Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan killed the Undying who crossed into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, then used the Human Emperor Banner to absorb his body and soul. The banner transformed into a weapon both immortal and demonic, leaving the defenders stunned by Lin Fan’s methods.

• An Undying emerged from the Heavenly Abyss and threatened to conquer the world, while the defenders at the Imperial Pass looked to Lin Fan for protection.
• Lin Fan refused the offered Immortal King Artifacts and struck the Undying with a Chaos Finger that fused multiple Precious Arts.
• The Undying unleashed his Ancestral Art and weapon, but Lin Fan’s finger shattered the artifact, pierced his defenses, and destroyed his body.
• Lin Fan summoned the Human Emperor Banner and absorbed the Undying’s blood, remains, and primordial spirit to strengthen the weapon.
• The banner transformed, blazing with immortal light and demonic flames, and onlookers remarked that it was “purple so deep it turned black.”

Lin Fan discovered that the formation sealing the Heavenly Abyss would drain the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and bring on the Dharma-Ending Age, even as Imperial Pass celebrated the end of the war. He then turned to punish clans that had betrayed their realm, ordering the Feng Clan’s extermination.

• Lin Fan warned that the Heavenly Abyss’s sealing formation would drain the world’s essence and bring on the Dharma-Ending Age within a hundred years.
• Lin Fan cautioned Meng Tianzheng that Imperial Pass’s seal did not eliminate every threat, while the people celebrated the end of the war.
• Lin Fan declared that traitorous clans would be punished and demanded to know where Ancestor Feng was.
• Ning Yu reported that Ancestor Feng had not come to fight, and Lin Fan ordered the Feng Clan executed for colluding with the Foreign Realm.
• Ning Yu led the Sacred Emperor Palace’s forces against the Feng Lineage, while Shi Hao joined the attack and killed its members in Imperial Pass.

Lin Fan killed the Feng Clan’s Ancestor Feng and Jin Taijun, then ordered both clans destroyed for betraying their realm. After the two ancient families were wiped out, he turned his attention to Wang Changsheng but warned him to control his descendants and did not attack.

• Lin Fan’s decree returned with Ancestor Feng’s head, confirming that he had killed the Feng Clan’s Supreme.
• Jin Taijun defended her family, but Lin Fan killed her and ordered her head and Ancestor Feng’s head buried beneath Imperial Pass’s gates.
• Shi Hao and others attacked the Jin Family while forces moved to destroy the Feng and Jin ancestral lands.
• The Feng Clan and Jin Family were wiped out, leaving the world shaken and the Wang Family fearful.
• Wang Changsheng congratulated Lin Fan, who warned him to keep his descendants in line before returning to Imperial Pass.

After returning victorious to the Imperial Pass, Lin Fan reassured Shi Hao and reunited with Yue Chan and Qingyi after a separation that had lasted five hundred thousand years for him. He told the two women he could finally separate them into independent people.

• The Wang Family celebrated Lin Fan's victory, while mourners searched the battlefield for loved ones who could not be resurrected.
• Lin Fan returned to cheers at the Imperial Pass, praised Shi Hao, and captured Ye Qingxian as she tried to escape.
• Lin Fan made Ye Qingxian massage him while he vented his anger, and she slipped away when visitors arrived.
• Yue Chan and Qingyi asked whether Lin Fan was still the same person, and he reassured them before embracing them.
• Lin Fan told Yue Chan and Qingyi that he had a way to separate them completely, leaving them astonished.

After the war, Lin Fan sent Shi Hao and the surviving descendants of the Seven Kings toward the Three Thousand Provinces and discussed the coming dark great reckoning with Meng Tianzheng. Back at the Sacred Emperor Palace, he began planning how to separate Yue Chan and Qingyi’s intertwined bodies, offering them three possible solutions and explaining the first.

• Shi Hao said farewell to Lin Fan and Meng Tianzheng and planned to return to the Eight Regions with the surviving children of the Seven Kings.
• Lin Fan gave Shi Hao ancient jade, revealed a Life Forbidden Zone in the route to the Lower Realm, and secretly assigned him another task in the Three Thousand Provinces.
• Lin Fan opened a golden road through the Uninhabited Zone and sent Shi Hao and the children away, then returned to the Nine Heavens with Meng Tianzheng.
• Lin Fan and Meng Tianzheng discussed the coming dark great reckoning and agreed that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths needed to prepare for the returning kings.
• Lin Fan returned to the Sacred Emperor Palace and told Yue Chan and Qingyi he had three ways to resolve their divided primordial spirits, beginning with a dangerous method involving dark matter.

