Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan watched the tournament and teased Ruthless until she shut him out, while the Emperors gained insights from the contestants’ battles. As the tournament continued, Xiao Nannan cheered for Ye Fan, who won his fight after briefly thinking about his connections and an unsettling mystery around himself.

• Meng Chuan saw the Emperors absorb insights from the tournament’s battles and expected several of them to become True Immortals.
• Meng Chuan repeatedly teased Ruthless about the tournament and their Bet until she demanded that he shut up and sealed herself off from him.
• Xiao Nannan watched the tournament with Tai and proudly cheered for Ye Fan and the other cultivators she knew from the Teahouse.
• Ye Fan heard Xiao Nannan cheering and reflected on his closeness to Uncle Meng, the Heavenly Emperor, and the mysterious attention Xiao Nannan attracted.
• Ye Fan returned his attention to the fight and slapped his Quasi-Emperor Peak opponent to death.

The Number One Cultivator Tournament narrowed to its final contestants, including Ye Fan, Lu Mingfei, Su Wanwan, Xue Yueqing, and the Fighting Saint Emperor. Meng Chuan paired them for the decisive battles and chose to leave the winner—and his bet with Ruthless—to the fighters themselves.

• The tournament drew more than ten thousand Supremes, and its final stage left fewer than ten undefeated contestants on a single-universe battlefield.
• Lu Mingfei, Xue Yueqing, the Fighting Saint Emperor, and the other finalists exchanged greetings and thanked the Heavenly Emperor for bringing them back and helping them cultivate.
• Meng Chuan paired the finalists, who unleashed devastating battles across the universe.
• Lu Mingfei and Su Wanwan tested each other in combat before Su Wanwan conceded, since she had not sought the title.
• Meng Chuan answered Ruthless that the strongest contestant would become Number One Under Heaven, then set aside his schemes and left the outcome to the fighters.

Ye Fan and Lu Mingfei faced off in the final battle for Number One Under Heaven, unleashing their full strength in a devastating duel. The fight ended with one of them lying like a corpse in the starry sky, but the chapter left the victor unknown.

• Ye Fan and Lu Mingfei became the last two fighters after defeating their opponents in the tournament.
• Lu Mingfei reminded Ye Fan of the promise he had made during his Four Extremes Heavenly Tribulation, but said he would not use it to claim victory.
• Lu Mingfei transformed into his True Dragon form, and Ye Fan answered with his Heavenly Emperor Fist.
• Ye Fan and Lu Mingfei fought with their bodies and Primordial Spirits, devastating star systems and drawing blood.
• A final clash sent one fighter flying into the starry sky, while the spectators waited to learn who had won.

Ye Fan defeated Lu Mingfei in the Ultimate Battlefield, but Lu Mingfei soon turned the apparent victory into a wrestling match over who would end up on top. As the spectators reacted, Suirenshi reflected that the Human Race had once again reached the summit.

• Tai reassured Xiao Nannan that both big brothers could win, while privately preparing to kill whoever she did not choose.
• The battlefield emerged to reveal Ye Fan sitting gravely wounded and Lu Mingfei lying as if dead, shocking the spectators.
• Meng Chuan explained that Ye Fan’s growth would eventually outpace Lu Mingfei’s, while the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body suggested Wushi serve as Heavenly Emperor for a hundred thousand years.
• Ye Fan bragged to Lu Mingfei about winning and promised to challenge him regularly, but Lu Mingfei suddenly knocked him down and straddled him.
• Ye Fan and Lu Mingfei grappled over their dignity and status as spectators in both worlds watched in awkward surprise.
• Suirenshi recalled the tournament’s brilliance and smiled as he recognized that the Human Race had reached the summit again.

Suirenshi attained the Dao as the Human Race’s Kindling spread through the Universe, blessing its people and marking the start of a new era. With Meng Chuan suppressing the gathering tribulation, the Emperors prepared to follow Suirenshi into the Undying realm.

• Flames swept across Heaven and Earth, showing the Human Race’s generations of struggle and the history of Suirenshi carrying the Kindling.
• Voices across time and the Ancient Stars joined in the vow to pass on the Kindling and let the Human Race and Human Dao endure.
• Meng Chuan joined the chorus as Suirenshi became the Kindling and attained the Dao.
• Golden Lotuses bloomed in the flames and merged with everyone, strengthening their bodies, Primordial Spirits, and Magical Power.
• Meng Chuan dispersed the tribulation clouds and let their Fortune fall upon Suirenshi.
• Suirenshi became the second Undying among the Emperors, and the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands entered the Undying Era.

