Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun bought and devoured twelve Emperor Beast corpses, but their lack of Great Dao power only raised his cultivation to the Tenth States Realm. After learning that True Void Auction City had sold Emperor Beast and Great Emperor corpses, he set out for the auction house and offered to exchange Divine Stones for Top-grade Divine Stones.

• Nie Yun bought all twelve Emperor Beast corpses from Shopkeeper Xiu Yan for six million Top-grade Divine Stones.
• Nie Yun devoured the corpses and advanced from the Peak of Nine States Realm to the Tenth States Realm, but discovered they contained no transcendent Great Dao power.
• Nie Yun asked Shopkeeper Xiu Yan where else Emperor Beast corpses might be sold, and learned about True Void Auction City.
• Nie Yun decided to visit True Void Auction City and asked Shopkeeper Xiu Yan to gather lower-grade Divine Stones for exchange into Top-grade Divine Stones.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue accepted an invitation from the Heart Demon Great Emperor and met one of his avatars at his residence. The Heart Demon Great Emperor revealed that his true body had been suppressed by someone, leaving Nie Yun startled and asking who could have done it.

• Nie Yun offered to exchange top-grade Divine Stones for low-grade ones, and Shopkeeper Xiu Yan hurried off to prepare the trade.
• Yun Zhouzi arrived and invited Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue to visit his master, the Heart Demon Great Emperor.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue followed Yun Zhouzi to the Heart Demon Great Emperor's unmarked estate and waited at a banquet.
• The Heart Demon Great Emperor appeared as an avatar, apologized for arriving late, and explained that his true body could not come.
• The Heart Demon Great Emperor told Nie Yun that someone had suppressed his true body, and Nie Yun asked who had done it.

Heart Demon Great Emperor told Nie Yun that Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang had been trapped in the You Mo Realm by Tablet Transformation Elder. Nie Yun agreed to rescue them, but first asked Heart Demon Great Emperor to help him find Emperor-realm corpses.

• Heart Demon Great Emperor revealed that Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang had entered the You Mo Realm to find a material for Yaoshuang’s body and had been trapped by Tablet Transformation Elder.
• Heart Demon Great Emperor explained that his true body was also suppressed and urged Nie Yun and his companion to rescue Puntian and Yuan Yang.
• Heart Demon Great Emperor warned Nie Yun that Tablet Transformation Elder used Bewitchment and advised him to attack without listening to the elder.
• Nie Yun agreed to rescue the Great Emperors, then asked Heart Demon Great Emperor to help him locate Emperor-realm corpses or Emperor Beasts.

Nie Yun learned from Heart Demon Great Emperor that Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang were close to being unable to hold on, and he began considering how to rescue them. After refining the Emperor Beast corpses, Nie Yun reached the middle stage of Eleven Provinces and prepared to meet the True Martial Auction City shopkeeper.

• Heart Demon Great Emperor gave Nie Yun several Emperor Beast corpses and warned him that Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang were in grave danger.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue discussed the risks of entering the You Mo Realm, while Nie Yun withheld a second concern until they left the True Void Realm.
• Shopkeeper Xiu Yan exchanged Divine Stones with Nie Yun, who then asked him to arrange a deal with the True Martial Auction City shopkeeper.
• Nie Yun refined the Emperor Beast corpses inside the Storage World and advanced to the middle stage of Eleven Provinces before consolidating his cultivation.
• Shopkeeper Xiu Yan returned with the True Martial Auction City shopkeeper, and Nie Yun invited them into the room.

Nie Yun sought to buy a Great Emperor corpse, but its owner refused to sell and insulted him. Tantai Lingyue used her control over time and space to find and seize the owner, bringing him before Nie Yun.

