Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan crossed the Dam and entered the Dark World, where he found a Dark Heavenly Court ruled by a self-proclaimed Emperor. After the ruler attacked him, Meng Chuan destroyed the court and revealed the skeletal man seated on its Emperor’s Throne.

• Meng Chuan refused the Immortal Kings’ advice and offers to follow him, then walked through the Dark Storm and crossed the Dam unharmed.
• Meng Chuan endured the Dark World’s corrupting power, suppressed its Heaven and Earth’s Will, and passed a Sea of Bones made from beings sacrificed by the darkness.
• Meng Chuan reached the Dark Heavenly Court and traded grandiose declarations with the voice inside, claiming that the ruler’s true mandate was lost for failing to bow before an Emperor.
• The ruler attacked Meng Chuan with a hand bearing the power of universes, the River of the Ages, and Reincarnation.
• Meng Chuan countered with chaos and Sword Qi, destroying the Dark Heavenly Court and its array, then saw the skeletal ruler seated on an Emperor’s Throne.

Meng Chuan fought the fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperor Azure Emperor in the ruins of the Dark Heavenly Court. He proved stronger, but the Azure Emperor’s sacrificial technique led to Meng Chuan marking him from within as the battle continued.

• Meng Chuan confronted the Azure Emperor and condemned him for sacrificing the loyal soldiers who had served him.
• The Azure Emperor attacked, and he and Meng Chuan clashed with power that shook the Great Dao and the River of the Ages.
• The Azure Emperor summoned his Quasi-Immortal Emperor Weapon, but Meng Chuan blasted it aside and wounded him.
• The Azure Emperor trapped Meng Chuan in an altar and tried to sacrifice him, but Meng Chuan sent his Great Dao Laws into the Azure Emperor’s body.
• The Azure Emperor’s body exploded and re-formed, with Meng Chuan’s Great Dao Symbols flashing inside him.

Meng Chuan defeated Azure Emperor and discovered the remains of Footprint Emperor in the world beyond the Dark Land. As the Dark Three Emperors gathered, he prepared to face the others who had been hiding.

• Meng Chuan overwhelmed Azure Emperor in battle, drove him from the Dark World, and forced him to admit defeat.
• Meng Chuan found the remains of several Immortal Kings and the dead Quasi-Immortal Emperor Footprint Emperor, then restored the Emperor Fire to his remains.
• Meng Chuan told Azure Emperor to call out the others, reasoning that Azure Emperor alone could not have killed Footprint Emperor.
• A figure arrived along the Purple-Gold Great Path and called for Feather Emperor to emerge, while an ancient War Chariot approached.

Meng Chuan confronted Hong Emperor and Feather Emperor after they joined Azure Emperor, and rejected their claim that darkness and their rule represented Heaven’s Will. He declared that the three Emperors would not be enough to challenge him.

• Hong Emperor arrived on a Purple-Gold Great Path, while Feather Emperor appeared in a war chariot wielding the Emperor-Slaying War Spear.
• Hong Emperor and Feather Emperor urged Meng Chuan to abandon the mortal world and submit, but Meng Chuan accused them of serving darkness and straying from the true Dao.
• Hong Emperor claimed the three Emperors controlled the Boundary Sea, and Feather Emperor demanded that Meng Chuan bind himself and accept suppression.
• Cang Emperor joined the other two, confident that their combined strength would defeat Meng Chuan as it had defeated Footprint Emperor.
• Meng Chuan asked whether anyone else would come, then said the three Emperors were not enough of a fight.

Meng Chuan fought the Dark Three Emperors alone in the Land of the Ultimate while the kings beyond the Dam watched helplessly. He withstood their assault but suffered serious wounds, and the three emperors' Great Dao laws continued to ravage his body.

