Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen defeated and killed Immortal King Qing Ze, then offered the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands an Immortal Dao Scripture in exchange for immortal gold and divine materials. As treasures poured into the Imperial Pass, he also collected yellow dao immortal gold from the Golden Bull’s lair.

• The woman in the ancient realm surrendered the World Annihilation incense to Mu Chen and declared her realm a forbidden zone, after which Mu Chen sealed its entrance with chaos qi.
• Mu Chen and his dragon-and-phoenix incarnation overcame Immortal King Qing Ze’s attacks, severed his limbs and head, and destroyed his primordial spirit with the Seven Arrows Book.
• Mu Chen sent the Immortal-Refining Pot into deep space, returned to Great Scarlet Heaven with Qing Ze’s head, and asked the powers of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands to gather immortal gold and divine materials in exchange for an Immortal Dao Scripture.
• Mu Chen captured the Golden Bull in the Divine Medicine mountain range, collected some yellow dao immortal gold from the silent Immortal Gold Daoist, and strengthened the cave’s defenses.
• Envoys and elders brought vast stores of immortal gold and divine materials to the Imperial Pass, leaving its designated side hall piled with treasures.

Mu Chen forged the One-Qi Chaos Tower into a weapon comparable to an Immortal King Weapon, then expounded the Dao at the Imperial Pass for a year. After returning to the Great Thousand World, he learned that Xiao Yan and Lin Dong had ascended to the Ruler Realm and wondered whether his loved ones should cultivate in a different world.

• Mu Chen refined countless immortal metals and divine materials into the One-Qi Chaos Tower, completing it as a weapon comparable to an Immortal King Weapon.
• Mu Chen expounded the Dao at the Imperial Pass for a year, helping cultivators deepen their understanding and advance their cultivation before he granted rewards and returned to the Great Thousand World.
• Mu Chen reunited with Luo Li, Nine Nether, and Tang Qian'er after they emerged from seclusion.
• The Firmament Ledger recorded Xiao Yan and Lin Dong as they reached the Ruler Realm, and Mu Chen congratulated them from afar.
• Mu Chen considered taking his loved ones to the Perfect World to cultivate, then decided against exposing them to the risks.

Mu Chen confronted An Lan when the Foreign Domain launched a full assault on the Imperial Pass, and their clash revealed Mu Chen’s extraordinary ability to withstand an Immortal King’s attacks. The battle continued with An Lan driven back by Mu Chen’s punch.

• Meng Tianzheng became a true immortal, and the Foreign Domain later massed a vast army to attack the Imperial Pass.
• An Lan’s war chariot approached as his halberd struck the Heavenly Abyss, and Mu Chen arrived to face him.
• Mu Chen’s Prison-Suppressing Boundary-Breaking Stele crushed the Golden-Backed Savage Bull, but An Lan destroyed the stele and emerged from his chariot.
• Mu Chen crossed the Heavenly Abyss with the One-Qi Chaos Tower, and he and An Lan exchanged attacks as Immortal King Yu Tuo shielded the Foreign Domain’s soldiers.
• Mu Chen merged four manifestations with his true body, endured An Lan’s spear with his bare fist, and knocked An Lan backward with a punch.

Mu Chen overwhelmed An Lan with the One-Qi Chaos Tower, the Seven Arrows Book, and his other arts, leaving the Immortal King near death. As Yu Tuo and five more Immortal Kings joined the battle and Wushang attacked Mu Chen, the Foreign Domain closed in around him.

• Mu Chen wounded An Lan with the One-Qi Chaos Tower and the Seven Arrows Book, then merged his incarnations to briefly reach the Immortal King realm.
• Mu Chen trapped An Lan in a cage of divine chains and battered him with the Primordial Dao Seal, destroying the Immortal Shield and nearly breaking his body.
• An Lan called for Yu Tuo, but Mu Chen struck him again and bound him with divine chains before the Seven Arrows Book attacked his primordial spirit.
• An Lan detonated much of his body to escape the chains and survive the killing strike, leaving himself gravely weakened.
• Wushang attacked Mu Chen with a Bronze Great Halberd as Yu Tuo reached for An Lan, while five more Immortal Kings and the Immortal-Refining Pot joined the assault.

