Chapter Summaries

Si Chen returned to Undying Mountain, reunited with his family, and explained his plans for the Immortal Realm. He then told Bai He to contact the three Immortal Kings of Purple Firmament Heaven because it was time to begin.

• Elder Xu, Shen Qinghuan, the elders, and the disciples knelt to welcome Si Chen and his party back to Undying Mountain.
• Si Chen reunited with Ye Fu, Si Kai, and Si Shuo, and told them that his family in the lower realm was well and that Si Ming had reached ninth place on the Azure Profound Ranking.
• Si Chen told Si Shuo that the aunties could come up with them on his next trip to the lower realm, while Si Shuo clarified that he also wanted his relatives to come.
• Si Chen explained the Immortal Realm's history and crisis, and Si Kai and Ye Fu urged him to pursue his goal without worrying about home.
• Si Chen contacted Bai He and asked him to notify the three Immortal Kings of Purple Firmament Heaven that it was time to begin.

The Twelve Immortal Emperors discussed Gu Hong’s disappearance and Si Chen’s plans for the Mortal Forbidden Zone, then chose one of their number to speak with him. At Undying Mountain, Si Chen strengthened the valley and prepared to leave the next day with Jiang Ling, before sensing something and stepping into the void.

• The Immortal Emperors failed to find Gu Hong and agreed not to discuss the secret connected to the Mortal Forbidden Zone.
• The Immortal Emperors learned that Si Chen had returned to the Forgotten River and intended to move against the Mortal Forbidden Zone, so one of them volunteered to meet him.
• Si Chen planted origin flames and laid spirit-gathering formations beneath eight palaces at Undying Mountain, prompting his companions to enter seclusion.
• Si Chen used space laws and sealing techniques to form a hidden defensive dome around Undying Mountain.
• Ye Fu shared her worries with Si Chen as he confirmed that he and Jiang Ling would leave the next day.
• Si Chen sensed something while resting outside the main palace, patted Gray Gray, and stepped into the void.

Si Chen confronted a masked Emperor Realm cultivator who warned him that investigating the Mortal Forbidden Zone would provoke the Immortal Realm’s other Emperors. After Si Chen broke the man’s mask, he recognized his face as the Si Household’s founding ancestor and suspected he used the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art.

• A masked Emperor Realm cultivator led Si Chen into the void and asked whether he had ascended from the lower realm.
• The masked man warned Si Chen that touching the Mortal Forbidden Zone would turn eleven Emperor Realm cultivators against him.
• When the man tried to leave, Si Chen attacked him, but the man’s green energy healed his wounds and restored his robe.
• Si Chen struck the man again and shattered his mask, then stopped when he recognized the face beneath it.
• The masked man fled, and Si Chen recalled that the face belonged to the Si Household’s founding ancestor and wondered if the man used the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art.

Si Chen struggled to make sense of the masked visitor who used the Si Household’s ancestral technique and appeared to be its founding ancestor, one of the Immortal Realm’s Immortal Emperors. He asked Jiang Ling about the Immortal Emperors, then told his family what had happened, leaving them stunned by the revelation.

• Si Chen stayed behind after the masked man vanished, recognizing the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art and wondering whether the man was the Si Household’s ancestor.
• The next morning, Si Chen asked Jiang Ling how many Immortal Emperors there were and whether she knew of one surnamed Si; she did not.
• Si Chen told Jiang Ling to prepare to leave, then went to the rear courtyard to speak with Ye Fu, Si Kai, and Si Shuo.
• Si Chen recounted the masked man’s visit, their conversation about the twelve Immortal Emperors, the Mortal Forbidden Zone, and the final slap.
• Si Shuo questioned whether Si Chen had mistaken the man, but Si Chen said the man’s use of the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art proved his identity.

Si Chen decided to leave with Jiang Ling to investigate whether one of the twelve Immortal Emperors was his ancestor, while his family hoped he might also find his missing father. He opened a Great Void Shift toward Purple Firmament Heaven, leaving Gray Gray behind to guard Undying Mountain.

• Si Kai and Si Shuo wondered whether the suspected ancestor might be their father, while Si Chen urged them to investigate before drawing conclusions.
• Si Chen said he would leave early with Jiang Ling to investigate the ancestor and handle business in the Mortal Forbidden Zone, and Si Kai told him not to hold back if the suspected ancestor became an enemy.
• Si Chen reassured Ye Fu and his family, then left Gray Gray behind to watch Undying Mountain.
• Si Chen met Jiang Ling, opened a spatial rift with Great Void Shift, and said Zhu Yao had taught him the ability.
• Jiang Ling entered the rift with Si Chen, and Gray Gray watched them disappear from the Ascension Platform.

