Chapter Summaries

Luo Yan recruited Duan De to help find the Mystic Emperor’s tomb and uncovered records revealing the tomb’s purpose and likely location in the Boundless Desolate Mountains. Seeking a guide, he learned that Cui Jinhua’s aunt was the Flower Divine Venerable Ruan Xiahe, whom he had encountered before.

• Luo Yan gave Duan De the first four levels of the Tribulation-Transcending Heavenly Art and offered the rest in exchange for help robbing the Mystic Emperor’s tomb.
• Duan De agreed to help and began cultivating the art while Luo Yan searched the Star-Moon Merchant Association’s records for clues.
• Luo Yan found that the Mystic Emperor’s last known appearance was in the Boundless Desolate Mountains and read Qin Xuan’s account of trapping a Divine Venerable in the tomb.
• Luo Yan asked Cui Jinhua about the Desolate Mountains, and Cui Jinhua said his aunt, a Great Saint of the Moon Goddess Palace, had explored deep inside them.
• Cui Jinhua identified his aunt as the Flower Divine Venerable Ruan Xiahe, and Luo Yan recognized her as someone he had nearly killed with a sword strike.

Luo Yan learned that Saint Youyue had emerged from a forbidden zone in the Boundless Desolate Mountains as a Great Saint, prompting him to travel to Ten Thousand Flower Immortal City in search of clues to the Mystic Emperor’s mausoleum. While waiting two years for a skyship in Sea-Heaven City, he agreed to watch over the Star-Moon Merchant Association shopkeeper’s son; the chapter ended with Cui Jinhua bringing news of Saint Youyue’s extraordinary rise.

• Cui Jinhua explained that the Moon Goddess Palace had declined after the Flower Divine Venerable disappeared and recounted how his aunt, Saint Youyue, had entered a forbidden zone linked to the Mystic Emperor and emerged a century later as a Great Saint.
• Luo Yan concluded that the forbidden zone was not the Mystic Emperor’s mausoleum but might hold clues, and he decided to travel to Ten Thousand Flower Immortal City to meet Saint Youyue.
• The Fat Shopkeeper asked Luo Yan to keep an eye on his son during the journey, and Luo Yan agreed as long as he would not have to clean up the son’s trouble.
• The Fat Shopkeeper introduced his son to Luo Yan, and the little fatty mistook Duan De for his father’s brother because they looked alike.
• Cui Jinhua visited Luo Yan with news about Saint Youyue, and Luo Yan wondered whether she had obtained the Mystic Emperor’s legacy.

Cui Jinhua told Luo Yan that Saint Youyue was being summoned to Ten Thousand Flower Immortal City, where the Divine Venerables sought the Mystic Emperor’s legacy, and Luo Yan promised to intervene. Youyue was already hiding in the city, while Ruan Xiahe suffered from Luo Yan’s sword qi and warned Divine Venerable Mad Demon about the terrifying power of the world the Mystic Emperor came from.

• Cui Jinhua explained that the Flower Divine Venerable had located Youyue and ordered her to Ten Thousand Flower Immortal City, and Luo Yan said he would protect her.
• Saint Youyue read Cui Jinhua’s letter but suspected Senior Luo was another cultivator seeking the Mystic Emperor’s legacy, while she prepared to face the Divine Venerables.
• Saint Youyue resolved to protect the Mystic Emperor’s legacy and hoped to stabilize her newly reached first-level Quasi-Supreme realm before the Flower Divine Venerable recovered.
• Ruan Xiahe cut away the body parts damaged by Luo Yan’s Grass Character sword qi as Divine Venerable Mad Demon questioned her about the world beyond the Mystic Origin Continent.
• Ruan Xiahe warned Divine Venerable Mad Demon that powerful figures from that universe could destroy a Divine Venerable completely, but he dismissed her claim that such beings existed in the mortal world.

Ye Fan and the other cultivators witnessed the Starry Sky Myriad Races descend on the Human Race’s ancient road to seize the Ancient Emperor’s tomb. As the mausoleum broke open, the tomb’s lone guardian fought to protect the Ancient Emperor’s body, but the invading forces trapped him with a Quasi-Emperor Artifact.

