Chapter Summaries

Yuangeng defeated the dark Demon Emperor and Battle Emperor, then faced two powerful reinforcements from the Dark Heavenly Court. The chapter ended with Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and the Heavenly Emperor's Son confronting him.

• The dark Demon Emperor and Battle Emperor joined forces to shatter Yuangeng's Burial Dao Spear, but recognized that he vastly surpassed them.
• Yuangeng trapped the two emperors in Burial Dao Chains and destroyed them, along with their Imperial Dao weapons and the deities within them.
• Yuangeng reflected on the darkness of this timeline and reaffirmed that he had come to temper himself.
• Four Killing Swords formed a canopy over the stars as Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and the Heavenly Emperor's Son approached Yuangeng.
• Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and the Heavenly Emperor's Son introduced themselves to Yuangeng.

Yuangeng confronted Dark Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and the Undying Heavenly Emperor's second son, learning how Lingbao had been resurrected and corrupted by darkness. Yuangeng and the little phoenix clashed using the Immortal Phoenix Art, and the little phoenix was defeated.

• Dark Heavenly Venerable Lingbao explained that Emperor Venerable had resurrected him and baptized him in darkness after his death.
• Yuangeng recognized the Undying Heavenly Emperor's second son and learned of the little phoenix's rise to power in this timeline.
• Yuangeng manifested an Imperial Dao Great Bow and formed a Five-Colored Divine Arrow using the Immortal Phoenix Art.
• The little phoenix answered with his own darkness-tainted bow and arrow, and the two arrows collided across the starry expanse.
• Yuangeng's arrow overcame the little phoenix's, leaving him coughing up five-colored blood as Dark Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and the onlookers stared in disbelief.

Yuangeng fought dark Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and Little Phoenix, overpowering their combined attacks despite the Lingbao Formation Diagram. As he prepared to press his advantage with the Heaven-Burying Heavenly Coffin, the Dark Chaos Body, Wang Bo, appeared beside his enemies.

• Little Phoenix concluded that Yuangeng must have come from the Immortal Domain, and Yuangeng accepted the guess without confirming it.
• Dark Heavenly Venerable Lingbao trapped Yuangeng in the Lingbao Formation Diagram while he and Little Phoenix attacked together.
• Yuangeng unleashed the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art and fought their combined weapons for seven or eight hours.
• The clash sent Lingbao's Four Killing Swords flying and wounded Little Phoenix, while Yuangeng coughed up blood but stabilized his aura.
• Yuangeng summoned the Heaven-Burying Heavenly Coffin, but the Dark Chaos Body, Wang Bo, suddenly appeared beside Lingbao and Little Phoenix.

Yuangeng fought three dark Heavenly Emperors—Dark Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, Little Phoenix, and the Chaos Body Wang Bo—and the four injured one another in a fierce clash. As they prepared to continue, a non-dark figure carrying a pitch-black Immortal Jar appeared between them.

• Yuangeng summoned his bow and tested Wang Bo with an Azure Luan arrow, but Wang Bo swallowed and destroyed it with his chaotic universe.
• Wang Bo invited Yuangeng to join the Heavenly Court, while he, Dark Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, and Little Phoenix prepared to overwhelm him together.
• The three dark Heavenly Emperors unleashed forbidden arts as Yuangeng merged with the Heaven-Burying Heavenly Coffin and met their attack head-on.
• The clash sent all four fighters flying with injuries; Lingbao lost an arm, while Yuangeng suffered a chest wound from Lingbao’s Unity of the Nine Secrets.
• A slender figure holding a pitch-black Immortal Jar appeared between Yuangeng and the three dark Heavenly Emperors, and Yuangeng recognized that the newcomer was not a Dark Being.

The white-robed Female Emperor arrived to aid Yuangeng against Wang Bo and the dark Heavenly Emperors, revealing that she had severed her chaos body and wielded the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar. After the dark emperors restored themselves with Nine-Turn Divine Liquid, Yuangeng and the Female Emperor prepared to strike back and kill one of them.

