Chapter Summaries

Lin Yue and the allied kings defeated the Foreign Realm, killed its last kings, and began purging and governing its territories. As the surviving races adjusted to the new rule, the Nine Heavens discovered that Dark Beings had become deeply integrated into the realm and would need to decide how to handle them.

• Lin Yue defeated Wu Shang, and Shi Hao killed the last remaining Foreign Realm king, Kundi.
• Lin Yue ordered the allied kings to complete the purge and stabilize the Foreign Realm before darkness arrived.
• The Nine Heavens and Immortal Domain forces purged clans implicated in the war while allowing untainted survivors to remain.
• Shi Hao and the Exiled Immortal met Ma Lu, a returning female king, and she agreed to help oversee the Foreign Realm's future.
• The allied forces restored order across the Foreign Realm, and True Immortals discovered that Dark Beings had lived among its people for many epochs.
• A True Immortal said the Wusheng Heavenly Emperor had anticipated the issue and that the Dark Beings would need only to swear an oath.

After the Nine Heavens defeated the Foreign Realm, its kings arranged peaceful coexistence and prepared a great victory celebration while confronting growing unrest in the Boundary Sea. As the celebration began, kings there asked the Nine Heavens to let them land and seek shelter.

• Jin Yang entered the Immortal King Realm, while many kings emerged in the Nine Heavens and its allied lineages after the war.
• Shi Hao, the Ten-Crown King, Jin, and the Exiled Immortal met Immortal King Ma Lu and invited her to represent the Foreign Realm at a gathering to discuss coexistence.
• The Nine Heavens declared victory in the war and scheduled a grand banquet at Imperial Pass a thousand years later.
• During the preparations, Meng Tianzheng and Ancestor Gu guarded the Foreign Realm as Boundary Sea kings gathered nearby, and Immortal King Ma Lu led Foreign Realm immortals toward Imperial Pass.
• Several Boundary Sea kings asked a young Nine Heavens king to let them land, promising to avoid destruction and help protect the ancient world.

Shi Hao and the Nine Heavens agreed to spare the defeated Foreign Realm and merge it into their realm under the Wusheng Heavenly Emperor’s commands. After the celebration, Immortal King Ma Lu learned the Wusheng Heavenly Emperor had entered the supreme realm, and the Foreign Realm’s people began reckoning with their new status.

• Shi Hao told the Boundary Sea kings to wait for the Wusheng Heavenly Emperor’s permission before entering the Nine Heavens, then returned to the Imperial Pass with the Ten-Crown King.
• Immortal Kings from the Immortal Domain and the returning Shi Hao, the Ten-Crown King, and other kings gathered at the Imperial Pass for the celebration.
• Shi Hao offered the Foreign Realm equal access to resources and cultivation grounds if its races swore a blood oath to join the Nine Heavens and obey its commands, and Immortal King Ma Lu accepted.
• The Nine Heavens and the Foreign Realm began merging, and the celebration lasted a hundred years before the Immortal Domain kings and other guests departed.
• The Thunder Emperor told Immortal King Ma Lu that the Wusheng Heavenly Emperor had entered the supreme realm and that his decrees could not be defied.
• In Myriad Forms City, Ancient Ancestor Jing Lü reassured the Foreign Realm’s youth that they would be treated equally, while young people vowed to compete with peers from the Nine Heavens.

The Nine Heavens and the Foreign Realm began exchanging cultivation methods, and the Wusheng Heavenly Emperor offered Foreign Realm youths places at branches of the First Academy. Lin Yue then ordered the kings of the Boundary Sea gathered under unified command, but Shi Hao and the other young kings faced resistance from kings who feared being forced into servitude.

• The Nine Heavens and Foreign Realm began peaceful exchanges, and the Mo Family's True Immortal announced that Foreign Realm youths who passed the trials could enter branches of the First Academy.
• Over several hundred years, Meng Tianzheng, Ancestor Gu, and others established First Academy branches across the great realm.
• Lin Yue ordered Kong Ling and Kong Qing to tell Huang to gather the Boundary Sea kings and settle them in the Foreign Realm, and the Nine Heavens kings began carrying out the edict.
• Gu Fu, Jin, and Exiled Immortal killed a fallen King Beast near the Foreign Realm, while Shi Hao, the Ten-Crown King, and Lin Ni arrived to help receive the Boundary Sea kings.
• The White-Robed Immortal King and others required returning Boundary Sea kings to swear an oath, while Immortal King Bei Wu explained the terms and reassured them.
• Seven Boundary Sea kings challenged Huang's authority, but the Ten-Crown King, Exiled Immortal, and Shi Yi stood against them as Shi Hao watched the dispute.

