Chapter Summaries

Yuangeng explained to the Lunar Essence Human Emperor that the universe was entering an autumn of cultivation, with a harsher winter to follow, and that the Myriad Races’ retreat to Big Dipper could create an opening for the Human Race. After exploring Returning Cloud Mountains and discussing the changing era for centuries, they headed to the Lunar Essence Divine Church.

• The Lunar Essence Human Emperor sensed that the laws and vital energy of the universe were declining as he and Yuangeng revisited places from his youth on Ziwei Ancient Star.
• Yuangeng led the Human Emperor underground through Returning Cloud Mountains, where they found that its once-great river of divine source liquid had dwindled to a few lakes.
• Yuangeng explained that the decline was part of a natural cycle: cultivation would grow harder in the Desolate Ancient Era, reach a true winter after Wushi, and later begin anew.
• Yuangeng showed the Human Emperor that many races were migrating to Big Dipper and sealing themselves away, partly because of the coming decline and partly because they sought the Road to Immortality.
• The Human Emperor recognized that the retreat of the Myriad Races could give the Human Race room to rise, and he and Yuangeng continued discussing the universe’s laws for two or three hundred years before heading to the Lunar Essence Divine Church.

The Lunar Essence Human Emperor returned to the Lunar Essence Divine Church and reunited with the Human Emperor Seal, which told him about the many changes since his death. Yuangeng then witnessed a small Ziwei sect preparing to migrate to the Big Dipper as Human cultivators began settling the newly vacated star.

• The Lunar Essence Human Emperor admired the thriving church and visited the ancestral shrine, where he saw his bloodline's many ancestral tablets.
• The Human Emperor Seal awakened for the Human Emperor, presented hidden reserves, and recounted events from the past nine hundred thousand years.
• Yuangeng left the shrine and found the Five-Dragon Divine Fire Dao preparing to migrate from Ziwei to the Big Dipper.
• The old Daoist explained that the Myriad Races had left the Big Dipper and that the Barbarian Race's traditions had invited Ziwei's Human Race to settle there.
• Yuangeng listened as the disciples questioned the migration and considered how small sects would help build the Big Dipper's future.

Old Daoist Fire Dragon and his disciples traveled from Ziwei to the Big Dipper Ancient Star with a mass migration of human cultivators. A Light Clan Great Saint attacked their arrival, but Duan De intervened and identified himself as the human race's Dao Guardian.

• Old Daoist Fire Dragon and his seven disciples reached the Lunar Essence Divine Church's gathering point and marveled at the enormous Five-Colored Altar.
• Old Daoist Fire Dragon met Yin Chen of Changsheng Temple, who explained that the divine churches were sending human cultivators to establish a foothold on Big Dipper.
• The Lunar Essence Divine Church's Saint King led the crowded altar through a star-domain teleportation to the Big Dipper Ancient Star.
• A Light Clan Great Saint attacked the altar, but the Lunar Essence Saint King used a Dao Mirror to shield the cultivators.
• A giant hand struck the Light Clan Great Saint and sent him flying, and Duan De appeared as the human race's Dao Guardian.

Duan De confronted the alien clans seeking to divide the Big Dipper and asserted that much of its territory belonged to the Human Race. The rival Quasi-Emperors refused to yield, so Duan De revealed two Extreme Dao Weapons and transported them all to the Ancient Emperor Battlefield.

• Duan De protected the Five-Colored Altar and faced the Light Clan Quasi-Emperor and the other alien powers gathered around the Big Dipper.
• The Light Clan, Kunlun Remnant Clan, Bashé Demon Race, Godslayer Clan, and Divine Race each demanded territory or influence on the Big Dipper.
• Duan De declared that the Human Race would claim the Central Province, Northern Plains, and Eastern Wasteland, then revealed that he had reached the ninth heaven of the Quasi-Emperor realm.
• The alien Quasi-Emperors awakened their Imperial Dao Weapons and prepared to eliminate the Human Race before dividing the Big Dipper.
• Duan De revealed the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram and Jade Bowl as his two Extreme Dao Weapons, then carried the assembled powers to the Ancient Emperor Battlefield.

