Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan and Meng Tianzheng explained the disturbance that swept the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands as the result of Meng Chuan's breakthrough to the Void Dao Realm. Meng Tianzheng announced that Heavenly God Academy would soon open and that Meng Chuan would teach there, while Jin Tai Jun tried to draw out the secret of his ability to slay a Supreme.

• Supremes arrived at Meng Tianzheng's cave abode to investigate the disturbance, where they found Meng Chuan had reached the Void Dao Realm.
• Meng Chuan said his breakthrough and merger with the Heavenly Dao had caused the disturbance, and Meng Tianzheng confirmed his account.
• Jin Tai Jun praised Meng Chuan as a young friend, prompting disapproval from Meng Tianzheng and several Supremes.
• Meng Tianzheng announced that Heavenly God Academy would soon open and asked the Supremes to support it.
• Meng Tianzheng named Meng Chuan an elder and teacher at the academy, and Jin Tai Jun urged him to teach her family's youngsters how to slay Supremes as Heavenly Gods.

Jin Tai Jun demanded that Meng Chuan reveal how he had killed a Supreme as a Heavenly God, claiming the knowledge would help the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. After Meng Chuan mocked her double standards and refused to hand over an imagined Immortal Artifact, she attacked him verbally, and he struck her into the ground.

• Meng Tianzheng warned Jin Tai Jun that anyone with ill intentions toward Meng Chuan would have to get past him.
• Jin Tai Jun argued that Meng Chuan should share his way of killing a Supreme, while Meng Tianzheng challenged her to share the Jin Family's Heavenly Art in return.
• Meng Chuan said his strength came from being himself, not from a method, and Jin Tai Jun suggested he might possess an Immortal Artifact.
• Meng Chuan proposed that Jin Tai Jun give the Jin Family's Ancestral Artifact to Meng Tianzheng for the sake of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Jin Tai Jun threatened Meng Chuan, and he slammed her into the ground with a palm strike.

Meng Chuan subdued Jin Tai Jun after she tried to seize his supposed Immortal Artifact and accused him of being a spy. Wang Changsheng arrived to plead for her life, but Meng Tianzheng’s changed resolve and Wang Changsheng’s startled reaction left the confrontation unresolved.

• Meng Chuan repeatedly struck and suppressed Jin Tai Jun as she hurled accusations and threats at him.
• Jin Tai Jun called on Meng Tianzheng to help her, but Meng Chuan rebuked her and Meng Tianzheng said he only felt wistful about how she had changed.
• Meng Chuan concluded that Jin Tai Jun expected Wang Changsheng to protect her, then challenged her to call for anyone else who might save her.
• Wang Changsheng arrived and proposed sending Jin Tai Jun to guard the Border Wasteland instead of killing her.
• Meng Tianzheng rejected Wang Changsheng’s proposal, and Wang Changsheng felt shocked when he met Meng Tianzheng’s gaze.

Meng Chuan spared Jin Tai Jun from execution and sent her to the Border Wasteland Emperor Pass, where she could return only after killing five Foreign Realm Supremes. After the other Supremes pledged support for Meng Tianzheng’s Heavenly God Academy, Wang Changsheng stayed behind to speak privately with him.

• Wang Changsheng condemned Jin Tai Jun’s actions and proposed exiling her to serve at the Emperor Pass under his supervision.
• Meng Chuan agreed to spare Jin Tai Jun and set killing five Foreign Realm Supremes as the condition for her return.
• A Supreme preparing to travel to the Emperor Pass agreed to take Jin Tai Jun there, and Meng Chuan handed her over.
• Wang Changsheng declared that the Wang Family would support Meng Tianzheng’s Heavenly God Academy, prompting other Supremes to pledge support as well.
• After the Supremes dispersed, Wang Changsheng remained with Meng Tianzheng and Meng Chuan, and Meng Tianzheng agreed to speak with him later.