• The Female Emperor appeared beside Yuangeng as the three dark Heavenly Emperors prepared another attack.
• Dark Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and the Female Emperor clashed, and Lingbao realized she had severed her chaos body.
• Wang Bo and the other dark emperors joined forces against the Female Emperor, but Yuangeng reinforced her attack and shattered theirs.
• The Female Emperor identified the liquid the dark emperors drank as the Dark Heavenly Court's Nine-Turn Divine Liquid, which rapidly healed their injuries.
• Yuangeng and the Female Emperor resolved to try to kill one of the dark Heavenly Emperors.

Yuangeng and the white-robed Female Emperor fought the Dark Heavenly Court’s heavenly emperors, and Yuangeng killed Little Phoenix after a prolonged battle. As they prepared to face more enemies emerging from the darkness, they recognized the Undying Heavenly Emperor and other powerful foes among them.

• The Female Emperor used the Myriad Transformation Sacred Art against Wang Bo, shattering his chaos armor, while they fought to a standstill.
• Yuangeng joined the Female Emperor in battle against Dark Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and Little Phoenix, who unleashed the Unity of the Nine Secrets and Dark Immortal Phoenix Method.
• Yuangeng seized Little Phoenix’s primordial spirit and destroyed it along with its supreme dark root using the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art.
• The Female Emperor gave Yuangeng a Nine-Turn Golden Pill, which he swallowed to replenish his strength as she identified the new arrivals as the Undying Heavenly Emperor, a Dao-attaining Heavenly Tyrant Body, and a monster made from at least fourteen Dark Dao Provers.
• Yuangeng recognized the Heavenly Tyrant Body beneath the great bell and was relieved that it was not a Dark Great Emperor Wushi.

Yuangeng and the white-robed Female Emperor faced the Dark Heavenly Court’s assault until Cao Yusheng and Wan Qing arrived with the Desolate Pagoda to aid them. Cao Yusheng used the pagoda to help Yuangeng and himself escape, leaving the Dark Heavenly Emperors without a target.

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor ordered the Dark Heavenly Emperors to attack Yuangeng and the white-robed Female Emperor and turn them into dark companions.
• Cao Yusheng and Wan Qing arrived with the Desolate Pagoda and blocked the attackers’ combined assault.
• Yuangeng lent his Burial Dao Light to the Desolate Pagoda, forcing the dark sovereigns back and revealing Cao Yusheng and Wan Qing as allies.
• Cao Yusheng identified himself as the Netherworld Venerable, and Wan Qing introduced himself as a cultivator bearing the Green Lotus Immortal Medicine’s Dao aura.
• As the Dark Heavenly Emperors prepared to resume their attack, Cao Yusheng used the Desolate Pagoda’s radiance to make himself and Yuangeng vanish.

Yuangeng arrived with Cao Yusheng and the others at a protected small world established by the Desolate Heaven Emperor as the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ stronghold. Cao Yusheng revealed how he had preserved uncorrupted Dao Provers there, and the chapter ended with Yuangeng asking whether the Western Emperor had ever married.

• Yuangeng and the others crossed into a small world inside the half-height coffin, where its boundary washed away the darkness clinging to them.
• Cao Yusheng explained that the realm was the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ final stronghold, and Yuangeng described his origins and connection to the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit.
• Cao Yusheng told Yuangeng how he had survived death, formed a Reincarnation Seal, and linked six seals to maintain his strength against the Dark Heavenly Court.
• Cao Yusheng led Yuangeng through the stronghold and introduced the uncorrupted Dao Provers he had rescued, including Heavenly Venerable Daode, the Solar Essence Saint Emperor, and the Void Emperor.
• Cao Yusheng identified the Western Emperor as a brilliant innate dao embryo whom he had helped prove her Dao and brought into the realm.
• Yuangeng asked whether the Western Emperor had ever married, and Cao Yusheng answered that she had not.

Yuangeng and Cao Yusheng discussed reincarnation and the ties between figures in the dark timeline and the Immortal Ancient Era. They examined Wan Qing’s connection to the Green Lotus Immortal King and concluded that the White-Clothed Female Emperor had no known past, leaving her future open.

