Recaps

A thousand years later, the Qilin Emperor brought his children to meet Yuangeng in the ancient world beneath Yinghuo Ancient Star. Huo Qizi and Huo Lin'er introduced themselves to the Supreme One, while their father made arrangements for the Qilin Divine Medicine before his coming seclusion.

• The Qilin Emperor tested Huo Lin'er and Huo Qizi as they studied the ancient world's deathly energy and solitary yin Great Dao.
• The Qilin Emperor led his children to the island where Yuangeng lived and greeted him as Brother Yuan.
• The Qilin Divine Medicine leapt toward Yuangeng's Bodhi sapling, then settled beside it for a nap.
• The Qilin Emperor explained that he had brought the immortal medicine because he planned to leave his homeland and cultivate in seclusion, whether or not his third life succeeded.
• Yuangeng welcomed the children and offered them yin-attributed fruits, and they introduced themselves as Huo Qizi and Huo Lin'er.

Yuangeng discussed Huo Qizi and Huo Lin'er's future with the Qilin Emperor, who planned to seal them until a freer era and asked Yuangeng to choose when they would emerge. The chapter also revealed Yuangeng's past relationships and ended with the Qilin Emperor entrusting him with a Nine-Turn Pill meant to prepare his children, despite it being the old emperor's last hope for a third life.

• Yuangeng learned that six-year-old Huo Qizi and Huo Lin'er had extraordinary potential to surpass the Qilin Emperor's Dao.
• The Qilin Emperor explained that he intended to seal his children until the Heavenly Heart imprint no longer constrained them, and Yuangeng offered to decide when they would emerge.
• Huo Lin'er asked about Yuangeng's children, prompting him to recall his former bond with a Golden Crow princess and his later marriage to a female Golden Burial Cultivator.
• The Qilin Emperor gave Yuangeng a Nine-Turn Pill to divide for his children and admitted that it was also his last hope if his attempt at a third life failed.

Yuangeng used the Nine-Turn Golden Pill to strengthen Huo Qizi and Huo Lin'er, then warned the Qilin Emperor about the risks of his coming attempt at a third life. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Nether Treasure and its companions planned to use an ancient Bronze Immortal Palace against the Burial Emperor.

• Yuangeng shattered the Nine-Turn Golden Pill and used its medicinal power to cleanse Huo Qizi and Huo Lin'er's secret realms, hoping they would reach the pinnacle of the human dao.
• Yuangeng offered the Qilin Emperor an ice-blue fruit and described a possible return through the Underworld if his attempt at a third life failed, but the Qilin Emperor chose to travel the universe for his remaining years.
• Source Ghost returned to the small world and told the Heavenly Nether Treasure, Source God, and Source Demon that Yuangeng refused to cooperate with them.
• The Heavenly Nether Treasure revealed a phantom of an ancient Bronze Immortal Palace and proposed replacing its lost Divine Spirit so they could suppress the Burial Emperor.

The Qilin Emperor remembered his final rival, Yu Mian, and appeared to die after relinquishing the Heavenly Heart Imprint. He then successfully attained a third life, while Yuangeng announced that he would step into the world.

• The Qilin Emperor took Yuangeng to the seventy-second pass of the Demon Race Ancient Road and told him about his last opponent, the Feathered Divine Cicada, Yu Mian.
• The Qilin Emperor rebuilt Yu Mian’s gravestone and carved his name into it, after which his vitality collapsed and the Heavenly Heart Imprint left his control.
• The Qilin clan mourned the Qilin Emperor, while the Eternal Blue Gold Staff remained on the Qilin Ancestral Star to guard the clan.
• The Qilin Emperor formed an azure dao cocoon to attempt a third life, and Yuangeng suppressed it with the Immortal Bell.
• The Qilin Emperor emerged from the cocoon as a vigorous blue-haired young man, thanked Yuangeng, and celebrated his renewed life.
• Yuangeng released his aura and said he would step into the world, while the Qilin Emperor had chosen to withdraw from it.

The Qilin Emperor’s era ended, and the Corpse Emperor recalled his reign and questioned what the next emperor would choose in their twilight years. As ambitious Quasi-Emperors prepared to contend for the imperial path, Yuangeng moved to claim the heavenly heart imprint and a formidable figure appeared at the Cosmic Frontier.