• Nie Yun offered to pay double the expected price for the Great Emperor corpse, but the auction house manager explained that it belonged to a customer and had never been delivered to the auction house.
• The manager contacted the owner, who refused to sell the corpse and would not come meet Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun asked Tantai Lingyue to bring the owner over, and she reversed time within the room to trace the jade-token communication.
• Tantai Lingyue found the Emperor Realm owner and pulled him through a spatial vortex despite his resistance.
• The vortex vanished, leaving the bound owner sprawled before Nie Yun.

Nie Yun bought a Great Emperor corpse from a frightened Great Emperor and refined it, raising his strength to the peak of Twelve Prefectures. After learning where the corpse had been found, he decided to seek more remains before confronting the dangers trapping Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang.

• Nie Yun seized a Great Emperor who had refused to sell his corpse, then identified himself and Tantai Lingyue before negotiating a purchase.
• The Great Emperor agreed to sell the corpse for five hundred thousand Top-grade Divine Stones, and Nie Yun paid him one million.
• Nie Yun refined the Great Emperor corpse and advanced to the peak of Twelve Prefectures.
• The Great Emperor revealed that he had found the corpse in a void realm within the True Void Realm and gave Nie Yun its location.
• Nie Yun chose to visit the nearby void realm to seek more Great Emperor remains and strengthen himself before confronting Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang's situation.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue left True Void City and traveled through the perilous starry expanse to search for the Void Realm. After Tantai Lingyue’s attack destabilized space, Nie Yun spotted the hidden connection point and took them toward it.

• Nie Yun asked Shopkeeper Xiu Yan to keep gathering Spirit Stones, medicinal herbs, and jade before departing with Tantai Lingyue.
• After they left, the Great Emperor told Shopkeeper Xiu Yan that even ten Xuanyuan the Great Emperors could not defeat Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun explained that he could teleport about one state through the perilous land, then carried Tantai Lingyue across the starry expanse toward the Void Realm.
• Nie Yun said that Tantai Lingyue should attack the area so he could find the Void Realm’s hidden spatial connection point.
• Tantai Lingyue’s strike collapsed space across hundreds of millions of kilometers, and Nie Yun spotted the connection point and vanished with her.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue uncovered a hidden underground space containing the corpses of an ancient Great Emperor and several Emperor Beasts. Nie Yun concluded that the seal had been made to hide the dead Great Emperors from the Heavenly Dao, and he stored the old man's corpse before the Heavenly Dao could discover it.

• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue found that a mysterious force blocked their senses from penetrating the ground, and Tantai Lingyue shattered it with a palm strike.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue exposed a buried space containing several dozen Emperor Beast corpses and an old man's corpse.
• Nie Yun reasoned that multiple Great Emperors had fallen there and that the seal was meant to hide their corpses from the Heavenly Dao.
• Nie Yun apologized to the dead senior and stored his corpse in the Storage World.

Nie Yun gathered Great Emperor and Emperor Beast corpses in the Ancient Battlefield, raising his cultivation to the peak of the Fourteen Provinces and tempering his control through a fierce spar with Tantai Lingyue. After consolidating his power, he decided to attempt a breakthrough into the Great Emperor Realm, despite the danger of the resulting calamity.

• Nie Yun absorbed a Great Emperor corpse and dozens of Emperor Beast corpses, reaching the peak of the Fourteen Provinces.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue agreed to delay his breakthrough until he had gathered more energy to withstand the calamity.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue searched the Ancient Battlefield and found 520 Emperor Beast corpses and seven Great Emperor corpses.
• Nie Yun asked Tantai Lingyue to temper his cultivation, and they fought for half a day until he had consolidated his power and refined his control.
• Nie Yun told Tantai Lingyue that he wanted to attempt the dangerous breakthrough into the Great Emperor Realm.

Nie Yun began breaking through to Great Emperorhood in the True Void Realm, but his attack enraged the Heavenly Dao and brought down a devastating cataclysm. As True Void City was evacuated, the Great Emperors guarding it feared the Emperor Fall Cataclysm had arrived early.

