Chapter Summaries

Jin Yang demonstrated the Nine Heavens’ strength by defeating the Immortal Domain’s prodigies and older cultivators in the Altar arena. His overwhelming mastery of yin-yang, space, and the Golden Crow’s time-spanning art left the Immortal Domain shaken and forced him to remember that the Nine Heavens still held even greater figures.

• Jin Yang accepted the Immortal Domain cultivators’ challenge and entered the Altar arena using the Nine Heavens’ Yin-Yang Reversal footwork.
• Jin Yang defeated Chen Bei’s ancestral techniques with ease, then extinguished Myriad Phenomena Star Luo by combining Heaven and Earth in the Palm with yin-yang laws.
• Jin Yang continued suppressing one prodigy after another, even as some joined forces against him and cultivators of an older generation entered the arena.
• More than twenty cultivators attacked Jin Yang together, but he remained unhurried and overwhelmed them with the Golden Crow’s Heaven-Covering Immortal-Burning Art.
• Jin Yang unleashed One Cry of the Golden Crow, making the assembled fighters feel the force of time and an era’s fall before he withdrew the phenomenon.
• The Immortal Domain cultivators reeled from Jin Yang’s display, while Jin Yang’s pride faded as he recalled the even greater figures of the Nine Heavens.

As the Immortal Domain reconsidered its relationship with the Nine Heavens, a wave of young cultivators there reached the Supreme level, including Jin Yang in the Golden Crow clan. Later, Black Dog hunted Cao Yusheng until Shi Hao appeared and seized the dog with a mysterious spatial power.

• Jin Yang and Jin Xiao warned the Immortal Domain that the Nine Heavens' prodigies had been tempered in battle and could surpass even the Golden Crow clan's strongest, prompting calls for exchanges between the realms.
• After the Immortal Domain's kings rejected reconnecting the realms, support grew for inviting Nine Heavens cultivators to visit, while Jin Yang returned to his clan and entered seclusion.
• Lin Ni, Ten-Crown King, Shi Yi, Exiled Immortal, Jin of the Heavenly Horned Ant Clan, Gu Fu, and the Three Descendants of the True Dragon entered the Supreme level, while Shi Hao wandered in search of a path to immortality.
• Jin Yang reached the Supreme level at three hundred years old, and the Golden Crow clan celebrated his breakthrough.
• Black Dog chased Cao Yusheng through a secret realm, claiming he would make him a human pet despite Cao Yusheng's attempts to fight back.
• Shi Hao appeared and caught Black Dog in an enormous hand; Cao Yusheng recognized him and urged him to kill the dog.

Shi Hao and Cao Yusheng brought a black dog from Immortal Ancient back to the Imperial Pass, where the dog learned how greatly the Nine Heavens had changed and pleaded to see the revived kings. After Shi Hao tested himself against his old rivals, Ancestor Gu recognized the dog and explained that Immortal King Wuzhong and Lord Reincarnation had left no imprints for the Heavenly Emperor to restore.

• Shi Hao and Cao Yusheng learned that the black dog had followed Immortal King Wuzhong, and the dog became desperate to see the Heavenly Emperor and the revived kings.
• The group traveled to the Imperial Pass, where Shi Hao reunited with his old rivals and defeated them in the Martial Arts Proving Grounds.
• The black dog drew attention from Imperial Pass cultivators by claiming it had followed Immortal King Wuzhong, while Shi Hao admitted he still had no clue how to become an immortal.
• Ancestor Gu recognized the black dog and confirmed it had survived the battle with an incomplete Primordial Spirit.
• Ancestor Gu told the dog that the Heavenly Emperor had searched for imprints to restore more Immortal Ancient kings, but Wuzhong and Reincarnation had left no trace.

Wusheng Heavenly Emperor summoned the Imperial Pass’s young prodigies to meet him in the Yin-Yang Realm and announced that they would travel to the Immortal Domain to encounter its talents. After reuniting with Little Black and explaining that Wuzhong and the other lost kings left no imprints to guide them back, Lin Yue welcomed the prodigies and urged them to grow quickly because little time remained.