Duan De defeated the rival clans’ Quasi-Emperors and forced them to recognize the Human Race’s dominion over Big Dipper Ancient Star. The Lunar Essence Divine Church learned of his astonishing rise, while Duan De declared he had no interest in proving his Dao and had emerged to protect the bonds he cherished.

• The Lunar Essence Divine Church’s Quasi-Emperor arrived on Big Dipper and heard how Duan De had driven back the Light Clan and confronted the rival clans.
• The Lunar Essence Elder Quasi-Emperor explained Duan De’s rise, including how he became a Quasi-Emperor seven or eight hundred years earlier and had mastered several supreme inheritances.
• Duan De fought the rival clans’ Ancient Emperor Weapons for hours without falling behind.
• The Light Clan, Golden Crow Clan, Kunlun Remnant Clan, Gou Chen Demon Race, and other clans conceded the Human Race’s dominant position on Big Dipper.
• Duan De told the rival Quasi-Emperors that he had no interest in proving his Dao and had emerged to protect the bonds he cherished.

After Duan De defeated the alliance of Quasi-Emperors and Imperial Dao Weapons, human lineages across the cosmos gathered on Big Dipper under his protection. He later entered the realm of alternative Dao attainment and was honored by humans as the Little Heavenly Venerable and with rites due a Human Emperor.

• The defeated Quasi-Emperors acknowledged Duan De's strength, and several nonhuman races left clansmen, scriptures, and other foundations on Big Dipper before departing.
• Duan De accepted the thanks of the Ziwei cultivators and met the three leading Quasi-Emperors of Ziwei, who praised his talent and discussed his inheritance and descendants.
• News of Duan De's victory spread, prompting human lineages from across the stars to migrate to Big Dipper and build up the Human Race there.
• Duan De stayed active on Big Dipper, helping newly arrived lineages find dragon veins and establish grotto-heavens.
• Three thousand years after the battle, Duan De entered the realm of alternative Dao attainment, and humans built shrines to honor him as the Little Heavenly Venerable and a Human Emperor.

As the universe declined and cultivation became increasingly difficult, Duan De received visitors who told him that Ziwei’s last active Quasi-Emperor had sealed himself away. Duan De revealed that his own life was nearing its end, then experienced a surge of memories and said he had no regrets in this lifetime.

• The Human Race and other ancient stars felt the universe’s decline as cultivators, Star Beasts, and powerful figures became increasingly scarce.
• Great Saint Qing Chen and a Daoist nun from Changsheng Temple visited Duan De at his mountain temple.
• The Daoist nun reported that Grandmaster Zang Yue had reached the end of his lifespan and sealed himself away; Duan De recalled that Zang Yue had been Ziwei’s last active Quasi-Emperor.
• Duan De told the two Great Saints that his own life would end within a few years, prompting the Daoist in the purple-gold crown to offer to find Immortal Medicine.
• Duan De dismissed the offer, reflected on the legacies he had passed down, and, after a surge of memories, said he had no regrets in this lifetime.

After leaving his lineage, Duan De traveled to the Undying Mountain and reunited with Yuangeng, the Lunar Essence Human Emperor, and Dongfang Taiyi. He discussed the Human Race’s future with them, then invited them to explore the starry sky and help investigate a faint chance of the Solar Essence Saint Emperor’s resurrection.

• Duan De left the Big Dipper Ancient Star alone after entrusting his weapons and treasures to his lineage.
• Duan De reached the Undying Mountain, where Yuangeng, the Lunar Essence Human Emperor, and Dongfang Taiyi awaited him.
• Duan De and the others discussed the declining age, the Human Race’s vulnerable future, and the possibility of supporting technological research.
• Duan De invited Yuangeng, the Lunar Essence Human Emperor, and Dongfang Taiyi to explore the starry sky and help pursue the Solar Essence Saint Emperor’s possible resurrection.
• Yuangeng, the Lunar Essence Human Emperor, and Dongfang Taiyi agreed to accompany Duan De.

Yuangeng and the others discussed the decline of Primordial Antiquity and found hope in the strength of a rising human cultivator, Yao Yan. Yuangeng drew on Yao Yan’s imperial blood to prepare a medium for reviving the Solar Essence Saint Emperor, leaving Yao Yan immersed in a century of Dao enlightenment.

