Chapter Summaries

Qin Tian transformed his physique, divine power, and primordial spirit into the quasi-emperor realm, then faced a vast lightning tribulation that tested his newly achieved strength. The tribulation ended without defeating him, leaving him standing in the universe with immense power and a solid foundation.

• Qin Tian naturally sublimated his physique, primordial spirit, and divine power to the quasi-emperor level using his three origins.
• Qin Tian revealed his full aura and sought recognition from heaven and earth, causing the Great Dao and quasi-emperors throughout the universe to sense his emergence.
• A colossal lightning tribulation descended, and Qin Tian moved to the Cosmic Frontier as its lightning-built Immortal Realm followed him.
• Qin Tian endured the tribulation, which could injure him but could not break through the divine light protecting his body.
• The lightning tribulation ended, and Qin Tian replenished his strength with the vital essence of space.

Qin Tian completed a breakthrough and returned to Big Dipper, where he discovered that the Heavenly Court had been damaged and the star domain was engulfed in conflict over the Road to Immortality. After a Great Saint mistook him for Ye Fan, Qin Tian left without incident, and the Great Saint realized that the legendary Lord of the Heavenly Court had returned as a Quasi-Emperor.

• Qin Tian reflected on his limited progress in the Quasi-Emperor realm and planned to use his sealed Reincarnation Dao Fruit to reach high-rank quasi-emperor.
• Qin Tian observed Su Yunxian cultivating, Ye Fan and his allies contesting the Demon Emperor Ruler, and Purple Qilin defeating Overlord.
• Qin Tian traveled through the inner void to Big Dipper and discovered its interwoven Emperor Formations and the destruction of the Heavenly Court's ninefold heavens.
• Qin Tian saw that Big Dipper had become a battlefield as outsiders fought over the Road to Immortality.
• A Great Saint's group stopped Qin Tian, but the Great Saint recognized his Quasi-Emperor aura and let him pass; afterward, he concluded Qin Tian was the returned Lord of the Heavenly Court.

Qin Tian returned to Big Dipper, found the Heavenly Court facing a renewed assault at Fire Demon Ridge, and reunited with the Jade Lake Saintess. After revealing that he had healed and reached Quasi-Emperor, he confronted the enemy Quasi-Emperor and stopped him from fleeing.

• Qin Tian sensed Big Dipper’s revival and vowed to settle accounts with those who had wronged him.
• At Fire Demon Ridge, Qin Tian learned from a girl that the Heavenly Court had faced attacks from forces beyond the star while its lord was away.
• A hostile young man mocked the Heavenly Court, and the Jade Lake Saintess arrived with the Heavenly Soldiers to face the gathered enemies.
• An enemy Quasi-Emperor threatened the Jade Lake Saintess, but she recognized Qin Tian and embraced him when he returned.
• Qin Tian revealed that his Dao Wound had healed and that he had advanced to Quasi-Emperor, then froze the space as the enemy tried to escape.

Qin Tian returned to the Big Dipper as a Quasi-Emperor, rewarded the Heavenly Court’s soldiers, and reunited with the Jade Lake Saintess. Fairy Zixia confessed her love, and Qin Tian helped her innate Dao embryo evolve before reclaiming the Immortal Seed, which he called the final piece of his puzzle.

• Qin Tian used the Saint Sacrifice Technique to refine the Divine Court’s Quasi-Emperor, share his origin with the Heavenly Court’s soldiers, and give Golden Horn a glimpse of the Quasi-Emperor realm.
• News of Qin Tian’s return as a Quasi-Emperor spread across the Big Dipper, alarming his enemies and delighting the Purple Mansion Holy Land.
• Qin Tian reunited with the Jade Lake Saintess, who reassured him and then sent Fairy Zixia to see him.
• Fairy Zixia confessed that she had loved Qin Tian since he defeated her, and the two became lovers.
• Qin Tian used dual cultivation and the Immortal Seed to help Fairy Zixia’s innate Dao embryo evolve, then retrieved the Immortal Seed and declared it the final piece of his puzzle.