Lin Fan offered Yue Chan and Qingyi three ways to address their looming crisis, and they chose to cultivate the new qi refining system he had created. He planted Dao Seeds in them and began guiding their cultivation, while considering safeguards against people using nascent souls to seize others’ bodies.

• Yue Chan and Qingyi rejected becoming Dark Creatures, and Lin Fan explained that he could seal them in Divine Source Liquid until he gathered materials for Ancient Pills.
• Lin Fan refined Divine Source Liquid from the essence of heaven and earth, and Qingyi tested its ability to preserve vitality against the passage of time.
• Lin Fan described his new cultivation system, and Yue Chan and Qingyi chose it over being sealed away.
• Lin Fan planted Dao Seeds in Yue Chan and Qingyi and helped them open their qi seas, then explained the stages of the system as they trained for several months.
• Lin Fan reflected that nascent souls could survive the destruction of their bodies and worried that people might use them to seize others’ bodies, so he resolved that the system needed restrictions.

Lin Fan received Wang Xi’s humiliating apology from the Wang Family and obtained the Chaos-Quelling Art, then secluded himself to study it. Meanwhile, Huang’s plundering of the Three Thousand Provinces was followed by news that he had slain an immortal in the Spirit World, provoking the Immortal Palace Remnant Immortal.

• Lin Fan considered how to restrict the new cultivation system he had established for Yue Chan and Qingyi.
• Wang Xi came to the Sacred Emperor Palace to apologize for the Wang Family, but Lin Fan demanded a sincere offering.
• Wang Xi stripped at her clan’s urging, but Lin Fan told her to dress and said he wanted the Chaos-Quelling Art.
• Lin Fan received the Chaos-Quelling Art, while Wang Xi chose to remain at the palace rather than return to her family.
• People across the Three Thousand Provinces lamented Huang’s plundering of great churches and their treasures.
• News spread that Huang had slain an immortal in the Spirit World, enraging the Immortal Palace Remnant Immortal.

After Shi Hao defeated an immortal, the Immortal Palace’s Supreme attacked him at the Qin Clan, and Shi Hao fought back with the Immortal Cauldron. When the Remnant Immortal arrived to punish him, Shi Hao called out Brother Xiao Fan’s true name, summoning a terrifying figure whose appearance stunned everyone.

• The Immortal Palace’s Supreme brought the Remnant Immortal’s decree to the Qin Clan and demanded that Shi Hao come out to die.
• Shi Hao confronted the Supreme and used the Immortal Cauldron to batter the Bronze Immortal Palace, wounding the old man inside.
• The Supreme summoned the Remnant Immortal, who arrived outside the Qin Clan in a war chariot drawn by eight heavenly horses.
• The Remnant Immortal’s authority forced cultivators to bow, but Shi Hao refused to submit and called out to Brother Xiao Fan for help.
• A colossal figure appeared in the sky, and a Cult Master recognized that Shi Hao had summoned a taboo existence through the power of a true name.

Lin Fan revealed that Shi Hao had lured out the Remnant Immortal and condemned him for betraying Kunpeng and bringing calamity to the Border Pass. Lin Fan began fighting the Remnant Immortal in outer space, where another Remnant Immortal arrived, while the other two remained absent.

• Shi Hao revealed that he had completed Lin Fan's plan, and Lin Fan appeared as a projection with the power of the immortal dao domain.
• Lin Fan accused the Remnant Immortal of ambushing the wounded Kunpeng and bringing calamity to the Border Pass, while the Remnant Immortal defended his actions.
• Lin Fan ordered the other Remnant Immortals to appear and summoned the Great Cauldron, prompting the Remnant Immortal to emerge from his war chariot with the Bronze Immortal Palace.
• Lin Fan moved the fight into outer space to protect the Three Thousand Provinces, and the Remnant Immortal called for help.
• A second Remnant Immortal arrived with a damaged battle-axe, and Lin Fan attacked the two with a golden palm.

Lin Fan defeated three Remnant Immortals in Outer Space and learned too late that the fourth had attacked Shi Hao. He killed the last Remnant Immortal, then used immortal blood medicine and immortal light to restore Shi Hao, whose Dao foundation and body had been badly damaged.

• Lin Fan suppressed the Bronze Immortal Palace and ancient battle-axe, then blocked a Sword Valley Remnant Immortal’s surprise attack with his Great Cauldron.
• Lin Fan shattered the battle-axe, drove back the three Remnant Immortals, killed two, and captured the third for questioning.
• Lin Fan collected the immortal blood and seized the surviving Immortal Artifacts, but the Remnant Immortal refused to reveal where the fourth was.
• Lin Fan sensed that the last Remnant Immortal had attacked Shi Hao at the Qin Clan’s Mountain Gate and rushed back to Five Elements Province.
• Lin Fan killed the final Remnant Immortal and treated Shi Hao with immortal blood medicine and immortal light, repairing his Dao foundation and body.

