Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhu freed the Silver-Blood Twin Emperors from the ancient races’ assembly, prompting Mu Jun to call for a myriad races gathering in the Eastern Emperor’s name. He then went to the Ji Family’s stone gambling workshop and began cutting the Stone King that held the Immortal Ascension Cauldron’s artifact spirit, as extraordinary phenomena erupted.

• Jiang Zhu arrived at Huntian Mountain, where ancient races debated whether to keep the Silver-Blood Twin Emperors and how to deal with him.
• Huahua described Jiang Zhu’s achievements on the Ancient Road, and Jiang Zhu freed Wang Shu and Lei Bo without anyone daring to stop him.
• Mu Jun invited Jiang Zhu to a planned gathering of the myriad races and urged the Ancestor Kings to build good relations with him.
• Jiang Zhu took Huahua, Ye Tong, and the others to the Ji Family’s stone gambling workshop to find the Stone King containing the Immortal Ascension Cauldron’s artifact spirit.
• The Stone King resisted Jiang Zhu with dense chaotic energy, but he restrained it and began cutting it; nine-colored radiance and visions of Great Emperors emerged.

Jiang Zhu cut a Divine Child from a Stone King and found Emperor Zun’s Dao in the child’s memories. After Hun Tuo recognized the child’s forbidden language and ominous sacrificial sounds, Jiang Zhu questioned where the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s funeral sounds had come from if he was still alive.

• Ye Fan and Jiang Zhu cut open the Stone King, revealing a Divine Child sealed inside immortal source.
• Jiang Zhu entered the Divine Child’s Immortal Platform and saw Emperor Zun’s Dao, which aimed to turn the world into a cauldron and refine everyone’s Dao Fruits.
• Jiang Zhu took the Divine Child with him and entrusted him to Ye Tong, while news of the discovery spread across the regions.
• Hun Tuo caught up with Jiang Zhu, examined the Divine Child’s memories, and fled in terror after hearing forbidden language and sacrificial sounds.
• Hun Tuo warned Jiang Zhu that beings who spoke the child’s language had once destroyed an ancient imperial clan, then Jiang Zhu reminded him that the Undying Heavenly Emperor was still alive.

Jiang Zhu arrived in the Dark City as powerful figures gathered for the Myriad Races Assembly, where he spoke with the Jade Pool Saintess about Great Emperor Wushi’s hidden origins and inheritance. The gathering was interrupted by the arrival of an imposing Buddhist woman whose identity remained unknown.

• Great Saint Hun Tuo advised Jiang Zhu to banish the Divine Child safely, then left after saying he would attend the assembly.
• Jiang Zhu reached the Dark City and saw that leaders and experts from across the Big Dipper and other star domains had gathered for the Myriad Races Assembly.
• Jiang Zhu met the Jade Pool Saintess and Yang Yi, and told the Saintess that he had obtained Great Emperor Wushi’s inheritance but could barely cultivate it.
• The Jade Pool Saintess revealed that an ancient sage had confirmed Great Emperor Wushi was the Western Empress’s son.
• A powerful Buddhist woman rode into the Dark City on a golden peacock, leaving the assembled figures awed and uncertain of her identity.

Powerful figures from across the universe gathered in Dark City to negotiate rules ahead of the Immortal Road’s opening, while ancient lineages and beings from the Undying Mountain revealed their strength. The conference began amid violent clashes and accusations against Jiang Zhu and the Jiang Family, leaving the delegates divided and tensions high.

• The Great Peacock Wisdom King, the Great Xia imperial family’s Great Sage, the Ji Family’s Great Sage, and Princess Yue Ling arrived in Dark City as the gathering approached.
• A being from the Undying Mountain departed in an ancient war chariot carrying Enlightenment Immortal Tea leaves toward the Central Region.
• The gathering began on a summoned ancient continent, where the Golden Crow Clan, a Great Sage-level centipede, and representatives of many powers arrived.
• An eight-headed great snake devoured a Saint, then an ancient demon killed the snake; later, the Great Xia Great Sage slaughtered more than a hundred experts with the Taihuang Sword after they proposed restricting humanity.
• Jiang Zhu watched the debate from the Central Heavenly Palace as Great Sages nearly came to blows and outsiders accused him of favoring the Jiang Family.
• A Great Sage from beyond the domain challenged Jiang Yifei’s authority and invoked the blood feud over Hengyu’s killing of two Quasi-Emperors, and Jiang Yifei answered that he would settle it in battle.