• The Corpse Emperor told Yuangeng how he had once protected the universe, then severed his cultivation and withdrew into the Underworld.
• Yuangeng agreed that emperors who chose to live for themselves were acting according to human nature, and the Corpse Emperor wondered what the next emperor would do.
• Yuangeng’s kidney divine spirit rose from the throne and rushed into the universe, prompting the Corpse Emperor to recognize his attempt to seize the heavenly heart imprint.
• Sealed cultivators across the universe sensed the Qilin Emperor’s era ending, and a Silver Blood Quasi-Emperor and a Bifang on Feixian Ancient Star vowed to pursue the imperial path.
• A powerful figure in silver-white imperial robes appeared seated at the Cosmic Frontier, his five secret realms overwhelming the hopes of the aspiring Quasi-Emperors.

Yuangeng united his five great secret realms, overcame the Qilin Emperor’s Heavenly Heart Imprint, and proved his Dao. As a tribulation formed around him, he announced his title: the Heng Emperor.

• Yuangeng connected his five great secret realms and challenged the Qilin Emperor’s residual Great Dao imprint in the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• The Qilin Emperor’s Dao manifestation attacked Yuangeng, but Yuangeng struck it down with the Immortal Moon Treasure Wheel and erased the imprint’s remaining suppression.
• Yuangeng broke through the barrier and proved his Dao, uniting the five secret realms at the utmost limit of the Human Dao Domain.
• A heavenly tribulation arose around Yuangeng, revealing thirty-six pillars before they faded until only nine remained.
• Yuangeng welcomed the nine manifestations and declared, “My name is the Heng Emperor!”

Yuangeng fought the nine Immortal King phantoms revealed by the Immortal Medicines during his tribulation, while the Qilin Emperor challenged the Qilin Immortal King. After ten days and nights, Yuangeng connected all five human body secret realms, gained the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and named himself Heng Emperor.

• Yuangeng battled the Immortal Monk King, Golden Crow King, Pan King, Black Tortoise Immortal King, and the other Immortal King phantoms with Burial Dao methods.
• Ancient Supremes and Immortal Medicines witnessed the tribulation, and the Qilin Emperor charged in to fight the Qilin Immortal King before being defeated and thrown out.
• Yuangeng endured the nine Immortal King phantoms' assault for ten days and nights as the battle strengthened his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Yuangeng connected the Sea of Bitterness, Dao Palace, Four Extremes, Dragon Transformation, and Immortal Platform secret realms into a humanoid universe.
• Yuangeng received the Heavenly Heart Imprint, swallowed it, and declared that his name was Heng Emperor.

Yuangeng declared himself Heng Emperor and gathered the universe’s faith, storing it safely with the Sacrificial Spirit Method rather than absorbing it. After discussing faith and longevity with the Qilin Emperor, Yuangeng considered what to do as emperor and proposed building a life-source star to foster prosperity.

• Yuangeng announced that he was Heng Emperor, and beings across the universe bowed to him as the new master of the heavenly heart.
• Si Yanning and cultivators on Ziwei Ancient Star worshipped Heng Emperor, while the Underworld’s branches honored Yuangeng as both Heng Emperor and Burial Emperor.
• Yuangeng used the Sacrificial Spirit Method to collect the immense faith thought power in a Jade Disc and place it inside his immortal platform.
• The Qilin Emperor cautioned Yuangeng against relying too heavily on faith thought power and the Bodhi Immortal Medicine seedling.
• Yuangeng gave the Qilin Emperor the Sacrificial Spirit Method and the Jade Disc, assigning him to tend the Bodhi Tree while residing on Yinghuo Ancient Star.
• Yuangeng proposed building a life-source star to advance the age’s changes and encourage prosperity among the stars.

Yuangeng used the Heavenly Heart Imprint to create a new Life Origin Star between Ziwei and Flying Immortal, feeding it supreme treasures and laws. He reflected on the Human Body Secret Realm method and hoped his work would leave something lasting for the universe.