The Gu Ancestor revealed that the Gu Tribe had infiltrated the Foreign Domain under orders and sacrificed his life to fight the Immortal Kings. Mu Chen escaped as his incarnations helped destroy An Lan and annihilate the battlefield, leaving Wushang and a gravely wounded Yu Tuo alive.

• The Gu Ancestor told Mu Chen that the Gu Tribe had secretly served the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and offered to hold off the Immortal Kings while Mu Chen escaped.
• Mu Chen fled toward the Heavenly Abyss as his incarnations joined the Gu Ancestor against Yu Tuo, An Lan, Wushang, and the other Immortal Kings.
• The Gu Ancestor unleashed Time-Space Upheaval and extinguished the last of An Lan's soul, while Mu Chen's incarnations held the other Immortal Kings at bay.
• Mu Chen's incarnations detonated themselves, binding the Immortal Kings with Great Dao Divine Chains as the Gu Ancestor sacrificed his body and soul to unleash Annihilation of Time.
• Wushang escaped with the nearly dead Yu Tuo, while the Foreign Domain's army was destroyed and Mu Chen returned to the Imperial Pass, planning to clear the Gu Ancestor's name and recover.

Mu Chen revealed the truth behind the Gu Ancestor’s supposed betrayal and the Borderlands Seven Kings’ so-called sin blood, clearing their names before the Imperial Pass. He brought Shi Hao to the Primordial Imperial City, where its exhausted king asked Mu Chen to save the surviving children and entrusted him with the clan’s inheritance.

• Mu Chen told the Imperial Pass that the Gu Ancestor had secretly served the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, sacrificed himself to destroy four Immortal Kings, and deserved to be remembered as a hero.
• Mu Chen revealed that the Borderlands Seven Kings had been falsely branded as sinners, declared their marks signs of glory, and called for the Demon Dragon Dao Gate, Sword Valley, and the True Immortal of the Bronze Immortal Palace to answer for their crimes.
• Mu Chen took Shi Hao to the Primordial Imperial City and left him to approach the city’s children and wounded elders, where a one-armed old man recognized him as a clansman.
• Mu Chen met the city’s ancient king, who explained that the defenders were nearly gone and asked him to take the surviving children away before the city fell.
• Mu Chen accepted a bone fragment containing the clan’s divine abilities and precious arts, then left the king to rest.

After black mist triggered the Heavenly Abyss’s eternal seal, Mu Chen learned that the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands would slowly decline, though the war ended and the truth was concealed. He traveled to the lower realm, restored his avatar, gained two supreme arts, and met the Lord of the Restricted Area, whose deep-rooted obsession Mu Chen immediately recognized.

• Black mist touched the Heavenly Abyss, awakening an Immortal Gate and sealing the passage between realms forever.
• Mu Chen explained that the formation would drain the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and bring eventual ruin, while the Supremes concealed the news and announced that the war was over.
• Meng Tianzheng led the Supremes in purging traitorous forces, while Mu Chen went to the Cross Yin-Yang Land and checked in to obtain the Yin-Yang Joining Pact.
• Mu Chen used the supreme yin and yang qi to restore his avatar, then entered the lower realm and obtained the Great Beginning Foundation-Casting Scripture through another check-in.
• Mu Chen visited the Lord of the Restricted Area, drank tea with him, and said that his obsession ran too deep for him to let go.

Mu Chen entered the Immortal Domain, where he resisted Immortal King Ao Sheng’s attack and met with Ao Sheng, Tai Shi, and Yuan Chu. After receiving rare materials for reforging his Dao weapon, he told them the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit had last been seen in the Boundary Sea and departed.

