Chapter Summaries

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.

• Tai Su Emperor burned White Emperor with the Lotus Lantern’s Samadhi True Flame sparks, then corroded her with its three-colored light.
• White Emperor severed her poisoned arm, fled, and left the other gathered experts wary of Tai Su Emperor’s Lotus Lantern.
• Xiao Tian challenged the remaining experts, but they declined until the Tai Ping Cult Master offered to exchange pointers.
• The Tai Ping Cult Master spread his balance Dao domain, and Xiao Tian entered it while using his Purple Gourd Dao Fruit.
• Xiao Tian formed a Fighting rune against the Tai Ping Cult Master’s Balance Dao pattern, slightly disrupting the domain and boosting his own power.

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 shattered the Tai Ping Cult Master's Great Dao of Balance with the Eight Reversal Forms, forcing him to concede before releasing him.
• The other leaders declined to spar or visit Supreme Mystery Hall, while the Tai Su Emperor stayed behind and joined Xiao Tian there.
• The Tai Su Emperor told Xiao Tian that the Six Heavens and Nine Tai Forces Exchange Conference would select True Immortals to enter the World Chasm; Xiao Tian left its arrangements to the Footprint Emperor.
• Xiao Tian spent a hundred years with the Tai Su Emperor, then left Above the Heavens and entered the surrounding Chaos Sea.
• Xiao Tian transformed into his Primordial Chaos God-Demon Body, reached the level of an Immortal Emperor, and used Summoning to bring six figures beyond 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 seized the six emperors and took them to the Blood Spring Immortal Emperor’s stronghold, where his Purple Calabash drained the sea of blood and refined the Blood Spring Immortal Emperor and his forces.
• The Blood Demon Emperor awakened, and Xiao Tian used Scatter Beans to Create Soldiers to strengthen Vast Heaven, Qing Tian, Yellow Heaven, White Heaven, Azure Heaven, and Primordial Yellow Heaven before throwing them at their enemy.
• The Six Heaven Immortal Emperors attacked the Blood Demon Emperor while Xiao Tian watched, then Xiao Tian left the stronghold.
• After traveling for a hundred thousand years, Xiao Tian used the Azure Heaven Fragment to travel to the Sacred Ruins Era, arriving as the Soul Ancestor prepared a great sacrifice of the heavens.
• Xiao Tian concluded that history’s overall course could not be changed, though he could alter minor events.

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.

• A dark-lit man tried to comfort Qi Zhen, whose corpse and soul had become a hideous, corrupted monster in the Soul River.
• Qi Zhen used her last strength to bloom a peach branch, briefly revealing her former beauty before she began to fade away.
• Xiao Tian crushed the gateway and its terrifying inhabitants, then stepped on the Soul River Branch and evaporated it.
• Xiao Tian used Three Lights Divine Water and Turning Back Heaven and Sun to restore Qi Zhen, purify her corruption, and make her a True Immortal.
• The dark-lit man followed Xiao Tian with Qi Zhen as Xiao Tian headed toward the Soul River Main Branch.
• Xiao Tian saw the Black Emperor, Cao Yusheng, and someone carrying a remnant body of Wu Shi, which he recognized as a husk Wu Shi had shed after becoming 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.

• Xiao Tian explained that two measureless calamity eras had passed and that the Sacred Ruins Era’s cultivation system followed the Evolution Method.
• The Black Emperor heard Wu Shi’s bell, took Wu Shi’s coffin and bell fragments, and headed for the Soul River’s lair as blood rained across connected worlds.
• Xiao Tian sensed the resulting upheaval, recognized Li Da as the Footprint Emperor, and left him and Qi Zhen to choose whether to follow the disturbance.
• Li Da and Qi Zhen decided to investigate the Soul Sea together, and White Crow arrived after finding the Soul River’s teleportation gateways destroyed.
• Li Da told White Crow that the Heavenly Emperor had trampled the gateways and that the Heavenly Emperors’ return would bring the settling of accounts.

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.

• The Black Emperor arrived, heard White Crow insult him and his Great Emperor, and attacked the crow alongside Cao Yusheng.
• Li Da, Li Sanlong urged Qi Zhen to join them in pursuing White Crow into the Soul River.
• Li Da, Li Sanlong and the Black Emperor unleashed their killing moves together, blasting White Crow apart as a remnant of his soul fled.
• A spatial rift opened, and a figure resembling Shi Hao and Ye Fan fell through; Xiao Tian glimpsed a fallen being in a Bronze Coffin and suspected Shi Hao, Ye Fan, and Chu Feng were fragments of its true spirit.
• Chu Feng emerged near White Crow, sensed his malice, and thrust a Chopstick-Length Black Spear at him.

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.