Lin Fan saved Shi Hao from the Remnant Immortal, but could not remove the Immortal-Breaking Curse and told him he would have to overcome it himself. After Shi Hao set off to claim the defeated sects’ treasures, a crack in an Immortal Gate appeared in the Nine Heavens, and decrees announced the Immortal Domain’s arrival.

• Lin Fan thanked the Five Elements Mountain for protecting Shi Hao and explained that the Immortal-Breaking Curse had taken root in Shi Hao’s body and primordial spirit.
• Shi Ziling and Qin Yining rushed to embrace Shi Hao, while Lin Fan said no outside power could remove the curse and Shi Hao had to endure it himself.
• Lin Fan permitted Shi Hao to plunder the Immortal Palace, Sword Valley, the Demon Dragon Dao Sect, and other sects backed by the Remnant Immortals, so Shi Hao rode off with the Foreign Realm Golden Lion to claim their treasures.
• Lin Fan’s avatar dispersed and his Great Cauldron returned to the Nine Heavens, while a woman watching from a distant cliff recognized that he was still there.
• An ancient gateway opened in the Nine Heavens, and observers heard sacrificial chants and saw figures beyond it before several decree scrolls flew out declaring that the Immortal Domain had descended.

The Immortal Domain Gate was set to open, but Lin Fan rejected the summons to welcome its envoy and traveled with Yue Chan to Fire Province. There, he entered a small world he had created and returned to the graves of his friends, relatives, and younger sister.

• Decrees announced that the Immortal Domain Gate was opening, and powerful lineages across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths prepared to welcome its envoy.
• Lin Fan threw the decree into a latrine and left the Sacred Emperor Palace, refusing to bow to the Immortal Domain visitors.
• Lin Fan traveled with Yue Chan to the Three Thousand Provinces while Qingyi stayed behind to cultivate.
• Lin Fan and Yue Chan arrived in Fire Province, where Lin Fan remembered his destroyed home and the loss of his younger sister.
• Lin Fan opened the small world he had made as a burial place and entered a valley filled with graves.
• Lin Fan greeted the dead, including his younger sister, as he returned to their cemetery.

Lin Fan returned to his hometown to visit his little sister’s cenotaph, where discovering her treasured belongings gave him hope that he would see her again. He then went with Yue Chan to the Heaven Mending Sect, put old grievances aside, and asked where Qing Yao was.

• Lin Fan mourned at his little sister’s grave while Yue Chan watched in sympathy.
• Lin Fan opened the grave’s coffin and found the bronze ring and ghost-face mask he had given his sister.
• Lin Fan declared that he would see his little sister again, reburied the objects, and left with Yue Chan.
• Lin Fan arrived at the Heaven Mending Sect, whose elders feared he might settle old scores, but he said he had let the past go.
• Yue Chan’s maternal granduncle Qing Yang scolded her for staying away, and Lin Fan asked where Qing Yao was.

Lin Fan reunited with Qing Yao and took her away from the Heaven Mending Sect to revisit their past. After returning, Yue Chan sought to have a child with Lin Fan, and Qing Yao joined them, leaving the two women reconciled.

• Lin Fan reassured Qing Yao that he did not blame her for the past, and she took his hand.
• Lin Fan and Qing Yao left the Heaven Mending Sect and spent several days traveling together.
• Moon Mother told Yue Chan that she and Qingyi would become separate people, then urged Yue Chan to have a child with Lin Fan.
• Half a month later, Yue Chan visited Lin Fan secretly and told him she wanted a child.
• Lin Fan drew Qing Yao into the encounter, and she and Yue Chan set aside their awkwardness and got along.

Lin Fan returned to the Life Forbidden Zone, where he met the lingering obsession of its dead Lord and sought advice about the Pu Demon King. After learning the danger and potential value of confronting the Foreign Realm Immortal King, Lin Fan left to search for him in the Lower Realm.

• Lin Fan crossed the Cross Yin-Yang Land and entered the Life Forbidden Zone, where he met the White-Clothed Man, the lingering obsession of the dead Lord of the Forbidden Zone.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone learned Lin Fan had become an immortal and heard how Lin Fan had dreamed his way back to Emperor's Fall.
• Lin Fan asked the Lord of the Forbidden Zone to guide his junior brother, Willow Deity's disciple, who carried the Lord's jade piece and suffered from the Immortal-Breaking Curse.
• Lin Fan discussed the Pu Demon King with the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, who warned him to be cautious and explained that defeating the king could help Lin Fan's path to kingship.
• Lin Fan thanked the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, left the forbidden zone, and headed into the Lower Realm to find and destroy the Pu Demon King before he could escape.

