Chapter Summaries

After the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands won all five duels, Meng Chuan foresaw that the Foreign Realm would soon launch a major war. He prepared Meng Tianzheng for the coming crisis and sent Shi Hao away to rebuild his foundation.

• Meng Chuan learned that Shi Hao and the other four had won all five battles, including Shi Hao's fight against Wufa.
• The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands celebrated the victory, while the Foreign Realm's Undying Ones discussed destroying their rival realm and sought their kings' approval.
• Meng Chuan warned Meng Tianzheng that the greatest crisis of the Chaotic Ancient Era was approaching, and Meng Tianzheng left to make preparations.
• Shi Hao claimed he was badly injured from fighting Wufa, but Meng Chuan recognized his excuse and sent him away with instructions to take the Wooden Horse.

Shi Hao explored the Crimson King's medicinal garden, where the Little Wooden Horse helped him obtain the Resurrection Grass. He left the garden only to be caught by an Undying One guarding its entrance.

• Shi Hao discovered that he had been sent to a sealed medicinal garden filled with Immortal Qi and searched it with the Little Wooden Horse perched on his head.
• Shi Hao found the Resurrection Grass growing inside a volcano and realized it was the medicinal herb Meng Chuan had instructed him to collect.
• Shi Hao asked the Little Wooden Horse for help, and it passed through the formations and swallowed the Resurrection Grass.
• Shi Hao searched the garden, collected other valuables, and headed toward its only exit.
• Shi Hao encountered an Undying One outside the garden, who immobilized him and demanded to know how a Human Dao cultivator had emerged from the Crimson King's medicinal garden.

Shi Hao entered the Crimson King's medicinal Pure Land and watched the Little Wooden Horse kill and suppress its Undying guardian. The horse carried him through the Crimson King's ancestral land toward a modest city that Shi Hao suspected was the Crimson King's retreat, leaving him alarmed by the lax guards.

• An Undying One attacked Shi Hao in the Pure Land, but the Little Wooden Horse kicked him into bloody mist and swallowed him into its inner world.
• The Little Wooden Horse looted the Undying One's Cave Abode, then carried Shi Hao away as he urged it to flee.
• Shi Hao saw the vast cities and formations of the Crimson King's ancestral land and remarked that its guards and patrols seemed lax.
• The Little Wooden Horse ignored Shi Hao's pleas to turn back and crossed the ancestral land, passing numerous Undying Ones.
• The Little Wooden Horse brought Shi Hao to a small earthen city with dense undying aura, where the few guards at the gate were dozing.

Shi Hao and the Little Wooden Horse attacked the Crimson King's weakened Nirvana body, learning that the ancient king had vanished after trying to refine an Immortal King and pursue the Emperor Realm. The Crimson King escaped into the depths of time with a small portion of his blood, while Shi Hao and the Little Wooden Horse fled with the rest.

• Shi Hao learned from an Undying One's memories that the Crimson King had disappeared after attempting to refine an Immortal King's Dao Fruit, and that his clan suspected he was dead.
• Shi Hao and the Little Wooden Horse entered the earthen city and found the Crimson King disguised as a small scarlet Time Beast.
• Shi Hao and the Little Wooden Horse attacked the weakened Crimson King, who used time to restore himself after being torn apart.
• Their repeated attacks disrupted the Crimson King's escape, but a small cloud of his blood fled into the depths of time.
• The Little Wooden Horse carried Shi Hao away with the remaining two-thirds of the Crimson King's body.

Shi Hao escaped the Crimson King's clan lands after grievously wounding the Crimson King, then rode the Little Wooden Horse to the Gu Race's territory to find the Gu Ancestor. The Gu Ancestor revealed that he had become an Immortal King and offered Shi Hao a quick death.

• The Crimson King's two old servants emerged after the Crimson King was gravely wounded, while Shi Hao fled with the Little Wooden Horse concealing his trail.
• Shi Hao boasted about wounding the Crimson King and gathering the Resurrection Grass, then wondered whether the Little Wooden Horse was a Quasi-Immortal King.
• The Little Wooden Horse carried Shi Hao to the Gu Race's territory, where Shi Hao worried that the Gu Ancestor had betrayed the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• The Gu Ancestor appeared before Shi Hao and explained that he had found him because Shi Hao had stood outside the territory repeating his name.
• The Gu Ancestor confirmed that he had become an Immortal King and told Shi Hao he could give him a quick death.

Gu Ancestor used the Foreign Realm’s Great Dao to temper Shi Hao, helping him overcome his flaws and reach a stronger, flawless state. After Shi Hao thanked him, they discussed the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and why Shi Hao had entered the Foreign Realm.