Suirenshi achieved Immortal Ascension and reaffirmed his place in Meng Chuan’s Dao Realm before Meng Chuan named Ye Fan Number One Under Heaven. Ye Fan began his tribulation to attain the Dao, while Meng Chuan celebrated his bet with Ruthless and Lu Mingfei mourned his defeat.

• Suirenshi achieved Immortal Ascension, thanked Meng Chuan and the Emperors, and stood behind Meng Chuan as a member of the Dao Realm.
• Meng Chuan brought the eliminated contestants, including healed Ye Fan and Lu Mingfei, back to the Starry Sky and announced Ye Fan as Number One Under Heaven.
• Ye Fan absorbed the tournament’s Fortune and Heaven and Earth’s blessing, then began ascending toward the Great Emperor realm.
• Meng Chuan separated Ye Fan from the Mortal World as his Attainment of the Dao Tribulation appeared, and privately reminded Ruthless that he had won their bet.
• Lu Mingfei approached Ruthless with a grief-stricken apology, while Meng Chuan reflected that Lu Mingfei had chosen to wait for the tournament and fight Ye Fan fairly.

Ye Fan became an emperor and revealed that Meng Chuan was his uncle during his acceptance speech, shocking the tournament’s contestants. Lu Mingfei then passed his own Dao-Attainment Tribulation and became a Dragon Emperor, ready to ask Meng Chuan to help him go home.

• Ye Fan survived his Dao-Attainment Tribulation, and Meng Chuan invited him into the Dao Realm.
• Ye Fan called Meng Chuan his uncle, then gave a speech crediting him for supporting Ye Fan since childhood.
• The other contestants realized Ye Fan was Meng Chuan’s nephew and accepted their defeat in the tournament.
• Lu Mingfei said he was ready to attain the Dao, and Meng Chuan watched over his tribulation.
• Lu Mingfei passed his tribulation with ease, became a Dragon Emperor, and looked to Meng Chuan with a longing to go home.

After attaining the Dao, Lu Mingfei said farewell to the Emperors and Ye Fan before using the Chat Group to return to his own world. Meng Chuan revealed that Lu Mingfei’s world lay beyond all worlds and beyond even an Immortal Emperor’s reach.

• Meng Chuan offered to show Lu Mingfei the Immortal Domain, but Lu Mingfei refused and said he wanted to return to his own world.
• Lu Mingfei bid farewell to the Emperors, apologized to Ruthless, and teased Ye Fan before explaining that he was not from this world.
• Ye Fan learned that Lu Mingfei’s departure might be permanent, and the two exchanged farewells while recalling their rivalry and friendship.
• Lu Mingfei contacted the Chat Group and vanished, leaving Ye Fan to ask Meng Chuan how far away his world was.
• Meng Chuan said Lu Mingfei’s world was beyond all worlds and even an Immortal Emperor’s reach, leaving Ye Fan confused about what an Immortal Emperor was.

Lu Mingfei returned to Cassell College after spending a long time in another world and reunited with Chu Zihang, Xia Mi, and Eri Uesugi. He embraced Eri and told her he was back, ending the chapter holding her close.

• Lu Mingfei woke in his dorm and used his words to summon Fingel back after his roommate fled in fright.
• Lu Mingfei left for the Library, dismissed Fingel’s request for buns, and tackled Chu Zihang in an exuberant reunion.
• Lu Mingfei greeted Xia Mi, then rushed to embrace Eri Uesugi when she emerged from the Library.
• Lu Mingfei told Eri he was back, and she welcomed him as they held each other.

Meng Chuan led the Emperors and the Supremes of the Mortal World to Feixian Ancient Star to open the Road to Immortality. As the ancient seal revealed several beings imprisoned by Emperor Zun, the newly awakened captives found themselves facing an overwhelming procession.

• Meng Chuan led the Emperors and the Supremes of the Mortal World to Feixian Ancient Star and lifted his suppression of the Road to Immortality.
• Stone tablets rose from the Sealing Ground as Immortal Light, demonic miasma, and other strange phenomena appeared.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body identified Huàshé inside the seal, and the Immortal Soil burst open to release him.
• Annihilation Heavenly Venerable emerged and tried to absorb the essence of nearby beings, but the Qilin Ancient Emperor stopped him.
• The three sealed Supremes saw the formidable procession and wished they could return to the seal.

Meng Chuan led the crowd along the Road to Immortality, where the Immortal Domain’s laws welcomed him and its gate opened without the sacrifice demanded of ordinary entrants. He revealed that three people could pass through, leaving the gathered Emperors waiting to hear whom he would allow to enter.

