Chapter Summaries

Chen Xu watched the Immortal Realm abandon the Demon Realm and later joined its battles against the Other Race, while Shen Ming repeatedly warned him to be cautious. At a gathering of the Immortal Realm’s Immortal Lords, the Immortal Emperors announced that resolving the crisis required sacrifices and began slaughtering them.

• The Immortal Emperor ordered the army to withdraw from the sealed Demon Realm, and Chen Xu questioned the decision as the silent force departed.
• Chen Xu fought the Other Race across the Immortal Realm, then received a summons for every surviving Immortal Lord to gather and discuss the war.
• Shen Ming warned Chen Xu to proceed with caution as they waited among nearly all the Immortal Lords.
• Every Immortal Emperor appeared and claimed they had found a way to resolve the Other Race crisis through necessary sacrifices.
• The Immortal Emperors immobilized the Immortal Lords and began killing them, leaving Chen Xu among the gathered survivors as the slaughter started.

Chen Xu realized the Immortal Emperors had been preserving Immortal Lords’ corpses to turn them into vessels for the Other Race. As the Immortal Lords faced certain death, Shen Ming revealed his peak cultivation and began an Emperor Tribulation, forcing the Immortal Emperors to confront him.

• The Other Race surged from the Void, and an Immortal Emperor used the Sealing Technique to force some of them into an intact Immortal Lord’s corpse.
• Chen Xu understood that the Immortal Emperors had preserved the corpses as vessels after losing their intended supply from the Demon Realm.
• Shen Ming’s aura rose to the peak of the Immortal Lord realm, and thunderclouds gathered as the Immortal Emperors realized he was about to undergo an Emperor Tribulation.
• Shen Ming removed his mask, asked the Immortal Emperors to guard him, and faced the first bolt of heavenly lightning.

Shen Ming’s Emperor Tribulation turned against the Other Race and trapped everyone on the battlefield, punishing anyone who attacked beneath its heavenly judgment. As the Other Race swarmed the Immortal Emperors, Shen Ming charged into their midst, drawing the tribulation after him.

• Shen Ming faced the descending Emperor Tribulation, but its lightning veered away from him and annihilated a mass of the Other Race.
• The tribulation expanded into a sealed domain around the battlefield, and Shen Ming sensed the Heavenly Dao’s hatred of the Other Race before telling the Immortal Lords to seal their auras.
• The tribulation ignored those who concealed their auras and relentlessly struck the Other Race, while an Immortal Lord who attacked was destroyed by its lightning.
• The Other Race rushed at the Immortal Emperors for protection, and an Emperor who struck back was wounded by the tribulation but survived.
• Shen Ming mocked the Immortal Emperors for becoming the vessels they had sought, then charged toward their gathering and drew the Emperor Tribulation along.

After surviving the Emperor Tribulation and reaching the Emperor Realm, Shen Ming led the surviving Immortal Lords into hiding while the wounded Immortal Emperors and the Other Race remained unaccounted for. When the group finally emerged, they found the Grand Void Immortal Domain stripped of spiritual energy and occupied by the Other Race, and Chen Xu rushed down to investigate.

• Shen Ming survived the Emperor Tribulation and entered the Emperor Realm with the Life-Creating Dao, though his body was badly damaged.
• Chen Xu and more than thirty other Immortal Lords hid in a cave, where Shen Ming urged them to wait for the wounded Immortal Emperors to succumb to what was inside them.
• After an unknown stretch of time, Shen Ming decided the survivors should leave the cave and see what had happened.
• The group found the Void silent and the Grand Void Immortal Domain's main planet drained of spiritual energy and covered by enormous formations.
• Chen Xu plunged toward the planet after Shen Ming sensed large numbers of the Other Race inside, and Shen Ming told the others to follow him carefully.

Chen Xu returned to the ruined Heavenly Mystic Immortal Sect and found his master and senior brother Yuan Pu corrupted by the Other Race. After killing them, he mourned Yuan Pu and vowed to become invincible.

