Chapter Summaries

Cang Xuan discovered that the dead left behind black entities outside the Heavenly Dao’s order and began turning them into Demon Puppets. As he expanded his experiments across the Three Realms, he concluded that these entities originated in living beings’ obsessions.

• Cang Xuan found a black entity resembling a dead Demon King and realized it existed without souls, vitality, or spiritual energy.
• Cang Xuan used Demon Venerable essence blood and primordial demonic runes to form the entity into a weapon he named a Demon Puppet.
• The Demon Puppet silently developed consciousness and watched Cang Xuan without submitting to him.
• Cang Xuan secretly collected the entities throughout the Three Realms while studying Zhu Yao’s Fusang Divine Tree and dismissing Jiang Taibai as an inflexible fool.
• Cang Xuan observed that the entities were most common among demonic cultivators, less common among immortals, and rarest among the Demon Race.
• Cang Xuan concluded that the entities originated from the obsessions of all living beings.

Jiang Taibai confronted Cang Xuan over his creation of Demon Puppets from the dead and their shared discovery of a flaw in the Heavenly Dao. After their first clash damaged the Ninefold Netherworld Tower, Cang Xuan transported them to a desolate realm, where they prepared to fight to the death.

• Jiang Taibai broke into the Ninefold Netherworld Tower and asked Cang Xuan whether he had discovered the remnants that did not return to heaven and earth after death.
• Cang Xuan revealed that he had reshaped the dead into Demon Puppets, which he considered a way to escape the Heavenly Dao.
• Jiang Taibai condemned Cang Xuan's work and attacked him with the Immortal-Slaying Sword, destroying more than a hundred Demon Puppets and straining the tower's defenses.
• Cang Xuan used Space Law to transport Jiang Taibai and himself to a desolate realm filled with shattered continents, wreckage, and giant skeletons.
• Jiang Taibai and Cang Xuan faced one another in the ruined land, each declaring that the other would die.

Jiang Taibai trapped Cang Xuan in the Nine Extremes Heaven-Sealing Formation, and the two weakened until they died. After three million years, a young man arrived at the ruins and mistook Cang Xuan’s lingering spirit for someone who had been waiting for him.

• Jiang Taibai activated the Nine Extremes Heaven-Sealing Formation, cutting Cang Xuan off from the Space Law and trapping him with no way to escape.
• Jiang Taibai and Cang Xuan spent tens of thousands of years wearing each other down until Jiang Taibai died, followed eventually by Cang Xuan.
• Cang Xuan preserved a wisp of his spirit and entered a deep slumber, hoping a living creature would arrive for him to possess.
• A Spatial Rift opened and hurled a young man into the ruins, where he surveyed the wreckage without fear.
• The young man addressed Cang Xuan’s spirit, claimed Cang Xuan had waited for him for three million years, and offered to send him to his next life.

Cang Xuan watched the white-haired Song Chi destroy his Demon Puppets, absorb their cores, and claim Jiang Taibai’s Nine Swords, then mistook his casual remarks for profound Dao teachings. After giving Song Chi his remaining Demon Venerable essence, Cang Xuan glimpsed his true cultivation and died of rage.

• Cang Xuan awoke and watched Song Chi effortlessly destroy the Demon Puppets and absorb their cores.
• Cang Xuan later saw Song Chi standing naked among the ruins and wondered what Dao he cultivated.
• When the Nine Extremes Heaven-Sealing Formation shook, Cang Xuan saw nine Sword Marks on Song Chi and realized the Nine Swords had acknowledged him as their master.
• Song Chi sensed Cang Xuan’s hidden remnant spirit, and Cang Xuan manifested before him to ask about rebirth and the passage of time.
• Song Chi gave Cang Xuan cryptic advice about merging with the Dao, and Cang Xuan interpreted it as profound wisdom.
• Cang Xuan gave Song Chi his remaining Demon Venerable essence, discovered Song Chi was only at the Mahayana stage, and died of rage.

The Immortal Emperors learned how Cang Xuan’s arrogance led to the Demon Puppets devouring the worlds, while Si Chen suspected the Heavenly Dao’s flaw had a deeper cause. The Ninefold Netherworld Tower began to fade into darkness, and Si Chen recognized the change as a possible transition to the Origin Realm.

• Cang Xuan’s Jade Slip showed Song Chi’s embarrassing arrival in the Immortal Realm before Si Chen cut off the images.
• Si Chen broke through the Jade Slip’s sealed barrier and revealed Cang Xuan’s notes about creating Demon Puppets and discovering one that watched and smiled at him.
• Cang Xuan left to confront Jiang Taibai without destroying the anomalous puppet, and the puppets later multiplied and consumed the Demon Realm and other worlds.
• Ancestor Si Ming called the disaster the price of Cang Xuan’s arrogance, while Si Chen wondered what had caused the Heavenly Dao’s flaw.
• The Ninefold Netherworld Tower began disappearing into absolute darkness, and Si Chen identified the change as the Origin Realm.