• Kong Ling and Kong Qing arrived at the Imperial Pass with the Heavenly Emperor’s summons, inviting the young generation to meet him in three years as the Great Cleansing began and contact with the Immortal Domain approached.
• During the three-year wait, the prodigies trained, while Little Black tried to join them and hoped Wusheng Heavenly Emperor could help him find Wuzhong.
• Kong Ling and Kong Qing led the prodigies through the teleportation gate into the Yin-Yang Realm, where they marveled at its powerful Dao resonance and reached the Lin Family’s bamboo-forest secret realm.
• Lin Yue appeared before the gathered prodigies, and Little Black recognized him as the Heavenly Emperor and asked about Wuzhong; Lin Yue said Wuzhong and the others had left no imprints, though a similar flower might appear after endless ages.
• Lin Yue welcomed the prodigies and explained that he intended to send them to the Immortal Domain to meet its talents and test their strength.
• The prodigies discussed their eagerness to visit the Immortal Domain as Lin Yue reflected that they needed to grow quickly because little time remained.

Pan Heng and his companions from the Immortal Domain visited the Nine Heavens to invite its cultivators to the Pan King's Peach Banquet, and they were astonished by the Yin-Yang Realm, its Immortal Kings, and Lin Yue's prodigies. Years later, as the Nine Heavens prepared to send its younger generation to the Immortal Domain, the cultivators wondered which senior would escort them.

• Pan Heng led a delegation from the Pan King's lineage into the Nine Heavens and asked to enter the Yin-Yang Realm.
• Yu Quan told the visitors that three Immortal Kings had arisen from the Heavenly Emperor Lineage and three from the Heavenly Horned Ant Clan, leaving the delegation dumbstruck.
• Lin Zhong welcomed Pan Heng, then escorted him and his companions to the Ancient Courtyard, where Lin Yue accepted the invitation and proposed an exchange between the younger generations.
• Over the following years, Shi Hao and other Nine Heavens prodigies grew stronger while fighting the Foreign Realm, as the Peach Banquet in the Immortal Domain approached.
• At the Imperial Pass, Yang Di, Wu You, and Cao Yusheng discussed the Immortal Domain and wondered which senior would lead their journey.

The Nine Heavens’ kings arranged for Meng Tianzheng and Tian Xiao to lead its young cultivators to the Immortal Domain, where they arrived to take part in an exchange. Their prodigies impressed the Immortal Domain’s cultivators, while some of its residents suspected the visit was meant to secure an alliance before the coming Great Cleansing.

• Ancestor Gu raised concerns about the young cultivators’ safety, and Meng Tianzheng agreed to lead the journey with Tian Xiao accompanying him.
• Shi Hao and the other young talents boarded the Divine Ship as Meng Tianzheng and Tian Xiao led them through the realm gate into the Immortal Domain.
• Jin Bo welcomed Meng Tianzheng and learned that Tian Xiao was the Lord of the Forbidden Zone’s royal title.
• The Immortal Domain’s cultivators were shocked by the number of young Nine Heavens Supremes and the presence of two unrivaled Immortal Kings.
• Some Immortal Domain cultivators questioned the Nine Heavens’ motives and speculated that it sought an alliance ahead of the Great Cleansing and Dark Turmoil.

The Nine Heavens prodigies arrived in the Immortal Domain and were welcomed at Pan King City, where their strength astonished the local kings and young cultivators. As the Peach Banquet approached, the two realms’ rulers discussed a possible alliance against the coming upheaval while their younger generation began competing.

• Jin Bo and Jin Xiao greeted the Nine Heavens prodigies, and Jin Xiao urged the Immortal Domain’s youths to treat them with respect.
• Meng Tianzheng and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone led the Nine Heavens delegation to Pan King City, where their Immortal King Dharma Forms shocked the watching kings.
• Pan King’s gathering drew prodigies from across the Immortal Domain, and Pan Shu welcomed the Nine Heavens True Immortals with peach wine.
• Pan King and the other Immortal Kings asked Meng Tianzheng and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone about renewing an alliance, but the leaders said neither side could decide without broader unity.
• Great Xumi fought an outstanding youth of the Primordial Chaos Lineage, whose control over primordial chaos impressed the Nine Heavens prodigies.

Shi Hao defeated Pan Yi and revealed that the Willow Deity was his master, earning praise from Immortal Kings and drawing anger over his title of Desolate Heaven Emperor. After three years of clashes between the Nine Heavens’ prodigies and the Immortal Domain’s young cultivators, the Peach Banquet began gathering prominent figures in Pan King City.

• Pan Yi challenged Shi Hao, who overwhelmed him and destroyed the Pan King Lineage Ancestral Art with power rooted in the Willow Deity’s method.
• Immortal King Duchen and other Immortal Kings praised Shi Hao’s near-immortal cultivation, while Pan King recognized his connection to the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit.
• The Nine Heavens’ prodigies defeated challengers across the Immortal Domain, and Shi Hao’s title of Desolate Heaven Emperor provoked angry protests.
• Lin Ni, the Exiled Immortal, and other Nine Heavens cultivators suppressed Immortal Domain challengers while Shi Hao remained out of the fights.
• Three years later, the Peach Banquet gathered prodigies and powerful figures in Pan King City, including Fairy Kong Tong.