• Yuangeng surveyed the universe and chose a desolate location between Ziwei and Flying Immortal for a new Life Origin Star.
• Yuangeng gathered debris from barren stars and shaped it into a star, then inscribed it with runes drawn from the laws of the myriad Daos.
• Yuangeng burned the Five-Colored Heavenly Blade and the Blood Pool fragments into the star, explaining to the Immortal Bell that cultivators returned their bodies and weapons to heaven and earth.
• Yuangeng merged half of a Primordial Life Stone and refined laws of life, death, the five elements, heaven, and earth into the star.
• Yuangeng reflected that the Human Body Secret Realm method gave every living being a chance to pursue the supreme path, and he recalled Xue Yueqing as an example of its success.
• Yuangeng said he had grown fond of the era and hoped to leave something behind, though fate had already begun to shift.

Source Demon and the Heavenly Nether Treasure discovered a hidden Road to Immortality beneath Gou Chen Ancient Star, but a powerful being on its far side seized Source Demon and took control of his body. The intruder killed Source God and Source Ghost, subdued the treasure, and revealed that he had finally found a node connecting to the other side.

• Source Demon and the Heavenly Nether Treasure broke through the bronze gate beneath Gou Chen Ancient Star and entered an ancient battlefield sealed by Extreme Dao Formation Patterns.
• The pair found abundant longevity substance and traced it to a palm-sized opening leading to the Road to Immortality.
• Source Demon tried to widen the opening, but a hand from the other side seized him and left him unconscious.
• A being from beyond the Road to Immortality took control of Source Demon's body and killed Source God and Source Ghost with emerald immortal light.
• The intruder pinned down the Heavenly Nether Treasure and said he had finally found a node on the other side.

The being who possessed Source Demon identified himself as the Immortal Master, a Mortal World Immortal from a realm between the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and the Immortal Domain. He tested entry through the Chaos Cave, but while an Extreme Dao Crocodile Dragon crossed over, the realm rapidly drained the beast’s lifespan.

• The Immortal Master subdued the Heavenly Nether Treasure after killing Source Ghost and Source God, then explained that he came from the other shore of the Road to Immortality.
• The Immortal Master widened the Chaos Cave and tried to cross into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, but the passage repelled him.
• The Immortal Master showed the Heavenly Nether Treasure an illusion of a mighty figure called the Immortal Master, and the treasure recognized the significance of Red Dust Immortal Ascension.
• An Extreme Dao Crocodile Dragon crossed through the Chaos Cave and begged the Immortal Master for help as its life essence rapidly drained away.
• The Immortal Master gathered the realm’s free-floating longevity substance and used it to halt the Crocodile Dragon’s aging, realizing that problems remained.

A thousand years after the Qilin Emperor vanished, the Heng Emperor Yuangeng continued creating a Life Origin Star and welcomed the Peach of Immortality tree medicine, which chose to follow him. Yuangeng accepted its gift of degraded seven-colored soil and considered how to cultivate the tree’s potential as his new world took shape.

• The Qilin Emperor vanished, and Yuangeng became the Heng Emperor after erasing the old emperor’s heavenly heart imprint and surviving an Imperial Dao tribulation.
• The Lunar Essence and Solar Essence sects, along with other factions, sent treasures to support Yuangeng’s Life Origin Star; the Netherworld Branches also delivered five Quasi-Emperor corpses and a damaged Extreme Dao Weapon.
• The Peach of Immortality tree medicine crossed the universe to find Yuangeng and asked to follow him, explaining that an Imperial Formation let it travel between stars.
• The tree revealed seven-colored soil that Yuangeng recognized as a degraded form of all-things soil, and he accepted the gift and let the tree stay beside him.
• Yuangeng considered helping the Peach of Immortality tree medicine develop its own spiritual awareness and using the star to establish a Saint Spirit Lineage.
• Yuangeng burned the Quasi-Emperor corpses beneath the new star, strengthening its vital energy and Dao laws as he prepared it for future settlers.

The Immortal Master explained why he planned to invade the Shrouding the Heavens universe, seeking its heavenly heart imprint, Immortal Medicines, and hidden secrets. He issued an Edict calling Extreme Dao beings to descend, and twenty-one accepted as he selected four to test ways of overcoming their lifespan limits.