Qin Tian transformed the immortal seed and sacred body into an acquired sacred body dao embryo, overcoming a devastating heavenly tribulation. He emerged with power approaching the Great Emperor domain and a faint imperial aura.

• Qin Tian began transforming himself, separating the innate dao embryo from his origin and merging it with the dao seed and sacred body origin.
• Qin Tian's body developed purple-gold divine blood and innate dao patterns as the transformation affected the Big Dipper.
• Qin Tian completed the acquired sacred body dao embryo, provoking a tribulation of myriad dao laws.
• Qin Tian endured and absorbed lightning, time-law attacks, and karmic fire, using them to temper and reshape his body.
• Qin Tian emerged with his dao, flesh, spirit, and qi united, his strength approaching the Great Emperor domain and an imperial aura felt across the universe.

Qin Tian completed an acquired sacred body Dao embryo, then followed destiny to the Great Dream Temple in search of a breakthrough opportunity. There, he learned that his old acquaintance Zhen Ding had died after dreaming of becoming Yuanshi Tianzun, leaving Qin Tian shaken by the implications of Zhen Ding’s identity.

• Qin Tian finished evolving his acquired sacred body Dao embryo after the universe cut off its blessing, and he speculated about creating a new physique called the Yuanshi dharma body.
• Qin Tian used destiny to locate an opportunity in the Western Desert and traveled to the Great Dream Temple, where he hoped to find the Great Dream of Ten Thousand Ages Method.
• Qin Tian asked the temple monks for Zhen Ding and learned that the abbot had died while attempting to break through to Saint King.
• Qin Tian searched the Yin Realm for Zhen Ding’s soul but could not find him, then received the Dao Sect Śarīra Zhen Ding had left behind.
• The little novice monk told Qin Tian that Zhen Ding had dreamed of becoming Yuanshi Tianzun, prompting Qin Tian to resolve to uncover who Zhen Ding really was.

Qin Tian examined the Yuanshi Śarīra and discovered that it connected him to the Real World of The Sage Who Transcended Samsara, where he briefly experienced Haotian Shangdi’s origin. He returned to Shrouding the Heavens realizing the Śarīra was an invitation and a possible gateway to that world.

• Qin Tian recognized the Three Pure Ones’ resonance in the Śarīra and asked whether it belonged to The Sage Who Transcended Samsara or Shrouding the Heavens; it identified itself as Shrouding the Heavens.
• Qin Tian teased Meng Qi as Reckless Vajra, and the Śarīra manifested the Pangu Banner to warn him.
• The Yuanshi Śarīra transported Qin Tian to the Real World, where he experienced existence as the Haotian Origin Energy Sea and learned of Haotian Shangdi’s place in that world.
• Qin Tian returned to Shrouding the Heavens and realized the Śarīra could serve as a doorway to The Sage Who Transcended Samsara.

Qin Tian opened his third secret realm, Haotian, and completed the initial framework of his Yang Spirit cultivation system by uniting essence, qi, and spirit into dharma power. He survived a devastating combined tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier, advanced to the middle Quasi-Emperor stage, and returned with a Dao-infused Śarīra.

• Qin Tian established the Haotian secret realm, linking his other secret realms and transforming his energy into spiritual dharma power.
• Qin Tian set out how the three secret realms cultivated spirit, body, and divine power, then advanced from the early to the middle Quasi-Emperor stage.
• Qin Tian traveled from the Big Dipper to the Cosmic Frontier and released his aura, triggering a combined Law-Creation and Quasi-Emperor Tribulation.
• Qin Tian used his Taiji Diagram to swallow the opening eighty-one bolts of Purple Heaven Blood Lightning, then endured lightning infused with the laws and arts of past Great Emperors.
• Qin Tian tempered his body with the tribulation and formed the Heavenly Dao Seal, ending the tribulation and returning with a Dao-infused Śarīra from Yuanshi Tianzun.

