Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan arranged protections and time for the returned experts to grow, while their return and the rise of many Heavenly Prodigies ushered in the Golden Age. Ye Fan, however, was consumed by anger after learning that someone had asked Ji Ziyue to marry him, and she had not clearly refused.

• Meng Chuan declined to impose rules on the returned experts and asked Amitabha Buddha to keep lecturing so Saints and stronger cultivators would not leave before the newcomers could defend themselves.
• Amitabha Buddha agreed to let cultivators depart in stages as the returned experts and current Heavenly Prodigies grew stronger.
• Meng Chuan continued studying Reincarnation as news of his revival of ancient experts spread across the Universe, drawing envy and curiosity while the returned experts kept out of sight.
• People came to call the era the true dawn of the Golden Age as past and present experts rose together.
• Ye Fan learned that a Heavenly Prodigy from an Aristocratic Family had asked the Ji Family for Ji Ziyue's hand, and he grew furious when she did not clearly refuse.

Ye Fan realized he could not let Ji Ziyue marry Wang Teng and headed to the Ji Family, where Wang Teng’s proposal was being discussed. After a white-haired young man warned him to cherish what he had, Ye Fan resolved to take Ji Ziyue back.

• The Black Emperor urged Ye Fan to face his feelings about Ji Ziyue, and Ye Fan declared he would not let her marry Wang Teng.
• Ye Fan flew toward the Ji Family while the Black Emperor followed, and Ye Fan compared his childhood achievements with Wang Teng’s celebrated exploits.
• The Wang Family arrived at the Ji Family to propose a marriage, and Wang Teng’s father praised his son’s imperial bearing and said Wang Teng was pursuing an Immortal Object as a gift for Ji Ziyue.
• Ye Fan complained about Wang Teng and met a sorrowful white-haired young man who advised him to cherish what was close to him.
• Ye Fan recognized the young man’s warning and resolved to take Ji Ziyue back.

Ye Fan challenged Wang Teng at the Ji Family’s gates after Wang Teng came to propose marriage to Ji Ziyue. Their fight began with both men determined to kill the other, leaving their clash unresolved.

• The Black Emperor teased Ye Fan about smelling like a Dragon, and Ye Fan traded barbs with him.
• Wang Teng arrived at the Ji Family’s gathering and asked to meet Ji Ziyue after presenting his gift.
• Ye Fan rejected Wang Teng as unworthy of Ji Ziyue, while Ji Ziyue was pleased that Ye Fan had appeared for her.
• Ye Fan and Wang Teng argued over Wang Teng’s claim to have the bearing of a Great Emperor and recalled their earlier fight.
• Ye Fan attacked Wang Teng, and the two exchanged blows as the Ji Family Head allowed them to fight.
• Ye Fan activated Nine Secrets: Jie and charged Wang Teng, who countered with the Ancient Emperor Holy Sword.

Ye Fan defeated Wang Teng across Flesh, eye arts, Divine Abilities, Magical Power, and Primordial Spirit despite Wang Teng’s higher Cultivation realm. Wang Teng was left wounded and shaken as Ye Fan challenged his worthiness.

• Ye Fan met Wang Teng’s Ancient Emperor's Sacred Sword with his bare Flesh and remained unharmed.
• Ye Fan broke Wang Teng’s Martial Dao Heavenly Eye with nine stellar Dragon Rivers formed from his eyes.
• Ye Fan’s character "Ye" pierced through Wang Teng’s Four Divine Spirits and overwhelmed his Divine Ability.
• Ye Fan dissolved Wang Teng’s Primordial Spirit attack and revealed the hidden divine needle.
• Ye Fan listed the ways Wang Teng fell short, noted Wang Teng’s higher Cultivation realm, and asked whether he was worthy.

Ye Fan defeated Wang Teng, who survived through the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor's Nine-Turn Divine Talisman, then entered the Ji Family under its protection. The chapter left Wang Teng vowing to return while Ye Fan proceeded to meet the Ji Family's Little Moon.

• Wang Teng tried to destroy Ye Fan with a life-burning attack, but Ye Fan fled and Wang Teng chased him down and detonated himself against him.
• Ye Fan survived the explosion injured, while Meng Chuan reflected on watching Ye Fan grow up and hoped he would return to Earth Star before Meng Chuan died.
• Wang Teng reassembled and escaped with the Nine-Turn Divine Talisman, and Ye Fan recognized it as the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor's life-preserving rune.
• Ye Fan dismissed the possibility that Wang Teng's defeat would let him surpass him, then claimed protection as a guest of the Ji Family.
• The Ji Family Head escorted Ye Fan inside as the Wang Family members watched from outside the gates.