• The Heavenly Nether Treasure recounted how the Immortal Master had ruled the Strange World and united its three cultivation paths under his authority.
• The Immortal Master told the Heavenly Nether Treasure he sought to enter the Immortal Domain with two other immortals and wanted treasures and secrets from its universe.
• The Heavenly Nether Treasure warned that the Supremes from its world were hardened by brutal struggles, but the Immortal Master dismissed its confidence in them.
• The Immortal Master issued an Edict ordering cultivators to descend and gather herbs, and twenty-one Extreme Dao beings accepted.
• The Immortal Master selected four of the accepting beings to test solutions to the lifespan problem.

Yuangeng sensed a disturbance in the heavenly heart imprint as four Extreme Dao Supremes from the Strange World crossed the Immortal Gate and attacked Gou Chen Ancient Star. The invaders split up to assess this universe’s powerful beings and draw out the Heng Emperor, while Yuangeng watched from afar.

• Yuangeng visited the Qilin Emperor and saw that the Bodhi Immortal Medicine had grown into a small tree whose thought-power manifestations resembled Buddhist paths.
• Yuangeng felt an abnormal tremor in the heavenly heart imprint and turned his attention toward Gou Chen Ancient Star.
• The Immortal Master welcomed four Strange World Dao Provers, warned them about the lack of longevity substance, and watched them take pills that replenished their lifespans.
• The four Extreme Dao Supremes shattered Gou Chen Ancient Star’s Million Mountains dragon vein, throwing the Life Origin Star into chaos.
• The female Supreme assigned two invaders to Big Dipper and two to the Underworld, but the blood-sworded Supreme proposed slaughtering Gou Chen’s inhabitants to draw out the Heng Emperor.

Blood Venerable and an eight-armed Extreme Dao Supreme attacked Gou Chen Ancient Star, but its ancient weapon resisted them until Yuangeng, the reigning Heng Emperor, intervened. Yuangeng confronted the two outsiders and questioned who they were, judging their strength to be far below that of a true Emperor.

• Blood Venerable dismissed the Immortal Master’s warning and struck at Gou Chen Ancient Star while the eight-armed Supreme guarded him.
• Three Quasi-Emperors awakened the divine mark purple gold chain, whose Ba Snake spirit blocked Blood Venerable’s first sword strike.
• Blood Venerable attacked again, destroying Gou Chen’s sun and moon and killing two Quasi-Emperors, but the chain survived.
• As Blood Venerable prepared another strike, Yuangeng seized his wrist and sent both Supremes flying when the eight-armed warrior attacked.
• Yuangeng appeared before the two Supremes, and the Ba Snake spirit recognized him as Heng Emperor.

Yuangeng fought two hostile Extreme Dao Supremes who demanded the Heavenly Heart, defeating them despite their powerful techniques and rapid healing. He resolved to search their Primordial Spirits and noticed two more Supremes heading toward the Big Dipper Ancient Star.

• The two Extreme Dao Supremes attacked Yuangeng and demanded that he hand over the Heavenly Heart.
• Yuangeng broke the slaughter Dao Supreme’s Immortal-Slaying Dao Sword and nearly seized his Slaughter Dao Seed before the eight-armed Supreme knocked his hand aside.
• Yuangeng slashed the eight-armed Supreme with his moon wheel, severed three arms, and struck him with a Giant Kun’s power.
• Both Supremes used treasures to heal their injuries and return to peak condition, while Yuangeng recognized signs of several different cultivation systems in them.
• Yuangeng decided to search the pair’s Primordial Spirits and saw two more Extreme Dao Supremes flying toward the Big Dipper Ancient Star.

The Void Venerable and Elephant Venerable chose the Divine Ruins to seize its Immortal Medicines, but its Supremes revealed they saw the newcomers as life-extending medicine. The two Strange World Supremes found themselves trapped and facing a battle against the Divine Ruins’ defenders.

• The Void Venerable and Elephant Venerable decided to attack the Divine Ruins and claim its Immortal Medicines before other forces arrived.
• The Void Venerable sealed the Divine Ruins with her Great Void Formation, but the Beast God welcomed the challenge and emerged from Immortal Source.
• The Elephant Venerable confronted the Beast God as the God Venerable and Black Tortoise Emperor also emerged from Immortal Source.
• The God Venerable and Beast God revealed that the Divine Ruins’ Supremes regarded the newcomers as medicine because their bodies contained abundant longevity substance.
• The Divine Ruins’ Supremes laid down their own Extreme Dao formations around the Void Venerable’s barrier, leaving the Void Venerable and Elephant Venerable trapped.