• Chen Xu ignored Gu Hong's warnings and led the Immortal Lords through the ruined Main Star, fighting waves of Other Race creatures as he searched for his home.
• Chen Xu reached the Heavenly Mystic Immortal Sect and found his master and Yuan Pu waiting at the Side Hall, both overcome by the Other Race.
• Yuan Pu and Chen Xu's master attacked him, but Chen Xu could not bring himself to strike back until Yuan Pu reminded him to keep walking on.
• Chen Xu let Yuan Pu's sword cut his face, then killed his master and Yuan Pu as their bodies dissolved into black mist.
• Chen Xu knelt beside Yuan Pu as he called his junior brother invincible, then stood and vowed, "I will be invincible."

After discovering that their immortal domains had been massacred, Chen Xu and the other Immortal Lords followed Shen Ming to confront Feng Hai and eight other ailing Immortal Emperors. Feng Hai admitted that they sought new vessels to contain the black entities consuming them, and both sides prepared to fight for the fate of the Immortal Realm.

• Gu Hong and the other Immortal Lords found their principal planets devastated, while Shen Ming revealed that he had no loved ones or domain to lose.
• Lu Yu identified the seals as Feng Hai's work, and Chen Xu, Gu Hong, and Shen Ming agreed to confront him.
• Shen Ming led the group to a vast, empty palace, where they found Feng Hai and eight other Immortal Emperors weakened by black energy.
• Feng Hai stopped Gu Hong's sword strike and revealed that he had long observed Shen Ming, who had secretly attained the Emperor Realm.
• Shen Ming deduced that the black entities were consuming the Emperors and that they intended to take the Immortal Lords' bodies as vessels.
• Feng Hai confirmed their bodies were failing and challenged the Immortal Lords to fight, as both sides prepared for battle.

After the battle, Feng Hai gave Shen Ming a Jade Slip containing his lifetime of knowledge about sealing the Other Race and challenged him to consider whether he would make the same choices as the Immortal Emperors. Once Feng Hai died, Lu Yu discovered a section of the Jade Slip titled “Mortal Forbidden Zone Plan” bearing Jiang Taibai’s name, leaving the survivors stunned.

• The battle ended with Shen Ming standing, while Chen Xu, Gu Hong, and the other surviving Immortal Lords lay grievously wounded among the dead.
• Feng Hai told Shen Ming that the Other Race beings trapped inside the dead Immortal Emperors could not escape for now, then gave him a Jade Slip containing his research on the Sealing Technique.
• Shen Ming told Feng Hai that his original name was Sun Ming, and Feng Hai asked whether he would act differently from those he condemned when he took the Immortal Emperor’s seat.
• Feng Hai died after warning the survivors that his words would haunt them, and Shen Ming collapsed from exhaustion.
• Lu Yu examined the Jade Slip and found a section titled “Mortal Forbidden Zone Plan” bearing Jiang Taibai’s name, shocking him and Gu Hong.

Lu Yu’s Jade Slip revealed that Jiang Taibai discovered the taint behind the Other Race, while Feng Hai and the Immortal Emperors repurposed the Mortal Forbidden Zone plan to seal it using Immortal Lords as vessels. Years after the Other Race was sealed and the Immortal Realm recovered, Shen Ming learned that Si Chen had appeared at the Forgotten River and set his sights on the Mortal Forbidden Zones, so he decided to meet him.

• Lu Yu projected Jiang Taibai’s records, which described his Mortal Forbidden Zone plan, his discovery of taint, and his vow to atone with his death if the plan failed.
• Lu Yu read Feng Hai’s annotations identifying the Other Race as taint and explaining the plan to seal it within drained stars using powerful cultivators’ corpses and mortal inhabitants.
• Chen Xu realized the Immortal Emperors had intended to use the Demon Sovereigns’ corpses, then chose Immortal Lords as substitute vessels after Zhu Yao sealed the Demon Realm.
• Gu Hong cursed the Immortal Emperors’ decision, while Lu Yu confirmed that Feng Hai’s sealing method was real and Shen Ming watched Feng Hai’s corpse in silence.
• Many years later, Shen Ming and Chen Xu mourned the Immortal Lords whose names were engraved in the hall, and Shen Ming said he no longer knew whether his real name was Shen Ming or Sun Ming.
• Shen Ming learned that Si Chen had appeared at the Forgotten River and wanted to act on the Mortal Forbidden Zones, then volunteered to go and see what sort of person Si Chen was.