Si Chen and eleven Immortal Emperors entered the Origin Realm, where they confronted entities wearing the forms of Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai. The pair revealed they had devoured the Demon Realm’s Heavenly Dao and invited Si Chen to merge with them, but he questioned whether they could withstand his power.

• Chen Xu, Lu Yu, and the other Immortal Emperors found their laws and immortal essence suppressed in the Origin Realm.
• Si Chen identified the place as the reverse side of the world and sensed that the force behind events had emerged.
• A being wearing Cang Xuan’s form appeared and greeted Si Chen as a senior he had met before.
• Jiang Taibai’s form joined Cang Xuan’s, and both asked Si Chen what kind of existence he was.
• Si Chen realized the pair had devoured the Demon Realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai invited Si Chen to merge with them, and Si Chen asked whether they could contain his power.

Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai summoned the dead of the Three Realms to challenge Si Chen in the Origin Realm. Si Chen and Little Lei crushed the Demon Realm’s false Heavenly Might, and Si Chen faced the advancing army with a smile.

• Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai revealed an army made up of countless dead beings and fallen powerhouses from across the Three Realms.
• Si Chen summoned Little Lei, which transformed into a Thunder Spear as the dead claimed they were the Demon Realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai raised a scarlet lightning beast to challenge Si Chen’s Heavenly Might.
• Si Chen struck the beast down, and Little Lei pinned it beneath its claws before Si Chen beheaded it with the Thunder Spear.
• Cang Xuan, Jiang Taibai, Gu Hong, Feng Hai, and the army of the dead rushed toward Si Chen, who welcomed the fight.

Si Chen effortlessly repelled the ancient masters and tore through the Origin Realm’s army, but discovered its dead revived because its Heavenly Dao had merged with them. As Little Lei fought the reborn Crimson Thunder Beast, Lu Yu, Chen Xu, Si Ming, and the other Immortal Emperors struggled to survive and relied on Si Chen to find a way to end the threat.

• Jiang Taibai and Cang Xuan attacked Si Chen with their supreme techniques, but he closed the rift and restored the shattered space with ease.
• Si Chen charged into the army and destroyed the attacking Immortal Emperors and Filth Demons with his bare hand and Thunder Spear.
• Si Chen discovered that the Filth Demons revived almost immediately, while the Crimson Thunder Beast returned larger than before.
• Little Lei attacked the Crimson Thunder Beast with a barrage of dragon-claw slaps and shouted insults.
• Lu Yu, Chen Xu, Si Ming, Yu Han, and the other Immortal Emperors fought off the surrounding dead, whose numbers and rapid revival overwhelmed them.
• Si Ming and Yu Han concluded that their survival depended on Si Chen defeating the enemy for good.

Si Chen realized that his human habits had kept him from unleashing his full power against the regenerating Filth Demons in the Origin Realm. He summoned a star-sized sun and prepared to drop it on the Origin Realm, leaving Little Lei stunned.

• Little Lei continued savagely beating the regenerating Crimson Thunder Beast while Si Chen fought the Filth Demons.
• Si Chen wiped out a vast number of Filth Demons with a thirty-thousand-meter fireball, but the Origin Realm healed and the demons re-formed.
• Si Chen recognized that he had still been holding back out of human habit and decided to unleash his full power.
• Si Chen summoned an immense blazing sun that filled the Origin Realm and terrified Cang Xuan, Jiang Taibai, and the eleven Immortal Emperors.
• Little Lei sensed Si Chen's power, stopped fighting the Crimson Thunder Beast, and stared in shock at the enormous sun.

Si Chen unleashed the power of a star, destroying the Origin Realm and restoring the laws of the Demon Realm, but the Filth Demons reassembled despite the devastation. He prepared to shatter the entire Demon Realm, revealing himself as a being beyond the Heavenly Dao.

• Little Lei abandoned the Crimson Thunder Beast and fled into Si Chen as Si Chen’s immense star burned the beast and the surrounding Filth Demons to nothing.
• Si Chen shielded Ancestor Si Ming, Chen Xu, Lu Yu, and the other Immortal Emperors as the Origin Realm collapsed and they fell back into the Demon Realm.
• The Immortal Emperors regained their laws and power, but the Filth Demons reassembled, and “Jiang Taibai” and “Cang Xuan” praised Si Chen’s strength.
• Si Chen resolved to destroy the entire Demon Realm, summoned Little Lei as a Thunder Spear, and warned the Immortal Emperors to protect themselves.
• Si Chen’s body erupted with solar prominences and a corona halo as he revealed his divine form.