The Forbidden Zone Supremes attacked the Void Venerable and the Elephant Venerable, treating the two visitors from the Strange World as life-prolonging medicine. The Elephant Venerable was devoured, and the trapped Void Venerable faced the God Venerable and the Beast God in the Divine Ruins.

• The Beast God, the Black Tortoise Ancient Emperor, and the God Venerable entered ultimate sublimation and attacked the two Supremes from the Strange World.
• The Beast God wounded the Elephant Venerable and tore off a piece of its golden flesh, declaring it precious medicine.
• The Black Tortoise Ancient Emperor struck the Elephant Venerable's Primordial Spirit, allowing the Beast God to sever its head and swallow it.
• The Black Tortoise Ancient Emperor swallowed the Elephant Venerable's fleeing glazed zither and remaining Primordial Spirit.
• The Void Venerable fled after seeing the Elephant Venerable fall, but the Black Tortoise Ancient Emperor sealed the cosmos and forced her back.
• The God Venerable and the Beast God confronted the trapped Void Venerable as the Beast God declared that she belonged to the Divine Ruins.

The Forbidden Zone Supremes watched the aftermath of the battle in the Divine Ruins and wondered where the two outsiders had come from. In the starry sky, Yuangeng killed the eight-armed Supreme, tore the slaughter Dao seed from the Blood Venerable, and began searching his memories.

• The Beast God dragged the three-horned beast into an ancient hall behind the Southern Heavenly Gate, while the Forbidden Zone Supremes discussed the outsiders and agreed to seek answers later.
• Yuangeng resumed fighting the Blood Venerable and the eight-armed Supreme, whose combined Immortality and Dao Seed techniques still could not overpower him.
• Yuangeng used Burial Life to kill the eight-armed Supreme and stored his body.
• Yuangeng ripped the slaughter Dao seed from the Blood Venerable and suppressed it with the Lunar Essence Immortal Seed.
• Yuangeng pulled the Blood Venerable's primordial spirit from his body and used a soul-searching method to begin examining his memories.

The Immortal Master and the Strange World's Extreme Dao Supremes learned that all four pioneers sent into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths had seemingly perished. Yuangeng identified the invaders' origins, discovered the Chaos Gate linking the worlds, and approached it despite the Bronze Immortal Palace raised in warning.

• The Strange World's Extreme Dao Supremes waited at the Chaos Cave while one asked the Immortal Master how Supreme Divine Arm and the other explorers were faring.
• The tokens of all four Supremes exploring the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths shattered, and the Immortal Master blamed the Heavenly Emperor's Human Dao Gu Pool.
• Yuangeng examined Blood Venerable's memories and confirmed that the four Supremes had come from the Strange World.
• Yuangeng used the Heavenly Heart Imprint to locate the Chaos Gate and two Extreme Dao gatekeepers beneath Gou Chen Ancient Star.
• The gatekeepers brought out the Bronze Immortal Palace, but Yuangeng strode toward the entrance to the Strange World without fear.

Yuangeng confronted Biluò over the Strange World's attempt to seize the Immortal Medicines and heavenly heart imprint, then attacked him and forced him to retreat through the chaos gateway. Biluò returned with nearly two hundred Extreme Dao Supremes and challenged Yuangeng to defend his world.

• Yuangeng met Biluò across the chaos gateway and questioned him about sending two supremes to claim the heavenly heart imprint.
• Biluò demanded eighteen Immortal Medicines and a turn controlling the heavenly heart imprint, but Yuangeng rejected his proposal.
• Yuangeng struck Biluò with his immense foot and palm, smashing his body into black blood and injuring the Crocodile Dragon.
• The Immortal Master's spirit took control of the Bronze Immortal Palace and retreated through the chaos gateway, while Yuangeng chose not to pursue him.
• Biluò summoned nearly two hundred Extreme Dao Supremes from the Strange World and asked whether Yuangeng could defend his world alone.

