Chapter Summaries

Plot and key events

• The Hong Family Emperor attacks the Divine Sun Sect, demanding that it surrender Yang Kong, who allegedly killed people in his cities and stole their treasures. He invokes the Hong Family’s service to the powerful Su Family.
• Yang Kong returns after disappearing for ten years, accompanied by Mu Chiyu, a goddess of the Primordial Imperial Court. She has promised to act for him three times; this is her first intervention.
• Mu Chiyu overwhelms and seemingly destroys the Hong Family Emperor’s body with an Ancient Immortal Divine Art. His divine soul escapes, but Su Linxian arrives and captures it.
• Su Linxian’s presence alone knocks Mu Chiyu aside. He reveals his connection to the Su Family and uses the slaughter divine law—Yang Kong’s stolen power—to destroy the Divine Sun Sect’s physical bodies. He spares their souls but orders them to restore the Hong Family Emperor’s body or face the sect’s destruction.
• Mu Chiyu accepts Yang Kong’s urging to attack Su Linxian, using her second promised intervention. Their powers clash, but Su Linxian traps her with the Heavenly Prison Art and gravely wounds her. His system rewards him with villain points.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Kong returns determined to take responsibility for his past actions, but is outmatched by Su Linxian. He is devastated to recognize his slaughter divine law in Su Linxian’s possession and cries out when Mu Chiyu is injured. His former master, Zeng Kuxuan, rejects him and tells him to stand back.
• Mu Chiyu is revealed as an immensely powerful, ancient goddess whose divine arts let her fight far above her early Emperor Realm cultivation. Her calm gives way to shock when she encounters Su Linxian, and her confidence is tested when he defeats her.
• Su Linxian asserts the Su Family’s authority with ruthless force, punishing the Divine Sun Sect for harming its subordinate. He also recognizes Mu Chiyu’s extraordinary destiny and her connection to the Primordial Imperial Court.
• Zeng Kuxuan shifts from defending his sect to pleading with Su Linxian. Though his body is destroyed, he submits to save the souls of himself and his elders.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: Family allegiance and political rank determine who can act without consequence.
• Protection and retaliation: Su Linxian presents his violence as defending a subordinate, while imposing an overwhelming penalty on the Divine Sun Sect.
• Debt and responsibility: Yang Kong insists he alone should answer for his actions, but others’ allegiances and past conflicts draw him into a larger struggle.
• Destiny and rivalry: Mu Chiyu’s immense heavenly destiny and Su Linxian’s stolen power hint at a deeper conflict between major forces.

Plot points and events

• Mu Chiyu repeatedly regenerates after Su Linxian shatters her body, thanks to her immortal dao embryo physique. Su eventually traps her fragments with the Heavenly Prison Art, preventing her from reforming.
• Yang Kong charges Su in desperation, but the Saint Sun Ancestor, founder of the Divine Sun Sect, restrains him and offers Su an incomplete Taiyi Void Beast origin in exchange for Yang’s life.
• Su accepts the origin, whose power excites the Primordial True Beast Embryo. He rewards the Ancestor with three Saint Origin Pills, then orders the Divine Sun Sect to restore the Hong Family Great Emperor’s body and compensate the Hong Family and Blood Cliff City.
• Yang defies Su and threatens revenge. Su’s single glance overwhelms him with terror, causing him to wet himself and lose his Heaven-Destined Protagonist status. Su gains 200,000 Villain Points.
• Su takes the imprisoned Mu Chiyu aboard his spirit boat. After the Ancestor’s warning, he breaks the origin’s seals, triggering a massive upheaval and summoning the Heavenly Dao Eye.
• The Heavenly Dao Eye declares the origin should not exist. Mu Chiyu explains that it has consciousness but has never had reason to speak. Su orders it to leave, asserting his authority.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Linxian remains overwhelmingly confident: he defeats Mu Chiyu, bargains fairly with the Ancestor, settles the sect’s debts, and intimidates Yang without needing to speak. He treats the newly revealed Heavenly Dao threat with the same composure.
• Mu Chiyu is formidable and resilient, but Su ultimately restrains her. Even captive, she recognizes the Heavenly Dao Eye’s nature and calmly explains its speech.
• Yang Kong shifts from furious defiance to utter terror, losing both his composure and his protagonist title.
• Saint Sun Ancestor protects Yang out of loyalty to an old friend, yet submits to Su and negotiates peace for the sect. Su’s pills give the dying Ancestor hope of extending his life.
• Yu Yao mocks and questions Mu Chiyu; Mu’s remark that the Imperial Court once raised Dragon Carp as food enrages her.
• The observers are repeatedly stunned by Su’s power and by the unprecedented sight of the Heavenly Dao Eye speaking.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and hierarchy: Even legendary physiques, powerful sects, and the Heavenly Dao itself face Su’s dominance.
• Fate and the collapse of destiny: Yang’s title and presumed protection vanish when fear breaks his Dao heart.
• Justice, bargaining, and consequences: Su accepts compensation, rewards the Ancestor, and demands restitution for those harmed.
• Ancient mysteries: The origin’s connection to a primordial beast and the speaking Heavenly Dao Eye reveal forces beyond ordinary cultivation.