• Ye Fan arrived at a burial ground on the Starry Sky Ancient Road and suspected it held the Ancient Emperor, who had fought alongside the Void Emperor.
• The Starry Sky Myriad Races invaded the Human Race’s star domain, and Daoist Qinghuang confronted them as they demanded access to the tomb.
• A human Dao Protector recounted how the Ancient Emperor had aided the Void Emperor, slain two Supremes, and made his body into a weapon against future dark turmoil.
• The mausoleum suddenly exploded, and the last surviving guardian of the Ancient Emperor’s lineage charged the invaders to keep them from the tomb.
• The guardian, Shang Wu, was overwhelmed by three enemies, and the Mystic Spirit Race used its Quasi-Emperor Artifact, the Profound Spirit Shield, to block his spear.

The Starry Sky Myriad Races attacked the Human Race Ancient Road to seize the Ancient Emperor's tomb, overwhelming its defenders until the Old Madman and Luo Yixian arrived. Azure Emperor then appeared, crossed a World Gate to confront powerful beings in another universe, and became locked in battle with a formidable opponent.

• Daoist Qinghuang and Shang Wu fought the invading Great Saints while armies of the myriad races attacked the Human Race Ancient Road.
• Ye Fan and the other trial-takers joined the desperate defense as Human Race fighters wondered why no reinforcements had arrived.
• The Old Madman drove back the enemy Great Saints, and Luo Yixian declared the invaders enemies of the Human Race under the Ancestor's command.
• Luo Yixian revealed that the Ancestor had not appeared because supreme experts were targeting him, then Azure Emperor arrived and suppressed the Great Saints with his Emperor's might.
• Azure Emperor crossed the World Gate to fight the forces beyond it, defeating several opponents before facing an expert whose strength was nearly that of a Quasi-Immortal King.

As an Emperor Battle raged beyond the World Gate, the Human Race’s enemies turned their attack toward the Emperor Mausoleum, hoping to awaken the Ancient Emperor’s body. Shang Wu warned that only an Immortal King could suppress it, while the Old Madman raced into the exposed underground palace and two ancient Quasi-Emperors emerged from the myriad races.

• The Azure Emperor battled a cosmic beast beyond the World Gate, and the spectacle made even Quasi-Emperors seem insignificant.
• A number of races withdrew from the assault or switched sides, but the remaining enemies resolved to slaughter human experts while the Azure Emperor was occupied.
• The Saint Spirit Race’s peak Great Saint revealed a method to awaken the Ancient Emperor’s body, and the Feather Race’s peak Great Saint attacked the mausoleum.
• Shang Wu warned that the awakened body could only be suppressed by an Immortal King as the Spirit Immortal Race’s peak Great Saint exposed the underground palace.
• The Old Madman used the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist to break through the Great Saints and enter the palace, while an ancient Quasi-Emperor of the Feather Race and another of the Spirit Immortal Race appeared.

The Feather Race Quasi-Emperor attacked the Human Race Ancient Road and began refining its inhabitants after Ancestor Ling Li revealed his overwhelming strength and blocked Luo Yixian’s Great Emperor decree. As the star domain faced destruction, a mysterious female Quasi-Emperor arrived from the direction of the Burial Emperor Star.

• The Feather Race ancestor and Ancestor Ling Li appeared, and the Feather Race ancestor’s divine radiance briefly entranced the assembled experts.
• The Feather Race ancestor announced that he would destroy the Human Race Ancient Road and refine its star domain, while Ye Fan asked Luo Yixian to use her hidden trump card.
• Luo Yixian released her ancestor’s decree, but Ancestor Ling Li revealed his Quasi-Emperor Seventh Heaven strength and confronted the phantom emerging from it.
• As the decree’s phantom clashed with Ancestor Ling Li, the Feather Race ancestor severed the Ancient Road, seized Trial Ancient City, and set the stars ablaze to slaughter humans for pill refinement.
• A beautiful female Quasi-Emperor arrived from across the starry sky, seemingly from the direction of the Burial Emperor Star.

The Stone Emperor emerged from the Undying Mountain, broke open the Emperor Mausoleum, and revealed the Ancient Emperor’s colossal Emperor Sword. As three Supremes gathered and the sword began to awaken, a peak Great Saint rushed to claim it.

• The Tianxuan Saintess and Jiang Taixu arrived from Burial Emperor Star as Quasi-Emperors and drove back the Feather Race Quasi-Emperor.
• Ancestor Ling Li fled with the Spirit Immortal Race’s black water flask and warned that the Luo Family Ancestor was only half a step from the emperor realm.
• The Stone Emperor left the Undying Mountain, immobilized the fighters, and broke open the Emperor Mausoleum with the Desolate Heaven Great Halberd.
• The Void Mirror brought Ji Zi to the battlefield, while two other Supremes arrived and the Azure Emperor spoke through the World Gate.
• The Stone Emperor opened the Emperor Mausoleum and revealed the Ancient Emperor’s body transformed into a colossal Emperor Sword.
• A peak Great Saint charged toward the awakening Emperor Sword, boasting that it would make him unrivaled.