• Nie Yun warned Tantai Lingyue to beware of the Heart Demon Great Emperor before entering the True Void Realm to break through.
• Nie Yun refined the Emperor Beast corpses, broke through the shackles of fourteen provinces, and drew the Heavenly Dao Cataclysm.
• Nie Yun attacked the gathering tribulation with his fist and sword, provoking an even stronger cataclysm.
• The Great Emperor guarding True Void City ordered the cultivators to evacuate through the Teleportation Array as the city shook.
• The Great Emperors guarding the deserted city wondered whether the Emperor Fall Cataclysm had arrived early.

Nie Yun endured a cataclysm drawing power from across the entire God Realm and grew stronger by refining seven Great Emperor corpses. He hurled Sacred Mountain into the heavens, suppressing the thunderclouds as Tantai Lingyue watched in shock.

• The God Realm’s Great Emperors gathered beneath the immense thunderclouds and wondered whether Nie Yun was undergoing a cataclysm stronger than Tantai Lingyue’s.
• Xuanyuan the Great Emperor explained that Nie Yun’s tribulation seemed to encompass the entire God Realm, surpassing the known provincial ranks.
• Nie Yun, bloodied by the Heavenly Dao’s attacks, refined the seven Great Emperor corpses stored in his Storage World.
• The Storage World expanded to the scale of twenty-five provinces, and Nie Yun’s power surged as he continued resisting the cataclysm.
• Nie Yun brought out Sacred Mountain and hurled it into the sky, suppressing the thunderclouds before Tantai Lingyue.

Nie Yun survived the God Realm’s tribulation and became a Great Emperor with a Perfect Domain, then returned to the God Realm with Tantai Lingyue. He remained suspicious of Heart Demon Great Emperor’s story about Puntian Great Emperor being trapped, and the chapter left them preparing to investigate.

• Nie Yun swallowed the Heavenly Dao’s lightning and completed his breakthrough to the Emperor Realm.
• Tantai Lingyue attacked Nie Yun to test his strength, but he stopped her strike by freezing time and space, and she conceded.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue teleported from the ruined True Void Realm directly back to the God Realm.
• Nie Yun told Tantai Lingyue that Heart Demon Great Emperor seemed suspicious because he had insisted Nie Yun kill Tablet Transformation Elder and had given him an Emperor Beast corpse containing Heart Demon intent.
• Tantai Lingyue acknowledged that Heart Demon Great Emperor seemed questionable but doubted he would harm Puntian Great Emperor, his longtime friend.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue entered the You Mo Realm to find Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang, whom Nie Yun discovered trapped in a dangerous area. The Tablet Transformation Elder attacked Nie Yun, but Nie Yun effortlessly defeated him; the elder then assumed Nie Yun had come to kill him and the others.

• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue entered the You Mo Realm, and Tantai Lingyue explained that it had once been the God Realm's richest place and still held Peerless Treasures.
• Nie Yun used his Storage World's spatial power to locate Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang trapped in a dangerous area, then teleported with Tantai Lingyue to its outskirts.
• Nie Yun sensed and exposed the Tablet Transformation Elder, who questioned Nie Yun's identity and attacked him with an inner-demon Formation.
• Nie Yun sealed the elder's attack, shattered his escape Formation, and pulled him back after he tried to flee.
• The Tablet Transformation Elder recognized Nie Yun's overwhelming strength and asked him to kill him, believing Nie Yun had come for him and Puntian and the others.

Nie Yun freed Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang from a trap and learned that Heart Demon Great Emperor had likely betrayed them and served the Heavenly Dao of the God Realm. Puntian Great Emperor began to explain the throne’s connection to the Emperor Fall Cataclysm, but Nie Yun offered to take them somewhere the Heavenly Dao could not observe.