Shi Hao brought a group of Boundary Sea kings into the Nine Heavens and proposed an offensive against the Reception Ancient Halls. Their arrival was welcomed in the Foreign Realm, where Shi Hao called for a meeting to prepare for more kings to join.

• The Ten-Crown King shattered a Boundary Sea king’s Scarlet Divine Cauldron and drove the hostile kings away.
• Shi Hao accepted Bai Yu, Lan Li, and other kings into the Nine Heavens under the conditions that they obey Wusheng Heavenly Emperor’s commands and share the world’s fortunes.
• Shi Hao and the other kings agreed to target the Reception Ancient Halls, despite the newcomers’ fears of the halls’ immense karma.
• Shi Hao led the Boundary Sea kings to the Foreign Realm and explained that the Immortal Domain was allied with them.
• Shi Hao returned to the Foreign Realm with the kings, announced their arrival, and ordered a meeting as Ancestor Gu and Meng Tianzheng welcomed them.

Shi Hao confronted a group of fused fallen kings led by a White Tiger King and demanded they surrender their ruined Reception Ancient Hall. As the kings attacked, Shi Hao fought them alone while Boundary Sea kings watched for an opportunity to intervene.

• The Thunder Emperor and other Immortal Kings joined the Nine Heavens, and Shi Hao ordered the kings to seize Reception Ancient Halls and fight dark and fallen beings.
• The Ten-Crown King, Jin, Lin Ni, Gu Fu, and other kings led groups into battle, destroying halls and hunting fallen beings across the Boundary Sea.
• Shi Hao sensed emperor light growing within him as he guarded a region alone and detected dark matter in a White Tiger King and four accompanying kings.
• Shi Hao demanded that the newcomers leave their Reception Ancient Hall and withdraw, but they refused and attacked him.
• The White Tiger King combined White Tiger slaughter arts with Golden Crow wings and flames, while the other kings joined the assault on Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao wielded his Sword Embryo and fought the fused kings as other Boundary Sea kings watched the battle and the ruined Ancient Hall.

Shi Hao defeated the nine-headed monster after a battle that displayed his Self-Transformation at Ease art, then killed the fleeing White Tiger King with help from the Nine Heavens kings. Learning that the darkness had tortured and twisted Immortal Kings into experiments, Shi Hao resolved to proclaim himself Emperor and draw the darkness to him, and the Ten-Crown King and the others pledged to follow him.

• Shi Hao fought the nine-headed monster, countering his fused ancient arts with the Nine Heavens' techniques and his own strongest secret art, Self-Transformation at Ease.
• Shi Hao destroyed the monster's spirit bodies, subdued him, extracted his memories, and killed him; the White Tiger King then fled but was killed by the Ten-Crown King and the others.
• Boundary Sea kings recognized the Nine Heavens' strength and began approaching to join them.
• Shi Hao told the Ten-Crown King and the others that the darkness had imprisoned and corrupted Immortal Kings as part of its path to a higher realm.
• Shi Hao declared his intent to proclaim himself Emperor and draw the darkness toward him, and the Ten-Crown King and the others pledged to follow the Heavenly Emperor.

Shi Hao and the Nine Heavens kings fought back against a surprise invasion by fallen beings, while battles spread across the Burial Domain and Immortal Domain. As the war began, Willow Deity completed her transformation into a true Emperor, leaving the realms facing an even greater conflict ahead.

• Shang Feng, Tong Pei, and other Boundary Sea kings joined the Nine Heavens after Shi Hao demanded a blood oath and loyalty to the Wusheng Heavenly Emperor.
• Shi Hao and the returning kings discovered fallen beings capturing inhabitants with Reception Ancient Halls and attacked them, while Meng Tianzheng, Ancestor Gu, the Thunder Emperor, and others battled the invaders.
• Shi Yi and Ge Gu intercepted Reception Ancient Halls, while Shi Hao fought the Dark Demon Dragon and a Sacred Spirit but could not stop several halls from escaping.
• Fallen forces attacked the Burial Domain and Immortal Domain as their kings united to resist them, while the Burial Master warned that larger armies of darkness were approaching.
• Willow Deity's imperial Dao transformed her divine kingdoms, and after nearly a million years of transformation she entered the true Emperor Realm.