Key plot points and events

• Su Linxian confronts the Heavenly Dao Eyes with the Diya Sword and two Order Divine Laws. The Heavenly Dao hesitates, then withdraws its lightning tribulation, warning him that the Su Family owes it a favor.
• He feeds the Great Unity Primordial Origin to the Primordial True Beast Embryo. It absorbs the origin, reaches 60% hatching progress, and gains a bloodline enhancement. Its ancient aura overwhelms Yu Yao and astonishes Mu Chiyu, who says no one has ever seen one True Beast consume another’s origin.
• Mu Chiyu reveals that the Slaughter Divine Law originally belonged to her and that she used it to draw Yang Kong to her and awaken from her long slumber. She calls the law her “dowry,” then says she saw Su Linxian in the Kunwu Mirror and believes their child is destined to rule both worlds.
• She proposes marriage as a way to restore the Primordial Imperial Court: a child of theirs could become its new master. She offers knowledge of Immortal Antiquity ruins and treasures, including a means to surpass Divine Emperor, but refuses to explain further unless Su Linxian agrees to marry her.
• Su Linxian snaps her neck and destroys her body, only to discover that her Immortal Dao Embryo Body can restore her by consuming her origin. Mu Chiyu warns she can survive only three more such deaths.
• After Su Linxian dismisses her, Mu Chiyu changes course and reveals that the lost Primordial Imperial Court is the Everlasting Yin Mountain, also called the Immortal Mountain. Its buried core contains the Imperial Court’s origin and the treasures of the Immortal Antiquity Era; the fragment Su Linxian possesses is only its outer shell.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Linxian displays confidence in confronting the Heavenly Dao and treats the embryo’s growth as a powerful, potentially dangerous development. He is suspicious of Mu Chiyu’s marriage proposal and responds to her defiance with lethal force, but her revelation of the Imperial Court’s location captures his interest.
• Mu Chiyu shifts from guarded, uncompromising bargaining to volunteering crucial information after Su Linxian dismisses her. Her calm, startling marriage proposal reflects her single-minded plan to revive the Imperial Court, even at personal cost.
• Yu Yao is frightened by the embryo’s aura and shocked by Mu Chiyu’s proposal and apparent death, providing a comic, incredulous counterpoint to the tense events.
• Mu Chiyu and Su Linxian clash over the Slaughter Divine Law, marriage, and the Imperial Court’s future. Their interaction turns violent, but Mu Chiyu’s resilience and knowledge make her too valuable for Su Linxian to ignore.

Significant themes

• Defiance of cosmic authority: The Heavenly Dao retreats before Su Linxian, though it leaves him with a debt to repay.
• Ancient inheritance and power: The embryo’s unprecedented consumption of a True Beast’s origin, and the revelation about the Imperial Court, suggest that ancient forces may reshape the present.
• Fate versus agency: Mu Chiyu invokes prophecy and destiny, while Su Linxian rejects her attempt to bind him through marriage.
• Immortality with a cost: Mu Chiyu can regenerate from fatal injuries, but each restoration consumes her limited origin.