• Mu Chen learned about the dangers of the Boundary Sea from the Lord of the Restricted Area, then toured the eight regions and visited Bird Master and Jingbi Grandpa.
• Meng Tianzheng informed Mu Chen that the Immortal Domain’s gates were about to open, so Mu Chen returned to the upper realm and went to the gates.
• Mu Chen subdued the Immortal Domain guards and entered the Immortal Domain, receiving the Nine Revolutions Origin Art through a check-in.
• Mu Chen read a True Immortal’s memories and summoned Ao Sheng, Tai Shi, and Yuan Chu by demanding news of the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit.
• Ao Sheng attacked Mu Chen with a gigantic hand, but Mu Chen destroyed it with Primordial Unity Immortal Light, prompting Tai Shi to invite him to talk.
• Mu Chen asked for materials to reforge his Dao weapon, accepted gifts from the three Immortal Kings, and told them the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit had last been seen in the Boundary Sea before leaving.

After the Dark Calamity devastated the Three Thousand Provinces, Mu Chen hunted Dark Creatures while the Immortal Domain established a defensive boundary. Nearly thirty years later, the worlds began merging and the Dharma-Ending Era descended, but Mu Chen remained unaffected and prepared to kill more Dark True Immortals.

• Mu Chen warned the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands about the coming calamity and arranged a voluntary migration through Meng Tianzheng.
• Dark Matter spread through the Three Thousand Provinces, and Mu Chen entered the darkness, discovering that he could refine it and Dark Creatures into power.
• The Immortal Domain sent its army and sealed off the dark region, while Mu Chen protected a hundred provinces and sent eligible geniuses, including Shi Hao, inside the formation.
• Mu Chen hunted Dark Creatures and Dark True Immortals for nearly thirty years as the Immortal Domain and the darkness reached a stalemate.
• The worlds began merging and the Dharma-Ending Era descended, but Mu Chen was unaffected and resolved to slay more Dark True Immortals.

As the Immortal Domain and Dark Creatures withdrew, Mu Chen hunted in the Dark Region until a nine-colored pillar erupted from the Origin Ancient Artifact. He sacrificed his Freedom Incarnation to suppress the dark origin and left it sealed beneath the One-Qi Chaos Tower, considering how it might aid his breakthrough to Immortal King.

• Mu Chen hunted several Dark True Immortals in the Dark Region and absorbed their power.
• A nine-colored pillar erupted from the Origin Ancient Artifact, and Mu Chen retreated to the Sheltered Land.
• Mu Chen sent his Freedom Incarnation to confront the pillar while the One-Qi Chaos Tower shielded the Sheltered Land.
• The Freedom Incarnation detonated his body and burned his primordial spirit to suppress the dark origin within a black crystal.
• Mu Chen placed the crystal beneath the One-Qi Chaos Tower, assigned an incarnation to guard it, and resolved to prepare carefully before using its power.

As the Dharma-Ending Era began, the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands merged and heaven’s will struck every cultivator. Shi Hao chose to remain behind and later returned toward the lower realm, while Mu Chen used heaven’s blade to divide the sealed dark origin into nine crystals, preparing to seek a breakthrough to Immortal King.

• Blood-colored lightning and terrifying visions announced the Dharma-Ending Era as two ancient continents collided and the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands began merging.
• Shi Hao refused to enter the Immortal Domain, and Fire Spirit'er and Meng Tianzheng stayed with him as the Immortal Domain’s armies withdrew.
• Mu Chen explained to Shi Hao and Meng Tianzheng how the Foreign Domain’s history mirrored the displacement of the abandoned beings left behind.
• Shi Hao took Fire Spirit'er and his clansmen along the Ancient Road toward the Ten Lands Yin-Yang Land to return to the lower realm.
• After the worlds collided, heaven’s will struck all cultivators, and Mu Chen borrowed its power to split the sealed dark origin into nine unequal crystals.

