Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan guided Xiao Chen and his companions deeper into the Little Stone Emperor's Tomb, explaining its dangers and history while revealing his overwhelming power. They encountered the Little Stone Emperor, who mistook Meng Chuan for a fellow cultivator near the Emperor realm.

• Xiao Chen reflected on the Three Sovereigns Mirror as Meng Chuan reminded him that a cultivator's own strength mattered more than any treasure.
• Meng Chuan led Xiao Chen and his companions across a corpse-filled garden and a cursed underworld river, then translated a stele describing the Little Stone Emperor's past.
• Meng Chuan told Xiao Chen that the Little Stone Emperor had stood above Lu Zhan and would soon be an entire major realm stronger than him.
• The group reached seven tombs guarded by phantoms of the Shadow Moon Demon Blade, and Meng Chuan explained that all seven tombs were part of the Little Stone Emperor's plan.
• The Little Stone Emperor appeared and called Meng Chuan too early, but Meng Chuan accelerated time to show him the Giants attacking the mausoleum outside.
• The Little Stone Emperor praised Meng Chuan's divine ability and assumed he had reached the Emperor realm, while failing to grasp Meng Chuan's true strength.

Meng Chuan and Xiao Chen witnessed the Little Stone Emperor convene a discourse among seven Kings and seven corpses while Giants fought for the mausoleum’s treasures. After hearing their accounts of the Dao, the Little Stone Emperor asked Meng Chuan to give his own view.

• The Little Stone Emperor borrowed the Three Sovereigns Mirror from Keke and led Meng Chuan, Xiao Chen, and the others to a green stone platform, where figures bound to Xiao Chen gathered with him.
• Meng Chuan told Xiao Chen and the others to observe the Little Stone Emperor and seven Stone Man Kings discussing the Dao, while he studied the world’s Root Source and Great Dao.
• Several Giants attacked the Little Stone Emperor, who used the Three Sovereigns Mirror to defeat his foes and offered his tomb’s treasures to whoever could convince him in the discourse.
• Xiao Chen insulted a King who glared at him, but Meng Chuan’s presence froze the King, and the Little Stone Emperor prevented a fight.
• Seven Kings and seven corpses took turns explaining their paths, then the Little Stone Emperor asked Meng Chuan what he thought the Dao was.

Meng Chuan revealed his understanding of the Dao to the Little Stone Emperor, who explained his plan to use the Seven Kings and seven corpses to break through to Emperorhood. Meng Chuan warned that although the Little Stone Emperor would become an Emperor, the changed times would cause his death, and the chapter ended with Meng Chuan saying the Myriad Heavens and Worlds could not constrain him.

• Meng Chuan answered the Little Stone Emperor’s question about the Dao, and the Little Stone Emperor recognized that Meng Chuan had reached the realm he sought.
• The Little Stone Emperor judged the Seven Kings’ paths, rewarded some with Stone Weapons, and gave the remaining weapons to Xiao Chen.
• The Little Stone Emperor explained that he had arranged the tomb, Seven Kings, and seven corpses to help him refine his body and attempt a breakthrough.
• The Little Stone Emperor asked the Seven Kings to lend him their power and promised to share his insights if he succeeded, or leave them the tomb’s treasures if he failed.
• Meng Chuan told the Little Stone Emperor that his plan would make him an Emperor but that the Myriad Heavens and Worlds would kill him upon his breakthrough.
• When the Little Stone Emperor asked how Meng Chuan had succeeded, Meng Chuan replied that the Myriad Heavens and Worlds could not constrain him.

The Little Stone Emperor chose to pursue Emperorhood despite knowing the breakthrough would kill him, and began transforming his body with the power of the seven Kings. As he worked, Xiao Chen and the others cultivated under Meng Chuan’s protection, while Meng Chuan prepared to defy the worlds’ laws and allow the Little Stone Emperor’s breakthrough.