• The Dark Three Emperors attacked Meng Chuan with the Emperor-Slaying War Spear, the Purple-Gold Great Path, and the Azure Emperor's Dao Seal, while Meng Chuan answered with his Divine Kingdom and Dao Origin Seal.
• The battle's light reached the kings beyond the Dam, who realized Emperor Yuan was fighting three Dark Emperors alone and feared he would be killed.
• Meng Chuan exchanged blows with the Hong Emperor as the three emperors' laws damaged both sides, and he continued attacking despite the pressure.
• The Feather Emperor unleashed a storm of imperial feathers while the Hong Emperor and Azure Emperor joined in, and Meng Chuan met their combined assault head-on.
• The imperial feathers pierced Meng Chuan, the Hong Emperor cursed him, and the Azure Emperor's Dao Seal twisted his arm, while Meng Chuan wounded the Feather Emperor and blasted away the Emperor-Slaying War Spear.

Meng Chuan fought the Dark Three Emperors across the River of the Ages and the Boundary Sea, matching their strength while using the battle to temper his Primordial Beginning Body. He realized their pressure was insufficient to trigger its Transformation and reached toward a sleeping Quasi-Immortal Emperor to draw it into the fight.

• Meng Chuan charged the Dark Three Emperors and fought them in a brutal battle that carried them through the River of the Ages and into the Boundary Sea.
• Meng Chuan exchanged devastating attacks with Azure Emperor, Hong Emperor, and Feather Emperor, while Butcher and the other Immortal Kings watched from afar.
• The Dark Three Emperors recognized that Meng Chuan was using the battle to temper his body, Primordial Spirit, Magical Power, and Great Dao.
• Meng Chuan explained that he wanted his Primordial Beginning Body to undergo a Transformation, but the Dark Three Emperors could not provide enough pressure.
• Meng Chuan reached across the Void toward a Silent Universe to summon a sleeping Quasi-Immortal Emperor who had already entered the Second Stage.

World-Destroying Elder emerged from his slumber and tried to persuade Meng Chuan to embrace darkness, claiming it was the only path to the Dao. When Meng Chuan refused, World-Destroying Elder attacked him, leaving the watching Immortal Kings fearing for Emperor Yuan and all the worlds.

• World-Destroying Elder restored his missing arm and leg, emerged from his sealed universe, and joined the battle between Meng Chuan and the Dark Three Emperors.
• Cang Emperor and Hong Emperor greeted World-Destroying Elder as their senior, while Feather Emperor acknowledged him with a nod.
• World-Destroying Elder urged Meng Chuan to abandon his path and embrace darkness, but Meng Chuan condemned his words and refused to join him.
• World-Destroying Elder warned that Meng Chuan's Transformation would not lead to Immortal Emperor status and claimed darkness was the only way forward.
• World-Destroying Elder attacked Meng Chuan with a powerful palm strike, and Tu Fu and the other Immortal Kings feared for Emperor Yuan and all the worlds.

Meng Chuan fought World-Destroying Elder and the Dark Three Emperors in a brutal battle, using their combined pressure to pursue his transformation into the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Second Stage. The final clash carried both sides into the Land of the Ultimate, where newborn Nirvana light appeared.

• Meng Chuan challenged World-Destroying Elder and the Dark Three Emperors to fight him so he could transform through battle.
• World-Destroying Elder joined the Dark Three Emperors, and the five Quasi-Immortal Emperors' battle shook the Boundary Sea and alarmed Shi Hao and the others.
• World-Destroying Elder revealed his Nine Nether Ao true form as the four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors prepared their strongest attacks against Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan declared that only he alone was invincible and charged into the four emperors' killing blows.
• The final clash sent both sides across the Dam into the Land of the Ultimate, where newborn Nirvana light shone through the haze.

Meng Chuan completed his Transformation and formed an Immortal Fetus during the battle, then suppressed the World-Destroying Elder, Hong Emperor, the Feather Emperor, and the Azure Emperor. Afterward, he sat beside the dying Footprint Emperor and reflected on their encounter.