• Nie Yun rejected Tablet Transformation Elder’s assumption that he had come to kill Puntian Great Emperor, then smashed the perilous ground and freed Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang.
• Puntian Great Emperor identified Heart Demon Great Emperor as the one who trapped them and said he had sent Nie Yun there to kill Tablet Transformation Elder.
• Emperor Yuan Yang explained that Puntian Great Emperor and he had suspected Heart Demon Great Emperor had submitted to the Heavenly Dao and had tested him by spreading a rumor about an illegitimate son and making Nie Yun emperor.
• Puntian Great Emperor said Heart Demon Great Emperor wanted control of the throne because it was tied to the dynasty’s fortune and the strength of the province’s living beings.
• When Puntian Great Emperor stopped explaining because the Heavenly Dao might discover their words, Nie Yun offered to take them somewhere it could not investigate.

Nie Yun learned that Heart Demon Great Emperor had submitted to the Heavenly Dao and intended to use the dynasty to weaken living beings’ resistance before the world’s destruction. Puntian Great Emperor explained the Emperor Fall Cataclysm and the struggle between the Heavenly Dao and all living beings, leaving Nie Yun aware of the danger facing the God Realm.

• Nie Yun brought Puntian Great Emperor, Emperor Yuan Yang, and Tablet Transformation Elder into his Perfect Domain, astonishing them with its complete Great Daos.
• Puntian Great Emperor explained that controlling a dynasty let Heart Demon Great Emperor use national fortune and the people’s hearts to wield power and erode resistance to the Heavenly Dao.
• Puntian Great Emperor admitted he did not know what benefit Heart Demon Great Emperor received for betraying living beings.
• Puntian Great Emperor explained that the Heavenly Dao destroyed worlds to survive as living beings and Great Emperors strained the God Realm’s laws.
• Puntian Great Emperor said the Emperor Fall Cataclysm usually preceded world destruction, as the Heavenly Dao turned Great Emperors against one another and more than eighty percent died.

Puntian Great Emperor explained why Great Emperors feared the Emperor Fall Cataclysm and how survivors from past eras could threaten them. Nie Yun then asked how the Heavenly Dao could nurture powerful Emperor Beasts without them comprehending a transcendent Great Dao.

• Puntian Great Emperor said over eighty percent of Great Emperors died in the Emperor Fall Cataclysm, while cultivators who had not reached that realm were almost entirely wiped out.
• Puntian Great Emperor explained that Great Emperor Shennong had preserved Xuanyuan the Great Emperor through a nearly impossible method that destroyed his body and much of his memory.
• Puntian Great Emperor said Great Emperors who survived earlier eras hid their old cultivation because the new God Realm's laws suppressed them, but could unleash their power when the Emperor Fall Cataclysm began.
• Puntian Great Emperor revealed that these survivors killed many Great Emperors during the cataclysm, while the Heavenly Dao also controlled Great Emperors and nurtured Emperor Beasts.
• Nie Yun connected the threat of the cataclysm to Di Xuan's alliance with Xuanyuan the Great Emperor, then asked how Emperor Beasts could gain such strength without comprehending a transcendent Great Dao.

Nie Yun and the others discussed how the Heavenly Dao might create Emperor Beasts by lowering the barrier to transcendence, and Nie Yun reasoned that this would drain the God Realm’s energy. After Yaoshuang reunited with Emperor Yuan Yang, they discovered the Heart Demon Great Emperor had controlled her and likely directed the attacks on the Chaos Oceans; Nie Yun asked about the materials for her Emperor-grade Divine Weapon body.

• Puntian Great Emperor explained that the Heavenly Dao had deliberately allowed Emperor Beasts to transcend, and Nie Yun realized this could produce many of them.
• Nie Yun concluded that creating Emperor Beasts would consume the God Realm’s energy and might explain how the previous era’s beings destroyed the Heavenly Dao.
• Nie Yun reassured everyone that they could face the coming Emperor Fall Cataclysm, then reunited Emperor Yuan Yang with Yaoshuang after restoring her soul.
• Emperor Yuan Yang learned that the Heart Demon Great Emperor had used Yaoshuang to pressure him, while Puntian Great Emperor said his soldiers had been ordered only to search for the prince.
• Nie Yun and Puntian Great Emperor connected the Heart Demon Great Emperor to the heart demons and Chaos Ocean attacks, and Nie Yun asked whether Yaoshuang’s Emperor-grade Divine Weapon body materials were ready.