Si Chen erased the Filth Demons, then released his suppressed cultivation and ascended to Immortal Emperor without a Heavenly Tribulation. He turned to face the Star Beasts formed by Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai, ready to fight with his newly unleashed power.

• Si Chen used Origin of All Things, draw and Collapse to gather the Filth Demons into a black sphere and erase them.
• Chen Xu, Lu Yu, and the other Immortal Emperors were stunned by Si Chen's power, while Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai welcomed his revealed strength and reshaped the Demon Realm's remnants into Star Beasts.
• Si Chen's mortal body strained under his power, so he released the cultivation suppression he had been maintaining.
• Si Chen's aura surged through the Immortal Lord realm and reached Emperor Ascension, shocking the eleven Immortal Emperors.
• No Heavenly Tribulation appeared, and Si Chen explained to himself that Little Lei stood above the Three Realms' Heavenly Punishment.
• Si Chen tightened his grip on the Thunder Spear and prepared to fight the Star Beasts.

Si Chen reached the Immortal Emperor realm and unleashed his power against the Demon Realm’s Star Beasts and filth, erasing nearly everything with a vast solar halo. The survivors realized he had deliberately spared them, but the entire battlefield had vanished.

• Si Ming urged Chen Xu, Lu Yu, Yu Han, and the others to retreat as the Demon Realm’s Star Beasts charged at Si Chen.
• Si Chen reignited the beasts’ star cores, causing them to explode across the Starfield.
• Si Chen expanded his solar corona halo across the Demon Realm, erasing its Filth Demons, the Ninefold Netherworld Tower, and the surrounding ruins.
• Gray Gray and Li Tiezhu felt an unbearable heat in the Immortal Realm as the halo’s presence reached across the realms.
• Si Ming and the others survived because Si Chen spared their patch of space, then saw that everything else on the battlefield was gone.

Si Chen destroyed the Ninefold Netherworld Prison, but discovered that Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai had survived through the Heavenly Dao of the Lower Realms. They revealed that they had assimilated the Myriad Heavens and Worlds and created an imitation of Si Chen, but the copy turned against them, leaving the two Si Chens facing each other.

• Si Chen realized the other twenty-three hells had survived because the Heavenly Dao of the Lower Realms had shielded them, and Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai emerged from the void.
• Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai revealed that they had infiltrated and assimilated the Myriad Heavens and Worlds during the ten years of apparent peace.
• Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai summoned an Ultimate Demon Puppet that had copied Si Chen's aura and announced their plan to steal his Dao.
• The Ultimate Demon Puppet seized Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai, ignored their attempts to use the Dao of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, and transformed into a white-robed figure with black eyes.
• Black-Robed Si Chen regarded White-Robed Si Chen with a grave expression as the Immortal Emperors watched in shock.

White-Robed Si Chen stripped Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai of their Heavenly Dao power, destroyed the Demon Realm, and confronted Black-Robed Si Chen. He proposed erasing the contaminated lower realms and returning the myriad worlds to primordial chaos.

• White-Robed Si Chen extracted Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai’s Heavenly Dao power, annihilated them, and began devouring the Demon Realm.
• Si Chen used his Solar Corona Halo to shield Ancestor Si Ming, Chen Xu, and the other Immortal Emperors, then escaped with them through a spatial rift as the Demon Realm dissolved.
• The Immortal Emperors emerged in a barren starfield, where White-Robed Si Chen appeared before Black-Robed Si Chen.
• White-Robed Si Chen explained that he was the aspect Si Chen should have been and that Si Chen’s humanity had made him hesitant.
• Black-Robed Si Chen discovered that his annihilation authority had severed from him, and White-Robed Si Chen declared that he would erase the contaminated lower realms and return the universe to primordial chaos.

Black-Robed Si Chen tried to stop White-Robed Si Chen from erasing all the heavens, but White-Robed Si Chen severed his mortal attachments instead. Filth surged across every realm, and White-Robed Si Chen prepared to destroy the Immortal Realm and Demon Realm as well as the Lower Realms.

• Black-Robed Si Chen rejected White-Robed Si Chen's plan to erase all the heavens, and the two fought to a stalemate in the Starfield.
• White-Robed Si Chen tried to detonate the power of the Heavenly Dao but hesitated as memories of mortal life returned to him.
• White-Robed Si Chen decided his attachments threatened the Great Dao and cut them away by severing the connection between his and Black-Robed Si Chen's origins.
• Filth erupted throughout the Immortal Realm, Demon Realm, and Lower Realms, surprising both Si Chens and the eleven Immortal Emperors.
• White-Robed Si Chen declared the world beyond cure and prepared to destroy all three realms to restart the epoch.