Chen Xu confessed that he and his allies had repeated the First-Generation Immortal Emperors’ killings to sustain the Mortal Forbidden Zone plan, then challenged Si Chen to do the same. Si Chen rejected Chen Xu’s logic, vowed to end the Mortal Forbidden Zone, and left with Chen Xu and Jiang Ling while Purple Firmament Heaven prepared to evacuate the mortals.

• Jiang Ling demanded to know whether Chen Xu had killed the Immortal Lords of her father’s generation, and Si Chen accused him of repeating the First-Generation Immortal Emperors’ methods.
• Chen Xu admitted that his group had killed cultivators who later became Immortal Lords and continued the Mortal Forbidden Zone plan, then insisted Si Chen would make the same choices.
• Si Chen declared that Chen Xu’s rules and predicament did not apply to him, and revealed that he knew Chen Xu had not killed Jiang Yuan.
• Si Chen announced that the Mortal Forbidden Zone would cease to exist, ordered Bai He, Chen Yong, Mo Xuan, and Yue Hua to monitor the zones, and told them to evacuate the mortals.
• Si Chen took Chen Xu through a spatial rift, and Jiang Ling followed him toward the Forgotten River.

Si Chen returned to the battlefield above the Forgotten River with Jiang Ling and Chen Xu, interrupting the Immortal Emperors’ fight against Zhu Yao, Feng Qing, and the Undying Mountain group. After manifesting a spear of black lightning, he declared that the Immortal Realm belonged to him from that day forward.

• Si Chen used the Great Void Shift to bring Jiang Ling and Chen Xu to the void above the Forgotten River, where solar true flame parted around them.
• Jiang Ling and Chen Xu saw Zhu Yao and Feng Qing fighting alongside the Undying Mountain group against ten Immortal Emperors.
• Zhu Yao stopped her attack when she sensed Si Chen, and the Immortal Emperors recognized Chen Xu in his grasp.
• Song Chi and the others from Undying Mountain relaxed at Si Chen’s return, while Xie Changsheng sensed something troubling about him.
• Si Chen tossed Chen Xu aside, formed a spear from black lightning, and declared that the Immortal Realm was his.

Si Chen gave the ten Immortal Emperors one chance to attack him together, then destroyed Lu Yu’s sealing tower and plunged them into a darkness that suppressed their senses. Shen Ming urged the group to retreat, but the chapter left them flying through the endless darkness with no sign of escape.

• Si Chen appeared among the ten Immortal Emperors and told them they had one chance to attack him together.
• Lu Yu summoned the Ninefold Heaven-Sealing Seal, and the other Immortal Emperors joined him in powering the golden tower.
• Si Chen remained still as the tower descended, then broke it apart with black lightning, injuring Lu Yu and the others through backlash.
• Darkness swallowed the battlefield, and the Immortal Emperors’ divine senses were severely suppressed; they found that Si Chen, Zhu Yao, Feng Qing, the Undying Mountain cultivators, and Chen Xu were gone.
• Shen Ming advised the Immortal Emperors to retreat and rescue Chen Xu later, so Lu Yu led them flying in one direction.
• The ten Immortal Emperors flew for an extended time, but the darkness around them remained unchanged and endless.

Si Chen overwhelmed the Immortal Emperors, then reunited with his white-robed counterpart and returned to his complete form. After directing everyone to handle the aftermath, he asked Shen Ming to remove his mask and recognized the face as belonging to an ancestor of the Si clan.

• Lu Yu and the other Immortal Emperors found themselves trapped in darkness before a pair of enormous eyes appeared and crushed their dharma forms.
• Si Chen warned the Immortal Emperors that they would die if they moved again, and they stayed still.
• Golden light streamed from Xie Changsheng and the others, forming a white-robed Si Chen beside the black-robed Si Chen.
• The two versions of Si Chen merged, and Si Chen directed his allies to deal with the Immortal Emperors and move the Demon Realm army near Undying Mountain.
• Si Chen ordered Shen Ming to remove his mask, and Si Kai and Si Shuo recognized his face from the portrait in their clan's Ancestral Hall.
• Si Chen asked whether he should call the masked man Shen Ming, Sun Ming, or Ancestor Si Ming.