• Meng Chuan warned the Little Stone Emperor that he could remain invincible if he abandoned his breakthrough, but would die if he pursued Emperorhood.
• The Little Stone Emperor chose to seek the Dao even if he could only enjoy its splendor for an instant, then reunited with his newly born body.
• The Little Stone Emperor transformed his stone body with the Heavenly Realm’s sun, replaced it with nine great stars, and began refining the power and corpses of the seven Kings.
• Meng Chuan urged Xiao Chen to use the opportunity to pursue his own path, and Xiao Chen, Keke, and the others began cultivating with help from Meng Chuan’s Formation.
• Meng Chuan decided to oppose the Myriad Heavens and Worlds’ laws so the Little Stone Emperor could become an Emperor.

After ten thousand years, the Little Stone Emperor reached the Emperor realm but began to crumble because Heaven and Earth were imperfect. Before his life ended, he challenged Meng Chuan and fought Emperors from the past and future, while Xiao Chen’s new path to Kinghood neared completion.

• Xiao Chen developed a new path combining the Stone Man Path with the path of a Supreme Ancestral God, drawing on the Little Stone Emperor’s breakthrough and Meng Chuan’s Origin of the Dao.
• At the end of the ten thousand years, the Seven Kings emerged from their tombs alive, and the Little Stone Emperor completed his transformation into an Emperor.
• The Little Stone Emperor’s body cracked and bled, revealing that his breakthrough could not overcome Heaven and Earth’s imperfection; he gave the Three Sovereigns Mirror to Meng Chuan, who passed it to Keke.
• The Little Stone Emperor recognized Meng Chuan as an Emperor and asked to fight him, but Meng Chuan told him to seek opponents in the past or future instead.
• The Little Stone Emperor crossed time to battle Emperors from the past and future, returned with fatal wounds, and wondered how Meng Chuan had remained active for ten thousand years.

Meng Chuan defeated the Little Stone Emperor, who died content after realizing a realm beyond Emperors existed. Meng Chuan then killed the Kings from factions hostile to the Nine Provinces while sparing the one whose grudge against Xiao Chen was personal.

• The Little Stone Emperor fought Meng Chuan and suffered fatal wounds, while Meng Chuan remained unharmed.
• Meng Chuan’s True Self consciousness descended into his Other Self, revealing an aura beyond the Emperor realm to the Little Stone Emperor.
• The Little Stone Emperor understood that Meng Chuan was not an Emperor, then died smiling with no regrets.
• Meng Chuan took the Little Stone Emperor’s body and asked Xiao Chen about his relations with the Seven Kings.
• Meng Chuan investigated the Kings’ histories and killed those belonging to factions hostile to the Nine Provinces, sparing the King whose grudge against Xiao Chen was personal.

After defeating Little Stone Emperor, Meng Chuan warned Xiao Chen that a final battle threatened the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, then left him behind. Xiao Chen realized his vast collection of treasures would make him a target, and fled as his new trial began.

• Meng Chuan urged Xiao Chen to grow stronger for the coming final battle, which could destroy the Nine Provinces and the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
• Meng Chuan warned Xiao Chen to stay alive without relying on his help, then departed to explore other worlds.
• Xiao Chen saw Keke and Little Stubborn Dragon carrying the Three Sovereigns Mirror and many Stone Weapons, and understood that his riches would draw enemies.
• Xiao Chen grabbed his companions and fled before the watching Kings could attack him for his treasures.
• Meng Chuan continued through the Boundless Chaos Sea, searching for new worlds while keeping Xiao Chen's future within his grasp.

Meng Chuan explored four more worlds in the Chaos Sea, encountering One Piece, Dragon Ball, an absurd tennis world, and a Beast Taming world. He left Other Selves in the worlds he visited and ended by discovering that the Beast Taming world's Child of Fortune had not yet been born.

• Meng Chuan recognized the fifth world as One Piece, left behind an Other Self, and moved on without entering it himself.
• After learning that Ye Fan had emerged from seclusion, Meng Chuan arranged for his Incarnation to show Ye Fan and the others the Immortal Realm's methods for advancing from King to Emperor.
• Meng Chuan explored the sixth world, Dragon Ball, and left an Earthling Other Self to cultivate through martial arts and qi without an Alien Bloodline.
• Meng Chuan found a world where a tennis ball could create a Black Hole, left an Other Self there, and protested to the Chat Group about its selection.
• Meng Chuan discovered a Beast Taming world and found that its Child of Fortune would not be born for several thousand years.

