Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan, Shi Hao, and the Golden Lion unearthed powerful corpses while learning that some buried beings might still have living primordial spirits. As ancient passages opened and a dark army approached the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, Immortal Domain envoys began choosing who could escape, while the Sacred Emperor Palace refused them entry.

• Shi Hao and the Golden Lion collected ancient beast corpses as Lin Fan dug up a True Immortal corpse and suppressed its undying field.
• The crystal skull warned Lin Fan that some buried beings might be Immortal Kings whose primordial spirits were still alive, but Lin Fan ordered everyone to keep digging.
• Fissures opened across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, revealing an approaching army of bloodstained soldiers aboard enormous warships.
• The Immortal Gate opened, and its envoys announced that only outstanding seeds and some of their clansmen could enter the Immortal Domain.
• The Sacred Emperor Palace turned away the Immortal Domain envoys, saying, "The Sage Emperor is away. No visitors!"

Lin Fan brought the three ancient beings from the Xiling Realm to meet the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, then explained that he planned to hide from the Immortal Kings who had attacked Willow Deity. After borrowing the Great Luo Sword Embryo, he returned to the Upper Realm to arrange matters before lying low.

• Lin Fan took the Crystal Skull, Golden Hand Bone, and Blood-Drop Eye from the Xiling Realm to the Cross Yin-Yang Restricted Area, where the Lord of the Forbidden Zone welcomed them.
• Lin Fan told the group that the Pu Demon King was dead and that he had obtained the Immortal King Shroud, then they discussed ancient figures and secrets.
• Lin Fan revealed that Ao Sheng, Yuan Chu, and Tai Shi had ambushed Willow Deity, putting him at risk of their retaliation.
• Lin Fan explained that he would hide until Dharma's Decline closed the Immortal Gate, while the Lord of the Forbidden Zone warned him about the danger.
• Lin Fan threatened to make Shi Hao train harder, then borrowed the Great Luo Sword Embryo and returned to the Upper Realm.

Lin Fan and Big Black rushed to the Spirit World passage after learning that darkness threatened to break through its seal. The heroic spirits failed to hold it back, and black mist began leaking into the realm.

• Lin Fan witnessed the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin appear with nine dragons and recognized the returning heroic spirits of Immortal Ancient.
• Lin Fan met Big Black and Cao Yusheng, who asked him to save Cao Yusheng's master, the White Tortoise, as the master’s soul had gone to suppress a passage.
• Lin Fan gave Cao Yusheng the Formation Vein Book and then flew with Big Black to the passage in the Spirit World.
• Big Black explained that the Foreign Realm had once brought a soul-erasing, blood-blackening substance that the immortals sealed away.
• Lin Fan and Big Black saw the White Tortoise's primordial spirit among the heroic spirits, but a crack opened in the gateway and black mist seeped through, harming a passerby.

Lin Fan entered the Spirit World to confront a deadly black mist spreading from a fissure, but found that even his strongest attacks could not destroy it. He sealed it temporarily and ordered the nearby provinces evacuated, then returned to discover Big Black had tampered with his body and kicked the dog away.

• Black mist poured from a fissure in the Spirit World, killing cultivators and threatening to spread into the real world.
• Lin Fan sent his body outside under Big Black’s watch and entered the Spirit World with his primordial spirit.
• Lin Fan tried sword light, phoenix flames, and other arts against the mist, then used immortal qi and a formation to seal it temporarily.
• Lin Fan ordered everyone to leave the Spirit World and the nearby great provinces, warning that the seal would not hold for long.
• Lin Fan returned to his body and found Big Black had tampered with it, so he kicked the dog unconscious and turned to the evacuation.

Lin Fan mobilized cultivators to evacuate the Three Thousand Provinces and reinforce the barriers containing dark matter, but the Spirit World’s defenses continued to weaken. A mysterious arrival from the Uninhabited Zone brought a Foreign Realm undying being into battle with Lin Fan.

• Lin Fan summoned the Sacred Emperor Palace forces and allied elders to evacuate residents from the threatened provinces and build Grand Formations.
• Meng Tianzheng and other Supremes examined the dark matter, while Lin Fan explained that only abundant immortal qi could purify it and dismissed hopes of help from the Immortal Domain.
• Over several days, evacuations continued as dark matter corroded the Immortal Arrays and cracked the Spirit World barrier, which Lin Fan and the Supremes repeatedly repaired.
• A Primordial Altar in the Uninhabited Zone activated and sent a mysterious nine-colored object toward the Three Thousand Provinces, causing the dark matter to surge.
• A gigantic claw struck from a Forbidden Land, crushing cultivators, and Lin Fan recognized the aura of a Foreign Realm undying being and blocked its attack with a punch.