The Nine Heavens’ prodigies gathered in Pan King City for a grand exchange with the Immortal Domain, where old grudges against Wusheng Heavenly Emperor shaped the growing hostility. Lin Ni answered Hei Yuan’s challenge as the first duel began, leaving him facing a Supreme’s saber strikes.

• Jin Yang arrived in Pan King City, and the gathered cultivators learned that Huang was in seclusion while the Ten-Crown King was cultivating in Pan King’s Peach Grove Dao Soil.
• Pan King City awakened as Immortal Kings from across the Immortal Domain arrived, and Yuan Chu and Ao Sheng questioned the Nine Heavens’ allegiance to Wusheng Heavenly Emperor.
• Pan King opened the gathering, and the Immortal Domain’s young cultivators demanded an unrestrained contest against the Nine Heavens’ prodigies.
• Hei Yuan challenged Wusheng Heavenly Emperor’s descendant, and Lin Ni stepped forward to fight him.
• Hei Yuan attacked Lin Ni with a black saber, but Lin Ni’s speed let him evade the opening strikes as Hei Yuan taunted him.

Lin Ni defeated wave after wave of Immortal Domain challengers while enduring a lightning tribulation, then Jin defeated Ao Qian in the arena. The Immortal Kings disagreed over renewing an alliance with the Nine Heavens as the Immortal Domain's young talents reeled from their defeats.

• Lin Ni shattered Hei Chen’s battle saber and defeated the Red-Haired Youth and successive challengers while using their battles to temper himself through a lightning tribulation.
• After Lin Ni left the altar, Immortal Domain spectators taunted him to keep fighting, while Cao Yusheng called them foolish for ignoring the gap between him and them.
• Ao Qian challenged Jin and dismissed the Nine Heavens’ Huang, but Jin shattered Ao Qian’s opening attack and revealed himself as a member of the Heavenly Horned Ant Clan.
• Ao Qian unleashed his sword formation and Ao Sheng’s lineage’s supreme light secret art, but Jin resisted with his divine strength and immortal true intent, then blasted Ao Qian off the altar.
• Pan King and Primordial Chaos Immortal King supported renewing the alliance between the realms, while the Chen Family’s Ancestor and Yuan Chu Immortal King opposed it.
• The Immortal Domain’s assembled heroes struggled to accept Ao Qian’s defeat and demanded that someone else fight Jin.

After the Immortal Domain’s prodigies lost to the Nine Heavens’ young cultivators, Shi Hao’s appearance drew the attention of Immortal King Ao Sheng and other kings, who suspected his art belonged to the Willow Deity. When Ao Sheng demanded that the Nine Heavens hand Shi Hao over, the Lord of the Forbidden Zone and his allies refused, leaving the two sides in conflict.

• Jin, the Ten-Crown King, Shi Yi, and the Exiled Immortal defeated Immortal Domain prodigies, while Ku Luoxia forced Jin Yang to a draw with her five-elements art.
• Ao Sheng and other Immortal Kings recognized the Willow Deity’s art in Shi Hao’s techniques, and Ao Sheng failed to divine Shi Hao’s past or future clearly.
• Shi Hao earned praise as the foremost talent of the younger generation, and the month-long gathering ended with Immortal Domain prodigies humiliated by his victories.
• After the gathering, Immortal Domain True Immortals discussed renewing an alliance with the Nine Heavens, while Ao Sheng and other kings confronted the Lord of the Forbidden Zone and Meng Tianzheng.
• Ao Sheng demanded that Shi Hao be handed over because his divinations showed a future unfavorable to him, but the Lord of the Forbidden Zone and Meng Tianzheng refused.
• Ao Sheng warned the Lord of the Forbidden Zone about the danger of another mishap after his return from reincarnation, and the Lord dismissed the threat and defended the Nine Heavens.

Ao Sheng and the other Immortal Kings resolved to eliminate Shi Hao after divining signs of their own deaths, while Meng Tianzheng prepared to confront them. Shi Hao learned the kings were targeting him because of the Willow Deity, and the chapter ended with his allies questioning their reliance on divination.