• Gu Ancestor subjected Shi Hao to the Foreign Realm’s Great Dao, repeatedly destroying and restoring his body as the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Technique resisted.
• The Order Divine Light began reconnecting Shi Hao’s broken Dao Laws, and he broke free of Gu Ancestor’s restraints with a surge of power.
• Shi Hao realized Gu Ancestor had helped him reshape his True Body, bowed in thanks, and heard Gu Ancestor praise his talent.
• Shi Hao told Gu Ancestor that Willow God, Lord True Dragon, Lord Heavenly Horned Ant, and Saint King Ancestor were still around, prompting Gu Ancestor to wonder what had happened in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Gu Ancestor recognized Shi Hao as Desolate and asked why he had risked entering the Foreign Realm; Shi Hao said an elder had assigned him the task and planned to demand compensation from Meng Chuan for the ordeal.

Shi Hao told Gu Ancestor about Meng, Willow God, and the hidden history of the Immortal Ancient Era, then revealed that he had wounded the Crimson King during his trip to the Foreign Realm. After completing Meng’s three tasks, Shi Hao decided to return to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands before the Crimson King’s forces reached the Gu Race.

• Shi Hao explained that Uncle Meng, whose Daoist title was Yuan, had helped the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and was preparing for Lord Heavenly Horned Ant’s resurrection.
• Shi Hao told Gu Ancestor that Willow God had survived and that Gu Ancestor’s apparent defection and clash with her had been part of a deception.
• Gu Ancestor reported that the Crimson King’s Lineage was searching the Foreign Realm for whoever had taken its Quasi-Undying King Weapons.
• Shi Hao admitted that he had cut away two-thirds of the Crimson King’s Nirvana Body, prompting the Crimson King’s Lineage to mobilize against him.
• Gu Ancestor urged Shi Hao to leave the Foreign Realm, and Shi Hao agreed after confirming that he had completed Meng’s three tasks.
• Shi Hao submitted the three completed tasks through his Cultivation Assistant System.

Meng Chuan arrived in the Foreign Realm through Shi Hao’s system panel and met Gu Ancestor, whose true strength and history were revealed. Gu Ancestor doubted the Gu Race could ever escape its reputation as traitors, but Meng Chuan proposed another identity for him and suggested the Gu Race could live in the Immortal Domain.

• Meng Chuan emerged from Shi Hao’s system panel after Shi Hao completed the mission to find Gu Ancestor.
• Gu Ancestor revealed his true form and intact Origin, and Meng Chuan praised his mastery of Space-Time.
• Meng Chuan told Gu Ancestor that the chance to clear his name might soon arrive, but Gu Ancestor said neither his nor the Gu Race’s stain could be washed away.
• Gu Ancestor explained that the Gu Race had attacked former comrades during its staged defection, leaving lasting resentment that could make a return to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands dangerous.
• Meng Chuan suggested Gu Ancestor adopt another identity and proposed that the Gu Race live in the Immortal Domain, despite Gu Ancestor’s doubts that its kings would accept them.

Shi Hao returned from the Foreign Realm with the Gu Ancestor’s help and a system map, while the Crimson King emerged from seclusion mutilated and revealed that a Human Dao cultivator had wounded him. An Lan and Yu Tuo heard the Crimson King’s account, but the mystery of his attacker remained unresolved.

• Meng Chuan persuaded the Gu Ancestor to abandon thoughts of sacrificing his life, secured his support, and arranged for Shi Hao to learn the Gu Race's Treasure Technique.
• Shi Hao left the Gu Race’s territory, followed the system map through the Foreign Realm, collected treasures, and was transported back to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands by the map’s power.
• The Red King's Furnace awakened in the Time Beast Race’s ancestral land, and the Crimson King’s secluded city and its mountain were destroyed.
• The Crimson King emerged with much of his body missing, and his fury brought An Lan and Yu Tuo out of seclusion.
• The Crimson King told An Lan and Yu Tuo that a Human Dao cultivator wielding a strange Quasi-Undying King artifact had cut away two-thirds of his body.

The Crimson King recognized Shi Hao as the human who had destroyed his Divine Embryo and left him crippled, then joined An Lan and Yu Tuo in ordering a full-scale invasion of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. Hundreds of millions of Foreign Realm soldiers marched toward the Border Wasteland as the three Undying Kings prepared to confront the Burial Ground and break the Heavenly Abyss.

• The Crimson King recognized Shi Hao from their encounter in the distant past and blamed him for destroying his Divine Embryo and ending his path to greater power.
• An Lan, Yu Tuo, and the Crimson King failed to locate Shi Hao, but learned that the threads of Karma tied to him led beyond the Foreign Realm.
• The Crimson King demanded war against the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and An Lan and Yu Tuo agreed to launch an invasion.
• The three Undying Kings discussed the strange object Shi Hao had used and considered the positions of the Immortal Domain and the Burial Ground.
• The Crimson King ordered An Lan and Yu Tuo to send the army toward the Border Wasteland while he recovered, and the three planned to later break the Heavenly Abyss.