Five years after the Returned Emperors came back, they dominated the Universe and overwhelmed the era’s Heavenly Prodigies. Lu Mingfei stood out by forcing an Ancient Emperor Reincarnation to retreat, while Wang Bo also fought a Returned Heavenly Venerable; Ye Fan remained missing, and rumors accused him of avoiding the challenge.

• The Returned Emperors restored their Cultivation, entered the Immortal Platform Secret Realm, and defeated Heavenly Prodigies across the Universe.
• Lu Mingfei provoked an Ancient Emperor Reincarnation over which foot he used to leave, fought him to a stalemate, and drove him to retreat.
• Lu Mingfei’s Bloodline and True Dragon Body let him withstand attacks and wield numerous Laws, giving him advantages against the Returned Emperors.
• Wang Bo fought a returning Heavenly Venerable, lost, and survived, displaying the strength of his Chaos Body.
• Ye Fan disappeared from the world and later from the Dao Realm, prompting rumors that he was hiding from the Returned Emperors.

Ye Fan remained on Earth Star to care for Meng Chuan, whose cultivation had nearly dissolved him into the Dao. After finding a treasure that healed Meng Chuan, Ye Fan was bound to Earth Star by its Myriad Emperors Great Dao and faced an uncertain path to Severing the Dao.

• Ye Fan visited Meng Chuan and brought him medicine while reassuring him that staying on Earth Star was his own choice.
• The chapter recounted how Ye Fan returned from Beidou after learning Meng Chuan might die and searched Kunlun for a cure.
• Ye Fan encountered an intelligent Fo-ti, learned about its connection to the Heavenly Emperor, and found a treasure to heal Meng Chuan.
• At the Immortal Ascension Ground, Ye Fan saw messages left by Ruthless's group and obtained a tremendous fortune nurtured by Earth Star's Myriad Emperors Great Dao.
• The Myriad Emperors Great Dao entered Ye Fan's body, binding him to Earth Star unless he could sever it.
• Ye Fan said he would keep trying to Sever the Dao, but Meng Chuan bluntly predicted he would remain stuck forever.

Ye Fan continued to fail at Severing the Dao while the returned Dao attainers reshaped the Universe’s balance of power. Meng Chuan revealed that he had prepared Ye Fan for this trial since birth, prompting the Emperors to wonder whether Ye Fan might become the next Heavenly Emperor.

• Ye Fan failed another tribulation after thirty years of attempts to sever the Myriad Emperors Great Dao and the other Dao traces bound within him.
• Returned Dao attainers slew Saints and established their strength, while Heavenly Prodigies and returnees reached Perfection in the Severing the Dao stage.
• Huang Tian and Divine Mark questioned whether Ye Fan could sever the Dao, and the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body declared that success would make him first among the Eternal Ages.
• Meng Chuan said he had prepared Ye Fan for this transformation since birth, revealing how much care he had invested in the young man.
• Ruthless noted Meng Chuan’s unusual investment in Ye Fan, and the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body wondered whether Meng Chuan planned to make him the second Heavenly Emperor.
• Meng Chuan denied having said that, leaving the Emperors to speculate while the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body remarked that Wushi had been there first.

Meng Chuan explained why Qingyue could not return through reincarnation: Su Wanwan, her Similar Flower, carried something that had once belonged to Qingyue. He warned that Similar Flowers could make resurrection impossible, leaving Ruthless to contemplate what this meant for her brother and Ye Fan.

• Ji Lianxing confronted Meng Chuan about why Qingyue had not returned through reincarnation, and he admitted that his attempt had failed.
• Meng Chuan revealed that Su Wanwan was Qingyue’s Similar Flower and that her existence prevented him from gathering Qingyue’s Imprint.
• Meng Chuan explained that whatever a Similar Flower inherited from the original person became its own and could not return to the original, even if the Similar Flower died.
• Ruthless asked whether a Similar Flower could prevent its original person from returning, and Meng Chuan confirmed that he had long suspected it.
• Meng Chuan concluded that Ye Fan’s existence might permanently prevent Ruthless’s brother from being resurrected, and silence fell among the Emperors.

Meng Chuan reassured Ruthless that higher realms might still make her brother's Return possible, then discussed which returned Emperors might be strongest. He revealed that the Feathered Emperor and Dao Emperor were still alive, pursuing their own difficult paths to a third life.

• Meng Chuan told Ruthless that an Immortal Emperor was not the end, keeping open the possibility that her brother could Return.
• Divine Mark asked why the returned Emperors were avoiding fights, and the group debated whether the Fighting Saint Emperor, Lingbao Heavenly Venerable, or Xue Yueqing stood above the others.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body asked why the Feathered Emperor and Dao Emperor had not returned, and Meng Chuan explained that the living had no need to Return.
• Meng Chuan revealed that the Feathered Emperor and Dao Emperor were still alive, sleeping and transforming in attempts to live a third life and reach the Red Dust Immortal Path.