• After the Peach Banquet, Ao Sheng secluded himself and repeatedly divined Shi Hao's fate until he saw signs of his own demise.
• Ao Sheng, Yuan Chu, and Tai Shi decided to capture Shi Hao and seize his memories, recruiting allies because he was staying in Pan King City.
• Shi Hao emerged from cultivation, met Pan Shu, and later gathered with Nine Heavens and Immortal Domain prodigies at the Moonfall Star Pavilion.
• Pan King and the other Immortal Kings discussed Ao Sheng's plans, while Meng Tianzheng declared he would suppress their forces himself.
• Rumors spread that Ao Sheng's group intended to summon Shi Hao, and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone explained that their hostility stemmed from the Willow Deity and their divinations about her.

Meng Tianzheng fought Immortal King Ao Sheng after Ao Sheng tried to seize Huang, then defeated him with a devastating punch. The other Immortal Kings intervened to block Meng Tianzheng and let Ao Sheng escape, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Ao Sheng demanded that the Nine Heavens hand over Huang as Meng Tianzheng and the others left Pan King City, and the Immortal Kings prepared to fight.
• Meng Tianzheng refused to surrender Huang and challenged Ao Sheng, while the Lord of the Forbidden Zone faced Yuan Chu Immortal King.
• Meng Tianzheng overcame Ao Sheng’s sword arts and struck him down from the sky, shocking the Immortal Domain’s cultivators and the Ao Family.
• The Immortal Kings praised Meng Tianzheng’s strength but formed a line to stop him, while the Lord of the Forbidden Zone held Pan King and the others back.

Meng Tianzheng revealed the force behind Shi Hao’s Heavenly Emperor title by suppressing the Immortal Domain kings who had opposed him, then returned to the Nine Heavens with the younger generation. Years later, the Nine Heavens prodigies advanced their cultivation, and strange signs in the Yin-Yang Realm suggested that someone was about to return.

• Shi Hao urged Meng Tianzheng to leave Willow Deity’s karma for him to settle once he became an Immortal King, and Meng Tianzheng explained that a Heavenly Emperor must suppress every enemy.
• Meng Tianzheng used his supreme dream realm to defeat the Immortal Domain kings, including Tai Shi and Yuan Chu, and left them incapacitated before Pan King City.
• Pan King acknowledged Meng Tianzheng’s strength, and Meng Tianzheng led Shi Hao and the other young people back to the Nine Heavens without further opposition.
• After returning, the Nine Heavens younger generation fought at Imperial Pass and cultivated intensely, with Lin Ni, the Ten-Crown King, the Exiled Immortal, Shi Yi, and Jin reaching the apex of the extreme dao over the next dozen years.
• Shi Hao worked to sublimate his secret-realm cultivation method and establish his path to immortality on a supreme foundation.
• The Yin-Yang Realm grew turbulent as lightning gathered around an ancient secret realm, signaling that someone might soon return.

Lin Yue rescued Su Ying from an Emperor Flame in the Boundary Sea and returned with the flame, an old friend who had fallen in battle. Meanwhile, the Nine Heavens gained new Immortal Kings, and Thunder Emperor Xiao began settling his old score with Le Yu at the Imperial Pass.

• Lin Yue followed Su Ying’s distress mark through time and found him fleeing an Emperor Flame in the Boundary Sea.
• Lin Yue suppressed the flame, recognized it as an old friend, and brought it and Su Ying back toward the Nine Heavens.
• During Lin Yue’s absence, Thunder Emperor Xiao and Lin Dong ascended to the Immortal King throne, strengthening the Nine Heavens.
• Thunder Emperor Xiao fought Le Yu on the battlefield and vowed that their reckoning was only beginning.

The Nine Heavens and Foreign Realm clashed over the Rotten Wooden Box Shi Hao found, drawing their Immortal Kings into a widening war. Thunder Emperor Xiao slew Immortal King Le Yu, and the chapter ended with both sides facing off as the Foreign Realm demanded the box.

• Immortal King Le Yu fought the Thunder Emperor while Ancestor Gu battled the Red King, and the True Dragon and other Nine Heavens fighters faced Foreign Realm Immortal Kings.
• Shi Hao fled with the Rotten Wooden Box as Foreign Realm forces pursued him, and Lin Zhen destroyed an Immortal King’s hand reaching to seize it.
• The box’s importance drew Immortal Kings from both realms into battle, and the Nine Heavens forces withdrew toward their territory with the box secured.
• Thunder Emperor Xiao unleashed Nine Tribulations Lightning and annihilated Immortal King Le Yu.
• The Foreign Realm threatened to destroy the Nine Heavens unless it surrendered the box, while Meng Tianzheng and the other kings stood ready to fight.

