Arc 19The Reincarnation Path

Jiang Zhu became a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, faced the forces behind the great sacrifice, and followed the ancient Path of Reincarnation to uncover secrets tied to the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and the Strange Clan. He ended the stretch at the Pollen Emperor’s ancient battlefield, with the Bronze Coffin’s vision revealing the Strange Ancestors’ connection to its origins.

  • Jiang Zhu refined Li Feng’s corruption, forged the Divine Pot and Sword Embryo, and spent two thousand years helping his allies master dark and normal origins.
  • Jiang Zhu entered a dangerous Chaos Region, defeated a monster formed from a Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s remains, and added its dark origin as his thirteenth origin before breaking through to become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
  • Jiang Zhu expounded the Dao for eighty-one days, then entered the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit and fought its Quasi-Immortal Emperor rulers.
  • Jiang Zhu defeated the enemies gathered along the Paths of Reincarnation, while the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s returning aura crushed the Quasi-Immortal Emperors and struck the Main Sacrificial Ground.
  • Jiang Zhu plundered and reforged his artifacts, then explored a broken Path of Reincarnation and discovered a corpse-processing system that produced secret liquid beneath a hive of dead beings.
  • Jiang Zhu used the Stone Zither to destroy the corpse repository, survived Heaven’s Execution and the Time Dao Bell, and shattered the parasitic buds of the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus.
  • Jiang Zhu met the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, learned of his plan to infiltrate the Strange Plateau, and received the Pollen Path’s ancestral method.
  • Jiang Zhu witnessed the Pollen Path pioneers sacrifice themselves against a calamity, then saw the Bronze Coffin reveal the Strange Plateau and coffins holding the Strange Ancestors.
Chapters 458–483 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 458Those Who Followed the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, System Erosion

Jiang Zhu and the disguised emperors learned that a corrupted veteran from the Heavenly Court could lure out its remnants, but the veteran attacked Ye Fan after being brought to them. As Jiang Zhu traced the veteran’s recurring darkness to a hidden passage, he sensed it led toward an illusory realm filled with Immortal Emperor-level origin dark matter.

  • Jiang Zhu explained the epochal Heavens Sacrifice and said that their darkened group no longer feared it because the true spirit method offered a way forward.
  • A Twelve-Winged Being named Ming'e offered to bring out a corrupted Heavenly Court veteran as bait to lure the remnants, and Jiang Zhu ordered it to do so.
  • Ming'e brought the veteran to the group, and Ye Fan rewarded Ming'e with dark origin blood before the being left.
  • The veteran attacked Ye Fan with the Grass Character Sword Art, the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art, and the Pingluan Art, but Ye Fan defeated and beheaded him.
  • The veteran briefly regained clarity and said only death could end his recurring corruption, while Jiang Zhu traced the source to a hidden passage carrying Immortal Emperor-level origin dark matter into an uncanny illusory realm.

Ch. 459Heavenly Immortal Mountain, the Idea of Reviving the Pollen Emperor

Jiang Zhu discovered that dark matter in the old soldier came from a passage linking the Heavens to his Gate of Potential, then used the Demon-Refining Divine Flame and True Spirit Method to refine it and give him a new life. Two thousand years later, Jiang Zhu was still forging a treasure while the others waited to fight.

  • Jiang Zhu learned that the old soldier’s darkness was connected to the Gate of Potential and that the old soldier feared becoming a tool to corrupt the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s method.
  • Jiang Zhu used the Demon-Refining Divine Flame to refine the old soldier’s darkness, transform his Gate of Potential, and destroy the passage anchoring the contamination.
  • The old soldier, Li Feng, was reborn with Quasi-Immortal Emperor light and vowed to repay Jiang Zhu and fight the eerie beings.
  • Two thousand years passed as the people of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands refined dark origin blood and learned to control both dark and normal origins.
  • Little Saint Ape and Black Emperor waited for Jiang Zhu to finish forging as immortal gold and Great Dao runes filled the World Tree with firelight.

Ch. 460Artifact forging, taking form (Happy New Year to all readers, and may everything go your way in the year ahead!)