Key plot points and events

• Mu Chiyu asks Su Linxian for the two incomplete Primordial Imperial Courts, relics of the court she once lived in. In exchange, she lets him keep the Kunwu Mirror and the treasures from the other imperial courts. Su agrees and gives her one of the remnants.
• To show that she has no chance of overpowering him, Su casually erases a section of space, time, spiritual energy, and Dao laws with a single finger. Mu realizes he has concealed strength beyond the peak Emperor realm.
• During the journey to Everlasting Yin Mountain, Su uses the Dao-Origin Return Flow Method to forge his Divine Emperor Foundation: a lotus platform built from twelve upper-rank Great Daos. The conflicting Daos violently backlash, but he suppresses them with the Heavenly Prison Art and completes the platform.
• After a year, the Spirit Boat reaches the Life Forbidden Zone. Su emerges from seclusion with his power greatly transformed. Rather than follow the mountain’s rule requiring visitors to climb on foot, he shatters its ancient law chains and flies directly toward the mountain.
• Su reveals that completing the lotus platform has made him a Half-Step Divine Emperor, despite his outward appearance remaining that of a peak Emperor.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Linxian demonstrates both overwhelming confidence and careful ambition: he gives Mu the relic without concern, pursues the demanding Dao-Origin method, and treats forbidden zones as opportunities to test his strength.
• Mu Chiyu accepts the Imperial Court remnant with deep, complicated emotion because it recalls the era she once inhabited. Her shock at Su’s strength turns into recognition that he has reached a realm beyond ordinary emperors.
• Yu Yao reacts with comic alarm to Su’s disruptive cultivation and later to his destruction of the mountain’s laws. She voices the practical concern that the group should wait before entering.
• Mu urges caution at the mountain, but Su dismisses the danger and proceeds, reinforcing the contrast between her experience and his boldness.

Significant themes

• Power and hidden potential: Su’s apparent cultivation level conceals a breakthrough beyond the peak Emperor realm.
• Ambition through extreme cultivation: The lotus platform requires gathering and refining twelve powerful Great Daos, a perilous process that tests Su’s body, soul, and resolve.
• Mastery versus established rules: Su’s destruction of the forbidden zone’s supposedly inviolable law chains shows how far his power has surpassed conventional limits.
• Memory and loss: Mu’s response to the Primordial Imperial Court reveals her personal connection to a vanished age and the sorrow attached to its remnants.

Key plot points and events

• Su Linxian arrives at Immortal Mountain, where the ancient guardian beasts Lu Wu and Kai Ming confront him and order him to leave.
• Lu Wu attacks with a devastating claw, but Su Linxian stops it effortlessly and wounds him with the Slaughter Blood Wheel. Recognizing the Goddess’s divine law, Lu Wu and Kai Ming reveal their enormous true forms.
• The two beasts combine their powers in a massive attack. Su Linxian splits it apart with a single sword strike, then overwhelms them with the Heavenly Prison Art, slamming them into the mountain and severely injuring both.
• Inside the mountain, the Grand Elder and dozens of clanspeople sense the guardians’ defeat. They prepare to defend the Imperial Court, willing to sacrifice their lives.
• As Su Linxian calls for the Goddess to appear, the Grand Elder and his followers activate the Kunwu Mirror, the Imperial Court’s supreme treasure. Its Five-Colored Divine Light can erase a target’s past, present, and future.
• Mu Chiyu warns Su Linxian to dodge. He recognizes the danger—but becomes more eager to claim the artifact.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Linxian displays overwhelming confidence and power, treating the battle as a test. His ease in defeating two peak-emperor guardians underscores his newly established Divine Emperor strength. Rather than fear the Kunwu Mirror, he sees it as a prize.
• Lu Wu shifts from arrogant defender to shocked, badly wounded opponent. He appeals to Su Linxian by stressing that Immortal Mountain has kept apart from the Emperor Clan.
• Kai Ming remains fiercely defiant, urging Lu Wu to keep fighting even after their combined attack fails.
• Mu Chiyu breaks from her usual composure when she recognizes the guardians and later urgently warns Su Linxian about the mirror’s power.
• Yu Yao watches Su Linxian with open admiration, calling him invincible.
• The Grand Elder and clanspeople respond to danger with solidarity and resolve, choosing to defend their home and Imperial Court at any cost.

Significant themes

• Power and confidence: Su Linxian’s effortless victory establishes a dramatic gap between him and even formidable ancient opponents.
• Loyalty and sacrifice: The Imperial Court’s defenders are prepared to burn their souls and lifespans rather than surrender.
• Ancient legacies and escalating stakes: The appearance of the Kunwu Mirror introduces a relic whose power reaches beyond ordinary combat, threatening existence across time.
• Ambition and temptation: Faced with a weapon that could erase even a Divine Emperor, Su Linxian responds not with retreat but with greater desire to possess it.