After returning as a mid-stage Quasi-Emperor, Qin Tian restored the Heavenly Court above Big Dipper and recruited Duan De to design a formation spanning the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. Duan De stayed to work on the formation, while Black Emperor urged Qin Tian to settle accounts with his enemies.

• Qin Tian descended upon the Heavenly Court, praised Big Black Dog's trained soldiers, and expanded the Court across the remaining six heavens.
• Qin Tian raised the Heavenly Court above Big Dipper, and powers from across the star domain came to pay homage and seek forgiveness.
• Qin Tian asked Duan De to design a Heavenly Cycle Starry Battle Formation capable of linking the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and trapping Supremes.
• Qin Tian awakened Duan De's past-life wisdom with reincarnation immortal light, and Duan De agreed to work on the formation.
• Qin Tian described the powerful enemies searching for the Netherworld Emperor, persuading Duan De to remain safely in the Heavenly Court and continue working.
• Black Emperor told Qin Tian that, now that he was a Quasi-Emperor, he should settle accounts with his enemies.

Qin Tian led the Heavenly Court on a revenge campaign against the Divine Court, bringing his army through the void and past its defenses. The armies faced off in the Divine Court’s heartland as an approaching extreme-dao aura stirred on a nearby ancient star.

• Qin Tian rallied the Heavenly Court’s soldiers and opened a void passage to the Divine Court, while Black Emperor called the campaign a war of revenge.
• News of the invasion spread through the Cloud Dream Realm, drawing attention from across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands as the Divine Court prepared its forces.
• Qin Tian used the Other Shore Golden Bridge to bypass the Divine Court’s protective formations and bring the Heavenly Court’s army into its heartland.
• Black Emperor led the charge against the Divine Court’s guards, and Qin Tian demanded that the Emperor Lord come out as both armies assembled for battle.
• The Emperor Lord’s son prayed to a clay statue for his father’s help, but it crumbled as an ancient star nearby released an aura approaching the extreme dao.

The Emperor Lord emerged from seclusion and attacked Qin Tian, but Qin Tian overwhelmed him despite being only at the fourth heaven of Quasi-Emperor. The Emperor Lord summoned the Light Clan’s God-Refining Pot, and Qin Tian vowed to kill him even with the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon in play.

• Qin Tian shielded the Heavenly Court’s forces from the Emperor Lord’s aura, while the Black Emperor killed a Divine Court elder.
• The Emperor Lord equipped his Blue Gold Emperor Tower and Dragon-Phoenix Armor, then demanded Qin Tian’s secrets of the Forbidden Domain.
• Qin Tian struck the Emperor Lord with his bare fist, destroying the Divine Court Main Star and revealing his fourth-heaven Quasi-Emperor cultivation.
• Qin Tian wounded the Emperor Lord with the Five-Colored Emperor Sword, cracking his armor and forcing him to request an Emperor Weapon from the Light Clan.
• The God-Refining Pot arrived, and the Emperor Lord offered to spare Qin Tian if he became a War General of the Divine Court.
• Qin Tian refused to submit and declared that he would kill the Emperor Lord despite his Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.

Qin Tian caught the God-Refining Pot barehanded, recreating Great Emperor Wushi’s famous feat and overwhelming the Divine Court’s forces. He continued crushing the Emperor Lord’s defenses, while the Light Clan retreated into seclusion and the Black Emperor received fragments of the shattered Eternal Blue Gold Tower.

• The Emperor Lord unleashed the God-Refining Pot at full power, but Qin Tian caught the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon with one hand and slapped it into a distant galaxy.
• Qin Tian’s feat stunned the witnesses, and the Light Clan’s patriarch ordered his clansmen to withdraw into their ancestral land and remain secluded for fifty thousand years.
• A Great Saint urged his grandson to join the Heavenly Court, believing Qin Tian could fulfill the Mythological Age’s ambition of whole-sect ascension to immortality.
• Qin Tian broke through the Emperor Lord’s attacks, shattered his dragon-and-phoenix armor, and pressed the battle with his overwhelming physical strength.
• Qin Tian smashed the Emperor Lord’s Eternal Blue Gold Tower, then gave several of its larger fragments to the Black Emperor.