Jiang Zhu forged a Divine Pot and Sword Embryo from Immortal King weapons, the laws of fallen Dark Giants, and a mysterious black stone, raising both artifacts to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level. After leaving seclusion, he found the newly formed Medicine-Transformed Spirits asking their Phoenix leader about going to the Boundary Sea.

  • Jiang Zhu brought out a vast collection of Immortal King treasures to forge his own weapons, while Black Emperor begged for a share and Ye Fan told him to quiet down.
  • Jiang Zhu forged a Divine Pot with half the Immortal King weapons and extracted the Great Dao laws from the Dark Giants' Primordial Spirits before destroying them.
  • Jiang Zhu used the Divine Pot to forge a murderous Sword Embryo from the remaining Immortal King weapons.
  • Jiang Zhu added a mysterious black stone and the Demon-Refining Pot's divine fire, elevating both artifacts to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level and linking them to himself.
  • Jiang Zhu emerged from seclusion and saw the Medicine-Transformed Spirits gathered around their Phoenix leader, asking whether they could go to the Boundary Sea to make their mark.

Ch. 461The Dark Origin Blood's Sensing, a Monster

Jiang Zhu promised the transformed children they could join the Boundary Sea battles once they reached the Supreme level, then showed them the dangers of the battlefield. After the God Emperor's Dark Dharma Body reported a region resonating with their dark origin blood, Jiang Zhu traveled there and found Ye Fan and the others fighting a powerful Nine-Headed Monster.

  • Jiang Zhu told the children they could go to the Boundary Sea once they were strong enough to leave their world on their own, and took them to see the battlefield before returning them to cultivate.
  • The God Emperor's Dark Dharma Body reported a dangerous Chaos Region where their dark origin blood had reacted, and Jiang Zhu suspected it was connected to a Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
  • Jiang Zhu entered the Chaos Region, endured its altered laws and attacks of dark origin, and followed the scent of Immortal King blood toward a towering black mountain.
  • Jiang Zhu found Ye Fan and the others battling a Nine-Headed Monster that wielded the power of an Emperor Light Immortal King.
  • Jiang Zhu struck the Nine-Headed Monster with a Fist Seal, causing its manifested flesh-and-blood body to explode.

Ch. 462Burial Ground, an Eerie Mass Grave

Jiang Zhu led Ye Fan and the others into a dark mountain region, where they discovered a vast sea of bones and a mass grave filled with fresh corpses. The chapter left them facing a devastating storm of dark Dao runes that Jiang Zhu suspected came from a Quasi-Immortal Emperor's attack.

  • Jiang Zhu reunited with Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, Ruthless Great Emperor, and the others after killing the Nine-Headed Monster, and they headed toward the mountain that resonated with their origin blood.
  • Duan De touched a long-dead qilin skeleton, causing it to crumble into dust, and Black Emperor mocked him for destroying the remains.
  • The group reached the summit, saw darkened divine medicines and a vast rift, then crossed a sea of bones containing the remains of exceptionally gifted beings.
  • Jiang Zhu and the others discovered mountains of relatively fresh corpses beside a foul sea of multicolored blood.
  • A violent storm of black Dao runes swept across the mass grave, and Jiang Zhu suspected it was the lingering force of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor's attack.

Ch. 463A Monster Pieced Together from Quasi-Immortal Emperor Flesh and Blood

Jiang Zhu fought a Quasi-Immortal Emperor-linked monster in the Land of Darkness, while Ye Fan, Duan De, and the others watched the battle shake the River of Time and shatter worlds. After manifesting twelve supreme true spirits and merging them into himself, Jiang Zhu destroyed the monster with a single punch.

  • A monster pieced together from strange substances emerged from the blood sea, and Jiang Zhu sensed its connection to a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
  • Jiang Zhu shattered the monster's Slaughter Formation with his Sword Embryo, then used his Divine Pot to block its colossal bone claw.
  • Jiang Zhu and the monster clashed across the Land of Darkness and different stretches of the River of Time, opening worlds with the force of their blows as Ye Fan, Duan De, and the others watched.
  • Jiang Zhu manifested twelve supreme true spirits, including the Nine Nether Ao, then called them all into his body to reach his peak strength.
  • Jiang Zhu shattered the monster's body and Primordial Spirit with a single punch.