Yuangeng gathered the Life Forbidden Zone Supremes and explained that four invaders had come from the Strange World beyond the Road to Immortality. He proposed that they help block the passage and fight the Strange World's Supremes, while he safeguarded them with the Immortal Bell.

• Yuangeng left the chaos gate, collected the weapons of the Underworld's four Supremes, and called the forbidden-zone powers to the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Weapons from the Life Forbidden Zones flew into the mine as the cultivators of Big Dipper Ancient Star feared a war with the forbidden zones.
• Yuangeng showed the assembled Supremes the Eight-Armed Extreme Dao's corpse and explained the Strange World, its longevity substance, and its plan to seize Immortal Medicines and the heavenly heart imprint.
• Yuangeng warned that the Strange World had at least a hundred Extreme Dao Supremes and might send another attack within a few hundred or thousand years.
• Yuangeng proposed that the forbidden zones block the passage and fight the invaders while he protected them with the Immortal Bell, and he allowed them to enter the Strange World if they wished.

Yuangeng uprooted the Five Great Life Forbidden Zones from the Big Dipper Ancient Star and carried them toward Gou Chen Ancient Star as the Ba Snake weapon moved Gou Chen to a new star domain. Beyond the Chaos Gate, the Immortal Master prepared a force of Extreme Dao Supremes to descend, while refining Longevity Pills to protect them.

• Yuangeng reassured the Big Dipper Ancient Star’s inhabitants, then used his power to lift Burial Heaven Island, the Divine Ruins, the Reincarnation Sea, the Immortal Mausoleum, and the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Yuangeng shouldered the five forbidden zones and headed toward Gou Chen Ancient Star, while the awakened Ba Snake weapon carried Gou Chen to a new star domain.
• The Immortal Master warned the Strange World’s Supremes that Yuangeng was exceptionally powerful and that they needed Longevity Pills to withstand the lower realm.
• Nine-Spirit Venerable, Great Venerable Mo, and several other Extreme Dao beings volunteered to descend and pursue the longevity medicine.
• The Immortal Master watched thirty-six Longevity Pills take shape in the Azure-Gold Treasure Furnace.

After a thousand years of waiting, thirty-six Extreme Dao beings from the Strange World crossed the Chaos Gate, and Yuangeng summoned the Forbidden Zone Supremes to face them. The Golden-Winged Roc Emperor challenged the invaders to fight in a prepared Life-and-Death Arena, setting the stage for the second invasion’s battles.

• Yuangeng waited a thousand years while the Forbidden Zone Supremes slumbered and the Strange World gathered its strength.
• Thirty-six Extreme Dao beings crossed the Chaos Gate beneath the Bronze Immortal Palace, and Yuangeng rang the Immortal Bell to awaken the Forbidden Zone Supremes.
• Yuangeng told the Immortal Master that the invaders would have to face the Forbidden Zone Supremes, while he focused on protecting the world from destruction.
• The Golden-Winged Roc Emperor introduced himself and challenged the Strange World’s experts to fight for the three Immortal Divine Medicines in the Heaven Forbidden Zone.
• The Golden-Winged Roc Emperor revealed the prepared Life-and-Death Arena and invited the invaders to defeat the Forbidden Zone Supremes before claiming the universe.

The Life Forbidden Zones demanded that the Strange World's Supremes fight in death matches, and the Golden-Winged Roc Emperor killed Venerable Fen after a fierce duel. The Strange World suffered four defeats and lost ten Supremes, leaving its survivors facing the overwhelming strength of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

• Burial Heaven Island, the Immortal Mausoleum, the Reincarnation Sea, and the Primordial Ancient Mine announced how many Strange World Supremes they wanted as prey and challenged them to fight.
• Venerable Fen challenged the Golden-Winged Roc Emperor, who reached ultimate sublimation and killed him after six hundred exchanges.
• Heavenly Wolf Venerable killed the Four-Winged Divine Bird, and Kun Demon Venerable swallowed a Human Race Extreme Dao being with weak water.
• A fourth Supreme from the Heaven Forbidden Zone killed his opponent within a hundred moves.
• Six Strange World Supremes attacked the Immortal Mausoleum together, but its great formation wiped them out.
• The Strange World's thirty-six Supremes lost ten in the battles, while Yuangeng and the forbidden zone Supremes considered their defeats unsurprising.