The Stone Emperor forced Shang Wu into the Emperor Sword’s small world while the Ancient Emperor’s past revealed his connection to the river of time and the Void Emperor. Ji Zi fought the Stone Emperor and then prepared to fulfill his father’s unfinished wish by approaching the Void Emperor’s phantom through the Void Mirror.

• A peak Great Saint entered the small world and was killed by the Emperor Sword’s flying petals and leaves.
• The young Ancient Emperor appeared, and witnesses recognized that he looked exactly like Luo Family Ancestor; a True Martial Dao elder explained that the Ancient Emperor had traveled from the future to witness the Void Emperor’s era.
• The Stone Emperor threatened Shang Wu and gave him six hours to retrieve the Emperor Sword, while the Azure Emperor and Stone Emperor continued fighting across the World Gate.
• Ji Zi attacked the Stone Emperor with the Void Mirror but was defeated; his attempted sacrifice was interrupted, and the Void Mirror manifested the Void Emperor’s phantom.
• Ji Haoyue tried to complete the sacrifice, but Ji Zi stopped him and approached the Void Emperor’s phantom, saying his life’s purpose was to fulfill his father’s lingering wish.

The Void Emperor returned through a heavenly path and reunited with Ji Zi, then fought the Stone Emperor and other Supremes as they tried to seize the Emperor Sword. As the Stone Emperor subdued the sword and the Luo Family Ancestor rushed to intervene, the Void Emperor drew both the Stone Emperor and the sword into the heavenly path.

• The Void Emperor appeared on the heavenly path but refused to enter the universe, then joined with the figure summoned by the Void Mirror and revealed his return.
• The Void Emperor healed Ji Zi and confronted the Supreme from the Reincarnation Sea, identifying him as Ji Xukong.
• The Void Emperor attacked the three Supremes with the Void Mirror, and the Stone Emperor met his strike in battle.
• The Emperor Sword emerged from the collapsed Emperor Mausoleum, and the Stone Emperor tried to suppress it while the Void Emperor defended it.
• The Stone Emperor underwent ultimate sublimation and nearly subdued the Emperor Sword as the Luo Family Ancestor charged toward the battlefield.
• The Void Emperor extended the heavenly path around the Stone Emperor and the Emperor Sword, preparing to fight them within it.

Luo Yan crossed realms along the Heavenly Road and fought Stone Emperor, revealing overwhelming strength and nearly defeating him. The arrival of the Bronze Immortal Palace, sent by Ye Nannan, forced Stone Emperor and his allies to retreat with the Emperor Sword, while the battle left the universe wondering whether the Forbidden Zones would be attacked next.

• Beneath the Abyss, the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body sensed Luo Yan’s appearance and alerted the Female Emperor, who sent the Bronze Immortal Palace toward the Heavenly Road.
• Luo Yan opened a passage between worlds and asked the Void Emperor to let Stone Emperor take the Emperor Sword, while warning that Stone Emperor would eventually die by his hand.
• Luo Yan fought Stone Emperor on the Heavenly Road, using the Grass Character Sword Art and Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist to wound him and damage his halberd.
• Stone Emperor cut through Luo Yan’s mist-shrouded appearance and realized he had a different soul from the Ancient Emperor, then claimed the Emperor Sword could still help him win.
• Ye Nannan’s Bronze Immortal Palace arrived to suppress Luo Yan, and Stone Emperor, Heavenly Venerable Huang, and the Supreme from the Reincarnation Sea withdrew with the Emperor Sword.

Luo Yan revealed himself as an Immortal, killed the Stone Emperor and two other Supremes, and promised to guard the mortal world. As he withdrew with the Azure Emperor, the future Female Emperor recognized their altered past and pursued him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Luo Yan killed the Stone Emperor with a sword strike and declared that he was an Immortal, explaining the Supreme realm and confirming that the Immortal Domain existed.
• Luo Yan revealed that the Luo Family Ancestor was his severed mortal body, then killed the Supreme of the Reincarnation Sea and Heavenly Venerable Huang while letting the Emperor Sword escape.
• The Bronze Immortal Palace tried to trap Luo Yan on the Heavenly Road, and the Azure Emperor broke his time-stopping technique and held the road open.
• The Female Emperor awakened beneath the Desolate Forbidden Zone, recalled Luo Yan and their arranged marriage, and moved to stop him from escaping.
• Luo Yan dragged the Azure Emperor away as the Female Emperor said she still had time; afterward, the Forbidden Zone Supremes sealed themselves away and the two slain enemies' bodies were displayed beneath an ancient city.