Meng Chuan urged Meng Tianzheng to help Wang Changsheng become an immortal despite doubts about the Wang Family’s ties to the Foreign Realm. Meng Tianzheng left to give Wang Changsheng a trial, while Meng Chuan hoped he would choose the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

• Meng Tianzheng told Meng Chuan that he feared Wang Changsheng might be colluding with the Foreign Realm and described suspect Longevity Aristocratic Families.
• Meng Chuan argued that Wang Changsheng could still be used to serve the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and that they would kill him if he betrayed them.
• Meng Chuan advised Meng Tianzheng to act decisively against any family that had outright defected to the Foreign Realm.
• Meng Chuan proposed that Wang Changsheng prove himself by killing several Foreign Realm Supremes and bringing back their heads before receiving help to become an immortal.
• Meng Tianzheng agreed to give Wang Changsheng the trial and left the Sun God Tree, while Meng Chuan hoped Wang Changsheng would choose correctly.

Wang Changsheng left for Border Wasteland Emperor Pass to hunt Foreign Realm Supremes in exchange for Meng Tianzheng’s protection during his attempt to become an Immortal. Meanwhile, the Immortal Ancient Era’s final opening drew fifty million Venerables, and Dugu Qiubai wandered the gathering as a feared Great Demon King.

• Meng Chuan explained that Wang Changsheng’s thing of longevity could help him become an Immortal, while Meng Tianzheng offered to protect him if he killed enough powerful Foreign Realm Supremes.
• Wang Changsheng went to Border Wasteland Emperor Pass to hunt the required Supremes.
• Fifty million Venerables gathered in an ancient land of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces as the Immortal Ancient Era prepared to open for its three-thousandth and final time.
• The Immortal Dao Flower Bud appeared, and powerful Cultivators announced that only a few million Venerables would enter the Immortal Ancient Era.
• Dugu Qiubai imagined taking the whole Immortal Dao Flower Bud for himself, then set out to seek opportunities as others fled and surrendered their treasures.
• Onlookers described Dugu Qiubai’s undefeated record and feared reputation, saying only Desolate of the Lower Realm might match him.

Dugu Qiubai boasted of being unmatched in Sin Province's ancient land until a trio arrived and the boy calling himself the Great Sun Daoist challenged him. During their fight, the boy recognized Dugu Qiubai as Desolate, who was disguised with the Myriad Transformations technique.

• Dugu Qiubai lamented that no one in the ancient land could challenge him, while the Heavenly Prodigies discussed who might be strong enough to oppose him.
• A dazzling young man arrived with a boy and a girl, and the boy challenged Dugu Qiubai as the Great Sun Daoist.
• The boy and girl privately discussed how arrogant the boy should act, and the young man encouraged him to hunt Dugu Qiubai.
• Dugu Qiubai and the Great Sun Daoist began fighting, and the boy recognized Dugu Qiubai's Myriad Transformations technique and threatened to reveal his identity.
• Dugu Qiubai's disguise fell away in the Great Sun Daoist's eyes, revealing Desolate, the famous man who had ascended from the Eight Domains.

Shi Hao clashed with the Great Sun Youth as the Immortal Dao Flower fully bloomed and the Immortal Ancient Portal neared opening. After the mysterious trio withdrew, Shi Hao recognized the danger they posed and resolved to grow stronger, while the trio revealed they were Meng Chuan’s agents sent to temper him.

• The Immortal Dao Flower released luminous rain that added a hundred years to the lives of fifty million Venerables, while Cult Masters worried over prophecies of a coming age of shortened lifespans.
• The young man leading the Evil Forces Trio called the Great Sun Youth away from his fight with Shi Hao, and the two traded threats before the trio departed.
• Shi Hao sensed that the leader could kill him and every other Heavenly Prodigy, then wondered whether the trio had come from the Nine Heavens.
• Rather than lose heart, Shi Hao resolved to grow stronger after realizing he had not reached his limit.
• The Great Sun Youth admitted that he had acted cocky because Mister Yuan told him to, and the leader said Shi Hao could outgrow the advantage of their previous lives.
• The trio revealed themselves as the Forbidden Zone Lord and his Attendants, Hongri and Hongyue, whom Meng Chuan had left behind to temper Shi Hao.