Emperor Yuan Yang lamented that he could not give Yaoshuang an Emperor-grade body, but Nie Yun created one and helped her become an Emperor-realm powerhouse. The group returned to the God Realm so Yaoshuang could face her Heavenly Dao Cataclysm, leaving her wedding to Yao Xuan for after she passed it.

• Emperor Yuan Yang explained that the Heart Demon Great Emperor had lured them to the You Mo Realm with false news of a Sky-Reaching Vine, and regretted failing to secure materials for Yaoshuang's body.
• Yaoshuang urged Emperor Yuan Yang to accept that they might die together, but he said he wanted her to live in an Emperor-grade Divine Weapon and marry the one she loved.
• Nie Yun offered to help, created an Emperor-grade body, and merged Yaoshuang's soul into it, making her an Emperor-realm powerhouse.
• Nie Yun said Yaoshuang still had to pass the Heavenly Dao Cataclysm before she could enter the God Realm and suggested holding her wedding with Yao Xuan afterward.
• Nie Yun, Yaoshuang, Emperor Yuan Yang, Puntian Great Emperor, and the others left the Storage World and returned to the God Realm, where Yaoshuang's Heavenly Dao Cataclysm appeared.

Xuanyuan the Great Emperor told Love Obsessed Dao Venerable that Di Xuan’s true form had been exposed and that a powerful stranger had defeated him and the other Emperors. As an Emperor’s tribulation began over the Boundless Sea, Yao Xuan recognized the figure fighting the thunderclouds as Yaoshuang, whom he had believed dead.

• Xuanyuan the Great Emperor summoned Love Obsessed Dao Venerable and revealed that Di Xuan’s true form had been exposed after she was beaten by someone Xuanyuan could not defeat.
• Love Obsessed Dao Venerable admitted that he had fled when he saw Di Xuan’s true form and remained consumed by guilt, then vowed to find and punish the person who had hurt her.
• An Emperor’s tribulation erupted over the Boundless Sea, and Xuanyuan the Great Emperor, Yao Xuan, and Love Obsessed Dao Venerable went to investigate.
• Xuanyuan the Great Emperor found Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, Universal Heaven, and Yuan Yang near the tribulation.
• Yao Xuan recognized the figure battling the thunderclouds as Yaoshuang, despite believing her soul had scattered, and Xuanyuan the Great Emperor realized she was advancing to Emperor.

Yaoshuang survived her tribulation and thanked Nie Yun, then Fairy Biluo began breaking through to the Great Emperor Realm. Nie Yun destroyed Biluo’s overlapping tribulation with one move, leaving Xuanyuan the Great Emperor convinced that Nie Yun had reached the Emperor Realm and prompting Love Obsessed Dao Venerable to flee.

• Yaoshuang charged into the thunderclouds and shattered her Lightning Tribulation with her physical strength.
• Yaoshuang thanked Nie Yun for restoring her life, and he told everyone another person was about to break through.
• Fairy Biluo appeared beneath a new tribulation, and the Great Emperors wondered whether she was connected to Nie Yun.
• Love Obsessed Dao Venerable learned that Nie Yun had restored Di Xuan’s original appearance and prepared to act against him.
• Nie Yun used a massive mountain to destroy Fairy Biluo’s tribulation, and Xuanyuan the Great Emperor realized Nie Yun had likely reached the Emperor Realm.
• Love Obsessed Dao Venerable praised Nie Yun for teaching Di Xuan a lesson, then vanished to return to the Boundless Sea.