• White Crow recognized Chu Feng as a Heavenly Emperor and tried to flee, but Xiao Tian transformed the Purple-Gold Luan Bird into a Kunpeng, who devoured White Crow and its true body.
• The Kunpeng crushed the old White Crow’s feather attack and killed it, while onlookers including Li Sanlong, Qi Zhen, and Big Black Dog reacted in shock.
• Big Black Dog urged the group to attack the Soul River, and he and Li Sanlong struck as its inhabitants sent out a mutilated, uncanny-controlled Little Monkey.
• Black Emperor and Cao Yusheng recognized Little Monkey and asked the Kunpeng to spare him, while Cao Yusheng broke down in grief.
• An Immortal Iron Rod awakened and cried for its child, 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.

• The Big Black Dog and Cao Yusheng mourned Little Monkey and the fallen as the Saint Emperor's Son's remnant soul arrived and attacked the Soul River.
• Xiao Tian used divine abilities and the Three Lights Divine Water to restore the Saint Emperor's Son to his peak strength, and the Saint Emperor's Son revived Little Monkey.
• The Big Black Dog rallied everyone to charge into the Soul River, while Li Sanlong and Qi Zhen joined the attack and Jiudaoyi revealed himself as Red Dragon Ge Gu.
• The Big Black Dog, Cao Yusheng, Li Sanlong, and their allies swept through the Soul River, killing numerous Immortal Kings and monsters, including the six-headed beast slain by the Saint Emperor's Son.
• Chu Feng struggled to keep up as his transformed bird fought alongside the others, and Li Da resolved to survive by keeping a low profile and 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.

• Xiao Tian lent Li Da the Footprint Emperor's Immortal King Giant-level Dao Fruit and advanced Qi Zhen to Quasi-Immortal King.
• A one-eyed Quasi-Immortal Emperor awoke in the Soul River, and Red Dragon Ge Gu threatened it with the Emperor-Slaying War Spear and a promise to summon Desolate Heaven Emperor.
• The Soul River's creatures trembled before the spear, while Li Da and the others urged Red Dragon Ge Gu to summon Desolate Heaven Emperor.
• Red Dragon Ge Gu confessed that he had been bluffing and could not summon Desolate Heaven Emperor, leaving the group facing the monster's killing intent.
• Big Black Dog prepared to risk his life as the Emperor Bell awakened, and Xiao Tian briefly restored the Emperor-Slaying War Spear.

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.

• The Big Black Dog taught Red Dragon Ge Gu a visualization secret art, and Ge Gu used it to awaken the Emperor-Slaying War Spear.
• Red Dragon Ge Gu pierced the One-Eyed Dragon with a Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level strike, but the creature survived by consuming soul essence.
• Xiao Tian used Three Lights Divine Water and Turning Back Heaven and Sun to heal Ge Gu and restore him to his prime.
• Cao Yusheng tried visualizing Ye Fan to summon him, but nothing happened at first.
• Chu Feng appeared before the One-Eyed Dragon, and the Big Black Dog wondered 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.

• Chu Feng stepped into the battlefield, and Xiao Tian crushed One-Eyed Dragon’s Straw Figure, killing him and leaving his saber to flee into the Soul River.
• Cao Yusheng, the Big Black Dog, Huahua, and others mistook Chu Feng for the Desolate Heaven Emperor or Heavenly Emperor Ye and urged him to destroy the Soul River, while Chu Feng panicked over the misunderstanding.
• Kunpeng landed on Chu Feng’s shoulder, and golden Dao patterns appeared beneath Chu Feng as the Soul River’s creatures watched in fear.
• Xiao Tian recognized Desolate’s childhood Stone Jar as it awakened and began absorbing the Soul River’s essence, revealing seeds linked to the Pollen Emperor, Emperor Wu Shi, and the Ruthless Empress.
• Xiao Tian used Guide Forth Primordial Yang to draw the Soul River’s stored essence into the Jar, restoring vitality to Wu Shi’s shriveled Dao Fruit seed.
• Xiao Tian considered the Pollen Emperor’s and Ruthless Empress’s uncertain circumstances, then used Foreknow the Future to peer into heaven’s secrets.

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.

• Xiao Tian spotted the Ruthless Empress while Chu Feng sensed an invisible presence clinging to him.
• Xiao Tian identified the presence as Duan De’s main soul, which used Baby Hao’s Milk Jar to guide Chu Feng along a Golden Light Avenue into the Soul River.
• Cao Yusheng’s main soul seized soul-nourishing primordial essence and considered taking treasures while the group followed Chu Feng into the Calamity Land.
• Big Black Dog smelled an old friend nearby, and Cao Yusheng dug up a bloodstained immortal silkworm skin bearing a message.
• Cao Yusheng read the message and concluded that the Divine Silkworm Divine Emperor had survived and grown into a terrifying Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• The group realized the Divine Silkworm Divine Emperor might have become an Immortal Emperor and feared the calamity that could follow.

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.