Lin Fan battled a Dark Creature wielding the Origin Ancient Artifact, a chest tied to the Foreign Realm’s origins. Though Lin Fan pierced his foe with a powerful attack, the chest unleashed strange light that split Lin Fan’s body and threatened to corrupt him.

• Lin Fan repelled the Dark Creature’s enormous claw and recognized the black blood as dangerous, ordering everyone to keep away from it.
• The Dark Creature brought out the Origin Ancient Artifact, and Lin Fan explained that it was connected to the Foreign Realm’s origins and the key sought by the Immortal Kings.
• Lin Fan fought the Dark Creature with the Great Luo Sword Embryo, which held the chest at bay during their battle across the land and starry sky.
• Lin Fan combined his five great realms of Qi Refining in a punch that pierced the Dark Creature’s chest and destroyed his black heart.
• The Origin Ancient Artifact began to shine, and its light split Lin Fan’s body while threatening to corrode him and cast him into darkness.

Lin Fan was nearly destroyed when the Origin Ancient Artifact opened and engulfed him in nine-colored radiance and dark matter. He escaped by using Eternal Thought, killed the Dark Creature, and left to tend to his wounds.

• The Origin Ancient Artifact began opening, and its radiance tore Lin Fan's body apart while dark matter threatened to contaminate him.
• Lin Fan warned Meng Tianzheng, Ning Yu, and the others not to approach, as the nine-colored light made rescue impossible.
• Lin Fan unleashed Eternal Thought, briefly freezing the artifact, then struck it away with the Great Luo Sword Embryo.
• Lin Fan used another sword strike to split the Dark Creature apart and destroy its primordial spirit.
• Lin Fan told the others to handle the area while he went to tend to his wounds, and Meng Tianzheng hoped he would recover.

After surviving the Origin Ancient Artifact’s dark matter, Lin Fan spent ten years recovering in the Cross Yin-Yang Land before returning to find the Black Calamities spreading across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Learning that both the Immortal Domain and the Dark Creatures were looking for him, he headed for the Nine Heavens.

• Lin Fan entered the Restricted Area and asked the Lord of the Forbidden Zone for a safe place to recover from his injuries and dark matter contamination.
• Lin Fan shed his ruined body, rebuilt it from his blood essence, and burned his former body with the Undying Phoenix Flame to destroy the dark matter.
• Lin Fan spent ten years in secluded cultivation, tempering his blood and soul until his injuries stabilized.
• Lin Fan told the Lord of the Forbidden Zone and the awakened Old Monsters from the Xiling Realm how he survived the Origin Ancient Artifact’s radiance.
• Lin Fan returned to the Three Thousand Provinces and learned that the Dark Territory had spread across half the land and Black Calamities had appeared throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Lin Fan learned that the Immortal Domain and the Dark Creatures were both looking for him, then flew toward the Nine Heavens.

As the Black Calamity devastated the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, Lin Fan learned that Immortal Domain forces were threatening the Sacred Emperor Palace to draw him out over the Origin Ancient Artifact. When the palace’s formation repelled their assault and killed a Supreme, a True Immortal demanded that its people surrender.

• Lin Fan witnessed the Black Calamity’s destruction and resolved to act after learning that the Immortal Domain and dark forces were searching for him and threatening his people.
• Immortal Domain Supremes stationed outside the Sacred Emperor Palace decided to attack it to force Lin Fan to appear.
• Supreme surnamed Ao hurled a mountain at the palace, but its formation destroyed the mountain and counterattacked with sword light.
• The formation wounded a hidden True Immortal and killed Supreme surnamed Ao despite his Primordial Spirit’s attempt to escape.
• The True Immortal threatened to wipe out the Sacred Emperor Palace, whose people challenged his right to attack them.

Lin Fan returned to the Sacred Emperor Palace and slaughtered the Ao Family members who had come to seize him, then moved the Sage Emperor Star to evade retaliation. When two Ao Family Quasi-Immortal Kings entered the Lower Realm to hunt him, Lin Fan ambushed one and unleashed his ultimate fist strike.

• Lin Fan learned that Immortal King Ao Sheng’s descendants had besieged the Sacred Emperor Palace and attacked them, killing the Supremes and refining their True Immortal into the Human Emperor Banner.
• Lin Fan returned to the palace, told Qing Yao, Yue Chan, Qingyi, and the others to flee, and moved the Sage Emperor Star away.
• The Ao Family dispatched two Quasi-Immortal Kings into the Lower Realm to find and capture Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan ambushed one of the Quasi-Immortal Kings and launched a decisive strike using his five secret realms and a fist technique that combined many precious arts.

Lin Fan killed Ao Yi and wounded his father, Ao Ling, after using his innate ability to neutralize their attacks. Ao Ling fled toward the Immortal Gate, and Lin Fan pursued him with three united sword arts as Ao Ling called for his grandfather to save him.

