Arc 23Chapters 552–576
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Xiao Tian rescued and organized countless beings from the Darkness Cage, then distributed powerful treasures among his family and allies before preparing to fight alongside the Willow Deity. He left the Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors for Shi Hao and wondered whether Shi Hao would cry if he pretended to die.
Xiao Tian reached the Boundary Sea Dam with Willow Deity, who discovered she was pregnant and stayed behind while he held back the darkness storm. After a century of using magic to dissolve the storm, Xiao Tian spotted Yu Emperor and Hong Emperor approaching for battle.
Xiao Tian sent the Willow Deity away to protect her unborn child, then entered the Depths of Darkness with a disguise and a plan to confront the Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors. He pushed through the darkness storm, gathered corrupted treasures, and prepared to face the weapons of Cang Emperor.
Xiao Tian and the fake Willow Deity confronted Cang Emperor’s weapons and destroyed his bone seal, then waited in the Dark Heavenly Court for the other Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors. When the World-Destroying Elder, Yu Emperor, and Hong Emperor arrived, Xiao Tian provoked them and was seemingly killed by the World-Destroying Elder’s hammer.
Xiao Tian faked his death to push Shi Hao and his descendants to grow, while he and Willow Deity hid from their enemies. After Shi Hao emerged from fifty thousand years of seclusion and learned of their supposed deaths, he grieved and challenged Butcher to temper himself for revenge.
After Shi Hao defeated Butcher, he grew suspicious that Xiao Tian and Willow Deity had not truly died, while Xiao Tian continued cultivating in secret. The chapter ended with Xiao Tian’s son Xiao Zhan beginning a harsh childhood trial under a sealed talent, watched over by Willow Deity’s incarnation.
Xiao Tian claimed his reward and fused with the primordial Gourd Vine, breaking through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and gaining powerful new abilities. The chapter ended with Xiao Tian seeing Shi Hao attempting the same breakthrough.
Xiao Tian completed his breakthrough to Quasi-Immortal Emperor and considered how his strength could help protect Perfect World from the coming battles Above the Heavens. After spending several hundred years with his wives, he learned that Xiao Xiao had sensed someone nearby in the Boundary Sea and decided to investigate.
Xiao Tian prepared Taisu Immortal Maiden to face a dangerous Quasi-Immortal Emperor Weapon so she could temper herself and pursue a breakthrough. After five thousand years of battle, she went into seclusion, while Xiao Tian sealed the weapon and turned to studying the Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations.
Shi Hao and the Primordial Ancient Realm fought off a Dark Calamity launched by the Yu Emperor while Zixia Immortal Maiden approached her breakthrough into a Quasi-Immortal Emperor. As the battle continued, Shi Hao grew more suspicious that Xiao Tian and the Willow Deity had not truly fallen and wondered why former enemies such as Ao Sheng had joined the defense.
After Xiao Tian repelled the Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors, the allied forces finished clearing the invasion while his family continued to grow stronger. The chapter ended with Xiao Xiao killing nine Immortal Kings who had celebrated Xiao Tian’s apparent death.
Shi Hao and Xiao Tian reflected on the people and dangers surrounding the growing ranks of Immortal Kings while Xiao Tian prepared Taisu Immortal Maiden for a breakthrough. Xiao Tian sent her to fight a nineteen-headed dark monster, leaving her struggle to reach the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm underway.
Xiao Tian traveled into the prehistory of the Emperor-fall Era to seize a fragment of the Footprint Emperor’s lingering soul, but his interference in history drew Quasi-Immortal Emperors from multiple eras into battle. He fought them off with his powers and clones, transforming one future attacker into a toad and ejecting him from the River of Time.
Xiao Tian fought Quasi-Immortal Emperors on the River of Time, seized their weapons, and took a remnant of the Footprint Emperor’s soul before returning to his own time. The Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors retreated after clashes with powerful future figures, while Xiao Tian planned to revive the Footprint Emperor and bring him to Above the Heavens.
Xiao Tian left the present-day Perfect World after delaying the Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors and preparing his allies to face them. He traveled into the previous measureless calamity to challenge the newly corrupted Corpse Immortal Emperor, but arrived as the Corpse Immortal Emperor fought to protect Perfect World from Heifeng Emperor Venerable.
Xiao Tian witnessed the Corpse Immortal Emperor’s battle with Immortal Emperor Heifeng and learned how the Darkness Source began. He briefly transformed into a chaos Immortal Emperor to test himself against the newly ascended Corpse Immortal Emperor, then fled into Above the Heavens when Shi Hao attacked from the future.
Xiao Tian reached the ruined Above the Heavens, gained a treasure that extended his Immortal Emperor transformation, and traveled to its late Chaos Era to establish Supreme Mystery Daoism. The chapter left him building his sanctuary in the past while Xiao Xiao learned he was alive and was warned not to come find him before becoming an Immortal Emperor.
Xiao Tian established Supreme Mystery Daoism in the Supreme Mystery World, appointing Footprint Emperor as deputy cult master and setting rules for recruiting disciples. As news of the sect spread, an Old Black Tortoise decided to travel there and seek admission.
Xiao Tian expanded Supreme Mystery Daoism by giving the Warrior King powerful sword methods and sending him to recruit human disciples, where he encountered the endangered prodigy Ye Chen. Three thousand years of cultivation and crafting later, Xiao Tian had grown much stronger, and Supreme Mystery Daoism had gained a growing number of disciples.
Xiao Tian completed more of Supreme Mystery Peak’s formidable defenses and continued his secluded cultivation after learning that Tai Su Emperor had awakened early and was establishing the Tai Su Realm. Meanwhile, Footprint Emperor guarded Supreme Mystery Daoism and took Shi Ji as his disciple, while Warrior King searched for more disciples and grew stronger through battle.
The Warrior King rescued Hua Qianduo, the future Pollen Emperor, from the Azure Heaven Clan and brought her to Supreme Mystery Daoism. Xiao Tian recognized her potential and accepted her as his third disciple, while reflecting on her future and the wider struggle against the eerie calamity.
Xiao Tian took Hua Qianduo as his disciple and taught her the Great Dao of Chaos in a thousand-year dream. He also gave the Warrior King a gifted little girl named Zhu Qiqi as a disciple, trained her, and equipped him and Shushan with powerful weapons.
Xiao Tian opened Supreme Mystery Daoism’s gates and invited cultivators from across the Supreme Mystery World to join. The ceremony turned into a confrontation when the Bixia Emperor challenged him over a disciple, then attacked with her scorpion tails.
Xiao Tian defeated Immortal Maiden Bixia with a Five Elements World Mountain and beat her while warning the gathered experts. Bixia recovered, declared her attraction to him, and left Xiao Tian horrified as the onlookers reconsidered the strength and instincts of the Six Heavens Lineage.
Xiao Tian secured recognition for Supreme Mystery Daoism and brought Star Emperor into the sect as its Grand Elder. After hosting the powers of Above the Heavens, he accepted the Six Heavens Lineage’s demands for access to the Supreme Mystery World while planning to use the time to grow stronger.