• Yuangeng, Dongfang Taiyi, Duan De, and the Lunar Essence Human Emperor observed that the laws of the Dao were declining and powerful cultivators had become rare.
• The Lunar Essence Human Emperor spotted Yao Yan, a Great Saint of the Sun God Sect, and Dongfang Taiyi brought him before the group.
• Duan De introduced Dongfang Taiyi, the Lunar Essence Human Emperor, and the Heng Emperor, leaving Yao Yan stunned to meet figures from ancient history.
• Yuangeng recognized Yao Yan’s reverted Solar Essence imperial blood and touched his brow, sending him into deep enlightenment with visions of his ancestor.
• Yuangeng drew seventy percent of Yao Yan’s reverted imperial blood, intending to use it as a medium to revive the Solar Essence Saint Emperor and compensate Yao Yan with a hundred years of Dao comprehension.

Yuangeng used the Solar Essence Tower to find the Solar Essence Saint Emperor’s remains and return his coffin to Ziwei Ancient Star, resolving the emperor’s lingering obsession and reviving him. He placed the Saint Emperor in a Stone Coffin and set out to find a suitable place to nurture his corpse, taking the Fusang Ancient Tree from Ziwei’s northern sea.

• Yuangeng used the Saint Emperor’s ancestral blood to awaken the Solar Essence Tower and search the stars for the emperor’s remains.
• Yuangeng and Dongfang Taiyi found the Saint Emperor’s divine spirit thought guarding his coffin inside a dead star.
• The Solar Essence Tower brought the coffin back to Ziwei Ancient Star, where the divine spirit thought’s obsession dissipated and the Saint Emperor awakened.
• Yuangeng put the Saint Emperor’s skin in a Stone Coffin and drew the emperor’s fragile divine thought into it.
• Yuangeng took the Fusang Ancient Tree from Ziwei’s northern sea to help find a suitable corpse-nurturing ground.

Yuangeng and his companions traveled from the Solar Emperor Tower to the Primordial Ancient Star to place the Solar Essence Saint Emperor’s remains in a corpse-nurturing site. After burying him beneath the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, Yuangeng searched the planet’s depths but found no sign of the hidden being he sought.

• Yuangeng examined the Fusang Immortal Medicine and discussed its possible origins with Cao Yusheng and the Lunar Essence Human Emperor.
• Duan De led the group to the Primordial Ancient Star and recalled how he and Emperor Venerable had used dragon veins from other worlds to restore Kunlun’s Immortal Ascension Ground.
• Yuangeng entered the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains through Emperor Venerable’s formation and reached the corpse-nurturing site with Duan De, the Lunar Essence Human Emperor, and Dongfang Taiyi.
• The group discovered Heavenly Venerable Daode’s grave, and Yuangeng explained that he had altered the site to nurture the remains.
• Yuangeng buried the Solar Essence Saint Emperor’s coffin deep underground and searched the depths of the Primordial Ancient Star, but saw nothing.

Yuangeng helped Duan De begin his fifth Reincarnation Seal, then surveyed Earth’s powerful lineages and Emperor Venerable’s legacy with the Lunar Essence Human Emperor and Dongfang Taiyi. Dongfang Taiyi left to study the formation at Hangu Pass, while Yuangeng invited the Human Emperor to visit the Eternal Ancient Star.

• Yuangeng set a Star Stele over the Solar Essence Saint Emperor’s tomb, and the Human Emperor planted the Fusang Immortal Medicine beside it.
• Duan De buried himself in a brass Ancient Coffin beneath Earth’s mountains and asked Yuangeng to help him return in his next life.
• Yuangeng spent more than ten years preparing Duan De’s coffin while the Human Emperor and Dongfang Taiyi explored the Dragon Mountains.
• Yuangeng showed the emperors Earth’s surviving Heavenly Court lineage and explained that Emperor Venerable’s formation protected the planet.
• Dongfang Taiyi went to Hangu Pass to study Emperor Venerable’s formation patterns, while the Human Emperor headed toward the Immortal Ascension Ground.
• Yuangeng invited the Human Emperor to visit the Eternal Ancient Star, and the Human Emperor expressed interest in its technological path.