After a century of refining the dark origin and helping the Dark Creatures integrate, Mu Chen created a world within himself and began his Immortal King breakthrough. Heaven and earth answered his new World Method with overlapping tribulations, which he endured and absorbed before the Borderlands fell quiet.

• Over a hundred years, Mu Chen refined most of the dark origin, established time anchors between the Perfect World and the Great Thousand World, and watched the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands merge.
• Shi Hao and Meng Tianzheng created prayer-based methods at Mu Chen's prompting, and families and religious lineages used them to enlighten the Dark Creatures.
• Mu Chen refined the final portion of dark origin and formed a true world within himself, which grew for a thousand years and returned its power to him.
• Mu Chen went to the Borderlands to face the Immortal King Tribulation, using its myriad Daos to temper himself and strengthen his inner world.
• Heaven and earth unleashed the Creation Method Tribulation against Mu Chen's World Method, but he fought through the lightning and Dao laws, absorbed the tribulation, and shattered the Blade of Heaven's Will.
• After a hundred years, the tribulation ended, and Mu Chen stood in the chaos with his aura drawn inward and his presence returned to stillness.

After breaking through to Immortal King, Mu Chen accompanied the Lord of the Restricted Area and Shi Hao to Pan King City for the Peach Banquet, where Shi Hao won an undying medicinal peach. The three Immortal Kings decided to kill Shi Hao, and Mu Chen revealed himself to confront them.

• Mu Chen broke through to Immortal King and agreed to accompany the Lord of the Restricted Area and Shi Hao to the Immortal Domain.
• Shi Hao passed the Immortal Gate's inspection and traveled to Pan King City, where he challenged the city's young talents as Desolate.
• Qing Yi, Ao Qian, and Pan Yi headed to Pan King City as the Peach Banquet drew prominent figures from across the Immortal Domain.
• At the Peach Banquet, Pan King discussed the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit with Ao Sheng, Tai Shi, and Yuan Chu, who suggested using Ao Sheng's descendant to draw out Shi Hao's backer.
• A Pan Family patriarch held a contest offering an undying medicinal peach, and Shi Hao defeated his opponents to win it.
• Ao Sheng, Tai Shi, and Yuan Chu resolved to kill Shi Hao, and Mu Chen revealed himself before them.

Mu Chen trapped Immortal Kings Ao Sheng, Tai Shi, and Yuan Chu in a sealed realm and defeated them with his true body and two incarnations. He suppressed and refined all three in his inner world, gathering their remains to nourish its evolution.

• Mu Chen declared that he would use Desolate's karma to harvest the three Immortal Kings, then reinforced the realm with his Great Dao laws.
• Ao Sheng attacked Mu Chen, but Mu Chen shattered his body with his Double Pupils and suppressed his primordial spirit beneath the Prison-Suppressing Boundary-Breaking Stele.
• Mu Chen's black-robed incarnation pierced Yuan Chu's origin immortal light with primordial tribulation light, and Mu Chen captured Yuan Chu's primordial spirit and seized his divine light.
• Mu Chen's white-robed incarnation repelled Tai Shi's beast form, then joined his true body and other incarnation to overwhelm Tai Shi.
• Mu Chen destroyed Tai Shi's body, suppressed his primordial spirit, and gathered the three Immortal Kings' remaining flesh and blood into his inner world.

Mu Chen, Shi Hao, and the Lord of the Restricted Area entered the Mysterious Land, where Mu Chen gained the Eternal Years Bright Tribulation Body and they encountered Thunder Spirits and Puppy mourning the Thunder Emperor and Immortal King Without End. Shi Hao entered the ancient stone chamber to seek its power of reincarnation, while Mu Chen failed to follow him across time and studied the chamber’s imprints of the past.