• Meng Chuan emerged from the battle mist transformed, with an Immortal Fetus that let him suppress the Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors despite his wounds.
• Meng Chuan severed three of the World-Destroying Elder’s tails, trapped him in the Supreme Divine Kingdom, and suppressed him.
• Meng Chuan created two Incarnations to stop the fleeing Dark Three Emperors, then suppressed Hong Emperor, the Feather Emperor, and the Azure Emperor in turn.
• Meng Chuan healed his wounds and confirmed that all four Quasi-Immortal Emperors had been suppressed.
• Meng Chuan sat beside the dying Footprint Emperor, said he had avenged him, and promised to share tea if they met again.

Meng Chuan left the Footprint Emperor’s corpse behind and decided to refine the Azure Emperor, Hong Emperor, and Feather Emperor into his Three Corpses. He sealed the World-Destroying Elder before heading toward the deepest part of the Land of the Ultimate, while the elder believed Meng Chuan would eventually fall into darkness.

• Meng Chuan promised the dead Footprint Emperor that he would try to bring him back to life someday.
• Meng Chuan chose the Azure Emperor, Hong Emperor, and Feather Emperor as his Three Corpses, while acknowledging the technique might not work because they were close to his own realm.
• Meng Chuan separated the World-Destroying Elder from the Dark Three Emperors and said he would leave the elder for someone else to kill.
• The World-Destroying Elder revealed that Dark Immortal Emperor power and its runes lay deeper in the Land of the Ultimate and had advanced the Dark Three Emperors’ cultivation.
• Meng Chuan declared that he would investigate the Dark Power but would never fall, then sealed the World-Destroying Elder.
• The World-Destroying Elder laughed and became convinced Meng Chuan would eventually return as a fellow practitioner of darkness.

Meng Chuan suppressed the World-Destroying Elder and began refining the Azure Emperor, Hong Emperor, and Feather Emperor into his Three Corpses. Knowing he had little time before his True Body awakened, he spent several months planting measures in them before turning his attention toward the true Dark Source.

• Meng Chuan dismissed the World-Destroying Elder and left him for Shi Hao to kill in the future.
• Meng Chuan rejected the Azure Emperor's warning about karma and began refining the three emperors with the Three Corpses Severing Method.
• The Azure Emperor, Hong Emperor, and Feather Emperor resisted the refinement, and Meng Chuan realized the process would take too long without an overwhelming advantage in realm.
• Meng Chuan devised a way to prepare the refinement so that his True Body could complete it almost instantly when it awakened.
• Meng Chuan spent several months imprinting his will and Dao Laws into the three emperors, then said he had more important things to do and that they were not the true Dark Source.

Meng Chuan sealed the World-Destroying Elder and the Dark Three Emperors in the Land of the Ultimate, then sent Footprint Emperor’s Dao Fire toward Shi Hao carrying an ancient cultivation art and the remains of fallen Immortal Kings. The Immortal Kings who saw the fire mistook it for proof that Meng Chuan had fallen and hurried back to the Immortal Domain.

• Meng Chuan reflected that Shi Hao would eventually face the four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors and trusted him to become a new Quasi-Immortal Emperor within a million years.
• Meng Chuan inscribed an ancient cultivation art onto Footprint Emperor’s Dao Fire so it could reach Shi Hao and aid him in cultivating the Three Corpses Severing Method.
• Meng Chuan placed Footprint Emperor’s Dao body and the other fallen Immortal Kings’ remains in a small world within the fire, intending for them to be laid to rest in a normal world.
• Meng Chuan sent the Emperor Fire across the Dam toward the Immortal Domain, where it took the Reception Ancient Road after releasing a faint imperial pressure.
• Butcher and the other Immortal Kings saw the fire, feared that Meng Chuan had fallen, and followed the Reception Ancient Road back toward the Immortal Domain.