After Stone Emperor’s death, the Supremes debated the Emperor Sword and the Path to Immortality, while the Luo Family Ancestor’s power kept them from unleashing a Dark Turmoil. Fifty years later, stories of the battle spread through the Human Race’s first city, and the chapter ended with Donkey Erdan boasting to a gifted child who was far stronger than him.

• The Supremes discussed whether to pursue immortality, and an old Supreme refused to risk more slaughter after Stone Emperor’s death.
• A Supreme revealed that the Emperor Sword had fallen into their hands, while the Primordial Ancient Mine’s Remnant Immortal reflected on the Luo Family Ancestor’s extraordinary realm.
• Fifty years later, a city guardian told young cultivators that Void Emperor had returned and that the Luo Family Ancestor had suppressed three Forbidden Zone Supremes.
• Wu Yun and others discussed the Emperor Sword, the battle over the Ancient Emperor’s Tomb, and the powers now guarding the mortal world.
• Powerhouses gathered in Emperor City, where Gai Jiuyou also resided, while Donkey Erdan bragged about his past exploits and claimed to have taught Ye Fan.
• A gifted child asked Donkey Erdan to teach him, but the child’s father carried him away after noting that the child had a fortune body.

Donkey learned that Gu Qidong mistook him for the famed Divine Donkey, while Luo Yan used a drop of essence blood to turn the Desolate Pagoda against the Azure Emperor. The chapter ended with Luo Yan opening the pagoda’s inner world and the Azure Emperor pleading for mercy.

• Gu Qidong argued with Donkey over the little fellow’s wish to learn from him, then praised the supposed heroic deeds of Senior Divine Donkey while Donkey secretly enjoyed the praise.
• A Luo Family youth summoned Donkey to meet the awakened Ancestor, and Gu Qidong realized that Donkey was the Divine Donkey himself and nervously addressed him as Senior Donkey.
• Luo Yan arrived at the Boundless Desolate Mountains with Holy Maiden Youyue and Cui Jinhua, while the Azure Emperor remained hidden inside the Desolate Pagoda and mocked Luo Yan’s attempts to retrieve him.
• Luo Yan offered the Desolate Pagoda a drop of essence blood, and the pagoda sensed the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s aura and recognized Luo Yan as his descendant.
• The Desolate Pagoda chose to absorb Luo Yan’s blood to divine the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s secrets, then Luo Yan used immortal power to open the pagoda’s inner world as the Azure Emperor pleaded with him.

Luo Yan beat Azure Emperor after emerging from the Desolate Pagoda, then faced the gathered experts and revealed that Emperor Hengyu and Great Emperor Taihua had returned. He explained the worlds beyond their universe and left the assembly considering why powerful beings from those worlds had set their sights on theirs.

• Luo Yan opened the Desolate Pagoda, beat Azure Emperor, and later struck Donkey for running toward him with his private parts exposed.
• Luo Feng and experts from across the universe gathered to greet Luo Yan, who explained that his body was a puppet and answered their questions about the return of the Great Emperors.
• Luo Yan told Jiang Taixu that Emperor Hengyu had awakened but could not enter their world without disrupting its laws, and he confirmed that Great Emperor Taihua had also returned.
• Luo Yan described great thousand worlds and lesser thousand worlds, explaining that their laws were incomplete and their strongest inhabitants could not attain the Dao as beings in their world could.
• A Forbidden Zone being asked whether powerful inhabitants of the other worlds had set their sights on their world.

Luo Yan reassured the gathered powers that the Myriad Worlds had few experts capable of challenging the strongest beings in their world, while rumors spread that the Forbidden Zone Supremes had resolved to fight future invaders. The story then shifted to Divine Venerable Ming imprisoned beneath the Boundless Desolate Mountains and to Luo Yan’s group traveling with several Emperors, where Duan De’s history with Emperor Hengyu was exposed.