Lin Yue and the Fake Medicine Seller intervened as Emperors to stop the fallen beings’ assault on the Burial Domain and Immortal Domain, while Shi Hao and the Nine Heavens kings fought to save their comrades. The chapter ended with another Emperor’s will freezing the battle around Shi Hao.

• Lin Yue’s emperor will erased the fallen beings attacking the Burial Domain, and he reunited with Ying Ze before capturing the Burial Domain’s Origin Ancient Artifact.
• Lin Yue ordered the Burial Domain kings to join the Immortal Domain and prepare for war against the darkness.
• The Fake Medicine Seller’s emperor will swept through the Immortal Domain, destroying dark and fallen beings and ordering the kings to gather the Reception Ancient Halls.
• Shi Hao, Ancestor Gu, the Thunder Emperor, and other kings fought fallen titans as Reception Ancient Halls fled with captured kings.
• Lin Yue’s emperor will froze the battle around Shi Hao, stopping the kings and fallen beings as spacetime was drawn away from the present age.

Willow Deity became an Emperor and quelled the Boundary Sea turmoil, rescuing captives and drawing many kings toward the Nine Heavens. As the kings gathered to prepare for war, the darkness noticed the losses and launched a new assault, which the chapter left looming over the assembled forces.

• Willow Deity emerged on the Dam, used her imperial power to destroy fallen beings, restore ruined worlds, and pull the fleeing Reception Ancient Halls back through time.
• The Boundary Sea kings and Nine Heavens kings recognized Willow Deity as an Emperor, while she told them to prepare for a great war and invited willing kings to join the Nine Heavens under oath.
• Willow Deity returned to the Bamboo Forest Secret Realm and discussed with Lin Yue whether her intervention had disrupted their plans; Lin Yue said the darkness might notice, and that Shi Hao would soon enter the Emperor Realm.
• The Fake Medicine Seller ordered the Immortal Domain to gather Boundary Sea kings and unite against the darkness, while Shi Hao led the newly allied kings into the realm.
• The Three Dark Emperors' forces noticed that many beings and Reception Ancient Halls had vanished, declared a new era of destruction, and sent a dark storm across the Boundary Sea.
• Hundreds of Immortal Kings and tens of thousands of other beings gathered in the Central Ancient Hall of the Foreign Realm as they sensed the destruction of the era beginning.

During the war against darkness, Shi Hao completed his seventh secret realm and entered the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm. His Emperor’s domain overwhelmed both sides of the battle as he began destroying the fallen forces.

• The Immortal Kings fought the fallen beings across the Boundary Sea, and the Heavenly Emperor Lineage destroyed the altar powering the Grudge Immortal Curse.
• Thunder Emperor unleashed his tribulation lightning against the dark forces, while Ancestor Gu and the other kings used their powers to hold the Dam.
• Qing Xiang was nearly killed by a curse, but Emperor Ying secretly intervened and destroyed the fallen kings attacking her.
• Ten-Crown King, Lin Ni, and Shi Yi joined forces against the fallen beings as Shi Hao fought with the Sword Embryo.
• During the battle, Shi Hao naturally completed his seventh secret realm, and his body and Dao transformed as Emperor qi spread through him.
• Shi Hao’s domain revealed his Quasi-Immortal Emperor might; he split the Boundary Sea, seized Reception Ancient Halls, and erased fallen Immortal Kings with his sword.

Shi Hao entered the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm during the battle in the Boundary Sea, drove back the fallen beings, and welcomed the Butcher into the fight against the darkness. With the Dark Calamity temporarily suppressed and several Emperors united, Lin Yue prepared to lead them into the Darkness Ancient Land.

• Shi Hao appeared on the Dam as an Emperor and pursued the fleeing fallen beings through the Boundary Sea, slaughtering their kings.
• Meng Tianzheng, the Thunder Emperor, Old Kunpeng, and the Butcher witnessed Shi Hao's power and recovered from their battle against the fallen giants.
• Shi Hao invited the Butcher to join the Nine Heavens, and the Butcher agreed to face the darkness alongside them.
• The Fake Medicine Seller, Lin Yue, and the Willow Deity sensed Shi Hao's breakthrough, while Lin Yue concluded that the Emperors should enter the Darkness Ancient Land.
• Shi Hao returned to the Dam with Meng Tianzheng, the Thunder Emperor, and the other kings as the cultivators celebrated their victory.