• Mu Chen’s victory over Ao Sheng, Tai Shi, and Yuan Chu became known across the Immortal Domain, and their clans quickly lost power and territory.
• Mu Chen traveled with Shi Hao and the Lord of the Restricted Area to the Mysterious Land, whose entrance opened when the Lord offered Immortal King essence blood.
• Mu Chen checked in and obtained the Eternal Years Bright Tribulation Body, then led the others to an ancient cave where Thunder Spirits mourned the Thunder Emperor.
• Shi Hao recognized Puppy, who wept over Immortal King Without End’s death and despaired that the Mysterious Land could not restore him.
• The Lord of the Restricted Area explained that the stone chamber might allow living reincarnation, and Shi Hao entered it after a drop of blood appeared on his forehead.
• Mu Chen tried to follow Shi Hao through time using his new ability and the Great Freedom Transformation Art but was forced back, then examined the chamber’s ancient imprints.

Shi Hao returned from the stone chamber changed by his experiences, while Mu Chen learned that the stone wall was linked to the Great Freedom Transformation Art and an Emperor. A thousand years later, darkness and a Foreign Domain invasion emerged, and Mu Chen crushed the invading force and sealed the Immortal-Refining Pot with Kundi inside.

• Mu Chen told the Lord of the Restricted Area and Puppy that Shi Hao was unharmed and had gained a tremendous opportunity before taking them back to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Shi Hao reunited with Meng Tianzheng, Fire Spirit'er, and his other friends at the Imperial Pass, then prepared to enter seclusion as Mu Chen returned to the Great Thousand World.
• A thousand years later, Cao Yusheng reported that darkness had corrupted several formation platforms, and Shi Hao and Meng Tianzheng destroyed the black lotuses growing around them.
• When creatures from the Foreign Domain opened a passage beyond the Imperial Pass, Mu Chen went to confront them while Shi Hao and Meng Tianzheng stayed to suppress the dark universe.
• Mu Chen erased the Foreign Domain forces, killed their Immortal King, and sealed the Immortal-Refining Pot before Kundi could fully awaken.

Mu Chen refined Kundi, invaded the Foreign Domain, and slaughtered nearly all its Immortal King powerhouses. After suppressing the Origin Ancient Artifact, he prepared to refine the entire Foreign Domain.

• Mu Chen trapped Kundi in his inner world, where the One-Qi Chaos Tower refined him and the Immortal-Refining Pot.
• Mu Chen stormed into the Foreign Domain and killed its Immortal King defenders, capturing Wushang alive with the Seven Arrows Book and the One-Qi Chaos Tower.
• Mu Chen hunted down the fleeing Immortal Kings and slaughtered them, then confronted the survivors gathered at the divine temple.
• The Foreign Domain's Immortal Kings summoned a demonic shadow from the temple and unleashed it against Mu Chen's avatar while Mu Chen killed them.
• Mu Chen killed the last Immortal King and sealed the Origin Ancient Artifact inside the One-Qi Chaos Tower, preparing to refine the Foreign Domain.

Mu Chen refined the Foreign Domain with a Supreme Formation, absorbing its land and laws to expand his inner world. After the Foreign Domain vanished, its World Tree became the foundation of his world, and Mu Chen began using the resulting power to transcend the King realm and become an Emperor.

• Mu Chen activated a Supreme Formation prepared with the Great Beginning Foundation-Casting Scripture and began refining the entire Foreign Domain into his inner world.
• The Foreign Domain's World Tree awakened to defend its world, but Mu Chen struck it down, uprooted it, and brought it into his inner world.
• Over ten thousand years, the formation consumed the Foreign Domain and its surviving inhabitants until the world vanished completely.
• A silver World Tree grew in Mu Chen's inner world, joined with its laws, and stabilized and advanced the world.
• Power from the evolved inner world tempered Mu Chen's body and primordial spirit as he sought to become an Emperor beyond the King realm.