Meng Chuan discovered the After Ascension world and watched Fengyun Wuji ascend into its harsh Immemorial Era, where humanity was weak and the Immortal Realm was revealed as a lie. After Fengyun Wuji was taken away for training, Meng Chuan saw the twenty-six Lord Gods who ruled the world.

• Meng Chuan left an Other Self in the Donghuang Dynasty to become a fantasy Beast Tamer, then began his ninth drifting journey through the Chaos Sea.
• After drifting for thirty thousand years, Meng Chuan discovered a new world and observed Fengyun Wuji ascend into the Immemorial Era.
• Fengyun Wuji learned from his Guide that no Immortal Realm existed and that humans were among the weakest creatures in a world dominated by angels, demons, and other races.
• The Guide led Fengyun Wuji away to begin three years of training to adapt to the Immemorial Era.
• Meng Chuan emerged from his place along the River of Time and saw thirteen Lord Gods in an ocean of light and thirteen more in the Dark Abyss.

Meng Chuan examined the Lord Gods and learned that their power came from the Great Daos they embodied, making them impossible to eliminate without damaging the world. He also discovered that the Balance Law prevented his True Body from entering, leaving the Lord Gods and the world’s balance as problems he could not simply resolve by force.

• Meng Chuan sensed the twenty-six Lord Gods and recognized them as cold, will-bearing Great Dao Laws that ruled the God and Demon Races through faith.
• Meng Chuan concluded that the Lord Gods’ union with their Great Daos gave them power approaching the Supreme One realm, though he could still kill them easily.
• Meng Chuan realized that killing a Lord God would only allow another to arise from the same Great Dao, while destroying or recreating that Dao would endanger the world or restore the Lord God.
• Meng Chuan learned that the Balance Law maintained thirteen Lord Gods of light and thirteen Dark Lord Gods, preventing the King of Gods from being born.
• Meng Chuan understood that his True Body could not enter the world without provoking the Balance Law and disrupting the balance it protected.

Meng Chuan secretly entered the Immemorial Era by creating its first human and began improving the Human Race’s cultivation system without provoking the Balance Law. After cultivating his new methods to their limit, he assessed how much stronger future Immemorial humans could become.

• Meng Chuan sent a drop of blood and his Divine Sense into the world of After Ascension, creating the first human of the Immemorial Era.
• Meng Chuan began cultivating as a native human and worked to strengthen the existing human cultivation system while his True Body developed it further in the Chaos Sea.
• Meng Chuan devised the Qi Compression Method, Qi Expansion Method, and Body Tempering Method to increase human True Qi and physical strength.
• Meng Chuan cultivated the new methods together, intending them to be safe and accessible for future Immemorial humans.
• Meng Chuan reached the limit of the Immemorial stage and estimated that future humans who advanced with this stronger Foundation would gain greatly increased strength.

Meng Chuan, calling himself Nameless One, guided the newborn Immemorial Human Race, taught them civilization and cultivation, and strengthened their cultivation system. As the humans grew and honored him as their Human Ancestor, the first Ascender appeared far earlier than expected.

• Meng Chuan tested methods to raise the Immemorial Human Race's cultivation limits while developing his own cultivation.
• After more humans were born, Meng Chuan taught them language, writing, fire, hunting, clothing, shelter, and the meaning of being human.
• When the second-born human asked his name, Meng Chuan called himself Nameless One and taught the growing people to cultivate.
• The Immemorial Human Race spread, built a Sacred Hall, and came to call Nameless One their Human Ancestor, though he rejected the title.
• Nameless One developed methods to strengthen the Human Race through the God-Level realm and beyond.
• Nameless One noticed a bewildered human near the Sacred Hall: the first Ascender, who had appeared ahead of schedule.