As the Foreign Realm gathered its forces at the Border Wasteland Emperor Pass, factions and experts across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands mobilized to reinforce it. Meng Chuan revealed that Shi Hao had provoked the invasion by killing the Crimson King, while Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng prepared to fight as True Immortals.

• The Foreign Realm assembled a vast army outside Emperor Pass, prompting Qin Changsheng and the Five-Element Mountain to prepare Immortal Mountain’s support.
• The Primordial Double-Pupiled Woman and experts from across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands set out for the Border Wasteland, while Life Forbidden Zones watched warily.
• At Emperor Pass, Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng revealed their True Immortal strength and planned to use it against the Foreign Realm army.
• Meng Chuan explained that the Foreign Realm coveted something in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, as it had during the Immortal Ancient War.
• Meng Chuan revealed that Shi Hao had gone to the Foreign Realm while missing and killed the Crimson King, driving the Foreign Realm to raise its army.

Meng Chuan used the group chat to ask Meng Qi to have the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable review a Heavenly Immortal Pill Formula before the battle at Emperor Pass. Meng Qi realized he was being sent on an errand, leaving the formula’s review and the impending conflict unresolved.

• Meng Chuan posted a video of the Foreign Realm army facing Emperor Pass and told the group he was about to fight.
• Meng Qi recognized that the video showed the Foreign Realm invading the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and the group stopped worrying about the danger.
• Meng Chuan shared a Heavenly Immortal Pill Formula and asked Meng Qi to find flaws in it.
• Meng Qi examined the formula, realized Meng Chuan wanted him to consult the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable, and complained that he was being sent on an errand.
• Meng Chuan said the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable might improve the formula enough to remove the Heavenly Immortal Fruit’s side effects, but he would refine it as it stood if the Venerable declined.

Meng Chuan asked the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable to help Meng Qi, and the Heavenly Venerable sent Meng Qi a Heavenly Immortal Fruit. Meng Qi received it on Yuxu Mountain and resented how much more readily the Three Pure Ones responded to Meng Chuan.

• Meng Chuan decided to ask the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable to help Meng Qi, while accepting that the Heavenly Venerable could refuse.
• Meng Qi wrote out the Heavenly Immortal Pill Formula and considered how to ask the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable to improve it.
• The Virtuous Heavenly Venerable created a Heavenly Immortal Fruit and instructed Golden Horn and Silver Horn to take it to Su Meng.
• Golden Horn and Silver Horn delivered the fruit to Meng Qi on Yuxu Mountain.
• Meng Qi felt sour that the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable had acted for Meng Chuan rather than for him.

Shi Hao told Meng Tianzheng and the others how he had rebuilt his foundation using the Foreign Realm’s Great Dao and cut down the Crimson King’s Nirvana Body. When the Foreign Realm demanded that the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands hand him over, Meng Tianzheng refused and chose war.

• Shi Hao recounted his deeds to Meng Tianzheng, who praised his service to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Shi Hao warned that some might blame him for provoking the Foreign Realm, but Meng Tianzheng vowed to punish anyone spreading such claims.
• An Imperial Clan Supreme demanded that Meng Tianzheng hand over Desolate or face the destruction of their realm.
• Meng Tianzheng learned that handing over Desolate would not stop the invasion and refused the demand.
• Meng Tianzheng returned to Emperor Pass, and the other Supremes accepted his decision to fight.

Meng Tianzheng, Wang Changsheng, and the Heavenly Desolate Halberd left Emperor Pass to confront the Foreign Realm’s invading army as three True Immortals. The chapter ended with their Immortal Dao power striking the army, whose soldiers began silently melting.

• Meng Tianzheng, Wang Changsheng, and the Heavenly Desolate Halberd volunteered to strike the Foreign Realm’s army before it reached Emperor Pass.
• Meng Tianzheng and the other two left the city, alarming both the defenders and the Foreign Realm’s Supremes.
• Meng Tianzheng summoned the Immortal King Shroud and his Iron Bow, vowing to bear the karma and sin of the attack alone.
• Wang Changsheng brought forth the Wang Family’s Quasi-Immortal Artifact, while the Heavenly Desolate Halberd revealed his true form, and all three unleashed their True Immortal power.
• The three True Immortals’ attacks fell upon the Foreign Realm’s army, and its soldiers began melting without resistance.

Meng Tianzheng, Wang Changsheng, and the Heavenly Desolate Halberd destroyed the Foreign Realm army with Immortal Dao power, then returned to Emperor Pass as the Foreign Realm’s Undying Ones threatened revenge. Meng Chuan asked the Heavenly Desolate Halberd to recount the devastation of the Immortal Ancient invasion, leaving the defenders resolved to protect those behind them regardless of the cost.