Shi Hao, Lin Yue, Su Ying, and Willow Deity prepared to invade the Darkness Ancient Land and fight its four Emperors, while the Kings arranged defenses across their realms. Su Ying announced that the Emperor-led expedition would begin in ten thousand years, leaving the Kings to prepare for the coming Dark Calamity.

• Shi Hao and Su Ying joined Lin Yue and Willow Deity in the Bamboo Forest Secret Realm to plan a war against the darkness.
• Lin Yue proposed that Shi Hao, Su Ying, and Xuan Chuan's Emperor Flame draw out the dark Emperors while Willow Deity helped defeat them, and he would hold back the remaining Emperor.
• Shi Hao and Su Ying agreed that the Kings must guard the Nine Heavens, Immortal Domain, and Burial Domain against attacks during the Emperor war.
• Su Ying addressed the Immortal and Burial Kings, warning that ancient history was beginning to twist and ordering all cultivators to prepare for war.
• Su Ying announced that he would cross the Boundary Sea in ten thousand years to quell the Dark Calamity and urged the Kings to survive until his return.

Shi Hao, Lin Yue, the Willow Deity, and Su Ying set out into the Boundary Sea to quell the dark calamity, leaving the kings of the Nine Heavens to guard their realms. As they traveled deeper, Shi Hao and Su Ying revealed their Emperor status to ancient kings and learned of a formation leading toward the Ultimate Ancient Land.

• Shi Hao ordered the kings of the Nine Heavens to prepare for war and stay behind while he entered seclusion to refine safeguards.
• Lin Yue visited his family and traveled across the realms with the Willow Deity before the Emperors departed.
• After ten thousand years, Shi Hao, Lin Yue, the Willow Deity, and Su Ying left the Dam and entered the Boundary Sea as the kings saw them off.
• The Ten-Crown King urged the remaining kings to prepare for the coming battle, while Butcher, the Burial Master, Meng Tianzheng, and the Thunder Emperor entered seclusion to pursue the Emperor Realm.
• Deeper in the Boundary Sea, Shi Hao and Su Ying encountered ancient kings and revealed that they had surpassed the King Realm.
• An old king told Shi Hao and Su Ying that a fallen Reception Ancient Hall and its formation could lead to the ancient land, though dark storms guarded it.

Shi Hao and Su Ying crossed the Boundary Sea, reached the Darkness Ancient Land, and launched a battle against the Cang Emperor. Their fight shattered the ancient land and distorted the river of time, and the Cang Emperor unleashed a demonic shadow to attack Su Ying from the past.

• Shi Hao and Su Ying found a ruined Shi Clan King's Ship and recovered the empty body of its king.
• They entered the Darkness Ancient Land through the Reception Ancient Hall's formation and crossed the Dam despite its Quasi-Immortal Emperor storms.
• Su Ying and Shi Hao ignored the warnings of the supreme giants and advanced toward the Dark Heavenly Court.
• Su Ying attacked the gray-haired Cang Emperor, and the two Emperors' clash destroyed the Heavenly Court and sent shock waves through time and the Boundary Sea.
• Su Ying extracted a stretch of spacetime from the river of time to trap the Cang Emperor, but the Cang Emperor shattered it and sent his demonic shadow into the past to attack.

Su Ying, Shi Hao, and Xuan Chuan battled Cang Emperor until Hong Emperor and Yu Emperor arrived, turning the fight into a war among six emperors. Their clash shook ancient history and was reflected across the realms, where kings recognized Shi Hao fighting Yu Emperor.

• Su Ying and Xuan Chuan wounded Cang Emperor and forced him to admit that he had sacrificed the beings of Heavenly Court.
• Cang Emperor summoned Hong Emperor, who then called Yu Emperor to join them against Shi Hao, Su Ying, and Xuan Chuan.
• Hong Emperor sent armies of fallen beings and Immortal Kings toward the Boundary Sea to end the era and begin a new cycle.
• Shi Hao fought Yu Emperor, Su Ying attacked Hong Emperor, and Xuan Chuan charged at Cang Emperor.
• The six emperors' battle tore through time and was reflected across the Nine Heavens, the Immortal Domain, the Burial Domain, and other realms.
• Kings watching the reflection recognized Shi Hao fighting the winged Yu Emperor with his Sword Embryo against the Emperor Spear.