• Lin Fan used his innate Divine Ability and Fist Seal to kill Ao Yi, a Quasi-Immortal King.
• Ao Ling recognized Ao Yi as his son and attacked Lin Fan with the Ao Family's Immortal King art, Light Sword Wings.
• Lin Fan pretended to be weakened, then used Immunity to All Techniques to nullify Ao Ling's attack and blast half his body apart.
• Ao Ling fled toward the Immortal Gate, but Lin Fan unleashed the Chaos-Quelling Art, Grass Character Sword Art, and Immortal Tribulation Sword Art together to pursue him.
• Ao Ling burned his blood essence and called for his grandfather to save him.

Lin Fan killed Ao Ling, provoking Ao Sheng to attack him through the Immortal Gate. Ao Sheng destroyed Lin Fan’s incarnation but learned that his true body had escaped to the Embankment, where Lin Fan stayed to recover and prepare to become an Immortal King.

• Lin Fan killed Ao Ling with the combined Three Great Sword Arts after Ao Ling revealed his connection to Ao Sheng.
• Ao Sheng reached through the Immortal Gate and struck Lin Fan, destroying what onlookers believed was the Sage Emperor.
• Ao Sheng searched the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and discovered that Lin Fan’s true body had gone to the Embankment.
• Lin Fan remained on the Embankment, vowed to settle accounts after becoming an Immortal King, and resumed healing his wounds.

Lin Fan observed the dangers of the Boundary Sea from the Embankment and used its laws to purge dark matter from his body. He then endured ten years in the Thunder Abyss, rooted out the hidden dangers left by the Origin Ancient Artifact, and prepared to return to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

• Lin Fan watched beings and ruined worlds sink into the Boundary Sea, then spent decades observing it and tempering his true blood with its mist.
• Lin Fan left the Embankment and visited the ancient footprints left by a Quasi-Immortal Emperor during the Emperorfall Era.
• Lin Fan found a Thunder Abyss filled with Tribulation Lightning Pools and leaped in to refine his body and primordial spirit.
• Lin Fan endured ten years of lightning and Tribulation Lightning Liquid, purged the hidden dangers within him, and decided to return to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

After returning from the Embankment, Lin Fan found the world in the Dharma-Ending Age and reunited with his people at the Sacred Emperor Palace. He reassured them that the world would revive, then teased Shi Hao about the awkward circumstances of his marriage.

• Lin Fan returned to the Restricted Area and discovered that the Dharma-Ending Age had begun, weakening the world and shortening lifespans.
• Lin Fan repelled the heavens’ restrictions and returned to the Sacred Emperor Palace, where his preparations had preserved a haven for cultivation.
• Lin Fan reunited with Qing Yao, Yue Chan, Qingyi, Meng Tianzheng, and Shi Hao, promising to lead his followers into the Immortal Domain and settle their scores with the Ao Family.
• Meng Tianzheng refused longevity medicine, choosing to pursue a second life and the Mortal World Immortalization Method; Lin Fan said the world would eventually revive.
• Lin Fan teased Shi Hao about Huo Ling’er appearing on the day of his wedding to Yun Xi, then refused to teach him how to handle his two wives.

After two hundred years of the Dharma-Ending Age, Lin Fan created and unveiled a new qi refining cultivation system for all living beings. He survived a century-long heavenly tribulation, and the qi refining system entered the world.

• Lin Fan declared that he would open a new path for all living beings and announced the realms of his qi refining system, stirring breakthroughs and awe across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• An ancient being in a forbidden zone recognized that Lin Fan’s words were shaping the great dao and influencing the cultivation of every living being.
• Lin Fan completed his system, making it possible for later generations to cultivate without relying on body-as-a-seed.
• He endured a devastating heavenly tribulation for a hundred years, tempering his body and strengthening his dao cultivation.
• Lin Fan shattered the remaining heavenly punishment, swallowed the leftover lightning, and established the qi refining system in the world.

After creating a cultivation method, Lin Fan taught it to beings across the universe for three years, then set out with Shi Hao and the Heavenly Horned Ant to recover the rest of the Indestructible Scripture. They arrived at Immortal-Falling Ridge, where the Heavenly Horned Ant called for an audience with the restricted area's seniors.

• Lin Fan announced that all living beings could listen as he expounded his cultivation method for three years, and many who attended improved their cultivation.
• After the discourse, Lin Fan privately imparted the method to those close to him and learned that Shi Hao had reached the Extreme Dao Supreme level and established the Heavenly Court.
• Shi Hao asked Lin Fan to help find the remaining chapters of the Indestructible Scripture, and Lin Fan agreed to go to Immortal-Falling Ridge with him and the Heavenly Horned Ant.
• Lin Fan, Shi Hao, and the Heavenly Horned Ant openly approached Immortal-Falling Ridge, drawing attention throughout the Nine Heavens.
• The Heavenly Horned Ant requested an audience with the seniors within Immortal-Falling Ridge.