Si Chen and Jiang Ling used Great Void Shift and accidentally arrived at a mysterious hall in the Immortal Realm, where they discovered twelve Emperor Realm thrones and dozens of unfamiliar names. Si Chen memorized the hall’s location, then left with Jiang Ling to continue their business.

• Si Chen and Jiang Ling emerged from Great Void Shift in a starless void, where Si Chen admitted they were off course.
• They entered a concealed hall and found twelve empty thrones carrying the oppressive aura of Emperor Realm cultivators.
• Si Chen realized the hall was likely the meeting place of the twelve Immortal Emperors who guarded the Immortal Realm.
• Si Chen and Jiang Ling found a star chart matching some immortal-domain coordinates and many unfamiliar names carved into tablets around the hall.
• Si Chen memorized the hall’s location, declined to investigate the names, and opened another rift to continue their journey.

Si Chen arrived at the Mortal Forbidden Zone with Jiang Ling and the leaders of Purple Firmament Heaven, then ordered the prepared fleet to begin relocating the gray-blue star and its mortals. As the migration began, the sealed thing inside the star stirred, but Si Chen stopped the star from trembling and ordered the operation to continue.

• Si Chen and Jiang Ling crossed two dangerous spatial rifts before reaching Purple Firmament Heaven.
• Bai He, Chen Yong, Mo Xuan, and Yue Hua pledged their support to Si Chen and led him to the Mortal Forbidden Zone.
• Bai He reported that the fleet, forty-nine formation eyes, and preparations to relocate the mortals and their belongings were ready.
• Si Chen surveyed the gray-blue star with his divine sense and ordered Chen Yong to begin the migration.
• The Starships activated the formation, but the sealed thing inside the star stirred and made the star tremble.
• Si Chen stopped the trembling with a gesture and ordered the migration to continue.

Ten Immortal Emperors arrived at Forgotten River to confront Si Chen, but his formation protected the star and revealed that he was in Purple Firmament Heaven. Si Chen left his family and friends to face the visitors while he continued dealing with the Mortal Forbidden Zone.

• Ten Immortal Emperors reached Forgotten River and the female Immortal Emperor used her Divine Sense to survey the star.
• Si Chen's formation covered Forgotten River in golden light, resisted the Divine Sense, and formed the Eye of Si Chen in the sky.
• The Immortal Emperors realized Si Chen was in Purple Firmament Heaven, tampering with the Mortal Forbidden Zone.
• Si Chen saw the ten visitors through his will on Undying Mountain and decided to let his family and friends entertain them.
• The formation sent ten beams of golden light into Xie Changsheng, Song Chi, Zhou Yan, Luo Hongyi, Murong Li, Black Mountain, Red Wind, Si Kai, Si Shuo, and Ye Fu, while Gray Gray complained that it had received none.

Si Chen sent a portion of his power to Undying Mountain, where Xie Changsheng and the others charged to face ten Emperor Realm experts while Song Chi led the attack. At the Mortal Forbidden Zone, Si Chen broke the planet’s seal, awakening something within as a white-haired Immortal Emperor arrived in alarm.

• Si Chen sent the Sun portion of his power to Undying Mountain, and Xie Changsheng recognized the borrowed strength as his companions sensed ten Emperor Realm experts in the void.
• Song Chi drew Shadowstrike and charged the ten experts, followed by Xie Changsheng, Zhou Yan, Luo Hongyi, Murong Li, Black Mountain, Red Wind, and Si Shuo.
• Si Chen, his eyes now black, prepared to break the Mortal Forbidden Zone’s seal after the mortals had been relocated.
• Si Chen clenched his hand and cracked the planet open, causing its surface to split apart as a gigantic, withered hand reached through the fissure.
• A white-haired Immortal Emperor arrived, demanded to know what Si Chen had done, and watched the planet disappear beneath black mist.

Si Chen and Jiang Ling confronted the black mist where the Mortal Forbidden Zone had been, while a white-haired Immortal Emperor tried to suppress it. The mist rebuilt a figure that recognized the emperor as Chen Xu and called him a usurper.

• Si Chen ordered Bai He and the Purple Firmament Heaven fleet to retreat, but Jiang Ling stayed beside him.
• The white-haired Immortal Emperor summoned countless Emperor Realm meteorites to seal the Mortal Forbidden Zone in the black mist.
• The black mist burst through the meteorites, and their fragments were stopped by Purple Firmament Heaven’s protection formation or crumbled near Si Chen.
• The black mist formed a body around the severed hand and turned its gaze toward the white-haired Immortal Emperor.
• The figure called the emperor Chen Xu and addressed him as a usurper.