Shen Ming revealed that he was Si Ming, an ancestor of Si Chen’s family, and explained that other Si Household descendants had hidden their identities in the Immortal Realm. Si Chen prepared to return to the Undying Mountain with his family and the defeated Immortal Emperors, planning to summon Zhao Wumian for answers.

• Si Shuo accused Shen Ming of impersonating the Si Household ancestor, while Si Kai and the others realized they had fought their own forebear.
• Si Ming told Si Chen that the later Si Household descendants had concealed their names and identities in the Immortal Realm.
• Si Ming named Zhao Wumian as an Immortal Emperor who had Si Household descendants serving under him, and Si Chen recalled meeting him on the Mining Star.
• Zhu Yao and Feng Qing joined Si Chen as the Demon Realm army headed for the Undying Mountain.
• Si Chen ordered the ten Immortal Emperors brought back with them, and Si Ming flew toward the Undying Mountain ahead of the others.

Zhao Wumian sensed trouble and considered moving again, while Si Chen returned to the Undying Mountain with the Demon Sovereign and the Demon Realm army. After revealing the truth behind the ancient plans and the Demon Race’s role as intended vessels, Si Chen followed the furious Zhu Yao out of the hall.

• Zhao Wumian felt a sudden shiver and decided he might need to move again rather than risk approaching trouble.
• The Demon Realm’s army emerged at the Forgotten River, and Si Chen reassured the panicked cultivators that the Demon Sovereign and Immortal Emperors had come as guests.
• Gray Gray rushed to greet Si Chen, while Zhu Yao and Feng Qing exchanged jealous and teasing looks over his affection.
• At the Undying Mountain, Si Chen explained the origins of the Other Race, the First-Generation Immortal Emperor’s plan, and the truth behind the Mortal Forbidden Zone and the slaughter of the Immortal Lords.
• Zhu Yao learned that Feng Hai and others had planned to use the Demon Race as vessels, then left the hall in anger, followed by Feng Qing and Si Chen.

After the Immortal Emperors’ schemes were suppressed, Zhu Yao left the hall and admitted to Si Chen that she wanted to kill those responsible. Si Chen supported her choice, and she returned to her child form and embraced him, while Feng Qing tried and failed to get the same comfort.

• Gray Gray was knocked into the air by Zhu Yao and Feng Qing as they rushed out, and Si Chen comforted it before chasing after them.
• The Undying Mountain’s formation suppressed the Immortal Emperors’ attempts to scheme, and Lu Yu gave up and closed his eyes.
• Zhu Yao stood at a cliff with Feng Qing and told Si Chen she wanted to kill people; he said he would support her and help.
• Zhu Yao returned to her original child form and embraced Si Chen.
• Feng Qing claimed she had twisted her ankle and transformed into a little girl, but Red Bean objected when she sought Si Chen’s embrace.

Si Chen returned to the Main Hall and said he knew how to deal with the Other Race, while declaring that the Mortal Forbidden Zone would cease to exist. He proposed keeping the Immortal Emperors in the Forgotten River, leaving Jiang Ling’s grievance against Jiang Yuan unresolved.

• Feng Qing asked Si Chen what he planned to do, and he said they would first clear out the remaining Other Race and send them on their final journey.
• Red Bean and Feng Qing recounted how they had met Jiang Yuan and Shen Wei, leading Red Bean to suspect the pair knew the truth about the Other Race and might not have been among those slaughtered.
• Si Chen returned to the Main Hall with Red Bean, Feng Qing, and Zhu Yao, where Jiang Ling and the Immortal Emperors were waiting.
• Si Chen told everyone that the Mortal Forbidden Zone would never exist again and suggested the Forgotten River could hold the Immortal Emperors.
• Black Mountain asked whether they should tie up the Immortal Emperors, while Zhou Yan avoided his signal for a binding rope.