Lin Fan and his companions entered Immortal-Falling Ridge to obtain the Lower Chapter of the Indestructible Scripture. After the ridge’s inhabitants agreed to let them see it, Lin Fan opened the scripture, and the gathered pages appeared for them to study.

• The Heavenly Horned Ant requested an audience at Immortal-Falling Ridge and told its inhabitants that they had come for the Lower Chapter of the Indestructible Scripture.
• A young being insulted the visitors, but Lin Fan’s aura cowed him and the True Immortal who challenged Lin Fan backed down after hearing about his deeds.
• A voice from within Immortal-Falling Ridge ordered the gray-haired man to let Lin Fan and his companions see the scripture, and he directed them to Indestructible Peak.
• Lin Fan circulated the Upper Chapter, causing the mountain to reveal five golden pages of the Lower Chapter.
• The Heavenly Horned Ant, Shi Hao, and Lin Fan saw that the five pages completed the nine-page scripture, and Lin Fan urged them to comprehend it quickly.

Lin Fan, Shi Hao, and the Heavenly Horned Ant comprehended the Indestructible Scripture before leaving Immortal-Falling Ridge, where the Lord’s clan feared entanglement with them over Little Pagoda. Decades later, Lin Fan joined Shi Hao in bringing nearly a thousand cultivators to the Embankment to temper themselves, and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone granted them one hundred years there.

• Lin Fan, Shi Hao, and the Heavenly Horned Ant comprehended the Indestructible Scripture until its writing vanished, then left Immortal-Falling Ridge.
• The clan’s elders let Lin Fan leave because they feared failing to kill him and becoming entangled in karma.
• Lin Fan told Shi Hao that the Lord of Immortal-Falling Ridge was connected to Little Pagoda’s destruction, but said they could handle him.
• Lin Fan returned to the Sacred Emperor Palace and spent decades integrating the Indestructible Scripture into his own cultivation system.
• Shi Hao invited Lin Fan to join an expedition to the Embankment, and they gathered nearly a thousand cultivators from the Heavenly Court and Sacred Emperor Palace.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone allowed the group one hundred years in the restricted area and warned them not to cross the Embankment.

Lin Fan led nearly a thousand cultivators to train in the Lightning Abyss, where he warned them against reckless attempts to advance. After returning to the Yin-Yang Cross Restricted Area, he comforted Qing Yao over her fear of aging and agreed to try to have a child with her.

• Lin Fan brought the Sacred Emperor Palace and Heavenly Court cultivators to the Embankment world, then took them to train in the Lightning Abyss.
• More than a dozen cultivators died by pushing themselves too hard, so Lin Fan stopped their attempts and urged them to cultivate patiently.
• After a hundred years, Shi Hao returned from tempering himself at the Embankment without finding a way to become an immortal.
• Lin Fan and Shi Hao brought the troops back, where they found the cruel age of waning cultivation still claiming lives on Emperor Star.
• Qing Yao feared aging and losing Lin Fan, so he comforted her and brought her to the Palace of Eternal Youth.
• Qing Yao said she wanted a child, and Lin Fan agreed to try to have one with her.

After seven hundred years of cultivation left his companions stalled before becoming Supremes, Lin Fan established the Supreme Path, a dangerous contest through the Uninhabited Zone. Three hundred years later, as his friends joined the trials, visitors from the Immortal Domain arrived with an invitation for Lin Fan from an Immortal King.

• Lin Fan and Shi Hao reassured their companions that the Dharma-Ending Age made attaining the Dao harder but could produce stronger cultivators.
• Lin Fan proposed a route of trials through the Uninhabited Zone, and the group named it the Supreme Path and arranged its construction.
• Altars opened the route to Heavenly Gods, with eighty-one checkpoints leading to Emperor City and rewards from the Sacred Emperor Palace and the Heavenly Court.
• Over three hundred years, cultivators flocked to the Ancient Road, explored the Uninhabited Zone, and endured its dangers as Lin Fan and Shi Hao kept the cities safe.
• When the Sacred Emperor Palace and the Heavenly Court ended their three-hundred-year absence from the competition, the Heavenly Horned Ant, Ning Fei, Scarlet Dragon, and Cao Yusheng joined the trials, while Cao Yusheng and the God-Striking Stone caused mayhem.
• An Immortal Gate-like fissure opened, and visitors from the Immortal Domain came to the Sacred Emperor Palace to summon Lin Fan to a grand gathering on an Immortal King's invitation.