Lin Fan entered the Hundred Broken Mountains and wiped out the Pu Demon Trees after finding them massacring its inhabitants. He learned the Pu Demon King had gone to the Xiling Realm and discovered a possible trace of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk before heading there.

• Lin Fan forced open the Hundred Broken Mountains’ sealed Small World and found it overrun by Pu Demon Trees and their deadly seeds.
• Lin Fan destroyed the invading seeds, subdued the trees, and killed a black Pu Demon Tree descendant while searching for the Pu Demon King.
• Lin Fan searched the descendant’s soul and learned that the Pu Demon King had left for the Xiling Realm.
• Lin Fan exterminated every Pu Demon Tree in the Small World and found an ancient coffin containing remains of the Pu Demon King.
• Lin Fan discovered a white-bone altar bearing what appeared to be an imprint of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk, then set out for the Xiling Realm.

Lin Fan tracked the Pu Demon King to the Xiling Realm and launched a fierce battle against him. He struck the weakened king with the Chaos-Quelling Art, but the Pu Demon King blocked the attack with a fragment of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk.

• Lin Fan entered the Xiling Realm, cleared away its attacking creatures, and realized the Pu Demon King was trying to open a passage into the Void God Realm.
• Lin Fan found the Pu Demon King breaking a formation inside a Light Gate and ambushed him, blasting the gate apart and wounding him.
• The Pu Demon King recognized Lin Fan as the one who had disturbed his slumber years earlier, while Lin Fan declared he had come to kill him.
• Lin Fan unleashed his full power against the Pu Demon King, shaking the Xiling Realm and alarming Shi Hao in Stone Village.
• Lin Fan invoked the Chaos-Quelling Art and struck the Pu Demon King with his Primordial Spirit Sword Embryo, but the king blocked it with a fragment of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk.

Lin Fan fought the wounded Pu Demon King in the Xiling Realm, while Shi Hao and the Fearless Lion watched from outside. As the Pu Demon King unleashed a suicidal attack, Lin Fan revealed the Immortal King Shroud, whose blood summoned the figures of Six Paths of Reincarnation King and Wúzhōng.

• Lin Fan recognized that the Pu Demon King had used the Two-Cornered Artifact to block his sword strike and pressed his attack.
• The Pu Demon King burned his remaining Immortal King blood and summoned a Pu Demon Tree, launching a devastating attack against Lin Fan.
• Shi Hao and the Fearless Lion watched the battle from outside the Xiling Realm, and Shi Hao worried about one of the fighters.
• The Pu Demon King’s snow-white seeds threatened to drain Lin Fan’s essence and Dao attainments, but Lin Fan unfolded the Immortal King Shroud.
• The blood on the shroud revived, and the figures of Six Paths of Reincarnation King and Wúzhōng appeared before the Pu Demon King.

Lin Fan used the Immortal King Shroud, aided by the lingering wills of the Six Paths of Reincarnation King and Wúzhōng, to destroy the Pu Demon King and claim his king-ascension imprint. The Pu Demon King's death shook the Foreign Realm, where the Immortal Refining Pot appeared and mourned his fall.

• The Pu Demon King exhausted his Immortal King blood, and Lin Fan struck down his body and repeatedly attacked his remnant soul.
• The Immortal King Shroud trapped and refined the Pu Demon King's remnant soul, erasing his will and leaving behind his king-ascension imprint.
• Lin Fan welcomed Shi Hao and the Golden Lion after the battle, confirmed the Pu Demon King's death, and gathered the pieces of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk.
• The Pu Demon King's Soul Lamp went out in the Foreign Realm, prompting An Lan, Wu Shang, and other Immortal Kings to investigate.
• The Immortal Refining Pot appeared in the Foreign Realm and spoke of the Pu Demon King's fall.

After sealing the passage to the Dark Creatures’ prison, Lin Fan confronted three ancient beings housed in a hand bone, a crystal skull, and a bloodied eyeball. He asked them about the immortal corpses buried in the Xiling Realm, and their answer began to shake the realm apart.

• Lin Fan sealed and concealed the passage to the Dark Creatures’ prison, then sent Shi Hao to warn Lord Bird and the Essence Jade Elder.
• An ancient altar appeared, bearing a golden hand bone, a crystal skull, and a bloodied eyeball; the skull attacked Lin Fan, and Lin Fan struck back until the three beings surrendered.
• Lin Fan suggested the three beings guide Shi Hao, but Shi Hao refused their offer.
• Lin Fan asked where the immortal corpses were buried, and the Xiling Realm began to tremble as countless skeletons emerged from the earth.