Meng Chuan entered the depths of the Ultimate Ancient Land to witness Emperor Bone Bro and study the Immortal Emperor Scripture hidden in the Dark Matter. He began refining the scripture while avoiding awakening the being within the dark radiance.

• Meng Chuan left the others behind and traveled into the Ultimate Ancient Land, recalling how Emperor Bone Bro’s fall had brought darkness to the Boundary Sea.
• Meng Chuan found the empty Reception Ancient Hall, the Lower Part of the Original True Explanation, and a broken stele offering a supposed chance to become an emperor.
• Meng Chuan entered the deepest region and gathered Immortal Emperor-level Dao symbols from the dense Dark Matter.
• Meng Chuan saw the dark radiance concealing Emperor Bone Bro but looked away to avoid awakening him.
• Meng Chuan began refining the Dark Matter to comprehend the Immortal Emperor Scripture.

Meng Chuan refined Dark Matter to gain the Immortal Emperor Scripture while trying to protect his vital essence, as Shi Hao and the Immortal Domain feared he had died. Butcher returned with news that Meng Chuan had faced four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors, leaving everyone shaken and uncertain about his fate.

• Meng Chuan refined large amounts of Dark Matter, gained insight into the Immortal Emperor Scripture, and sought a way to keep the Dark Origin from taking his vital essence.
• The Footprint Emperor's Dao Fire returned to the Immortal Domain carrying Dharma Bodies, and Shi Hao feared that Meng Chuan had fallen.
• Shi Hao recognized that the remains belonged to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor who had died during the Emperor's Fall Era, not Meng Chuan.
• Butcher and his companions returned to the Immortal Domain and reunited with Qingjing in the Yuan Universe.
• Butcher told Shi Hao that he had seen Meng Chuan at the far end of the Boundary Sea and described how four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors had surrounded him.

Shi Hao learned that the Dark Matter storm barred anyone below the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm from crossing the Boundary Sea, while Meng Chuan’s thousand-year cultivation in the Ultimate Ancient Land ended as his true body pulled him back to the Dao Calendar. After Meng Chuan vanished, Emperor Bone Bro briefly awakened, then returned to slumber beneath the restraints of his own power.

• Butcher told Shi Hao that the Emperor Fire had carried the returning Immortal Kings through the Reception Ancient Road, but the Dark Matter storm prevented them from crossing the Boundary Sea.
• Shi Hao left to cultivate and study the Great Dao Runes on the Emperor Fire, while Butcher and the other Immortal Kings sought information about Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan woke after a thousand years of refining Dark Matter and studying Immortal Emperor Scripture, but felt the pull of his true body and knew he could stay no longer.
• Meng Chuan used the Chat Group’s karmic thread to return his Origin True Spirit Imprint to his true body, causing the Primordial Beginning Body to disappear from the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• Emperor Bone Bro awakened and wondered whether Meng Chuan would remain forever in the River of Time, then closed his eyes again, still bound by restraints he had left for himself.

Meng Chuan’s Primordial Beginning Body wandered through time, while the Immortal Domain endured the Dark Turmoil and Shi Hao spent seven hundred thousand years pursuing a breakthrough. After becoming a Quasi-Immortal Emperor and preparing for the dangers ahead, Shi Hao set out for the Ultimate Ancient Land to discover what had happened to Uncle Meng.

• Meng Chuan’s Primordial Beginning Body appeared in the River of Time, found he could neither affect the past nor reach the present, and remained a lonely ghost of time.
• As the Dark Turmoil spread, Shi Hao repeatedly failed to break through, then identified his Sixth Secret Realm as the key and tried to merge its Primordial Spirit figure with himself.
• Shi Hao lured the Undying Kings and Dark Kings into a desperate battle, where he finally merged with the figure and became a Quasi-Immortal Emperor at 1.6 million years old.
• Shi Hao defeated the Foreign Realm’s kings, ended its threat to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and cleared the Dark Kings near the Boundary Sea.
• After recovering, refining a Quasi-Immortal Emperor Weapon, and completing his preparations, Shi Hao crossed the Dam toward the Ultimate Ancient Land to find Meng Chuan.