Immortal Emperor Chen Xu fought two black-mist figures that regenerated and grew stronger, while Jiang Ling and the others watched from afar. The mist formed Gu Hong, who greeted Chen Xu, and Si Chen prepared to destroy the strange beings.

• Chen Xu mocked the black-mist figure as a former enemy and struck it with his battle axe, splitting it in two.
• The black-mist figure regenerated as two separate beings and declared that it had died long ago, while Chen Xu charged back into battle.
• Jiang Ling recalled Zhu Yao’s account of the Other Race, and Bai He and Purple Firmament Heaven’s Immortal Kings withdrew their fleet from the battlefield.
• Chen Xu’s attacks failed to harm the black-mist figures as they adapted, grew stronger, and pressed him back.
• The two masses of mist formed Gu Hong, whose severed arm had regrown, and he greeted Chen Xu.
• Si Chen called the beings filthy things and raised his hand to make them vanish.

Si Chen destroyed Gu Hong and the two black shadows with Little Lei’s black lightning, but they reappeared and split apart when he struck them again. Their black mist then took the shapes of the dead before the withdrawing Purple Firmament Heaven army, including Jiang Ling’s father, Jiang Yuan.

• Si Chen crushed Gu Hong and the two black shadows, spared Chen Xu, and ordered him to stay put.
• Si Chen used Little Lei, transformed into a black lightning spear, to erase the three figures and a stretch of void.
• The three figures reformed in weaker shapes, fled from Si Chen, and split apart when he pierced them again.
• Black mist appeared around the withdrawing Starship army and took the forms of its members’ dead loved ones.
• Jiang Ling saw her dead father, Jiang Yuan, take shape before her.

Si Chen stopped Jiang Ling from embracing the apparitions of her dead parents, while the resurrected dead began slaughtering Purple Firmament Heaven’s army. Bai He ordered the cultivators to fight back, but the battle worsened as the dead proved hard to destroy and slain cultivators rose again as enemies.

• Jiang Ling saw apparitions of her parents and walked toward them, but Si Chen destroyed them with black lightning and pulled her away.
• The resurrected dead attacked cultivators who had embraced them, and Bai He recognized that his former Dao companion was not real.
• Bai He ordered Purple Firmament Heaven’s cultivators to follow him and kill the apparitions, while Chen Yong attacked his resurrected master.
• The resurrected dead fought with the strength they had possessed in life and reformed after being scattered.
• Black vapor rose from fallen cultivators and turned their corpses into attackers, leaving Purple Firmament Heaven’s army facing ever-growing numbers of enemies.

Si Chen destroyed the dead figures attacking the cultivators of Purple Firmament Heaven, then captured Chen Xu after realizing Gu Hong and two black figures had escaped. He demanded that Chen Xu tell him everything.

• Jiang Ling confronted Si Chen about the dead figures, while Chen Xu feared Si Chen and failed to contact the other Immortal Emperors in the Forgotten River.
• Si Chen stopped himself from clearing the battlefield by killing everyone, then unleashed black Thunder Dragons that erased the dead figures.
• Si Chen drew the returning black mist and half-formed figures into a black sphere and made it vanish.
• Bai He, Chen Yong, Mo Xuan, Yue Hua, and the surviving cultivators thanked Si Chen for saving them.
• Si Chen sensed that Gu Hong and two black figures had escaped, dragged Chen Xu before him, and demanded to know everything.

Chen Xu revealed that the Immortal Lords had been sacrificed for a necessary purpose, while Song Chi and Xie Changsheng fought Immortal Emperors at the Forgotten River. Xie Changsheng resolved to become strong enough to stand on his own, as the battle continued.

• Chen Xu realized Si Chen knew nothing about the era in which the Immortal Lords disappeared and laughed at him.
• Jiang Ling confronted Chen Xu about her father and the vanished Immortal Lords, and Chen Xu called them necessary sacrifices.
• Song Chi fought an Immortal Emperor with nine swords, rejected the names Jiang Taibai and Demon Venerable Cang Xuan, and declared himself Song Chi of Hidden Edge Mountain.
• Xie Changsheng used the law of time to evade an Immortal Emperor's attacks while reflecting on his borrowed strength and resolving to grow stronger.
• Xie Changsheng's silver eyes turned cold as his bearing changed in the middle of the fight.

The ten from Undying Mountain held off ten Immortal Emperors across Forgotten River using powers Si Chen had left them. Just as the Immortal Realm forces prepared to retreat, a doorway opened from the Demon Realm and Zhu Yao greeted them alongside a vast demon army led by two Demon Sovereigns.