Qin Tian defeated Emperor Lord and destroyed the Divine Court, refining him into a Vermilion Bird Divine Pellet. The Heavenly Court’s supremacy was established, while Qin Tian continued to build his own Dao and use the pellet as a reserve of energy.

• Black Emperor fused eternal blue gold into his bell, transforming it into an extreme Dao rough blank.
• Emperor Lord burned his origin and awakened the power of his phoenix blood red gold armor, but Qin Tian overwhelmed him in their battle.
• Black Emperor led the Heavenly Court’s forces into battle as Emperor Lord’s Vermilion Bird strike barely wounded Qin Tian.
• Qin Tian shattered Emperor Lord’s armor, captured him, and refined him into a Vermilion Bird Divine Pellet for the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• Qin Tian considered how Quasi-Emperors cultivated their own supreme Dao Fruits and why he could not rely on Emperor Lord’s or Old Golden Crow’s insights as his foundation.
• News of the Divine Court’s destruction spread, and powers across the Myriad Heavens submitted to the Heavenly Court.

Black Emperor toured former Divine Court territories to renew their covenants, while Duan De struggled to build a formation spanning the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. Qin Tian persuaded Duan De to keep working, then welcomed Chuan Ying to the Heavenly Court.

• Black Emperor led Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to an ancient star to renew its covenant with the Heavenly Court and collect tribute.
• Duan De complained that Qin Tian's Heavenly Cycle Starry Battle Formation required linking every Life Source Land and star across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Qin Tian let Duan De leave to rest, but Duan De hurried back and insisted on continuing the formation after realizing he could not escape his work.
• Duan De returned to his workshop, grumbling as he considered the future tombs that the formation's success might bring.
• Qin Tian welcomed Chuan Ying, the foremost Divine General of the Ancient Heavenly Court, who had achieved Alternative Dao Attainment and received Emperor Venerable's blood as a baptism.

Qin Tian fought Chuan Ying in the Cosmic Frontier, demonstrated strength on the level of alternative Dao attainment, and allied with him, bringing the God Organization into the Heavenly Court. After assessing his limits and the coming Dark Turmoil, Qin Tian decided to seek Nine-Turn Golden Elixirs to strengthen his aging allies.

• Qin Tian arranged for Duan De to meet Chuan Ying, who came to challenge the new Heavenly Court’s ruler.
• Qin Tian and Chuan Ying fought at the Cosmic Frontier, trading blows with their staffs, fists, divine arrows, and Dao techniques while Qin Tian’s formation concealed their battle from the Supremes.
• Qin Tian and Chuan Ying formed an alliance, and the God Organization joined the Heavenly Court with its accumulated resources.
• Qin Tian assessed that his physical strength and primordial spirit could suppress Chuan Ying at close range, but his laws remained his weakest area.
• Qin Tian considered how to prepare for the Dark Turmoil and decided to find Nine-Turn Golden Elixirs to restore the strength and lifespans of his aging allies.

Qin Tian sought Gai Jiuyou as an ally against the coming Dark Turmoil and gave him the True Dragon Immortal Medicine fruit to restore his youth. Gai Jiuyou lived a second life, regained his peak strength, and declared his return.

• Qin Tian decided to gather the remaining Nine-Turn Golden Elixir ingredients and seek a powerful ally to prepare for the Dark Turmoil.
• Qin Tian found Gai Jiuyou in the Central Province, and Gai Jiuyou was astonished by Qin Tian's rapid rise to Quasi-Emperor Fourth Heaven.
• Qin Tian offered Gai Jiuyou the True Dragon Immortal Medicine fruit and asked him to fight beside the Heavenly Court if the Road to Immortality failed and Dark Turmoil erupted.
• Gai Jiuyou accepted the fruit, agreed to join the Heavenly Court, and resolved to conceal his restored strength so he could surprise the Dark Supremes.
• Gai Jiuyou swallowed the fruit, healed his Dao wounds, regained his youth and peak power, and announced that he had returned.