The Willow Deity joined the imperial battle and helped turn the tide against the dark emperors, while Shi Hao continued to suppress Yu Emperor. By the end, Cang Emperor and Hong Emperor had been repeatedly battered but remained difficult to kill, and Lin Yue stayed alert for the World-Destroying Elder.

• Lin Yue signaled the start of the ambush after Shi Hao gained the advantage over Yu Emperor.
• The Willow Deity emerged from the River of Time and pierced Hong Emperor with her Three Thousand Divine Willow Branches.
• Su Ying and the Willow Deity forced Cang Emperor back, shifting the battle as the emperors surrounded the dark forces.
• The Willow Deity sent her Divine Kingdom into the River of Time to counter Cang Emperor’s Sacrificial Secret Technique.
• The Willow Deity held off Cang Emperor and Hong Emperor while Xuan Chuan and Su Ying attacked, and Lin Yue watched for the World-Destroying Elder.
• Cang Emperor and Hong Emperor remained suppressed but alive, while Yu Emperor suffered the worst damage in his battle with Shi Hao.

The World-Destroying Elder emerged and healed the three dark Emperors, but Shi Hao’s transformation and the arrival of three Quasi-Immortal Emperors from another time plunged the battle into chaos. As the newcomers sought to eliminate Shi Hao and his allies, they discovered another powerful Emperor in this ancient history, who then stepped out in black robes.

• The World-Destroying Elder appeared, overpowered Su Ying and the Willow Deity’s attacks, and gave Emperor pills to Yu Emperor, Hong Emperor, and Cang Emperor.
• Shi Hao, the Willow Deity, Su Ying, and Xuan Chuan rejected the elder’s call to stop fighting, and the dark Emperors resumed their attacks.
• Shi Hao’s imperial might transformed to the absolute pinnacle, alarming the World-Destroying Elder and forcing the three dark Emperors to retreat.
• Three Quasi-Immortal Emperors arrived from downstream in the River of Time and declared that they had come to kill Shi Hao and his allies.
• The newcomers searched for another Emperor they feared was hidden in this era, and a majestic figure in black robes stepped out of ancient history.

Lin Yue’s side gained three future Quasi-Immortal Emperors as allies, turning the battle against the dark faction into a clash of fifteen Emperors. The Emperor battle began in the Boundary Sea, where Su Ying and Xuan Chuan continued fighting Cang Emperor as time and spacetime collapsed around them.

• Three Quasi-Immortal Emperors arrived from a future timeline to aid Lin Yue’s side, reversing the dark faction’s numerical advantage.
• Lin Yue assigned the newcomers to fight the three future Emperors who had joined the dark faction, while his allies handled the rest.
• The Emperors launched into battle as the River of Time twisted and ancient history began to overturn.
• The Female Emperor intercepted the golden-armored woman when she attacked Shi Hao, while the other Emperors fought across the Boundary Sea.
• Su Ying and Xuan Chuan continued encircling Cang Emperor, suffering severe damage as their battle threatened the collapsing spacetime.

Lin Yue revealed five Dao Lords born from his Divine Universes and fought World-Destroying Elder, whose Nine-Nether Ao form wielded nine elemental laws. The battle opened with the Heavenly Dao Master joining Lin Yue’s assault, while the other emperors continued fighting across the River of Time.

• The Female Emperor suppressed the golden-armored woman, while the Divine Cauldron wielder broke his opponent’s body in two.
• World-Destroying Elder revealed his Nine-Nether Ao form, and Su Ying and Shi Hao recognized his terrifying origin and power.
• Lin Yue expanded his supreme Dao Body across the Rivers of Time and summoned the Heavenly Dao Lord, Asura Path Lord, Hell Path Master, and Ghost Emperor.
• World-Destroying Elder attacked Lin Yue, hoping to devour him and claim his Dao fruit.
• Lin Yue met World-Destroying Elder’s attack with a strike, and the Heavenly Dao Master joined the battle by striking at the nine-law storm.