• The being from the Chaotic Ancient Era told Meng Chuan that he far surpassed the Desolate Heaven Emperor, pleasing Meng Chuan before he continued down the Road to Immortality.
• Meng Chuan explained that only two or three people could achieve Immortal Ascension in one lifetime, and Amitabha Buddha destroyed a Great Emperor-level guardian formed from Laws.
• The Immortal Pass opened by itself for Meng Chuan, and the crowd speculated about his strength as he walked onward.
• The group found a real Stone Stele left by the Desolate Heaven Emperor, then reached the Heavenly Gate to the Immortal Domain.
• The Heavenly Gate opened for Meng Chuan without a sacrifice, and he explained that three people could enter, while Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors had to wash away their Emperor Dao Laws.
• Lingbao Heavenly Venerable asked what Meng Chuan intended to do, and the crowd realized he would decide who entered the Immortal Domain.

Meng Chuan let the Supremes decide who would compete for the Immortal Domain’s few places, then entered it with the Dao Realm Emperors. Outside the gate, Annihilation Heavenly Venerable endured a painful trial of the Immortal Laws, while the Immortal Domain welcomed Meng Chuan as its king.

• Meng Chuan told the Supremes that the Immortal Domain was of no use to him and allowed two or three people to enter it in a Lifetime.
• Meng Chuan led the Dao Realm Emperors through the Immortal Gate, where the checkpoint’s Laws had no effect on them.
• The Fighting Saint Emperor explained that the Supremes did not know how the gate would replace the Dao Laws of those who had attained the Imperial Dao.
• The Supremes pressured Annihilation Heavenly Venerable into testing the checkpoint, where Immortal Laws painfully eroded and replaced his Great Dao.
• The mist over the Immortal Domain receded, and its Laws and residents reacted to Meng Chuan and the Emperors’ arrival with welcoming phenomena.

Meng Chuan and the other Emperors discovered that the Immortal Domain was a broken fragment with no true immortals, while immortals had risen from the Mortal Realm. Disappointed, many Emperors abandoned the Immortal Gate, though the present-era Heavenly Prodigies remained uncertain about their own futures.

• Amitabha Buddha, Suirenshi, and Meng Chuan explained that the Immortal Domain was a fragment with a damaged Origin that could support few or no true immortals.
• An old man in the Immortal Domain learned from an Immortal Artifact that Meng Chuan's group came from the Mortal Realm, and Amitabha Buddha's glance nearly overwhelmed him.
• Xue Yueqing laughed at the contrast between the immortal-less Immortal Domain and the Mortal Realm's immortals, then left the Immortal Gate.
• The Fighting Saint Emperor rejected the Immortal Domain and departed with the Fighting Saint King, the Saint Emperor's Son, and the others.
• Lingbao Heavenly Venerable struck the Immortal Gate with his eight Killing Swords, then left as other Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors followed.
• The present-era Heavenly Prodigies watched the Emperors leave, disappointed but unsure whether they could attain the Dao or enter the Dao Realm.

Meng Chuan’s arrival in the Immortal Domain revealed that he had reached the Immortal King realm, astonishing its natives and the worlds beyond. After hearing the news, the God Emperor completed his Eleventh Transformation, achieved Immortal Ascension, and joined Meng Chuan at the Immortal Gate.

• Ning Fei stayed behind with the Undying Heavenly Empress, hoping to enter the Immortal Domain with her and start a new life.
• The Immortal Domain’s artifact spirits bowed to Meng Chuan and hailed him as an Immortal King, prompting the natives to pay homage.
• Supremes at the Immortal Gate spread news that the Heavenly Emperor had surpassed the True Immortal realm, shaking the Immortal Domain, the Strange World, and the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• At Divine Silkworm Ridge, the God Emperor heard that Meng Chuan had become an Immortal King and completed his Eleventh Transformation, achieving Immortal Ascension.
• The God Emperor left Divine Silkworm Ridge, passed through the Immortal Gate, and joined Meng Chuan and the others in the Immortal Domain.

After connecting the Immortal Domain to the Dao Realm, Meng Chuan watched its inhabitants discover the worlds and cultivation paths gathered there. Ye Fan learned about Immortal Ascension and chose to pursue the Red Dust Immortal Path, prompting Meng Chuan to consider new trials for him in the Immortal Dao Domain.

• Meng Chuan expanded the Dao Realm to include the Immortal Domain and welcomed the God Emperor into it.
• The Immortal Domain's inhabitants explored the Dao Realm and were stunned by the cultivation achievements of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and the power of Meng Chuan.
• Ye Fan settled into the Dao Realm, met its Emperors, and wondered why the Ruthless Great Emperor kept to her Small World.
• Ye Fan learned about different paths to Immortal Ascension and decided to become an immortal in the Mortal World through the Red Dust Immortal Path.
• Ye Fan declared his ambition to enter the Immortal Dao, and Meng Chuan began planning trials for him there.