Ch. 464Fragments of the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, Refining Dark Origin Blood

Jiang Zhu suppressed a dark monster, extracted its memories of the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, and refined its Quasi-Immortal Emperor blood into his thirteenth bloodline origin. He began breaking through the King Realm to become an Emperor, causing a cosmic disturbance that drew powerful beings’ attention.

  • Jiang Zhu used the Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin Method to combine twelve supreme powers and destroy the monster’s reformed body with a punch.
  • Jiang Zhu trapped the monster in the Divine Pot, healed his injuries, and extracted its memories as the pot refined it.
  • Jiang Zhu learned that the monster had formed in a fragment of the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, where a light Quasi-Immortal Emperor and a dark Quasi-Immortal Emperor had battled.
  • Jiang Zhu refined the monster into dark origin blood and merged it as the thirteenth origin in his bloodline.
  • Jiang Zhu began fusing transcendence with his body to break through the King Realm, and the resulting upheaval alarmed beings across the Boundary Sea.

Ch. 465Breaking Beyond Kingship to Become an Emperor

Jiang Zhu fused his transcendent primordial spirit with his body and became a Quasi-Immortal Emperor. He returned with the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit fragment sealed as a pearl and began an eighty-one-day Dao discourse on the World Tree.

  • Jiang Zhu endured the violent fusion of his primordial spirit, Dao, and body as his flesh collapsed and a seed absorbed his spirit and thirteen bloodlines.
  • The seed burst open and formed Jiang Zhu’s new body, and he emerged as a Quasi-Immortal Emperor before Ye Fan, Wushi, Ruthless, and the others.
  • Jiang Zhu crossed the Boundary Sea in a single step and compressed the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit fragment into a fist-sized pearl.
  • Jiang Zhu returned with everyone to the World Tree and announced that he would expound the Dao for eighty-one days.
  • Jiang Zhu began his Dao discourse before a vast crowd, and cultivators gained insight, broke through realms, and faced heavenly tribulations.

Ch. 466Dao Ancestors, the strongest cultivators

Jiang Zhu explained that Quasi-Immortal Emperors were Dao Ancestors who advanced cultivation by creating or extending their own paths. After Ye Fan, Wushi, Ruthless, and the others shared their views on supreme strength, Jiang Zhu left them with the direction to find and endlessly develop what made their Dao uniquely their own.

  • Jiang Zhu lectured on the Great Dao for eighty-one days, helping Ye Fan, Wushi, Ruthless, and the others clarify their cultivation paths.
  • Ye Fan, Wushi, Ruthless, Azure Emperor, the God Emperor, and Wang Bo each described their understanding of supreme strength, while Duan De argued that survival, patience, and hidden tricks were what mattered most.
  • Black Emperor proposed a life of comfort and leisure, including using Jiang Zhu's treasures as household tools, and Jiang Zhu replied that such freedom required enough strength to claim it.
  • Jiang Zhu explained that Quasi-Immortal Emperors were called Dao Ancestors because they created new cultivation paths or advanced existing ones for later generations.
  • Jiang Zhu said there was no single method to reach the realm; each cultivator had to discover and develop their own distinctive Dao, art, obsession, or understanding of the world.

Ch. 467The Supreme Being in the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit

After explaining his path to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, Jiang Zhu watched Yan Ruyu and the others enter seclusion before traveling to the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit to seek a worthy opponent. There, he confronted the Quasi-Immortal Emperor hidden in the abyss, and their clash began as the creature twisted time and space.

  • Jiang Zhu explained that each cultivator had to find their own path, then left the Dao Platform as the listeners returned to seclusion.
  • Yan Ruyu told Jiang Zhu she planned to fuse the Taiyin Jade Rabbit bloodline and gradually nurture a world, while Jiang Qing received his father's book of cultivation insights and went home.
  • After Yan Ruyu entered seclusion, Jiang Zhu sought a worthy opponent and opened a passage to the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit.
  • Jiang Zhu entered the abyss and suppressed its rotting corpses and rivers of blood with his Quasi-Immortal Emperor power.
  • A vast eye opened in the darkness, and its owner confronted Jiang Zhu; Jiang Zhu declared himself the Heavenly Emperor as the hidden Quasi-Immortal Emperor began warping time and space.