After Shi Hao recovered the Rotten Wooden Box, the Nine Heavens Kings failed to open it, and Lin Yue and the Fake Medicine Seller revealed that they were Emperors preparing for a war against the Darkness Source. The chapter ended with Shi Hao entering the Immortal Dao and, months later, three figures meditating in the Bamboo Forest Secret Realm.

• Immortal King Sheng Chou ordered the Foreign Realm to retreat, while Ancestor Gu and the Red King ended their battle without a victor.
• Shi Hao showed the Rotten Wooden Box to the Nine Heavens Kings, but their attempts to open or divine it failed.
• Lin Yue and the Fake Medicine Seller appeared at the altar, and Lin Yue told the kings to leave the box alone.
• Lin Yue revealed that the Foreign Realm was a training ground and that four Emperors of the Darkness Source threatened the realms, so the Nine Heavens had to prepare for war.
• Lin Yue and the Fake Medicine Seller departed, and news later spread that Shi Hao had entered the Immortal Dao and killed a Foreign Realm Quasi-King.
• In the Yin-Yang Realm’s Bamboo Forest Secret Realm, three figures sat cross-legged as an immense aura shone from one of them.

The Great Cleansing began as returning kings settled old grudges across the realms, while Shi Hao resolved to reach the Immortal King Realm so he could help suppress the turmoil. In the Nine Heavens, a demonic king returned to confront Wuzhong, and the kings prepared to destroy him rather than let him join them.

• Lin Yue explained the difference between Quasi-Immortal Emperors and Immortal Emperors, prompting the kings to cultivate more urgently.
• Shi Hao defeated and killed Yan Gong, then joined the kings’ deliberations as they planned to handle returning kings across the Nine Heavens.
• The Great Cleansing spread through the Immortal Domain and Foreign Realm as returning kings fought old enemies, and Wu Shang killed a king who had tried to settle a grudge with him.
• Shi Hao entered seclusion to perfect his sixth secret realm, determined to become an Immortal King and help quell the turmoil.
• A demonic king emerged from a black pool in the Nine Heavens and declared his intention to settle karma with Wuzhong, prompting the kings to decide he must be eliminated.

The Nine Heavens’ Great Cleansing escalated as more returning kings gathered in the Boundary Sea and lit the World Annihilation Incense, drawing lost kings toward Great Red Heaven. The Nine Heavens’ forces rushed to stop them, but dozens of kings invaded, leaving the world engulfed in battle.

• Over ten thousand years of cleansing devastated the Immortal Domain, the Foreign Realm, and the Burial Domain, while Lin Yue’s united Nine Heavens avoided losing any kings.
• More than twenty repelled kings gathered in the Boundary Sea and chose to target the Primordial Ancient World, where they could establish a base.
• A giant lit the World Annihilation Incense, and its projection drew countless kings from the Boundary Sea toward Great Red Heaven.
• The World Annihilation Incense’s appearance alarmed kings across the realms, and the Nine Heavens’ kings hurried toward Great Red Heaven to extinguish it.
• Ancestor Gu severed Great Red Heaven from the Nine Heavens, sealed away its baleful energy, and moved nearby beings to safety, but invading kings crossed the boundary and attacked.
• Dozens of kings joined the battle, and a king from the previous epoch arrived in the Nine Heavens, demanding to know who had lit the incense.

The Fake Medicine Seller intervened when dozens of kings returning through the World Annihilation Incense attacked the Nine Heavens, and revealed power far beyond that of Immortal Kings. After he slaughtered and refined the invading kings, the survivors fled, leaving the Nine Heavens safe and the incense still burning.

• Xiao, the Thunder Emperor, suppressed four invading kings with his lightning Dao while Ancestor Gu used the River of Time to hold back two titans.
• As more kings arrived and the Nine Heavens began to crumble, the Fake Medicine Seller sealed the battlefield, restored the damaged land, and struck down the invaders.
• The Fake Medicine Seller refined the primordial spirits of nearly fifty kings into life-filled spheres, while their bodies became golden king blood, fallen birds, and ancient mountains.
• Kings on the ancient roads and in the Boundary Sea saw the slaughter, recognized the Pill Refiner, and fled rather than approach the Nine Heavens.
• The Fake Medicine Seller left the World Annihilation Incense burning briefly, then ordered it extinguished so it would not draw more returning cultivators into danger.
• The Nine Heavens Kings obeyed, and Immortal King Kushan and the other Immortal Domain kings realized that the Wusheng Heavenly Emperor had already ended the crisis.