The Nameless One welcomed the first Ascender to the Immemorial Era, while Meng Chuan’s interventions in the past strengthened Fengyun Wuji without changing his ultimate fate. In the present, Fengyun Wuji killed Conspiracy Lord Xierluo, gained power from the Laws of the Sword, and recognized Meng Chuan in the River of Time.

• The Nameless One welcomed the first Ascender, an old man, to the Immemorial Era and explained that it was the Human Race’s destination.
• Meng Chuan concluded that he could not rewrite Fengyun Wuji’s past, though the Nameless One’s guidance would make Fengyun Wuji stronger in the altered history.
• Fengyun Wuji killed Conspiracy Lord Xierluo and left his indestructible Divine Core drifting in the Void.
• The Laws of the Sword manifested, granting Fengyun Wuji Divine Power from harm across billions of Dimensions and astonishing the remaining Lord Gods.
• Fengyun Wuji detected Meng Chuan’s presence in the River of Time and exclaimed, “Human Ancestor?!”

The chapter recounts how the Human Ancestor guided the Primordial Human Race to grow strong and led it through the God-Demon War without defeat or humiliating treaties. The race continued to face conflict and losses, but rose to defend itself; the Human Ancestor was gone forever, remembered by all humans.

• The Human Ancestor created cultivation methods, protected the early Human Race, and guided its growth according to a strategy of concealing its strength.
• The Lord God of Judgment discovered the Power of Faith, and the God-Demon War drew humans across billions of planes into battle.
• The Primordial Human Race fought both the God and Demon Races and faced peril despite its powerful warriors and growing numbers.
• The Human Ancestor left the Human Race Sacred Hall and used his life to defend his people, fighting a Lord God as the Four Sacred Beasts helped bring the war to an end.
• The Human Race avoided the unequal treaties of the original history, and its Ascender numbers later rose more than tenfold despite efforts to obstruct the spread of teachings.
• The Primordial Human Race continued fighting and suffering losses, while the Human Ancestor's power guarded the Immemorial Plane and his people mourned his permanent loss.

During the First God-Demon War, the Primordial Human Race fought the gods and demons rather than submit, until a Dark Lord God threatened to crush them. Nameless One confronted the Dark Lord God alone, and the Human Ancestor died while the god withdrew.

• The Primordial Human Race fought fiercely against the invading gods and demons, refusing to retreat or surrender.
• The Human Race Supremes urged Nameless One to stand firm, and he vowed to make the gods and demons fear humanity and face the Lord Gods himself.
• As the war dragged on and the twenty-six Lord Gods turned their attention to humanity, Nameless One left the Sacred Hall and told his people to live proudly.
• Nameless One stopped the surviving Supremes from following him and charged at a Dark Lord God from the Dark Abyss.
• The Human Ancestor died, and the Dark Lord God withdrew.

The Nameless One died after the War of the Gods, merging humanity’s souls and will into an eternal protection beyond the Immemorial Era. Meng Chuan’s Divine Sense appeared before Fengyun Wuji, and the Human Ancestor’s Protection asked him to save Fengyun Wuji and preserve his status as more than a Lord God.

• The Nameless One gave his final wish for the Human Race to flourish and named Fengyun Wuji as its hope.
• The Nameless One gathered the souls, strength, and resolve of humans across the Past, Present, and Future into an eternal defense before his body exploded.
• The Lord Gods retreated, leaving the Human Race devastated but not defeated, and the Human Ancestor became its lasting symbol.
• Meng Chuan’s Divine Sense emerged from the River of Time before Fengyun Wuji, and Human Race Powerhouses mistook him for the returned Human Ancestor.
• The Human Ancestor’s Protection circled Meng Chuan and conveyed a request to save Fengyun Wuji and let him remain more than a Lord God.

Meng Chuan appeared to the Human Race Powerhouses as the returned Human Ancestor and learned that Fengyun Wuji would soon lose his emotions and memories as he became a Lord God. He stopped Fengyun Wuji from confronting the Blood Clan Ancestor and offered to preserve Fengyun Wuji's humanity, just as a vast figure appeared beyond the Boundary.