Ch. 468Looking Down on Quasi-Immortal Emperors

Jiang Zhu battled the supreme creature in the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, overpowering him and plundering the pit’s supreme essence. Two more Quasi-Immortal Emperors appeared and attacked Jiang Zhu, leaving the fight against three powerful foes underway.

  • Jiang Zhu cleaved the supreme creature’s world-destroying black light with the Immortal Sword and wounded his enormous eye.
  • The supreme creature emerged and attacked with a War Spear, but Jiang Zhu stopped it barehanded and shattered his body with a slap.
  • Jiang Zhu absorbed the supreme essence streaming from the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit while the injured supreme creature healed and angrily called for help.
  • A second Quasi-Immortal Emperor appeared, followed by a third, who attacked Jiang Zhu with a golden Fist Seal.
  • Jiang Zhu countered the third Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s punch, and the other two Quasi-Immortal Emperors joined the attack.

Ch. 469Suppressing the Supreme

Jiang Zhu fought three Quasi-Immortal Emperors in the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, where the golden-eyed emperor’s curse weakened him and the spear-wielder wounded him. Jiang Zhu turned the battle around, annihilating the golden-eyed emperor and gravely injuring the silver-blooded one, while the remaining enemy warned that his clan could resurrect the fallen and threaten Jiang Zhu’s loved ones.

  • Jiang Zhu confronted the three Quasi-Immortal Emperors and declared that he would suppress the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit in one battle.
  • The golden-eyed Quasi-Immortal Emperor cursed Jiang Zhu, allowing the silver-blooded emperor and the spear-wielder to wound him with their attacks.
  • Jiang Zhu unleashed Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin and killed the golden-eyed Quasi-Immortal Emperor, reducing his body and soul to ashes.
  • Jiang Zhu punched through the silver-blooded Quasi-Immortal Emperor and split open his brow, leaving him unable to fully recover.
  • The spear-wielding Quasi-Immortal Emperor accepted his apparent defeat but threatened that his clan could resurrect him and sacrifice Jiang Zhu’s friends, family, and homeland.

Ch. 470The Soul River, Ancient Underworld, and Four Extremes Floating Soil All Appear

Jiang Zhu defeated and captured two Quasi-Immortal Emperors, then plundered the depths of the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit. He uncovered a stele left by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and discovered ancient roads linking the Soul River, the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, and Four Extremes Floating Soil through the Ancient Underworld.

  • Jiang Zhu used his Immortal Sword and Divine Pot to defeat and capture the spear-wielding and silver-blooded Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
  • Jiang Zhu searched the deepest reaches of the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, destroyed the creatures inside the Heavenly Emperor corpses, and collected their supreme essence and treasures.
  • Jiang Zhu found a damaged stone stele left by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and deciphered his account of the Path of Reincarnation.
  • Jiang Zhu saw the Soul River Main Vein and another Path of Reincarnation appear through ancient roads in the abyss.
  • Jiang Zhu recognized the road and deadly ash from Four Extremes Floating Soil and concluded that the Ancient Underworld’s hidden routes connected the ominous forces into a vast network.

Ch. 471Guiding the Desolate Heavenly Emperor Back, Purging the Strange Clan's Outposts

Jiang Zhu fought the Strange Clan’s Quasi-Immortal Emperors as thirteen of them gathered to kill him. He activated the stone stele’s coordinates, opening a path for the Desolate Heavenly Emperor to return, and the Emperor’s footsteps began to approach.

  • A Quasi-Immortal Emperor from the Soul River, one from the Ancient Underworld, one from the Four Extremes Floating Soil, and a fourth enemy arrived at the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit.
  • Jiang Zhu attacked the Soul River Quasi-Immortal Emperor and fought all four arrivals without falling behind.
  • Nine more Quasi-Immortal Emperors emerged from the Paths of Reincarnation, bringing the total to thirteen, and they attacked Jiang Zhu together.
  • Jiang Zhu revealed the Demon-Refining Pot and a drop of emperor blood as the stone stele broke free and formed a radiant platform.
  • The thirteen Quasi-Immortal Emperors tried to destroy the stele, but it held firm and opened the road to guide the Desolate Heavenly Emperor back.
  • Footsteps sounded across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds, and the thirteen Quasi-Immortal Emperors realized the Desolate Heavenly Emperor was returning.