As the Immortal Dao Flower bloomed for its final opening, the Forbidden Zone Lord proposed taking the entire Immortal Ancient Era, and Meng Chuan agreed to consider the plan. Meng Chuan also discussed the Heavenly God Academy’s recruitment with Meng Tianzheng and hinted that his exceptional disciple might fulfill Meng Tianzheng’s hopes.

• The Immortal Dao Flower bloomed as Ancient Beasts gathered, and the Forbidden Zone Lord decided to take the Immortal Ancient Era after its final opening, a plan he had already shared with Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan agreed that taking the Immortal Ancient Era could work because it would collapse after this opening, and he noted that Shi Hao was nearing the turning point of forging his own Great Dao.
• Meng Tianzheng told Meng Chuan that the Heavenly God Academy had begun recruiting Heavenly Prodigies from the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Meng Chuan declined to recommend anyone from the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, saying his disciple would come on his own and might fulfill Meng Tianzheng’s dream.
• Meng Chuan suggested that Meng Tianzheng lecture the Supremes on the Dao, but Meng Tianzheng worried that doing so would expose him.

Meng Chuan gave Meng Tianzheng a technique to hide his identity and proposed a Merit System to strengthen the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. Meng Tianzheng supported the plan, and Meng Chuan promised to supply rewards, including Immortal King Artifacts.

• Meng Chuan gave Meng Tianzheng a restriction technique that prevented anyone who knew his identity from revealing it.
• Meng Tianzheng said he wanted to use his ascension to help the other Supremes, and he named the elders of the Immortal Academy and Sacred Academy as the likeliest candidates to become Immortals after Wang Changsheng.
• Meng Chuan proposed a Merit System in which cultivators could earn Merit by fighting the Foreign Realm and exchange it for treasures and inheritances.
• Meng Tianzheng praised the plan for strengthening the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands while weakening the ties between its aristocratic families and the Foreign Realm.
• Meng Chuan assured Meng Tianzheng that he could provide ample rewards, even offering an Immortal King Artifact in exchange for enough Merit.

Meng Chuan established a war merit system to draw the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands’ cultivators into the fight against the Foreign Realm. He left the Longevity Aristocratic Families working harder after suggesting the Immortal Domain could offer them another way out, while they mistakenly imagined Yuan had come from there.

• Meng Tianzheng lectured Supremes and peak Dunyi cultivators on Sage Arts, and one cultivator broke through on the spot as Wang Changsheng hunted Foreign Realm Supremes.
• Meng Chuan announced the war merit system, rebuffed a Supreme who demanded he help everyone directly, and put the system into effect with Meng Tianzheng’s support.
• More Supremes and great cultivators arrived at the Border Wasteland Emperor Pass and began fighting the Foreign Realm, including ancient figures from the Immortal Academy and Sacred Academy.
• Meng Chuan told Supremes with ties to the Foreign Realm that they could seek a future in the Immortal Domain instead, leading them to speculate that Yuan had come from there.
• The Longevity Aristocratic Families worked harder in hopes of earning standing and resources in the Immortal Domain, though they still expected the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands to lose.

As the Heavenly God Academy prepared to open, Meng Chuan followed the battles and discoveries in the Immortal Ancient Era realm. The Forbidden Zone Lord reported that he had gathered treasures and followers, then urged Meng Chuan to come before the realm split open.

• Forces across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands gathered Heavenly Prodigies for the coming opening of the Heavenly God Academy.
• The Forbidden Zone Lord, Hongri, and Hongyue dominated the Immortal Ancient Era realm, while Shi Hao rose to stand below them and killed Ning Chuan.
• Shi Hao recalled that the Forbidden Zone Lord had nearly beaten him to death during their spar, and Meng Chuan enjoyed hearing the story.
• The Forbidden Zone Lord told Meng Chuan that White Tortoise Carrying an Immortal, a Heavenly God Tree, Immortal Dao Ancient Scriptures, Immortal Gold, and several groups of natives had come into his possession or allegiance.
• The Forbidden Zone Lord warned Meng Chuan that the Immortal Ancient Era realm was about to split open and urged him to come quickly.

Meng Chuan sent Meng Tianzheng to retrieve the Immortal Ancient Era realm and search for the four Heavenly God Trees, which could be reunited as the Heavenly Immortal Tree. After Meng Tianzheng departed, Meng Chuan considered whether a Heavenly Immortal Pill could avoid the severe limits of the fruit it produced.