• The Human Race Powerhouses mistook Meng Chuan's Divine Sense for the Human Ancestor after the Human Ancestor's Protection responded strongly to him.
• Meng Chuan told Fengyun Wuji that his emotions and memories would vanish in half an incense stick's time, leaving him a cold, unfeeling Lord God.
• Fengyun Wuji said he would kill the Blood Clan Ancestor before his memories and emotions disappeared and thanked Meng Chuan for appearing at the end of his human life.
• Meng Chuan stopped Fengyun Wuji from going after the Blood Clan Ancestor and offered to try to preserve his emotions and memories.
• Heaven and Earth thundered, countless Dimensions shook, and a figure larger than the world appeared beyond the Boundary.

Meng Chuan forced his way into the world of After Ascension and clashed with its Balance Law, which treated him as a threat and rallied the Lord Gods against him. As the battle continued, Meng Chuan offered Fengyun Wuji a chance to preserve his memories and emotions, then sent him to fight the Heavenly Demon while he prepared to intervene.

• The Balance Law rejected Meng Chuan as he tried to enter the world of After Ascension, and Fengyun Wuji identified him as an outsider who threatened the world's balance.
• Meng Chuan defended himself against the Balance Law's power while studying its workings, eventually dispersing his form and leaving only a Jade Disc.
• The Lord Gods of Light and Darkness and Fengyun Wuji were compelled by the laws to fight the Heavenly Demon.
• Meng Chuan stopped Fengyun Wuji and offered him a chance to keep his memories and emotions.
• Meng Chuan sent Human Ancestor's Protection to Fengyun Wuji and told him to fight the Heavenly Demon while he handled the rest.

Meng Chuan posed as an Evil Demon from Beyond the Heavens and fought Fengyun Wuji, the Balance Law, and the twenty-five Lord Gods, using control over time to withstand their attacks. He withdrew to the Chaos Sea after the Balance Law’s combined assault, leaving the mission complete and Fengyun Wuji secretly altered.

• Meng Chuan used the River of Time to evade and deflect the Lord Gods’ attacks while avoiding killing them and provoking the Balance Law.
• Meng Chuan trapped Fengyun Wuji and three other Lord Gods in his Great Dao hand and swallowed them into the Jade Disc.
• The remaining Lord Gods poured their power into the Balance Law, which struck the Jade Disc and allowed Fengyun Wuji and the others to escape.
• Meng Chuan pretended the Jade Disc had cracked, cursed the Laws, and withdrew from the world of After Ascension to the Chaos Sea.
• Meng Chuan declared that Nameless One’s, Fengyun Wuji’s, and his own missions were complete, while the Balance Law found no obvious changes in the Lord Gods.
• After the Balance Law left, a hint of color entered Fengyun Wuji’s eyes before they turned cold again.

Fengyun Wuji drove back the Heavenly Demon, killed the Blood Clan Ancestor by transforming him into the Lord of War, and began restoring the Immemorial Era. He remembered how Human Ancestor and Meng Chuan had protected his memories and emotions, then looked toward You Ruo, Ao Hanyan, and Feng Fei with a faint smile.

• Fengyun Wuji told the Human Race Powerhouses that the Heavenly Demon had been driven back without casualties, then left to deal with the Blood Clan Ancestor.
• The Blood Clan Ancestor tried to persuade Fengyun Wuji that they were allies, but Fengyun Wuji struck before he could unleash his Blood Descendant ability.
• Fengyun Wuji sent the Blood Clan Ancestor to the Lord God of War's Divine Seat, turning him into the emotionless Dark Faction Lord God known as the Lord of War.
• Fengyun Wuji began reforging the Immemorial Era and saw You Ruo, Ao Hanyan, and Feng Fei in different planes.
• Fengyun Wuji recalled that Human Ancestor and the Primordial Human Race had anchored his state with Meng Chuan's power, preserving his memories and concealing his abnormality from the Laws.
• Fengyun Wuji understood that the Heavenly Demon had come to help him, thanked him, and smiled faintly as he looked at the three women.