• Yuangeng sensed that the Western Emperor’s fate was connected to a fallen king from Immortal Ancient, and Cao Yusheng identified the likely connection as Wushi’s family line.
• Cao Yusheng revealed that Amitabha the Great Emperor had likely been the Immortal Monk King’s reincarnation, and showed Yuangeng a darkness-tainted Bodhi Tree seed and half a demon-subduing pestle.
• The Netherworld Venerable and Cao Yusheng explained that Wan Qing, born from the Green Lotus Immortal Medicine, had an exceptionally strong connection to the Green Lotus Immortal King.
• Wan Qing said that he and the Green Lotus Immortal King were one, with the Immortal King belonging to the past and Wan Qing to the present.
• Wan Qing asked whether the White-Clothed Female Emperor had a past life, and Yuangeng said she was simply herself, with a glorious future ahead.

Yuangeng learned how badly the dark side had outnumbered the Nine Heavens forces and proposed using his Burial Dao coffin to study darkness, potentially opening a path to a fourth life. He also offered to help defeat the Dark Heavenly Court’s strongest forces and asked whether Emperor Venerable had survived the ancient battle; Cao Yusheng believed he had.

• Cao Yusheng explained that the dark side had once fielded even more Heavenly Emperor Level fighters, while he and Wan Qing had endured centuries of brutal battles against them.
• Wan Qing wondered whether he could gain darkness’s benefits without losing himself, and Cao Yusheng recalled that someone in the previous epoch had returned from darkness.
• The White-Clothed Female Emperor proposed infecting her shed body with darkness, but Cao Yusheng warned her that she was too young to risk the experiment.
• Yuangeng offered to test the idea with his Burial Dao coffin, hoping to comprehend darkness and live a fourth life, while Wan Qing considered trying it with his own remnant body.
• Yuangeng pledged to help Cao Yusheng and the others eliminate the Dark Heavenly Court’s Heavenly Emperor Level forces, then asked whether Emperor Venerable was still alive.
• Cao Yusheng concluded that Emperor Venerable should still be alive.

Little Phoenix returned from annihilation by taking over the Heavenly Emperor's Eldest Son's body, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor explained the dark faction's plans for the Immortal Domain. Their discussion was interrupted when four powerful figures arrived beyond the darkness, prompting Little Phoenix to recognize a familiar sword cry.

• Little Phoenix emerged from the Five-Colored Immortal Phoenix Hall in the Heavenly Emperor's Eldest Son's body, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor welcomed his return.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor told Little Phoenix that the Old Nine Heavens faction remained beyond their reach because of the Desolate Pagoda and their hidden reserves.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor described his plan to gather strength, seize Immortal Domain Fragments, and raise three experts to the level of Mortal World Immortals.
• Little Phoenix learned that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had reached his sixth life on the dark red dust immortal path and that Emperor Venerable had survived in his seventh life.
• A familiar sword cry sounded, and four towering figures appeared beyond the darkness as Little Phoenix asked whether they meant to begin the decisive battle.

Yuangeng and the four Nine Heavens leaders attacked the Dark Heavenly Court, breaking its great formation and forcing the Undying Heavenly Emperor and his allies to confront them. The final battle began as both sides summoned their strongest weapons and powers.

• Yuangeng used the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art to strike the Dark Emperor Formation, overwhelming its formation spirit and destroying parts of the Heavenly Court.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor sent out the Five-Colored Heavenly Blade to clash with Yuangeng's golden greatsword, and the two weapons eventually withdrew to their masters.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor appeared with Wang Bo of the Chaos Body, Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, the Tyrant Body who had proven his Dao, the Dark Fourteen-Headed Fusion Monster, and other Dark Dao Provers.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor offered Cao Yusheng, Wan Qing, the White-Clothed Female Emperor, and Yuangeng positions in exchange for accepting darkness, but Cao Yusheng rejected him and attacked.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor summoned the Dark Immortal Ascension Cauldron to fight Cao Yusheng, while the Dark Heavenly Emperor and other powerful dark beings advanced toward the four leaders.

Yuangeng defeated a Fourteen-Headed Fusion Monster and claimed the Dark Kunlun Immortal Bell while his companions fought dark Heavenly Emperors. He then headed deeper into the Dark Heavenly Court to find Emperor Venerable and destroy the darkness’s strongest being.