• Meng Chuan asked Meng Tianzheng to bring back the Immortal Ancient Era realm and let him keep its immortal scriptures and resources.
• Meng Chuan explained that the Heavenly Immortal Tree's fruit could turn someone into a True Immortal but left them unable to advance further.
• Meng Chuan asked Meng Tianzheng to find the other Heavenly God Trees, and Meng Tianzheng agreed to search for them after retrieving the realm.
• Meng Chuan told Meng Tianzheng to let his heir follow his own path and said the heir could reach the Heavenly God Realm before the realm collapsed.
• Meng Tianzheng departed for the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, while Meng Chuan wondered whether a Heavenly Immortal Pill could avoid the fruit's drawbacks.

Meng Chuan considered how to refine the Heavenly Immortal Fruit into an elixir without sacrificing future cultivation, while continuing his steady rise to the Severing the Self to Illuminate the Dao realm. As the Immortal Ancient Era neared its collapse, Meng Tianzheng seized the entire era and its flower bud, leaving the waiting Cult Masters stunned.

• Meng Chuan planned to use his Pill Dao knowledge to remove the Heavenly Immortal Fruit’s cultivation drawback for the people of Stone Village.
• Meng Chuan revealed that he had advanced from the Void Dao Realm to the Severing the Self to Illuminate the Dao realm, surpassing the limits of his cultivation system.
• Meng Tianzheng observed Shi Hao’s progress toward Body as a Seed and noticed that the Forbidden Zone Lord and his companions had unusual foundations and Immortal Dao techniques.
• The Cult Masters outside the Immortal Ancient Era poured in their Magical Power to hasten its collapse, hoping to enter and seize its treasures and kill Shi Hao.
• Meng Tianzheng stretched out a colossal hand and seized the Immortal Dao Flower Bud together with the entire Immortal Ancient Era.

After Meng Tianzheng took the Immortal Ancient Era from the Cult Masters, Meng Chuan sent him to seek a Heavenly God Tree while preparing healing resources of his own. Meanwhile, Shi Hao carried out his Reckoning in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and looked forward to joining Meng Chuan at the Border Wasteland Emperor Pass.

• Meng Tianzheng took the Immortal Ancient Era away from the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, silencing the Cult Masters who had planned to plunder it and kill its prodigies.
• Meng Chuan refused the Immortal Ancient Era, told Meng Tianzheng where to search for a Heavenly God Tree in the Burial Ground, and let him use the remaining treasures to strengthen the Nine Heavens.
• Meng Chuan took a few treasures for Kunpeng's Son, gathered powerful healing methods and medicines, and went into seclusion.
• Meng Tianzheng reached the Burial Ground and searched for the Heavenly God Tree, while Meng Chuan expected him to face little danger there.
• Shi Hao hunted the factions that had pursued him and oppressed the descendants of the Seven Kings, planning to leave for the Border Wasteland Emperor Pass after his Reckoning.

Meng Chuan brought Meng Tianzheng and the Heavenly Desolate Halberd to the Border Wasteland to enter the Primordial Imperial City, which had once been defended by the Seven Kings of the Borderlands. They crossed into its desolate, blood-soaked surroundings and approached its ancient walls, where Meng Chuan expected to find answers.

• Meng Chuan arrived at the Border Wasteland Emperor Pass with Meng Tianzheng and the Heavenly Desolate Halberd and said he intended to visit the real Emperor City.
• Meng Chuan showed Meng Tianzheng how to perceive the Primordial Imperial City above the Emperor Pass, and Meng Tianzheng recognized it as the place the Seven Kings of the Borderlands had defended.
• Meng Chuan led the group into the Primordial Imperial City instead of stopping at the Emperor Pass.
• Meng Chuan and his companions emerged in a barren land of shattered bones and blood, where they saw the silent city in the distance.
• The Heavenly Desolate Halberd said someone must still guard the city and control the Heavenly Abyss, and Meng Chuan walked toward its scarred walls.