Ch. 473The Dark Grand Sacrifice Begins Early; Who Will Still Stand After a Thousand Autumns?

The Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s lingering aura took shape in the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, killing three Quasi-Immortal Emperors and pursuing the place of the chief sacrifice. Jiang Zhu followed him as the remaining Quasi-Immortal Emperors began preparing a black grand sacrifice, but the figure crushed them before continuing beyond the hazy realm.

  • A great foot descended onto the runic platform and crushed three Quasi-Immortal Emperors, while the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s aura began to take shape.
  • The ten surviving Quasi-Immortal Emperors fled into a hazy place beyond the realms and decided to wait for the aura to dissipate before beginning a black grand sacrifice.
  • The figure nodded at Jiang Zhu, who followed him toward the Ultimate Land as golden footprints marked his path through time and into the hazy place.
  • The Quasi-Immortal Emperors activated the place’s supreme Magic Formations, but the figure destroyed them with a single stomp and continued toward the place of the chief sacrifice.
  • The figure’s feet expanded over the hazy place and crushed the ten Quasi-Immortal Emperors, leaving pools of blood as his golden footprints stretched into the unknown.

Ch. 474Suppressing Every Foe

The Quasi-Immortal Emperors survived a hazy figure’s passage toward the Main Sacrificial Ground and prepared to begin a great sacrifice, but Jiang Zhu ambushed them with the Immortal Sword and killed several. The remaining monsters retreated toward the hazy land and resolved to call on the Main Sacrificial Ground’s power.

  • The six surviving Quasi-Immortal Emperors concluded that the hazy figure was a trace of a being’s past aura, and they waited for its golden footprints to disappear.
  • An Ancient Underworld Quasi-Immortal Emperor announced that the great sacrifice would begin, but Jiang Zhu ambushed the monsters and struck them with the Immortal Sword.
  • Jiang Zhu killed the wounded Underworld Quasi-Immortal Emperor as he fled, while the Four Extremes Floating Soil expert attacked and was slain by Jiang Zhu’s sword.
  • The remaining four Quasi-Immortal Emperors retreated toward the hazy land as bell waves from an Immortal Gold Bell held them back.
  • The surviving monsters decided to summon the Main Sacrificial Ground’s power and attack Jiang Zhu.

Ch. 475Jiang Zhu's Might, Forced into a Minor Sacrifice

Jiang Zhu overwhelmed the sinister-source Quasi-Immortal Emperors, killing several and driving the survivors to summon reinforcements. As his attacks threatened to destroy them all, the remaining monsters sacrificed most of their sacrificial script to make the Main Sacrificial Ground manifest.

  • The four Quasi-Immortal Emperors broke Jiang Zhu’s seal and tried to summon the Main Sacrificial Ground, but the Chaos Bell sealed its entrance.
  • Jiang Zhu destroyed the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit and killed the Four Extremes Floating Soil monster with his Emperor Fist.
  • Jiang Zhu battered the supreme Ancient Underworld and Soul River experts, countering their forbidden arts and repeatedly shattering their bodies.
  • Three reinforcements arrived, but Jiang Zhu intercepted and wounded them, then destroyed the Ancient Underworld newcomer after his sacrificial script collapsed.
  • The survivors decided to offer most of their sacrificial script in a minor sacrifice to summon the Main Sacrificial Ground and call its inhabitants to attack Jiang Zhu.

Ch. 476The Burial Pit's End, the Main Sacrificial Ground Punched Through

The strange Quasi-Immortal Emperors summoned the Main Sacrificial Ground, but the Desolate Heavenly Emperor appeared and battled the chief sacrificer's Dharma Body, leaving the sacrificial ground crippled. With the golden figure gone, Jiang Zhu fought the four wounded Quasi-Immortal Emperors and proved stronger than them.