• Zhou Yan used his Star River Chessboard across the Forgotten River Starfield while Murong Li’s words hindered an Immortal Emperor.
• Luo Hongyi’s zither music disrupted the Immortal Emperors’ focus, while Black Mountain and Red Wind attacked with brute strength bolstered by Si Chen’s golden light.
• Ye Fu faced the female Immortal Emperor, and the Si brothers recognized the masked figure’s use of the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art and intensified their attacks.
• The Immortal Emperors, unable to advance and wary of the unknown, agreed to retreat.
• A blazing doorway opened from the Demon Realm, revealing millions of demons and two Demon Sovereigns as Zhu Yao greeted the Immortal Realm forces.

Zhu Yao and Feng Qing arrived in the Forgotten River and realized the current Immortal Emperors were not the ancient figures they remembered. In Purple Firmament Heaven, Jiang Ling attacked Chen Xu over the massacre of potential Immortal Emperors, and he revealed that he had once demanded answers from the First-Generation Immortal Emperors.

• Zhu Yao and Feng Qing searched the Forgotten River for Si Chen, then confronted the Immortal Emperors and found none of them familiar from ancient times.
• Zhu Yao recognized Yu Han as the current wielder of the mystic ice Dao and realized the previous emperor was gone.
• Zhu Yao flared with anger and demanded to know where the ancient Immortal Emperors had gone.
• The lead Immortal Emperor said the ancient figures had made a “necessary sacrifice,” while the gathered Forgotten River companions watched.
• Jiang Ling struck Chen Xu with her saber and demanded to know why the Immortal Emperors had killed everyone who might become an emperor.
• Chen Xu told Jiang Ling that he had once asked the same question of the First-Generation Immortal Emperors.

Chen Xu rose from a gifted disciple to an Immortal Lord while remaining attached to the people and home he had left behind. Soon after his breakthrough, a masked stranger appeared and warned him to sheathe his edge.

• Chen Xu rushed with Senior Brother Yuan Pu to attend their master's sermon after oversleeping.
• Chen Xu became the Heavenly Mystery Sect's youngest True Immortal, later defeated its disciples in the grand tournament, and reached the Golden Immortal realm.
• Chen Xu entered the Immortal King realm, and the sect was renamed the Heavenly Mystic Immortal Sect; he and Yuan Pu laughed over their former master's trouble entering the patriarch's hall.
• Chen Xu began leaving the sect to seek greater heights, and at age twelve thousand he entered the Immortal Lord realm.
• A masked stranger appeared in Chen Xu's hall and warned him to sheathe his edge.

Chen Xu dismissed a warning to hide his strength, then rose to the height of his power before the Demon Realm was destroyed and the Other Race invaded from Hell. He fought to defend the Grand Void Immortal Domain at great cost, while his sect and surviving companions fell silent.

• Chen Xu rejected a mysterious man's advice to conceal his strength and went to drink with Senior Brother Yuan Pu.
• Chen Xu advanced to mid-stage Immortal Lord, drew an Immortal Emperor's attention, and believed he would one day reach the summit.
• Reports of escalating fighting ended with the Demon Realm's destruction, leaving Cang Xuan's fate unknown.
• Chen Xu and Senior Brother Yuan Pu wondered at the Demon Realm's fall, then learned the Other Race had come from Hell.
• Chen Xu rushed to the front lines, where the Other Race repeatedly regenerated and turned fallen comrades into enemies.
• Chen Xu defended the Grand Void Immortal Domain at a terrible cost, returning to his sect between battles to visit his master and drink with Senior Brother Yuan Pu.

Chen Xu spent three days drinking and reminiscing with Senior Brother Yuan Pu before leaving the Heavenly Mystic Immortal Sect, unaware it was their last time together. Later, he joined the Immortal Realm’s army at the Demon Realm, where a golden light sealed the realm and the Immortal Emperor called the vessel lost, leaving Chen Xu confused and under the Emperor’s unsettling gaze.

• Chen Xu reunited with Senior Brother Yuan Pu and spent three days drinking, sharing memories, and promising to keep going until he was the greatest under heaven.
• Chen Xu left the Heavenly Mystic Immortal Sect without looking back, not knowing he would never drink with Senior Brother Yuan Pu again.
• Chen Xu joined the Immortal Realm’s army marching into the Void and exchanged a nod with the masked Immortal Lord Shen Ming.
• At the edge of the Demon Realm, Chen Xu asked the Immortal Emperor why the army was waiting, but the Emperor told him only to wait.
• A golden light sealed off the Demon Realm, and the Immortal Emperor exclaimed that Zhu Yao had gone too far and that the vessel was lost.
• Chen Xu asked what vessel the Emperor meant, but the Emperor silently regarded him and the other Immortal Lords with scrutiny and indifference.