Meng Chuan discussed the Dao Emperor, the Feathered Emperor, and Ruthless’s reaction to the Feathered Divine Dynasty, then planned a special world to give Ye Fan time and strengthen his comprehension. He left to study the Inner Scenery Ground while his Other Selves continued the work.

• Meng Chuan told the Emperors about the Feathered Emperor and another Dao-attainer, and Ji Zi reflected on how far behind Wushi he was in pursuing the Red Dust Immortal Path.
• Ruthless left after hearing about the Feathered Emperor, while Meng Chuan chose not to interfere with what she intended to do.
• Meng Chuan told Laozi that the Dao Emperor could no longer be saved and said he would visit the God Emperor after finishing his current work.
• Meng Chuan revealed his plan to create the Inner Scenery Ground, a special world where Ye Fan could gain time and improve his comprehension without consuming his lifespan.
• Meng Chuan recalled The Ancient One’s suggestions for a Heavenly Medicine and a Passing Ground, and ordered his Other Selves to investigate them.
• Meng Chuan returned to his place in the Dao Realm, where he drank tea and cracked Sunflower Seeds while his Other Selves continued developing the Inner Scenery Ground.

Meng Chuan opened the Nine-Layer Coffin and released the God Emperor, who was nearing completion of his eleventh transformation. He dispersed the Emperor Fiend Qi, leaving the sleeping God Emperor exposed in the starry sky.

• Meng Chuan decided to visit the God Emperor after checking that disturbing him would be safe.
• Meng Chuan found the Nine-Layer Coffin and opened it with imperial blood, sending it into the cosmic starry sky when Chaos Qi surged out.
• The ninth layer opened, and the God Emperor emerged surrounded by eleven rays of Immortal Light, with the eleventh still faint.
• Meng Chuan recognized that the God Emperor's eleventh transformation was incomplete and that he was recuperating after a deep slumber.
• Emperor Fiend Qi and death qi spread from the God Emperor, and Meng Chuan made them vanish with a single word.

The Divine Silkworm Battle Garment sensed the God Emperor’s aura and flew from Divine Silkworm Ridge to Meng Chuan, who awakened the emperor from his deathlike slumber. The God Emperor returned to life and learned about the changed world and the powerful Heavenly Emperor who had called him back.

• Divine Silkworm Ridge’s clanspeople wondered why the God Emperor had not returned, until the Divine Silkworm Battle Garment sensed a familiar aura and flew away despite their attempts to stop it.
• The Divine Silkworm Battle Garment reunited with the God Emperor and learned from Meng Chuan that the emperor was alive but sleeping within the realm of death.
• Meng Chuan called to the God Emperor and carefully awakened him, restoring his awareness as eleven-colored Immortal Light blazed around him.
• News of the God Emperor’s awakening spread across the Dao Realm, leaving Divine Silkworm Ridge relieved that its emperor had returned.
• The God Emperor donned the Divine Silkworm Battle Garment, learned about the present age and Meng Chuan, and accepted that waking him had been a good thing.

Meng Chuan exchanged Dao insights with the God Emperor, shared a method that could guide him toward the Immortal Dao, and returned to the Dao Realm. He passed the God Emperor’s cultivation method to Dugu Baitian, then saw Meng Qi return to the Chat Panel and demand that Little Chuanzi pay his respects.

• The God Emperor realized Meng Chuan had awakened him to discuss the Dao and listened as Meng Chuan described a death-and-rebirth cultivation method leading into the Immortal Dao Domain.
• The God Emperor decided to complete his Eleventh Transformation and seek entry into the Dao Realm afterward.
• Meng Chuan told the Emperors about the God Emperor, and they discussed the Divine Silkworm Clan’s transformations and the God Emperor’s potential future progress.
• Meng Chuan shared the God Emperor’s method with Dugu Baitian, who had reached a bottleneck while developing his own path.
• Meng Qi returned to the Chat Panel and ordered Little Chuanzi to come online and pay his respects, provoking Meng Chuan’s anger.

Meng Chuan and Han Li faced the Villain Chat Group’s bold return to the Mortal Realm, where a powerful leader descended and revealed himself as the Undying Netherworld Emperor. The chapter left Meng Chuan confronting an enemy whose immense power threatened the fragile world.

• Meng Qi told Meng Chuan he planned to meet Overlord in the Medieval Era, but Meng Chuan declined to go with him.
• Meng Chuan sensed an ominous disturbance and shifted his consciousness to his Qi Refining Other Self in A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality.
• Meng Chuan and Han Li recognized the Villain Chat Group’s Space-Time Passage on Heaven-Palm Island and prepared for an attack.
• Meng Chuan evacuated the Mortal Realm’s inhabitants to other Human Realms and alerted the Chat Group while he and Han Li waited for the invaders.
• The Undying Netherworld Emperor emerged from the passage with Black Lotus Demon Ancestor and the other Villain Chat Group members, then identified himself to Meng Chuan.