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor swept Cao Yusheng toward the Cosmic Frontier, while Canghai and Heavenly Venerable Lingbao joined forces against Wan Qing.
• Wang Bo challenged the White-Clothed Female Emperor, and she met him in battle beyond the heavens, leaving Yuangeng alone against a Fourteen-Headed Fusion Monster.
• The monster attacked Yuangeng with the Dark Kunlun Immortal Bell and a fused imperial-dao strike, but the Heaven-Burying Heavenly Coffin shielded him.
• Yuangeng annihilated the Fourteen-Headed Fusion Monster and suppressed the Dark Kunlun Immortal Bell.
• Yuangeng entered the deepest reaches of the Heavenly Court to seek Emperor Venerable.

Yuangeng stormed the Dark Heavenly Court and slew more than a dozen Dark Dao Provers with immortal tribulation arrows. He reached the source of the universe’s darkness and found Emperor Venerable seated on the altar’s throne.

• Yuangeng burned away the Dark Heavenly Court’s darkness and faced a group of Dark Dao Provers who rose from their seals to attack him.
• Yuangeng formed a golden Heavenly Bow from immortal tribulation light and killed dark Taihuang and the other Dark Dao Provers with his arrows.
• Yuangeng pressed through the Heavenly Court, killing more than a dozen Dark Dao Provers, including Dao Yan, Light Emperor, Qilin Emperor, God Venerable, and Longevity Heavenly Venerable.
• Yuangeng reached the deepest recess of the Heavenly Court and used an arrow to reveal dark Order Divine Chains extending from a towering altar that served as the source of darkness.
• Yuangeng ignored the altar’s illusions, climbed to its summit, and found Emperor Venerable seated on a throne.

Yuangeng confronted Dark Emperor Venerable, who revealed that he was being prepared as a vessel for the Corpse Immortal Emperor. A hidden, uncorrupted Emperor Venerable emerged and joined Yuangeng, revealing that the Desolate Heaven Emperor had planted him as a contingency to oppose the darkness.

• Yuangeng attacked Dark Emperor Venerable, breaking his dark chains and trading blows with his cauldrons, artifacts, and manifestations.
• Yuangeng suspected that the Corpse Immortal Emperor was using Emperor Venerable as a vessel and learned that Emperor Venerable stood at the peak of the dark hierarchy.
• Dark Emperor Venerable admitted that he sought to become a Dark Mortal World Immortal and serve as the Corpse Immortal Emperor's vessel.
• A second will awakened in Emperor Venerable and told Yuangeng that killing Dark Emperor Venerable would sever the world's darkness from its root.
• The uncorrupted Emperor Venerable separated from his dark counterpart and revealed that the Desolate Heaven Emperor had secretly nurtured him as a contingency.

Yuangeng and Light Emperor Venerable joined forces against Dark Emperor Venerable after the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s contingency created a new, darkness-free personality within him. They defeated and destroyed Dark Emperor Venerable, ending his threat outside the Heavenly Court.

• Yuangeng accepted the darkness-free Emperor Venerable as an ally after learning the Desolate Heaven Emperor had prepared his new personality.
• Dark Emperor Venerable unleashed the Unity of the Nine Secrets, but Yuangeng and Light Emperor Venerable attacked him together and pierced his chest.
• Light Emperor Venerable summoned Kunlun Immortal Mountain while Yuangeng struck with the Great Kun, shattering Dark Emperor Venerable’s dark mountain and throne.
• Yuangeng and Light Emperor Venerable drove Dark Emperor Venerable out of the dark source land and destroyed the Dark Immortal Ascension Cauldron.
• Dark Emperor Venerable fled and sacrificed Dark Beings for dozens of days and nights, but Yuangeng and Light Emperor Venerable killed him outside the Heavenly Court.
• Yuangeng and Light Emperor Venerable annihilated Dark Emperor Venerable’s Primordial Spirit and repeatedly destroyed his body to prevent his return.

Dark Emperor Venerable and Wang Bo were killed in battle, leaving the Dark side short two powerful fighters. Cao Yusheng and the Undying Heavenly Emperor continued their fierce duel until the Burial Emperor arrived and joined forces with Cao Yusheng.