  • The strange Quasi-Immortal Emperors combined their sacrificial texts to summon the Main Sacrificial Ground, and a black figure's terrifying gaze fixed on Jiang Zhu.
  • The chief sacrificer's huge hand reached for Jiang Zhu, but the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's golden figure crushed it underfoot and attacked the chief sacrificer's Dharma Body with the Invincibility Emperor Sword Under Heaven.
  • The Desolate Heavenly Emperor's battle with the chief sacrificer's Dharma Body devastated the Main Sacrificial Ground, while its fallout trapped and grievously wounded the Quasi-Immortal Emperors in the abyss.
  • Jiang Zhu struck the trapped Quasi-Immortal Emperors as they reeled from their injuries, and the Soul River Powerhouse and Ancient Underworld powerhouse urged the others to fight him rather than risk becoming sacrifices.
  • After the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's golden figure disappeared, Jiang Zhu fought the four crippled Quasi-Immortal Emperors and defeated them despite their desperate resistance.

Ch. 477The Battle at the Plateau, Deep Within the Path of Reincarnation

After defeating the strange outposts, Jiang Zhu harvested their treasures and reforged his three artifacts while the Desolate Heavenly Emperor fought three Strange Immortal Emperors at the Plateau. Jiang Zhu then ventured into a vast, broken Path of Reincarnation, where the chapter left him crossing a frozen, lifeless expanse.

  • Jiang Zhu swept the Four Extremes Floating Soil, Soul River, and Ancient Underworld clean of their treasures and hoards.
  • Jiang Zhu smelted the Quasi-Immortal Emperor weapons and Immortal Gold into the Chaos Bell, Immortal Sword, and Divine Pot, greatly strengthening them.
  • Three Strange Immortal Emperors confronted the Desolate Heavenly Emperor at the Plateau, and the Dark Sacrificial Priest attacked after the Desolate Heavenly Emperor mocked the collapse of the chief Sacrificial Land.
  • The Desolate Heavenly Emperor destroyed a branch of the black race and killed the Dark Sacrificial Priest again, then continued battling the remaining Strange Immortal Emperors as a wisp of his aura slipped away along the River of Time.
  • Jiang Zhu finished refining his artifacts and left the ancient routes to explore a vast, broken Path of Reincarnation covered in darkness, frozen earth, and lifeless shattered continents.

Ch. 478Schemes in the depths of reincarnation

Jiang Zhu explored the depths of the Path of Reincarnation and discovered that ancient halls had been harvesting and refining the remains of beings from countless worlds for ages. After purifying a pool of secret liquid, he found a corpse-filled, hive-like structure inside the hall.

  • Jiang Zhu crossed the broken Path of Reincarnation and found the petrified corpse of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level Kun Peng and a tortured eerie Quasi-Immortal Emperor bound inside a stone millstone.
  • Jiang Zhu reached ruined halls guarded by decayed battle slaves and learned from their fragmented memories that they had been ordered to keep intruders away.
  • Jiang Zhu investigated pits connected to other worlds and discovered machinery that ground stolen corpses to extract a special substance.
  • Jiang Zhu found nine sets of stone implements refining the substance into a small pool of secret liquid, purified it with Demon-Refining Divine Flame, and prepared to take it away.
  • Jiang Zhu discovered that the mist from the overflowing pool covered a hive-like mountain full of cavities containing corpses.

Ch. 479The Copper Coffin Master's Stone Zither

Jiang Zhu’s accidental plucking of the Copper Coffin Master's stone zither triggered a catastrophe that revealed the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus’s vast root and carried him beyond the Myriad Worlds. He reached the Heavens, resisted its attempts to erase him, and found the lotus’s true body covered with the dried corpses of history’s strongest prodigies.

  • Jiang Zhu discovered that the Copper Coffin Master's stone zither lay beneath the secret liquid, and its note resonated with the root, devastating the corpse repository and killing nearly all its sleeping creatures.
  • The surviving creatures worshiped the revealed root and climbed it, while Jiang Zhu followed them toward the Ultimate Land to seek the zither’s true body.
  • Jiang Zhu traveled beyond the Myriad Worlds and reached the Heavens, where Heaven’s Execution and the Time Dao Bell tried to erase him.
  • Jiang Zhu withstood both attacks, causing the Dao Bell to decay into dust until the mechanical voice declared that erasure had failed.
  • Jiang Zhu explored the ancient land and saw the enormous Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus, whose leaves held the dried bodies of the strongest beings from successive generations.

Ch. 480A leaf, an epoch-all expendable

Jiang Zhu explored the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus, discovered it had endured thirty-two epochs and found the Stone Zither entwined in its roots. When the lotus’s three buds tried to claim him as a reincarnation body, he shattered them, triggering the lotus’s ancient captives to disintegrate and speak of their release.