Meng Chuan recognized the Villain Chat Group’s Undying Netherworld Emperor as a powerful figure from the Heart Realm Continent and learned he had come to help the Black Lotus Demon Ancestor. The emperor revealed that he was using a clone while his true body pursued the path of a Hunyuan Lord, leaving Meng Chuan somewhat reassured but still facing a formidable opponent.

• Meng Chuan identified the Undying Netherworld Emperor as belonging to the Heart Realm Continent, prompting Luo Feng and The Ancient One to recognize his connection to Lord Snow Eagle.
• Luo Feng’s livestream comment recalled the Human Race’s victory and his own rapid progress toward becoming a True God.
• Meng Chuan assessed the emperor’s likely God Emperor strength and wondered why he had asked about Dongbo Xueying, who had not yet been born.
• The Undying Netherworld Emperor said he had come because Black Lotus Demon Ancestor asked for help and they shared ties of Karma.
• The emperor dismissed Meng Chuan and Han Li as no threat, then revealed that his true body was pursuing the path of a Hunyuan Lord while his clone sought the Group Leader’s reward.

The Undying Netherworld Emperor destroyed Han Li’s world and forced Han Li and Meng Chuan to choose between exposing their allies’ worlds or abandoning Nangong Wan and Han Li’s friends. Han Li asked the Chat Group to retreat, but its members refused, and Meng Chuan vowed to protect them all.

• The Undying Netherworld Emperor destroyed the Human Realm and demanded that Meng Chuan reveal the Coordinate of Armor Heroes World or let him kill Meng Chuan and Han Li.
• Meng Chuan realized that retreat would keep their worlds safe but leave Nangong Wan and Han Li’s friends in enemy hands.
• Han Li asked the Chat Group to give up on his world and escape with Meng Chuan.
• Yao Chen, Meng Qi, Zhang Sanfeng, Dugu Baitian, Klein Moretti, The Ancient One, and Daigu Madoka rejected Han Li’s plea and declared they would fight for him.
• Meng Chuan comforted Han Li and promised the Chat Group he would hold up the sky even if it fell.

Han Li accepted the Chat Group’s support and agreed to face the coming battle in Armor Heroes World alongside them. Seeking a way to counter a Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s clone, Meng Chuan found a sealed Brocade Pouch that he believed Shi Hao had sent to help him.

• Han Li thanked the Chat Group and pledged to live and die with them as Undying Netherworld Emperor and the others departed, warning they would return to attack Armor Heroes World.
• Meng Chuan visited Little Stone at Ancient Heavenly Court's Former Site and asked for help against a Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s clone.
• Little Stone said Meng Chuan should flee, but offered help if he could lure the clone to the site; Meng Chuan left to seek another solution.
• A Brocade Pouch fell from the Void, and Little Stone confirmed he had not placed it there.
• Meng Chuan passed the sealed pouch to Qi Refining Meng and believed Shi Hao had sent it as aid for the battle in Armor Heroes World.

Meng Chuan and Han Li rejected the Undying Netherworld Emperor’s demand for a series of duels, but Meng Chuan eventually accepted a reduced challenge to protect the rest of their group. The chapter ended as Pang Ban stepped forward to fight the first battle.

• Undying Netherworld Emperor altered Armor Heroes World and threatened Meng Chuan and Han Li, but his attack spared them after the Villain Chat Group’s Group Leader warned him that striking them could ruin their plan.
• Undying Netherworld Emperor negotiated for three opponents from each side, and Meng Chuan agreed to the terms while offering to fight Undying Netherworld Emperor himself.
• Undying Netherworld Emperor called for an ordinary member to begin the duels, and Pang Ban volunteered.
• Undying Netherworld Emperor recognized Pang Ban and wished him victory as Pang Ban asked who would face him.

Meng Chuan merged with the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao Flame and challenged the Undying Netherworld Emperor after the group battles began. As the Armor Heroes World collapsed around them, Meng Chuan vowed to take the Emperor’s life.

• Zhang Sanfeng fought Pang Ban, and their martial arts clashed under the battlefield’s laws as both Chat Groups gathered information about their worlds.
• Meng Chuan realized the coming battles could force one of his allies to die, then decided to take the Administrator’s fight himself.
• The Undying Netherworld Emperor called for a Veteran Group Member and an Administrator, and Wang Shi and the Black Lotus Demon Ancestor stepped forward.
• Meng Chuan sent Han Li away, and Han Li resolved to protect Nangong Wan from being used against him.
• Meng Chuan opened the brocade pouch and merged with the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao Flame, forcing Zhang Sanfeng to leave as the Villain Chat Group members fled.
• Meng Chuan confronted the Undying Netherworld Emperor as the Armor Heroes World collapsed into Chaos.