After refining the Armor Heroes World’s Dao Source, Meng Chuan’s Other Self became the Primordial Darkness and shirked the task of creating Heaven, leaving it for Meng Chuan’s True Body. Still recovering from his injuries, Meng Chuan monitored his allies and other selves across the worlds, waited for a chance to deal with Pang Ban, and prepared for what lay ahead.

• Meng Chuan’s Other Self was born as the Primordial Darkness in the Chaos, then closed his eyes and left the Creation of Heaven to Meng Chuan’s True Body.
• Meng Chuan sensed that his True Body had begun refining the Hokage World’s Dao Source and accepted that his Other Self would wait until he recovered to create the world.
• Meng Chuan watched Ye Fan seek a Red Dust Immortal Path and helped Lingbao Heavenly Venerable while maintaining ties with powerful figures across worlds.
• Meng Chuan kept the Chat Group’s discovery of Pang Ban’s world secret and chose to wait for a sure chance to strike while his injuries healed.
• Meng Chuan checked on his other selves, including Ji Ning’s progress, Little Klein’s growing support, and Meng Qi’s return to the present.
• Meng Chuan discovered that his Other Self in the Dragon Race World had gone back to get married and angrily called him a traitor.

After reuniting with Eri, Lu Mingfei began preparing to bring about World Ascension. Meng Chuan learned that Zhang Sanfeng’s Martial Heroes World Heart had gained a projection of the Armor Heroes World, then hurried to the Boundary Sea when the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Former Site appeared to signal Little Stone.

• Lu Mingfei decided to wait until Eri understood the world and marriage better before raising marriage again, then set out to bring about World Ascension.
• Zhang Sanfeng told Meng Chuan that the Martial Heroes World Heart had stirred and gained a projection of darkness.
• Meng Chuan explained that the new projection came from the birth of his Great Demon Dao Source Other Self in the Armor Heroes World.
• Zhang Sanfeng said the Martial Heroes World Heart seemed to be changing as its world projections accumulated.
• Meng Chuan sensed that the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Former Site had appeared above the Primordial Boundary Sea and hurried there, suspecting Little Stone was calling for him.

Meng Chuan entered the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Former Site after Little Stone summoned him, then noticed that Ye Fan and Shi Hao had become increasingly alike. He suspected the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin was behind the change and asked Little Stone whether he looked like his father.

• Immortal Kings tried and failed to enter the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Former Site when it appeared in the sky.
• Little Stone summoned Meng Chuan to the Scripture Pavilion because he could not find his father’s mysterious Guide.
• Meng Chuan and Little Stone discussed how Ye Fan and Shi Hao resembled each other despite having no blood connection.
• Meng Chuan realized Ye Fan had grown more like Shi Hao after reaching Beidou, and suspected both men were becoming like a third person.
• Meng Chuan connected the change to the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin and asked Little Stone whether he looked like Shi Hao.

Meng Chuan learned that the Dark Faction might be using sacrificial formations across the Fallen Boundary Sea to create a Quasi-Immortal Emperor. Little Stone warned that the Boundary Sea could fall within five hundred thousand years, leaving Meng Chuan wondering how the events would fit with the future he knew.

• Meng Chuan wondered why Shi Hao and Ye Fan looked alike, suspected the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin was involved, and decided to investigate it later.
• Little Stone told Meng Chuan that the Boundary Sea might not survive and explained that a Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperor had caused its fall in the past.
• Little Stone revealed that the Dark Faction's Grand Formations might be conducting sacrifices to create a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Meng Chuan accepted that the Dark Faction could attempt such a plan, and Little Stone said it might succeed within five hundred thousand years.
• Meng Chuan felt relieved at the time estimate, then wondered how the Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperor would fit into the future events involving Ye Fan.

Meng Chuan refused Little Stone’s offer to send him away, insisting that he would face the Dark Faction and could defeat a Quasi-Immortal Emperor. He left an Other Self at the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Former Site in case Little Stone needed him again, while Shi Hao watched and criticized his boasts.

• Little Stone warned Meng Chuan to prepare for the Dark Faction’s pursuit and offered to use the Heavenly Court’s power to send him to the Heavens.
• Meng Chuan rejected the escape plan, saying he would not abandon his homeland and that a hundred thousand years could change who ruled the Boundary Sea.
• Little Stone asked about the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Meng Chuan had faced, and Meng Chuan claimed he had killed him.
• Shi Hao watched from the Calamity Land and privately mocked Meng Chuan for concealing how badly wounded he had been and how Shi Hao had given him his Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao Flame.
• Meng Chuan enlightened one of his Other Selves at the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Former Site so Little Stone could reach him without attracting attention.