Arc 24Chapters 577–601
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Xiao Tian helped the Tai Su Emperor establish the Tai Su Daoist Temple, met the new powerhouse Yellow Springs, and spent three and a half years discussing the Dao with the Tai Su Emperor. He returned to Supreme Mystery Daoism, assigned its leaders and recruitment plans, and prepared to enter seclusion again.
After 130,000 years of warfare and cultivation, Xiao Tian reached quasi-immortal emperor perfection and transformed his universe, body, and primordial spirit. He sensed Tai Su Emperor and leaders from the Seven Great Powers and Six Heavens Lineage arriving at Supreme Mystery World, leaving their purpose unknown.
Xiao Tian exposed the Cang Emperor’s coercion of a Deputy Hall Master of the Tai Su Daoist Temple and brought the Truth-Hearing Beast before the Taisu Immortal Maiden. The Taisu Immortal Maiden restored her and banned the Cang Emperor from the Tai Su Realm, but he denied wrongdoing, prompting her to challenge him to a fight in the Chaos Sea.
Xiao Tian repeatedly overwhelmed Cang Emperor in the Chaos Sea, forcing him to reveal weapons and armor bestowed by his father, Vast Heaven. Xiao Tian broke Cang Emperor’s staff and armor and pierced him again, leaving Cang Emperor humiliated.
Xiao Tian forced the Cang Emperor to continue fighting after defeating him, but the White Emperor stepped in to challenge the Tai Su Emperor instead. Protected by Xiao Tian’s Lotus Lantern, the Tai Su Emperor dispelled the White Emperor’s illusions and struck her with its flame, leaving the White Emperor screaming in pain.
Tai Su Emperor used the Lotus Lantern to poison White Emperor and drive her away, after which Xiao Tian invited the remaining challengers to fight. He began a match with the Tai Ping Cult Master, whose balancing domain met Xiao Tian’s devouring gourd and Fighting rune, leaving the domain slightly unbalanced.
After defeating the Tai Ping Cult Master, Xiao Tian welcomed the Tai Su Emperor to Supreme Mystery Hall and spent a century discussing the Dao with her. He then entered the chaos beyond Above the Heavens, transformed into an Immortal Emperor-level form, and summoned six figures outside the world barrier.
Xiao Tian raided the Blood Ancestor’s stronghold, drained its sea of blood, and empowered the Six Heaven Immortal Emperors to battle the awakened Blood Demon Emperor. He then traveled with the Azure Heaven Fragment to the Sacred Ruins Era and realized he could alter only small parts of history, not its overall course.
Xiao Tian entered a Soul River Branch during the Sacred Ruins Era, revived a corrupted woman, and erased the branch with a single step. He continued toward the Soul River Main Branch, where he saw the Black Emperor, Cao Yusheng, and a remnant body of Wu Shi, whom he knew had become an Immortal Emperor.
Xiao Tian entered the Sacred Ruins Era and watched as the Black Emperor set out toward the Soul River carrying Wu Shi’s remains and broken imperial bell. Li Da, the Footprint Emperor, and Qi Zhen followed the disturbance, where Li Da encountered White Crow and warned him that the Heavenly Emperors had begun to return.
The Black Emperor, Cao Yusheng, and Li Da, Li Sanlong attacked White Crow in the Soul River, while Xiao Tian glimpsed a fallen existence inside a Bronze Coffin. Chu Feng then emerged from a spatial rift and struck at White Crow, sensing danger.
Chu Feng and Xiao Tian used the Purple-Gold Luan Bird, transformed into a Kunpeng, to kill the White Crow and its powerful elder, drawing the Soul River’s creatures into a desperate counterattack. The fighting left Black Emperor and Cao Yusheng facing the uncanny-controlled Little Monkey, while an awakened Immortal Iron Rod mourned Saint Emperor’s Son.
Xiao Tian revived the Saint Emperor's Son and Little Monkey during the assault on the Soul River, and the resurrected warriors joined the others in a devastating charge. The group pushed deeper into the Soul River, while Li Da reflected on his weakness and vowed to survive by preparing contingencies.
Xiao Tian empowered Li Da and Qi Zhen as the group confronted a one-eyed Quasi-Immortal Emperor in the Soul River. Red Dragon Ge Gu admitted he had only been bluffing about summoning Desolate Heaven Emperor, but Xiao Tian briefly restored the Emperor-Slaying War Spear as the enemy prepared to attack.
Red Dragon Ge Gu used the Emperor-Slaying War Spear to strike the One-Eyed Dragon, while Xiao Tian restored Ge Gu to his prime. Chu Feng then appeared in the Soul River, leaving the Big Black Dog wondering whether Ye Fan or Shi Hao had returned.
Chu Feng appeared in the Calamity Land and was mistaken for a returned Heavenly Emperor after One-Eyed Dragon died at Xiao Tian’s hand. As the Soul River’s essence flowed into Desolate’s childhood milk jar, Xiao Tian found seeds holding three Immortal Emperor inheritances and used the essence to aid Wu Shi.
Xiao Tian recognized Duan De’s main soul using Chu Feng and Baby Hao’s Milk Jar to impersonate the Desolate Heaven Emperor as they advanced into the Soul River. There, the group found a message revealing that the Divine Silkworm Divine Emperor had survived, leaving them to fear what might await deeper in the Calamity Land.
Chu Feng and Xiao Tian faced the Soul River's eerie reinforcements as Xiao Tian empowered their allies to fight them. The battle left Wu Shi's corpse showing signs of revival after Xiao Tian used Three Lights Divine Water, while Chu Feng's Emperor Seed grew fuller.
Xiao Tian destroyed the Soul River and its Immortal Emperor with a single Five Thunders strike, alerting Shi Hao across time and space. As Shi Hao began returning, Xiao Tian restored a broken stone stele and displayed an embarrassing scene from Shi Hao’s childhood, making the returning figure stumble and solidify faster.
Xiao Tian devastated the strange calamity lands while Shi Hao’s past self returned to identify the person who had exposed his childhood embarrassment. The chapter left Emperor Wu Shi restored as an Immortal Emperor and Cao Yusheng remembering Shi Hao as his brother.
Xiao Tian transported Big Black Dog and the others to safety as Shi Hao faced an Immortal Emperor, then slaughtered or captured nine eerie Immortal Emperors and refined them for cultivation resources. Xiao Tian left without revealing his identity, while Shi Hao was left wondering who he was.
Xiao Tian returned to the Primordial World as its innate gourd vine, cultivated to the pinnacle of quasi-Immortal Emperor, and created a second vine whose spirit would become Jiang Ziya. He entered Jiang Shang’s body at the start of the Investiture of the Gods, seeking the opportunity and inheritance that could help him break through to Immortal Emperor.
Xiao Tian intervened in Shen Gongbao's scheme to recruit the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb and revealed that he intended to save and train them. After defeating Shen Gongbao and taking back the Nuwa Stone, he left the demons outside the fight, with his plans for them still ahead.
Xiao Tian drove Shen Gongbao away, guided the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb, and secretly prepared Su Daji to survive as King Zhou’s consort through cultivation and illusion. In Zhaoge, Su Daji arrived and began dancing for King Zhou, who was captivated by her beauty.
Xiao Tian watched Su Daji enter the palace and considered how the Investiture of the Gods calamity would unfold, deciding to follow the rise of Xiqi while changing only small details. He arrived at Qiantang Pass and resolved to use his Azure Heaven Fragment incarnation to become Yang Jian’s father, leaving the story with that plan in mind.