Qin Tian prepared Heavenly Court to campaign against the Underworld, hoping to sharpen his strength through battle and eliminate the Forbidden Zone. He left the chapter planning the final preparations for war, while the future showed armies gathering against the Underworld.

• Qin Tian decided to target the Underworld as a suitable opponent and summoned troops to drill for the coming campaign.
• Qin Tian secured Chuan Ying and Gai Jiuyou's support, then visited Heavenly Court's Astrology Division to discuss preparations with Duan De.
• Qin Tian baited Duan De with tales of the Netherworld Emperor's and Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Venerable's tombs, persuading him to devise methods against the Underworld's Yin Spirits and Yin Soldiers.
• Qin Tian foresaw forces converging on the Underworld and concluded that the campaign's outcome would depend on battles at the Extreme Dao level.
• Qin Tian decided to improve Heavenly Court's chances by working on equipment.

Qin Tian recovered the Immortal Ascension Cauldron’s Artifact Spirit from a stone in Divine City and brought it to the Fire Domain to reforge the cauldron in Immortal Fire. The Artifact Spirit feared being returned to the cauldron, but Qin Tian reassured him that he only wanted to restore the artifact.

• Qin Tian joined the two pieces of the Immortal Ascension Cauldron and used the Destiny Cause-and-Effect Lamp to trace its remaining third through its Artifact Spirit.
• Qin Tian went to the Ji Family Stone Workshop in Divine City and drew a battered stone from the Heavenly Character Divine Garden.
• Qin Tian stripped away the stone shell, revealing Divine Child, the Immortal Ascension Cauldron’s Artifact Spirit, and took him back to the Heavenly Court.
• Qin Tian carried the two-thirds-complete cauldron to the Eastern Wasteland’s Fire Domain and placed it in the Immortal Fire to reforge it.
• Divine Child panicked at the sight of the cauldron, but Qin Tian reassured him that he wanted the artifact, not to imprison the child again.

Qin Tian reforged the Immortal Ascension Cauldron and launched an assault on the Underworld, declaring his intent to rule the world and challenge the Forbidden Zones. The Underworld’s Lord awakened to meet him as the chapter ended.

• Qin Tian used the Cause-and-Effect Lamp to strike down cultivators who attacked the Immortal Ascension Cauldron fragments, causing deaths across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Qin Tian reunited the cauldron fragments and restored the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, while Divine Child wondered why he had wanted to become a living being.
• Qin Tian hurled the Immortal Ascension Cauldron toward the Underworld and announced that he would rule the world and cow the Forbidden Zones.
• Chuan Ying prepared to join the attack, but a radiant figure stopped him and agreed that he could personally take the Netherworld Emperor’s head later.
• Qin Tian smashed the Immortal Ascension Cauldron into the Underworld, shattering its formations and calling out its Lord to fight.
• The Lord of the Underworld awoke, releasing Supreme pressure across the starry sky.

The Heavenly Court launched an invasion of the Underworld, and the Black Emperor and Duan De helped turn the tide against its undead forces. Qin Tian fought the Prison-Suppressing Emperor with the Immortal Ascension Cauldron as Extreme Dao clashes awakened beings across the forbidden zones.

• The Black Emperor led the Heavenly Court's army through the Immortal Road to attack the Underworld, where brutal fighting erupted.
• The Old God sounded the Heavenly Court Horn, summoning covenant-bound descendants and cultivators from across the universe to join the battle.
• As the Underworld unleashed hordes of ancient dead, Duan De used his knowledge of its formations to silence the Netherworld Bell and seal the coffins below ground.
• The Prison-Suppressing Emperor emerged from the Underworld's depths and challenged Qin Tian, who fought back with the Immortal Ascension Cauldron.
• Their battle's Extreme Dao fluctuations spread across the universe and awakened powerful beings in the Life Forbidden Zones.