Yuangeng and the Lunar Essence Human Emperor visited the Eternal Ancient Star to investigate its emerging technological cultivation path and learned how it had developed. They left after meeting Daoyuan, a Dao Family ancestor whose descendants would carry the research forward.

• Yuangeng and the Lunar Essence Human Emperor entered a research institute protected by a technological force field and examined its ships and devices.
• The Human Emperor activated a Void Starship, drawing out the Great Saint Daoyuan in a technology mecha.
• Yuangeng subdued Daoyuan and asked him how the Eternal Ancient Star had begun developing technology.
• Daoyuan explained that an island civilization's industrial revolution drew the attention of a Quasi-Emperor, who gave its mortals cultivation methods and inspired them to study cultivation through technology.
• Daoyuan showed Yuangeng research into Void Starships, mechas, mineral detectors, and cloning special constitutions, and shared his hopes for the path's future.
• Yuangeng learned that Daoyuan was patriarch of the Dao Family, erased his memories of their meeting, and departed with the Human Emperor.

After more than a hundred thousand years of cultivation in the Primordial Ancient Mine, Tai Chu entered his fourth lifetime on the Red Dust Immortal Path. He reunited with the Lunar Essence Human Emperor and celebrated the Saint Spirits he had nurtured, then went with him toward the Divine Ruins, where Heng Emperor was cultivating.

• More than twenty-one thousand years after Duan De's death, a powerful heartbeat shook the universe, and a Quasi-Emperor traced it to Tai Chu in the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Tai Chu completed his fourth lifetime and stabilized his cultivation, while the Quasi-Emperor's attempt to observe him nearly shattered his Primordial Spirit.
• The Lunar Essence Human Emperor arrived to congratulate Tai Chu, and they recognized that both had reached the fourth lifetime but remained uncertain about advancing further.
• Tai Chu welcomed the Saint Spirits he had nurtured in the mine and Undying Mountain, while the Human Emperor noted that Tai Chu would lead the world's Saint Spirits once they emerged.
• Tai Chu and the Lunar Essence Human Emperor walked toward the Divine Ruins, where Heng Emperor had been cultivating.

The Lunar Essence Human Emperor and Tai Chu visited Yuangeng in the Divine Ruins and learned that his attempt to create a sixth human body secret realm had damaged his origin and shortened his life. Yuangeng explained that the sixth realm called for transcendence, then discussed his plan for a fifth lifetime.

• The Lunar Essence Human Emperor and Tai Chu found Yuangeng frail and gray-haired beside a Divine Spring in the Divine Ruins.
• Yuangeng told them a failed breakthrough had damaged his origin and cost him a considerable portion of his lifespan.
• Yuangeng explained that he had tried to combine his physical body and primordial spirit to create a sixth secret realm beyond the five human body realms.
• Yuangeng said the sixth realm’s direction was transcendence, but admitted he could not yet explain its method and had only a few hundred years left.
• Yuangeng reassured the emperors that they could pursue the sixth realm after reaching the Immortal Dao and finding its methods in the Immortal Domain.
• The Human Emperor asked how Yuangeng planned to transform for his fifth lifetime, and Yuangeng said he would develop his constitution with the physical body as its foundation.

Yuangeng revealed a Blood Pool containing the origins of nearly every physique and used it to study how physiques could be transformed, preparing for his fifth lifetime. More than three hundred years later, he died and was reborn as a chaos body, then continued investigating the origins of physiques.

• Yuangeng showed Tai Chu and the Lunar Essence Human Emperor the imperial Blood Pool, which the Underworld had spent seven or eight thousand years filling with blood from countless physiques.
• Yuangeng transformed pooled physique origins into chaos-body blood and demonstrated that he could convert supreme immortal blood into Brahma battle blood.
• Yuangeng explained that he was studying both the chaos body and the deeper origins of physiques, while the Lunar Essence Human Emperor considered joining the paths of taiyin and taiyang.
• Yuangeng discussed physique cultivation with Tai Chu and the Lunar Essence Human Emperor, then, over three hundred years later, died and began his fifth lifetime as a chaos body.
• After the two emperors departed, Yuangeng continued studying the Blood Pool and considered using origins on the Five-Colored Continent to locate Wang Bo.