• Cao Yusheng's main soul used Baby Hao's Stone Jar to seize the nine-colored saber and Prayer Beads, refining them into soul essence and immortal gold.
• The Ancient Underworld, the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, and the Divine Emperor's cocoon appeared as reinforcements, stirring painful memories of the old battle among Huahua and the others.
• Chu Feng taunted the eerie forces, and Xiao Tian helped the Saint Emperor's Son enter the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and equipped eighteen allies with combat armor.
• The newly empowered fighters attacked the eerie forces, and the Four Extremes Floating Soil was reduced to white sand by a single palm strike.
• Black mist began leaking from Wu Shi's corpse, so Xiao Tian used Three Lights Divine Water to calm it; the Black Emperor regained vitality, and 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 unleashed the Five Thunders and erased the Soul River, killing its Immortal Emperor.
• Li Da and Qi Zhen rushed to seize the Soul River’s immortal medicines as eerie beings across nearby forbidden grounds retreated.
• Red Dragon Ge Gu’s summoning drew Shi Hao’s attention, and a figure began forcing its way across time and space.
• Xiao Tian restored Ye Fan’s broken stone stele and used it to display a recording of young Shi Hao sneaking away with a sack of household goods.
• Shi Hao’s returning figure stumbled at the sight and began solidifying rapidly.

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.

• Shi Hao returned through the Soul River after Xiao Tian broadcast an embarrassing scene from his childhood, while Xiao Tian remained concealed.
• Xiao Tian’s forces killed Eight-Head, and Xiao Tian destroyed the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit monster and devastated the Four Extremes Floating Soil with formations and Samadhi Divine Wind.
• Xiao Tian captured the Ancient Underworld’s beings in his Purple Calabash and destroyed the underworld, then attacked the White Bone Cave and cursed the Quasi-Immortal Emperors in the Desire Abyss.
• The Big Black Dog found the Beginningless Bell’s pendulum, lifted his seal, and discovered that Emperor Wu Shi had become an Immortal Emperor.
• Shi Hao’s past self materialized further, and Red Dragon Ge Gu and Cao Yusheng recognized him as Shi Hao, with Cao Yusheng remembering him 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.

• Big Black Dog and Cao Yusheng realized events had spiraled beyond their expectations as Shi Hao prepared to fight an Immortal Emperor.
• Xiao Tian used Transport to send Big Black Dog and the others to the Yang Realm, where they witnessed the worlds shudder under the battle’s aftershocks.
• Xiao Tian transformed into an Immortal Emperor and killed or captured nine eerie Immortal Emperors, refining them into origin essence inside the Purple Calabash.
• Shi Hao’s body continued to solidify as he asked Xiao Tian who he was.
• Xiao Tian told Shi Hao that an emperor must not be seen lightly, then departed using the Azure Heaven Fragment.

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.

• Shi Hao watched Xiao Tian vanish and recognized him as the “Little One” from his childhood.
• The Azure Heaven Fragment took Xiao Tian to the Primordial World, where he discovered he had become its innate gourd vine.
• Xiao Tian absorbed innate essence for a month, reached the absolute pinnacle of quasi-Immortal Emperor, and created a gourd vine with a wisp of his essence.
• Xiao Tian realized the gourd vine’s karmic ties could lead him to become Jiang Ziya and gain an opportunity through the Investiture of the Gods.
• Xiao Tian traveled to the beginning of the Investiture of the Gods and entered Jiang Shang’s body, intending to stay hidden while Jiang Shang sought the Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s inheritance.

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.

• After reaching the perfected Heavenly Immortal realm, Xiao Tian decided to protect Su Daji and recruit the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb as his disciples.
• Xiao Tian discovered Shen Gongbao had used his stolen Five-Colored Nuwa Stone to deceive the Three Demons into helping him.
• Xiao Tian confronted Shen Gongbao and told the Three Demons to stand aside while he settled matters with his younger brother.
• Xiao Tian attacked Shen Gongbao with samadhi true flame, and Shen Gongbao tried to flee.
• Xiao Tian used the Seven-Star Step to seize the Nuwa Stone from Shen Gongbao.

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 spared Shen Gongbao, took the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb with him, and warned them against Shen Gongbao and harming innocents.
• Xiao Tian visited Su Daji in a dream, taught her the Illusory Dream True Scripture until she reached Earth Immortal, and gave her a protective jade pendant.
• Xiao Tian instructed Su Daji to use illusions to avoid King Zhou’s advances and to stay out of palace politics, then departed with the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb.
• In Dragon Virtue Hall, King Zhou dismissed the beauties presented by Fei Zhong and You Hun while waiting for Su Daji.
• Su Daji arrived, greeted King Zhou, and danced and sang for him, leaving him entranced.

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.

• King Zhou praised Su Daji’s dance as the court officials reacted with displeasure or flattery.
• Xiao Tian left the three female spirits disguised as ordinary women and stopped observing Su Daji after noting her kindness.
• Shen Gongbao went to Grand Preceptor Wen Zhong after Xiao Tian beat him.
• Xiao Tian concluded that Great Shang’s fortune was declining and that he should support Xiqi rather than oppose the larger course of events.
• Xiao Tian arrived at Qiantang Pass and decided to intervene in Yaoji’s affairs, using his Azure Heaven Fragment incarnation to become Yang Jian’s father.