  • Jiang Zhu deciphered the inscription “One leaf... one epoch!” and realized the lotus’s thirty-two leaves represented thirty-two epochs.
  • Jiang Zhu saw the lotus buds draw heavenly essence from beyond the suspended island and gathered the divine herbs nearby.
  • Jiang Zhu touched the lotus’s roots with the Demon-Refining Pot, and the lotus’s power flooded him with visions of reincarnation.
  • Three figures appeared inside the lotus’s buds, and the shadowed future figure called Jiang Zhu its reincarnation body.
  • Jiang Zhu resisted the buds’ influence and shattered all three with his Great Dao power.
  • The lotus’s ancient captives began burning and disintegrating, voicing pain, resentment, and relief.

Ch. 481Desolate Wolong's Plan Across the Ages

Jiang Zhu purified the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus, recovered the Stone Zither, and followed a message through the River of Time to meet the Desolate Heavenly Emperor. The Desolate Heavenly Emperor proposed a plan to infiltrate the Strange Clan’s Plateau, while Jiang Zhu questioned whether it could truly stop the great sacrifice.

  • Jiang Zhu destroyed the parasitic Dao Fruits and corpses, restoring the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus to its sacred original state.
  • Jiang Zhu used the Three-Life Bronze Coffin to retrieve the Stone Zither, whose surviving string amplified his power and purified his Soul Light.
  • Jiang Zhu followed the signal from the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s Emperor Blood through the River of Time and met the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
  • The Desolate Heavenly Emperor explained that the Strange Clan revived through the Plateau beyond all worlds and proposed concealing their strength, becoming seeds, and infiltrating it with a supreme treasure.
  • Jiang Zhu challenged the plan’s assumptions, warning that it depended on finding a suitable courier and might not prevent the Strange Clan’s great sacrifice.

Ch. 482The Optimized Plan, the Pollen Path

Jiang Zhu revealed his method for refining darkness to the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, who gave him the Pollen Path’s ancestral method before returning to his blood. While studying it, Jiang Zhu reached the path’s end and witnessed an ancient catastrophe, where the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s blood blocked its spread and the Pollen Path’s spirits pressed on toward the battlefield.

  • Jiang Zhu showed the Desolate Heavenly Emperor his pure dark-origin aura and explained that his Kindling Flame Method refined darkness for his own use.
  • The Desolate Heavenly Emperor praised Jiang Zhu’s method, discussed the coming grand sacrifice, and gave him the Pollen Path’s ancestral method before returning to his emperor blood.
  • Jiang Zhu practiced the Pollen Path breathing method beneath the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus and followed a hazy path through visions of ancient battles and a ruined world.
  • Jiang Zhu saw a woman lying at the end of the path, and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s blood surged there to block a calamity contaminated by the Strange Clan.
  • Countless spirits took human form and moved toward the black chasm, while several ancient pioneers recognized Jiang Zhu and told him to return as they went to suppress the calamity.

Ch. 483The Plateau, the Origin of the Strange Clan

Jiang Zhu witnessed the Pollen Path’s pioneers sacrifice themselves to cleanse the corrupted path, then used the Three-Life Bronze Coffin to glimpse the Strange Plateau’s origin and the ancient coffins of the Strange Ancestors. The vision ended with the Pollen Emperor still lying in blood and a strange, crystalline substance appearing across the chasm.

  • The Pollen Path’s pioneers warned Jiang Zhu to rely on himself, then entered the chasm to confront the corruption and give their lives.
  • The old men burned themselves to purify spirit particles and destroy creatures emerging from the chasm, but the Pollen Emperor remained beyond their power to save.
  • Jiang Zhu saw the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s sword light enter the ancient battle around the Pollen Emperor, while the Three-Life Bronze Coffin projected a vision of the past.
  • The vision revealed the Strange Plateau and the coffins that Jiang Zhu understood held the Strange Ancestors, whose origins were tied to the Bronze Coffin and the Copper Coffin Master's ashes.
  • The Three-Life Bronze Coffin stopped showing the past, and Jiang Zhu noticed crystalline, soil-like material on the far shore beside the Pollen Emperor.
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