coffin to purify the Corpse Immortal Emperor’s dark flesh, while Shi Hao spent over a million years fighting the darkness. When dark forces surrounded Shi Hao, Lin Xian returned and annihilated more than a thousand Immortal Kings with one finger.

• Lin Xian explained the limits of Immortal Emperor power and the Plateau’s ten fixed seats to the Primordial Heavenly Emperor and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Lin Xian used his cultivation system to purify the darkness in the Corpse Immortal Emperor’s remains, then the Primordial Heavenly Emperor buried him in the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin as part of his feigned death.
• Shi Hao grieved for Lin Xian, then hunted Fallen Immortal Kings across the Sea of Realms for more than a million years and reached the peak of Immortal King.
• Dark giant commanders trapped Shi Hao with an army of more than a hundred Immortal Kings, and the Chicken Raiser, the Medicine Seller, and the Butcher arrived to aid him.
• Lin Xian revealed that he had faked his death, corrected Shi Hao’s path toward becoming an emperor, and killed over a thousand Immortal Kings with one finger.

Lin Xian refined the Human Emperor Banner, advanced to a Dual Dao Fruit Quasi-Immortal Emperor, and defeated the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor in a spar. He took Ninefold Netherworld Yu Wudi as a disciple and began tracing the Ten Evils' origins through Yu Wudi's bloodline.

• Lin Xian refined three thousand Primordial Spirits into the Human Emperor Banner, destroyed Dark Immortal Kings, and explained that he was a Quasi-Immortal Emperor rather than an Immortal Emperor.
• Lin Xian taught the Primordial True Interpretation to the Emperor-Glory Immortal Kings and guided Shi Hao to study his secret realms and the Self-as-Seed path.
• After a million years, Lin Xian mastered the Primordial True Interpretation, formed a second Dao Fruit, and became a Dual Dao Fruit Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Lin Xian and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor fought across the River of Time, and Lin Xian won by a single strike.
• Lin Xian summoned Ninefold Netherworld Yu Wudi, accepted him as a nominal disciple, and empowered him to become an Immortal King Giant.
• The White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor traced the origins of Yu Wudi's Ten Evils bloodline, while Yu Wudi supplied more blood essence after receiving a Nine-Colored Immortal Pill.

Lin Xian and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor uncovered the World-Ending Old Man’s connection to Jiuyou Ao’s lineage and confronted him about his dark ambitions. After the Primordial Heavenly Emperor appeared and promised him a path to the Immortal Emperor realm, the World-Ending Old Man renounced his old name, joined the Heavenly Court, and offered Lin Xian immortal metal.

• Yu Wudi refined four jars of Immortal King essence blood to help complete the formation that traced Jiuyou Ao’s origins.
• Lin Xian and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor broke through the formation’s obstruction, alerting the World-Ending Old Man, who traveled to the Dam World and confronted them.
• The World-Ending Old Man explained his beliefs and invited Lin Xian and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor to join the dark faction, but Lin Xian argued that the dark path could not offer them a chance to become Immortal Emperors.
• The Primordial Heavenly Emperor appeared, revealed himself as the true Immortal Emperor, and promised to guide the World-Ending Old Man along the Immortal Emperor Path.
• The World-Ending Old Man pledged loyalty to the Heavenly Emperor, adopted the name Salvation Old Man, and offered Lin Xian immortal metal for his weapon.

Lin Xian and the Primordial Heavenly Emperor secured the World-Ending Old Man’s support and prepared the Heavenly Court for war against the Dark Faction. As Lin Xian refined a weapon and the kings trained, the World-Ending Old Man tried to recruit Yu Wudi to his ambitions, but Yu Wudi rejected him and he stormed away.

• The World-Ending Old Man gave Lin Xian an Immortal Metal Realm, while secretly planning to exploit a clash between the Corpse Immortal Emperor and the Primordial Heavenly Emperor to pursue his own path to becoming an Immortal Emperor.
• The White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor pressed the World-Ending Old Man to pledge to kill a Dark Dao Ancestor, and the old man agreed and recommended targeting the weaker Azure Emperor Cang first.
• Lin Xian began refining immortal metal to upgrade the Human Emperor Banner, while the Primordial Heavenly Emperor taught the kings the Primordial True Interpretation and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor kept watch over the World-Ending Old Man.
• The World-Ending Old Man tried to persuade Yu Wudi to pursue an emperor path, but Yu Wudi declared his loyalty to Lin Xian and said he would rely on his teacher and grandmaster.
• The World-Ending Old Man called Yu Wudi unworthy of discussing plans with and left, while the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor praised Yu Wudi as Lin Xian’s true successor.

Lin Xian and the other emperors crossed the Sea of Realms and confronted Azure Emperor Cang at the Dark Heavenly Court. Cang recognized the Primordial Heavenly Emperor and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor, realizing that the figures he thought dead had returned.

• Lin Xian emerged from seclusion at one million seven hundred thousand years and led the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor and the Primordial Heavenly Emperor on an expedition across the Sea of Realms.
• The Primordial Heavenly Emperor revealed that the dark storms were caused by an Immortal Emperor breathing, and Lin Xian and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor cleared the way to the far shore.
• The emperors followed the Ancient Reception Halls' golden avenue into the Dark World and reached the Dark Heavenly Court.
• Azure Emperor Cang challenged the travelers, but Lin Xian rebuked him and declared that an Immortal Emperor stood before him.
• Azure Emperor Cang recognized the Primordial Heavenly Emperor as the Corpse Immortal Emperor and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor as Emperor Hong.

Lin Xian and the revived White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor fought Azure Emperor Cang and the other Fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperors across the River of Time. As the battle intensified near the Ultimate Ancient Land, Lin Xian urged the World-Ending Old Man to join the fight.

• Azure Emperor Cang and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor battled across the River of Time, while the World-Ending Old Man revealed he served the Heavenly Court.
• Lin Xian struck Azure Emperor Cang with the Mortal-Suppressing Finger and began trying to capture his primordial spirit for the Human Emperor Banner.
• Emperor Hong arrived to rescue Azure Emperor Cang, and Emperor Yu soon joined the fight after learning that the World-Ending Old Man had sided with the Primordial Heavenly Emperor.
• Lin Xian blocked Azure Emperor Cang while the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor fought Emperor Yu, but the three Fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperors switched opponents and increased the pressure on both defenders.
• The Fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperors charged toward the Ultimate Ancient Land, and Lin Xian demanded that the World-Ending Old Man act.

Lin Xian and the other Quasi-Immortal Emperors witnessed the struggle between the Light Primordial Spirit and the Corpse Immortal Emperor, while the World-Ending Old Man repeatedly manipulated their battles for his own gain. After the Quasi-Immortal Emperors joined the two emperors in studying the imperial path, Emperor Yu began condensing an immortal fetus, and the World-Ending Old Man attacked him to stop his advance.

• Azure Emperor Cang revealed the Corpse Immortal Emperor in the Ultimate Ancient Land, and the Primordial Heavenly Emperor confronted his dark half.
• The Light Primordial Spirit and the Corpse Immortal Emperor fought for control while the World-Ending Old Man ignored their commands and secretly exploited the conflict.
• After the World-Ending Old Man betrayed all five Quasi-Immortal Emperors, they joined forces against him, but he offered Emperor Pills and persuaded the Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors to stop fighting him.
• Lin Xian and the White-Clothed Quasi-Immortal Emperor agreed to observe the imperial path alongside the World-Ending Old Man and the three Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• After two hundred thousand years of study, Emperor Yu began condensing an immortal fetus, but the World-Ending Old Man attacked him and shattered his Emperor Heart.