• The White-Clothed Female Emperor killed Wang Bo after his grief over Dark Emperor Venerable’s death left him open to attack.
• The White-Clothed Female Emperor extracted a strand of chaos origin from Wang Bo’s body, destroyed the corrupted Chaos Body, and headed toward Wan Qing’s battlefield.
• Cao Yusheng and the Undying Heavenly Emperor fought for days without either gaining the advantage, then discussed Dark Emperor Venerable’s death and their opposing natures.
• The Burial Emperor arrived in a pitch-black Heavenly Coffin, and Cao Yusheng welcomed him and merged their Burial Dao laws.
• Cao Yusheng and the Burial Emperor struck together with the Heavenly Nether Treasure and Heaven-Burying Heavenly Coffin, forcing the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Five-Colored Heavenly Blade to shake under their combined assault.

Yuangeng and Emperor Venerable confronted the Dark Heavenly Court’s remaining Dao Provers as they fused into a single monster. Despite the fusion’s power, the two overwhelmed it, leaving the battle against the darkness nearing its end.

• Wan Qing defeated the Dao-Proving Tyrant Body and his Azure Heaven Tyrant Bell.
• Emperor Venerable told Yuangeng that the Desolate Heaven Emperor had created an untouched universe within his primordial spirit so he could cultivate apart from darkness.
• Little Phoenix led more than twenty Dark Dao Provers in merging into a Dark Fusion Monster.
• Emperor Venerable struck the forming monster with Dao Tribulation Divine Thunder while Yuangeng used Immortal Tribulation Sword Art to destroy two Dark Dao Provers.
• Yuangeng and Emperor Venerable attacked the Dark Fusion Monster together, and it fell after only a few dozen exchanges.

Yuangeng, Emperor Venerable, and their allies defeated the remaining Dark Dao Provers, but realized the universe was still saturated with darkness and its inhabitants had become Dark Beings. They began their campaign to cleanse the darkness, with Yuangeng wiping out all life on Gou Chen Ancient Star and drawing dark matter from the world.

• Cao Yusheng destroyed the Undying Heavenly Blade and killed the Dark Undying Heavenly Emperor, while the White-Clothed Female Emperor and Wan Qing survived Heavenly Venerable Lingbao's self-destruction.
• Cao Yusheng, Emperor Venerable, the White-Clothed Female Emperor, and Wan Qing discussed how darkness remained rooted in the universe and how its corrupted inhabitants could not be restored.
• Cao Yusheng shared scriptures describing methods to disperse dark matter, and Emperor Venerable urged the others to kill every Dark Being rather than hesitate.
• Yuangeng brought the group to Gou Chen Ancient Star, where a dark Quasi-Emperor was preparing a blood sacrifice against the Nine Heavens' side.
• Yuangeng killed every being on Gou Chen Ancient Star, then used Cao Yusheng's scripture to draw dark matter from its inhabitants, terrain, and laws.

Yuangeng spent eighteen years stripping the darkness from Gou Chen Ancient Star, after which Cao Yusheng resettled it with uncontaminated cultivators and mortals. Cao Yusheng then sent the Nine Heavens' returning Dao Provers to cleanse other stars, beginning a universe-wide purge of the Dark Beings.

• Yuangeng gathered and sealed all the dark substance within Gou Chen Ancient Star after an eighteen-year examination.
• Emperor Venerable, Cao Yusheng, Wan Qing, and the White-Clothed Female Emperor examined the concentrated darkness, which Cao Yusheng judged could contaminate a Dao Prover.
• Cao Yusheng placed Burial Heaven Island on Gou Chen Star and spread its uncontaminated grotto-heavens and blessed lands across the dead world as new seeds.
• Cao Yusheng summoned the rescued Dao Provers from the small Immortal Domain and taught them how to remove darkness.
• Heavenly Venerable Daode, the two Human Emperors of Lunar Essence and Solar Essence, and the Western Emperor set out with people and resources to cleanse other contaminated stars.
• Cao Yusheng asked Wan Qing and the others to watch for remaining dark methods and Dao Provers as the Nine Heavens' forces began their purge.