• Meng Tianzheng, Wang Changsheng, and the Heavenly Desolate Halberd wiped out swaths of the Foreign Realm army while Shi Hao explained that their attack spared the defenders of Emperor Pass from dying in battle.
• The Foreign Realm’s Undying Ones appeared, raged at the slaughter, and threatened to destroy the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, but Meng Tianzheng and the other two ignored them and returned to Emperor Pass.
• Meng Chuan thanked the three and asked the Heavenly Desolate Halberd to tell everyone what happened during the Foreign Realm’s invasion at the end of the Immortal Ancient Era.
• The Heavenly Desolate Halberd explained that the Uninhabited Zone had once been inhabited and that King Pumo’s demonic fluff had killed every living being across millions of miles.
• Meng Chuan declared that they protected the people and places they had to protect, even if doing so made them butchers and cost them their lives.

After the Foreign Realm suffered devastating losses in its first assault, its Undying Ones challenged the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands' immortals outside the Primordial Imperial City. Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng answered the challenge, and an Immortal Battle began.

• The Foreign Realm's Undying Ones halted further Human Dao attacks after Meng Tianzheng and the others slaughtered their troops at the Heavenly Abyss.
• The Foreign Realm's Undying Ones went to the Primordial Imperial City, where Saint King warned Meng Chuan that they had arrived.
• Meng Chuan confirmed the enemy had no Undying King in ambush and told Meng Tianzheng and the others they could choose whether to fight.
• Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng left the city to face the Foreign Realm's Undying Ones, while Meng Chuan stopped the Heavenly Desolate Halberd from joining them.
• Two Undying Ones attacked Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng, and their clashes shook heaven and earth.

Shi Hao watched Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng battle Foreign Realm Undying Ones while Meng Chuan challenged him to kill an Undying One before becoming immortal. The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands’ newly ascended True Immortals gained the advantage, but the remaining enemies attacked together, and the battle ended without a kill.

• Shi Hao declared he wanted to fight an Undying One as a True Immortal, and Meng Chuan told him he would have to kill one before becoming immortal or face a beating.
• Meng Chuan said only an Undying King would be worth his intervention, leaving Shi Hao impressed and jealous.
• Shi Hao watched Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng gain the upper hand against veteran Undying Ones, and Meng Chuan confidently predicted their side would win.
• The remaining Foreign Realm Undying Ones attacked Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng together, but the pair resisted with Immortal Artifacts and the Heavenly Desolate Halberd.
• Meng Tianzheng rejected the Foreign Realm's threats and left the battlefield, though he and Wang Changsheng had lost their chance to kill an Undying One.

With the Foreign Realm preparing to summon its Undying Kings, Meng Tianzheng, Shi Hao, and the Saint King discussed the threat and whether anyone could save the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. The Saint King proposed sending Shi Hao and others to the Immortal Domain if Emperor City fell, but Meng Chuan insisted he could stop the invasion.

• The Undying Ones withdrew from Emperor City and planned to report their defeat to An Lan, Yu Tuo, and the other Undying Kings.
• The Saint King warned that the Undying Kings would soon descend, while Meng Tianzheng and Meng Chuan noted that the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands had little time to prepare.
• Shi Hao asked about the Undying Kings' strength and whether the Immortal Domain would help, and the Saint King explained that its aid could not be counted on.
• The Saint King urged Shi Hao to escape to the Immortal Domain if Emperor City fell, but Shi Hao refused to abandon the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Meng Chuan cut off their argument and vowed to kill however many Undying Kings came.

The Foreign Realm responded to its defeat by sending more forces to the Border Wasteland, while Meng Chuan and the others thwarted its attempts to challenge the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands’ Supremes. As both sides braced for a final battle, a bronze bell rang and an ancient war chariot appeared at the horizon.

• Foreign Realm Undying Ones learned that Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng had defeated their forces, and they summoned An Lan, Yu Tuo, and Crimson King while planning new attacks.
• A Foreign Realm Ultimate Peak Undying One ordered Imperial Clan Supremes to challenge the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, but Meng Chuan and the elders rescued their fighters whenever they were in danger.
• Meng Chuan observed that Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng’s victory inspired more people to come defend the Emperor Pass, while Shi Hao trained to reach Dunyi.
• Foreign Realm forces gathered hundreds of millions of soldiers outside the Emperor Pass as their Undying Ones continued attacking the Primordial Imperial City and the Heavenly Abyss.
• The Great Dao Voice Bell rang, and every living being at the Emperor Pass saw an ancient war chariot rolling toward them from the horizon.