Meng Tianzheng, Meng Chuan, and the Heavenly Desolate Halberd reached the Primordial Imperial City and learned how its King-Conferring ceremonies gave rise to the Seven Kings of the Borderlands. At the city walls, they discovered that ragged children and elders—the descendants of the Seven Tribes—still guarded the city.

• The Heavenly Desolate Halberd told Meng Tianzheng that all seven Borderland Kings had been Immortal Kings during the Immortal Ancient Era.
• The Heavenly Desolate Halberd explained that the Primordial Imperial City predated the Immortal Ancient Era and had hosted two King-Conferring Ceremonies.
• The Heavenly Desolate Halberd recounted how the original King-Conferring Tribes dwindled until seven remained, whose descendants became the Seven Kings of the Borderlands.
• Meng Chuan said the Foreign Realm invasion had destroyed the Seven Tribes' hopes for lasting prosperity, and several tribes had been wiped out.
• Meng Tianzheng saw True Immortals' corpses burning in formations beneath the city walls.
• A wary voice challenged the group from the wall, where Meng Tianzheng saw children and elders guarding the city as descendants of the Seven Tribes.

Meng Chuan, Meng Tianzheng, and the Heavenly Desolate Halberd reached Emperor City, where the descendants of the Seven Tribes had defended the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands for ages. After the city’s people verified them and the King confirmed the Heavenly Desolate Halberd’s identity, they were invited to meet the sole surviving Seven Kings, who was in poor condition.

• Meng Chuan explained that Emperor City and its remaining elderly, women, and children had kept the Foreign Realm’s Undying from entering the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Meng Tianzheng identified himself as a True Immortal from the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and the armless old man recognized the Heavenly Desolate Halberd as Kunpeng’s weapon.
• The armless old man tested the three visitors with a green stone and prepared to use a Bone Mirror, but the King confirmed the Heavenly Desolate Halberd’s identity and ended the checks.
• The armless old man welcomed Meng Chuan, Meng Tianzheng, and the Heavenly Desolate Halberd into Emperor City and said only one of the Seven Kings remained, and that King was in poor condition.
• As the armless old man led them to the King, Meng Tianzheng saw the city’s wounded, weary residents and struggled with his feelings.

Meng Chuan and his companions learned how the descendants of the Seven Kings had been persecuted and reassured the defenders that Shi Hao had protected their kin. They met the Saint King, who agreed to let Emperor City’s children leave, but revealed that he expected to die soon, prompting Meng Chuan to intervene.

• The armless elder told Meng Chuan and the others that Emperor City’s defenders had sent some of their people away, and Meng Chuan explained how the descendants of the Seven Kings had been persecuted as Sin Blood.
• Meng Tianzheng vowed to clear the descendants’ names, but Meng Chuan told the elder that Shi Hao had secured their safety and won powerful allies for them.
• Meng Chuan proposed taking Emperor City’s children away, and the armless elder hesitated because of the ancestral command to guard the city.
• The armless elder showed Meng Chuan and his companions the kings who had sacrificed their bodies to reinforce Emperor City, then brought them to the Saint King.
• The Saint King gave the children permission to leave and greeted the Heavenly Desolate Halberd, but said he would die soon; Meng Chuan told him he could not die while the Foreign Realm remained.

Meng Chuan gave the dying Saint King treasures and medicine to help him recover, and the Saint King accepted his aid. When an Undying being from the Foreign Realm attacked Emperor City, its descendants repelled it, while the Foreign Realm decided to keep probing the city and wait for a chance to strike.

• Meng Chuan explained that the Heavenly Abyss was draining the Saint King and offered him Longevity Immortal Medicine, a Healing Method, and a pill to help him survive.
• Meng Chuan told the Saint King that the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit was alive, and the Saint King accepted the offerings and vowed to keep fighting the Foreign Realm if he survived.
• An Undying being appeared outside Emperor City, and the armless old man explained that such probes had become increasingly frequent.
• The descendants of the Seven Kings used Emperor City's defenses to wound the Undying being, while Meng Tianzheng and the others shielded them from harm.
• The Undying being retreated without killing any of the defenders, and the Foreign Realm decided to continue probing Emperor City and send a War Beast next time.