After completing his fifth lifetime, Yuangeng mastered the Chaos Body’s extraordinary affinity with the laws of all Daos. He found the ancient Chaos Body sealed within the Feathering Ancient Star and confronted the man, who sensed Yuangeng’s matching origin.

• Yuangeng completed his fifth lifetime and discovered that his flawless chaos origin let him readily comprehend the laws of every Dao.
• Yuangeng considered using the Stone Door to travel through time, then went to the Big Dipper Ancient Star and sensed the dead chaos origin within its Five-Colored Continent.
• Yuangeng gathered the ancient chaos origin into a drop of blood essence and shaped it into a formation that led him to the Feathering Ancient Star.
• Yuangeng split open a mountain on the Feathering Ancient Star and drew a man sealed in immortal source out of the star.
• Yuangeng released the man from the immortal source, but the man’s chaos divine ability could not free him from confinement.
• The man sensed that Yuangeng also possessed the aura of a Chaos Body.

Yuangeng met Wang Bo, a reborn ancient chaos body, gave him chaos origin, and agreed to protect his cultivation as he rebuilt his foundations. As the Primordial Antiquity era stabilized and signs of a flourishing age appeared, hidden Supremes in the Life Forbidden Zones waited for prey.

• Yuangeng recognized Wang Bo as a chaos body and shared chaos origin with him, helping restore his newly reborn body.
• Wang Bo explained that he planned to cultivate anew and asked Yuangeng to protect his path for a thousand years.
• Yuangeng agreed to protect Wang Bo and invited him to exchange insights on the Chaos Scripture.
• Yuangeng carried Wang Bo into the starry sky as the universe's laws and vitality began to recover, heralding the coming Desolate Antiquity era.
• Cultivators welcomed signs that new Dao Provers would emerge, while Supremes in the Life Forbidden Zones watched for prey.

Feng Fuxi defeated a veteran Nine-Headed Lion prodigy near the seventy-second pass, then met Wang Bo, a Chaos Body who revealed the dangers facing those competing for the Heavenly Heart Imprint. Wang Bo warned that Restricted Zone Supremes could target Fuxi once he approached the Dao, and Fuxi remained determined to suppress every foe.

• Five hundred years after Yuangeng began his fifth lifetime, the ancient roads reopened and prodigies set out across the universe.
• Feng Fuxi fought his way through the Human Race Ancient Road and became its most dazzling rising star.
• Near the seventy-second pass, Fuxi defeated a Nine-Headed Lion from the Otherworld after nearly a thousand exchanges.
• Wang Bo introduced himself as a Chaos Body and tested Fuxi with a clash of Dao laws, which neither man yielded ground in.
• Wang Bo warned Fuxi that Otherworld experts and Restricted Zone Supremes would threaten him, but Fuxi vowed to suppress every foe.
• Fuxi asked whether Forbidden Zone Supremes could intervene, and Wang Bo explained that the protection against upheavals would not cover those nearing the Dao.

Fuxi and Wang Bo, an innate Chaos Body, fought to a draw on the Ultimate Battlefield before Quasi-Emperors tried to abduct Wang Bo. Yuangeng rescued both prodigies, intending for Wang Bo to serve as Fuxi’s mentor.

• Fuxi crossed the final human checkpoint, survived a heavenly tribulation, and entered the Great Saint realm.
• Wang Bo defeated a White Peacock Clan Great Saint and killed six pinnacle Great Saints with Chaos Formation Patterns.
• Wang Bo and Fuxi fought thousands of moves at the same cultivation level, drawing the attention of powerful beings across the universe.
• Quasi-Emperors wielding Extreme Dao Weapons attempted to abduct Wang Bo, but Yuangeng transferred him and Fuxi away.
• The Lunar Essence Human Emperor and Yuangeng discussed how Wang Bo had held back and could help guide Fuxi’s cultivation.