Si Chen held the collapsing Myriad Heavens and Worlds together while White-Robed Si Chen withdrew into nothingness and named himself Taichu. Exhausted and aged, Si Chen told the surviving Immortal Emperors that he wanted to go home.

• White-Robed Si Chen used the Fusang Divine Tree to begin destroying the Immortal Realm, Demon Realm, and lower realms, causing the heavens to collapse.
• Si Chen sent his power to the Fusang Divine Tree and used golden chains to stitch the realms together, bearing their weight himself.
• White-Robed Si Chen questioned Si Chen's sacrifice, then withdrew and declared that he would return as Taichu to erase the world's errors, including Si Chen.
• Si Chen's hair turned white as he continued supporting the worlds, and Little Lei asked why he put himself through the pain.
• The eleven Immortal Emperors approached Si Chen, and he looked toward the Forgotten River and said he wanted to go home.

Si Chen returned to Undying Mountain weakened and with silver hair after shouldering the heavens’ karma, while eleven Immortal Emperors vowed to help him face Taichu. His family and Gray Gray were shocked by his condition, and Si Chen asked to rest in his courtyard.

• The eleven Immortal Emperors bowed to Si Chen, then chose to follow him and help pacify the heavens despite his offer to set them free.
• Si Chen suppressed his pain, opened a rift to the Forgotten River, and led the eleven Immortal Emperors back to Undying Mountain.
• Gray Gray saw Si Chen’s silver hair and weakened aura, mistook the Immortal Emperors for his attackers, and bit Chen Xu until Si Chen stopped him.
• Ye Fu, Si Kai, Third Uncle Granduncle, Li Tiezhu, and the Si Household clanspeople rushed out and were horrified by Si Chen’s condition.
• Si Chen reassured Ye Fu that he was all right, asked whether his courtyard had been cleaned, and said he wanted to sleep.

Si Chen dreamed of his childhood in the Si Household before resisting Taichu’s attempt to destroy the dream, then chose to remain in the mortal world despite the danger. Across several lower-realm planes, Zhu Yao and Xie Changsheng witnessed signs of a crisis linked to Si Chen and hurried to respond.

• Si Chen dreamed of a peaceful childhood with his family, but Taichu’s gaze split the sky and threatened to destroy the scene.
• Young Si Chen braced the collapsing sky with his hands, and the adult Si Chen woke beside Gray Gray, aware that Taichu still threatened the worlds.
• Si Chen resolved to spend more time in the mortal world despite the danger hanging over him.
• Zhu Yao led the Demon Race army in clearing a lower-realm plane after sensing the Fusang Divine Tree’s upheaval, the plane’s brief collapse, and a surge in Filth Demons.
• Xie Changsheng sensed two auras belonging to Si Chen collide above a lower-realm plane and recalled Shi Yin’s warning that he had to reach the Immortal King realm within a thousand years.

After helping the Upper Realm demons defeat the Filth Demons in the Ancient Netherworld, Xie Changsheng recalled the Time Amber and Shi Yin’s warning about his thousand-year deadline. He asked Sang Luo where the Ancient Netherworld’s Demon Race Ancestral Court was.

• Xie Changsheng used his Law of Time to aid Ao Lie’s demon army in battle, then learned more about the Ancient Netherworld and its half-demon inhabitants.
• Sang Luo and the native greater demons paid respects to Ao Lie, but Sang Luo’s prejudice toward Xie Changsheng prompted Ao Lie to pin him down with his pressure.
• Xie Changsheng intervened and urged Ao Lie to let the matter go, then remembered Hui Ming, Time Amber, and Shi Yin’s warning that he had a thousand years to reach the immortal king realm.
• Xie Changsheng reasoned that the intact Ancestral Court might hold Time Amber and asked Sang Luo where it was.

Xie Changsheng learned that the Demon Race Ancestral Court held a time-altering formation powered by the Time Amber he sought, and Ao Lie forced Sang Luo to guide them there. They arrived to find Upper Realm forces already occupying the battered Ancestral Court, whose three Demon Ancestors readily agreed to let Xie borrow the formation.

• Sang Luo told Xie Changsheng about the Time-Flowing Quicksand Formation, and Xie recognized it as connected to the Time Amber he sought.
• Ao Lie threatened Sang Luo until he agreed to lead them to the Ancestral Court, then ordered the Dragon Guard to escort Xie south.
• Xie Changsheng and Ao Lie reached the Ancestral Court and found it damaged by battle and occupied by Upper Realm demon troops.
• Commander Li explained that Evil Entities had nearly destroyed the site before his forces arrived to defend it.
• Xie asked the Three Demon Ancestors to let him borrow the formation, and their leader eagerly offered to guide him and activate it.