Su Linxian endured the Kunwu Mirror’s Five-Colored Divine Light by manifesting his Divine Emperor Foundation, and Mu Chiyu halted the battle by revealing herself as the Imperial Court’s Goddess of Time. After learning that Primordial Evil Qi tied to the Chaos Evil God was corrupting the Imperial Court Core, Su Linxian offered to deal with it and asked to borrow the Kunwu Mirror.

• Su Linxian used the Exquisite Chessboard to withstand the Kunwu Mirror, then manifested his Divine Emperor Foundation as the Immortal Antiquity survivors amplified its power.
• Mu Chiyu identified herself as the Goddess of Time, and the Grand Elder stopped the attack before Su Linxian crushed the lingering mirror power within him.
• Mu Chiyu explained her return and plans to reunite the Imperial Court, while Su Linxian compensated its nineteen survivors with medicines and resources.
• Lu Wu revealed that Primordial Evil Qi had seized the Imperial Court Core’s essence and remained sealed within the Mustard Seed Space.
• Su Linxian followed Mu Chiyu and the others to the failing seal, where Mu Chiyu recognized the aura as connected to the Chaos Evil God.
• Su Linxian refused to call for his father and offered to deal with the Primordial Evil Qi, asking Mu Chiyu to lend him the Kunwu Mirror.

Su Linxian stayed at Immortal Mountain while Lu Wu and Kai Ming went to retrieve the Kunwu Mirror. After sparring with Xiao, an eight-year-old with a dormant Primordial God-Devil Physique, Su Linxian awakened the boy’s power and earned the gratitude and submission of the Imperial Court survivors.

• Mu Chiyu ordered the Grand Elder to fetch the Kunwu Mirror so Su Linxian could help resolve the evil energy within the Imperial Throne, and Lu Wu and Kai Ming agreed to retrieve it.
• The Grand Elder introduced Su Linxian and Mu Chiyu to the Immortal Mountain children, where Xiao accused Su Linxian of harming his parents and challenged him to a fight.
• Su Linxian accepted Xiao’s challenge, effortlessly blocked his attacks, and gave him pointers as they sparred.
• Su Linxian placed his hand on Xiao’s head and awakened his Primordial God-Devil Physique, raising Xiao’s cultivation to the peak of the Fengwang Realm.
• The Grand Elder and the Immortal Mountain tribe knelt and thanked Su Linxian, while Lu Wu and Kai Ming recognized the manifestation of the Primordial God-Devil Physique.

Su Linxian awakened Xiao’s Primordial God-Devil Physique, accepted him as a follower, and took possession of the Kunwu Mirror. When Su Linxian used the mirror, a terrifying Otherworld existence found him across time, but his father intervened and drove it back.

• Xiao’s Primordial God-Devil Physique awakened, and he knelt to ask Su Linxian to let him follow.
• Kai Ming objected to Xiao leaving the Immortal Mountain, but Mu Chiyu supported Xiao, and Su Linxian accepted him.
• Lu Wu presented the Kunwu Mirror to Su Linxian, who took it and planned to prepare before dealing with the Heavenly Evil Aura.
• Yu Yao used the mirror to see Su Qi encounter her as a golden carp in the past, then saw a future vision of herself as a golden-haired woman destroying Otherworld heretical cultivators.
• When Su Linxian tried the mirror, a pair of scarlet eyes appeared and a giant claw attacked him through it.
• Su Qi’s voice rang out, threatening the Otherworld being and ordering it to leave.

Su Qi rescued Su Linxian from a Divine Emperor of the Otherworld, retaliated by destroying six thousand Dao Domains, and used the gathered blood essence to strengthen his son. The next day, Su Linxian entered the Mustard Seed Space to capture the Heavenly Evil Aura, where it took the form of a little girl who said she only wanted to live.

• Su Qi shattered the Kunwu Mirror’s attack, explaining that an Otherworld Divine Emperor had tried to erase Su Linxian through the river of time.
• Su Qi struck the Otherworld, destroying six thousand Dao Domains and a billion li of the Blood Prison, then gave Su Linxian the collected blood essence to forge his Divine Emperor body.
• Su Qi warned Su Linxian that the future shown by the Kunwu Mirror was only one possibility, and Su Linxian returned to the stone hall without telling Yu Yao what he had seen.
• The next day, Su Linxian entered the Mustard Seed Space to retrieve the Imperial Court Core and pursued the fleeing Heavenly Evil Aura.
• Su Linxian bound the Heavenly Evil Aura with the Heavenly Prison Art, and it became a little girl who pleaded that she only wanted to live.