Shi Hao entered the Dark World to learn what had happened to Meng Chuan and found evidence that Meng Chuan had sealed the four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors. After discovering that Meng Chuan had gone into the deepest part of the Ultimate Ancient Land, Shi Hao headed toward it, relieved that his uncle might still be alive but wary of the Ultimate Darkness.

• Shi Hao left the Immortal Domain alone, while his friends and family promised to protect it and wait for his return.
• Shi Hao followed the Reception Ancient Road across the Boundary Sea and reached the far shore, where he used the laws of time to witness Meng Chuan fighting four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• Shi Hao found the World-Destroying Elder sealed away and heard him falsely claim that Emperor Yuan had caused the catastrophe and imprisoned him.
• Shi Hao questioned the World-Destroying Elder and learned that Emperor Yuan had entered the deepest part of the Ultimate Ancient Land seven hundred thousand years earlier.
• Shi Hao found the Azure Emperor and the other Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors sealed, and he concluded that Meng Chuan might still be alive in the depths.

Shi Hao arrived in the Ultimate Ancient Land and learned that Meng Chuan had defeated the Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors before venturing deeper. Following Meng Chuan’s warning to turn back, Shi Hao decided the imprisoned enemies might be the pressure and resources he needed to advance.

• Shi Hao found Azure Emperor, Hong Emperor, and Feather Emperor imprisoned, told them he was Emperor Yuan’s heir, and learned Meng Chuan had entered the depths of the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• The Dark Three Emperors claimed Meng Chuan had spent seven hundred thousand years seeking the secret of Immortal Emperor cultivation and might have fallen to darkness.
• Shi Hao found Meng Chuan’s warning on the Bone Stele and obeyed it by turning back rather than going farther into the depths.
• Shi Hao considered using the imprisoned World-Destroying Elder and Dark Three Emperors to force his own breakthrough, noting their injuries and the technique he had learned from the Emperor Fire.
• Shi Hao chose to attack the Dark Three Emperors, gambling that they could serve as the whetstones he needed to advance.

Shi Hao reinforced the seals on the World-Destroying Elder and the Dark Three Emperors, then released Feather Emperor to test his strength. As his battle against all three Dark Emperors pushed him toward a Transformation, they freed the World-Destroying Elder, leaving four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors facing Shi Hao.

• Shi Hao reinforced the World-Destroying Elder’s seal and strengthened the seals holding the Dark Three Emperors.
• Shi Hao released Feather Emperor and fought him, finding that his wounded opponent could not put him under much pressure.
• Shi Hao released Hong Emperor and then Azure Emperor, fighting all three Dark Emperors while stopping them from freeing the World-Destroying Elder.
• Shi Hao’s Primordial Spirit developed a strange hue as his Immortal Fetus began to undergo a Transformation.
• The Dark Three Emperors exploited Shi Hao’s opening to free the World-Destroying Elder, leaving four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors surrounding him.

Shi Hao fought World-Destroying Elder and the other three Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors for forty thousand years, holding them off even as the battle devastated the Boundary Sea. As the Four Emperors threatened the Immortal Domain, Meng Chuan's Ten Fiend Spirit Bodies awakened to defend it, while Shi Hao continued fighting alone.

• Shi Hao met the four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors in battle and used the He Transforms into Freedom Art to summon incarnations, matching their numbers.
• The five fought for forty thousand years, exhausting themselves and laying waste to vast stretches of the Boundary Sea and other realms.
• The Four Emperors began sending Dark Kings toward the Immortal Domain and shifted the battle toward it, forcing Shi Hao to fight harder to stop them.
• The Ten Fiend Spirit Bodies appeared atop the Immortal Domain's Dam and attacked the summoned Dark Kings, protecting the Immortal Domain while Shi Hao fought on.