After the Immortal Emperors left, Si Chen’s companions worried they were falling behind him, and he reassured them that their achievements were their own. Feng Qing and Zhu Yao carried Gray Gray away for a stroll, leaving the donkey braying miserably as the others wondered what was happening to it.

• Si Ming led the Immortal Emperors out of the hall, while Jiang Ling kicked over their chairs and left in anger.
• Si Shuo slipped away, and Feng Qing and Zhu Yao decided to explore and check on the army.
• Feng Qing scooped up Gray Gray and carried it off despite its protests, while Si Chen made no move to rescue it.
• Xie Changsheng and Song Chi told Si Chen they felt they were falling behind and becoming people he had to protect.
• Si Chen said his progress came from being born different and praised his companions for reaching their heights through their own efforts.
• Black Mountain lightened the mood by boasting about becoming an ancestor, but Gray Gray’s distant brays left everyone wondering if it was being stewed.

Song Chi connected the black, regenerating beings he encountered during ascension to the Other Race, while the group linked them to Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai’s investigation of a lingering “filth.” After Zhu Yao and Feng Qing brought ten Demon Emperors to meet Si Chen, Si Chen considered visiting the Demon Realm once the Immortal Realm’s affairs were settled.

• Song Chi told Si Chen and the others that black, regenerating beings he had fought during ascension resembled the Other Race and that Cang Xuan had called them demon puppets.
• Luo Hongyi read Jiang Taibai’s note about dangerous “filth” left behind when cultivators died and his plan to consult Cang Xuan in the Demon Realm.
• Murong Li said she could not see the future clearly, but that it had been all light since she began following Si Chen, except when he prepared to break the Demon Realm’s seal.
• Zhu Yao and Feng Qing returned with ten Demon Emperors, while Gray Gray collapsed after their flight and discovered that his signature bangs had turned into an afro and fallen out.
• Feng Qing introduced the ten Demon Emperors to Si Chen, who welcomed them and considered visiting the Demon Realm to investigate its possible connection to the Other Race, Cang Xuan, and Jiang Taibai.

Si Chen hosted the Demon Emperors while Red Bean and Feng Qing competed for his attention, and he arranged for Black Mountain and Red Wind to strengthen their bloodlines. Meanwhile, Bai He evacuated the mortals from Floating Net Heaven, but the Mortal Forbidden Zones began erupting as he and Chen Yong were coordinating their work.

• Red Bean and Feng Qing sat on either side of Si Chen and sparred over his attention as he welcomed the Demon Emperors and introduced the people from Undying Mountain.
• Red Bean offered to strengthen Black Mountain and Red Wind's bloodlines with ancient demons' origin blood from the Fusang Divine Tree, and Feng Qing agreed to take them there.
• Si Chen left the gathering, and Feng Qing and Red Bean argued over whether she wanted to share his burdens or his affection.
• Bai He ordered the final evacuation of Floating Net Heaven's mortals and contacted Chen Yong, who reported that most Immortal Kings had followed Si Chen's orders but some were delaying.
• Black mist erupted from the Mortal Forbidden Zone as the ground shook, and Bai He recognized the crisis, ordered Chen Yong to notify Si Chen, and commanded his army to retreat.

Si Chen learned more about Jiang Taibai, Cang Xuan, and the sealed Demon Realm from Si Ming. The black mist then broke through the seals across the Mortal Forbidden Zone, and Bai He reported that mortals on several planets had been wiped out.

• Si Kai told Si Chen that his grandfather was alive with Zhao Wumian, whose original name was Si Mian.
• Si Chen asked Si Ming about Jiang Taibai and Cang Xuan, and Si Ming described Jiang Taibai as a decent Immortal Emperor and Cang Xuan as a genius who sought to understand the world's essence.
• Si Ming warned that the sealed Demon Realm could not be entered and that something inside had watched them with curiosity when they approached.
• Bai He contacted Si Chen to report that black mist had broken through the seals in the Mortal Forbidden Zone and that all the seals were collapsing.
• Bai He said some Immortal Kings had disobeyed Si Chen's orders and that the mortals on those planets had been wiped out, then asked him for a decision.