• Luo Yan explained that the Divine Venerables varied greatly in strength and said the mortal world had no more than a handful of opponents at the level of the Azure Emperor.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes publicly vowed to fight invaders and protect the younger generations, prompting suspicion that Luo Yan had influenced them.
• Luo Yan denied involvement, then ordered Donkey and Black Emperor to beat Luo Tianlin after he questioned why Luo Yan swore by Ye Fan’s reputation.
• On the Starry Sky Ancient Road, Dragon Horse told Ye Fan that people were linking him to the theft of the Yaoguang Saintess’s Saint Weapon and her bellyband, and Ye Fan denied the rumors.
• Divine Venerable Ming raged in a tomb beneath the Boundless Desolate Mountains, still chained there after the Mystic Emperor had imprisoned him.
• During the voyage, Luo Yan explained that Duan De had mistaken Emperor Hengyu’s Beast Passion Pill for a Divine Pill and nearly lost his chastity after swallowing it.

Luo Yan and the others used the Time Mirror fragments to reveal the Mystic Emperor’s tomb, where Duan De triggered a deadly restriction and the group encountered a mindless Quasi-Emperor monster. Emperor Hengyu suspected it had been created through the Mystic Emperor’s attempt to imitate the Dao Integration Flower, and he noticed something else was wrong with it.

• Holy Maiden Youyue led the group to the collapsed site of the Mystic Emperor’s legacy and showed them the bracelet engraved with Heaven-Deceiving Divine Patterns.
• Luo Yan used the Time Mirror fragments to open a path to the hidden tomb, and the group debated whether the Mystic Emperor had died sealing a monster inside.
• Duan De entered the tomb to scout ahead, triggered its first restriction, and called for Luo Yan to save him after it severed half his body.
• Luo Yan and the others reached the first layer, where Ji Zi sensed signs of a battle between two Emperor-level beings and a Quasi-Emperor monster awoke.
• Emperor Hengyu subdued the monster and suspected it had consumed a failed pill modeled on the Dao Integration Flower, then noticed something was wrong with it.

Luo Yan and the others discovered dark matter and Mystic Emperor’s account of a rift that had unleashed fallen beings, then followed the passage toward its far end. They reached a wall of black mist, with the other side still unexplored.

• Emperor Hengyu destroyed the charred monster and found an Emperor Pill, which he examined before it went to Luo Yan.
• Luo Yan recognized dark matter in the next floor and explained that it could corrupt even powerful beings; Azure Emperor revealed a passage through the black mist.
• Duan De tried to avoid entering the passage, but Luo Yan threw him inside, where they read Mystic Emperor’s record of a rift and an invasion of uncanny power.
• The group followed the passage past fallen creatures and found a dead Supreme-level monster, prompting them to estimate Mystic Emperor’s strength.
• Luo Yan, Duan De, Void Emperor, Emperor Hengyu, and Azure Emperor reached the passage’s end and faced a mass of black mist.

Luo Yan and the others entered a world consumed by darkness, where survivors begged the vanished Mystic Emperor to save them from the Darkness Legion. As a fallen God’s forces began devouring the people, Luo Yan arrived with four companions and appeared to resemble the Mystic Emperor, leaving Old Man Chen trembling with hope.

• Luo Yan cut through the dense dark substance with Grass-Character Sword Qi, revealing a devastated world filled with death and despair.
• Old Man Chen prayed to the Mystic Emperor’s statue while his daughter Zi'er urged him to flee to Heavenly Outer Mystic Mountain; he stayed, believing the Mystic Emperor would return.
• The Darkness Legion arrived, led by a fallen God and a three-headed beast, and began devouring the people as the survivors cried out for the Mystic Emperor.
• Luo Yan’s sword qi split the black mist and brought nine-colored light to the ruins as he and four companions appeared on the platform.
• Old Man Chen saw Luo Yan standing where the statue had stood and asked whether he was the Mystic Emperor.

Luo Yan was mistaken for the returned Mystic Emperor as he and the others fought the corrupted gods and learned that three corpses had unleashed the dark fog. He concluded the corpses were at least quasi-Immortal King tier, leaving their threat unresolved.

• The Void Emperor attacked a fallen god while Emperor Hengyu killed a three-headed beast and joined the battle with his Hengyu Furnace.
• Luo Yan denied being the Mystic Emperor but promised to oppose the darkness, then asked Chen Qian where the black fog came from.
• Chen Qian explained that three corpses had fallen from a rift over a hundred thousand years earlier and identified the uncorrupted Evening God as someone who knew where they landed.
• The fallen god revealed that the Beast God had led others through a passage into another world, where the Mystic Emperor fought them back and sealed them away.
• The Void Emperor and Emperor Hengyu wounded the fallen god, while Luo Yan judged that the three corpses were at least quasi-Immortal King tier.