Jiang Yifei clashed with a Great Sage of the Kunlun Remnant Clan, whose damaged Human Emperor Seal reignited an ancient feud with the Jiang Family. After the gathering learned about Kunlun, the Immortal Bell, and the old God War, the Great Sages resumed arguing over rules and places on the Road to Immortality while Jiang Zhu recognized that their plans would be meaningless once the Forbidden Zone Supremes emerged.

• Jiang Yifei and the Kunlun Remnant Clan elder clashed with the Hengyu Furnace and the damaged Human Emperor Seal before the Ancient Hua Dynasty's Great Sage intervened.
• The elder vowed that his clan would never forgive the Jiang Family, while Jiang Yifei calmly accepted the prospect of war.
• Jiang Yifei explained that the Kunlun Remnant Clan was a collective of peoples exiled from Kunlun after Emperor Zun conquered the mountain.
• The Great Sages discussed how the Kunlun Remnant Clan found the Human Emperor Seal and shared accounts of the Immortal Bell, the Desolate Pagoda, and the ancient God War.
• The Great Sages resumed debating how to allocate places on the Road to Immortality and proposed rules to control Big Dipper's turmoil.
• Jiang Zhu silently judged that the Great Sages' plans would fail when the Forbidden Zone Supremes emerged.

Jiang Zhu confronted the Golden Crow Clan at a gathering and defeated its Great Sage in battle. When the Great Sage unleashed Quasi-Emperor Divine Feathers, Jiang Zhu destroyed them and killed him, while Great Saint Hun Tuo’s calls for harmony went unanswered.

• The Golden Crow Clan’s Great Sage and Crown Prince Huaizun challenged Jiang Zhu, who appeared and scorned their threats.
• Jiang Zhu fought the Golden Crow Great Sage on the Extraterrestrial Battlefield and overwhelmed him with a giant chaos palm.
• Great Saint Hun Tuo urged both sides to stop fighting, but the Golden Crow Great Sage revealed Quasi-Emperor Divine Feathers and attacked Jiang Zhu.
• Jiang Zhu used his True Spirit Diagram to shatter the divine feathers and kill the Golden Crow Great Sage.
• The gathered cultivators watched in shock as Jiang Zhu stood unharmed after defeating the Great Sage and his secret weapon.

Jiang Zhu massacred the Golden Crow clansmen, then faced Crown Prince Huaizun’s Quasi-Emperor Slaughter Formation and the Great Sages who joined against him. Jiang Zhu pierced the formation with the Lingbao Sword Formation, while the crowd learned that the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor had survived and that his ten sons’ expedition to Earth had ended in disaster.

• Jiang Zhu killed the Golden Crow Great Sage and slaughtered the remaining Golden Crow clansmen with his gaze.
• Crown Prince Huaizun deployed the Quasi-Emperor Slaughter Formation and urged the extraterrestrial Great Sages to join forces against Jiang Zhu.
• Several Great Sages attacked Jiang Zhu as Huaizun activated the formation, releasing a Quasi-Emperor aura across the battlefield.
• Jiang Zhu summoned the Lingbao Formation Diagram and four Killing Swords, which pierced the Quasi-Emperor Slaughter Formation and wounded Huaizun.
• The three attacking Great Sages fled toward the damaged formation, while Jiang Zhu declared he would kill its occupants and mocked Huaizun’s threat about his great-grandfather.
• The assembled experts learned that the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor had not died and that his ten sons had once gone to Earth, where Da Yi killed all but Tianzhou.

Jiang Zhu killed Crown Prince Huaizun, three Great Sages, and Granny Feng, leaving the gathering terrified of his power and discussing the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s weapons. As the gathering continued, an ancient chariot pulled by a Saint Spirit arrived, carrying a pale, handsome young man whose identity remained unknown.

• Jiang Zhu used the Lingbao Formation Diagram to kill Crown Prince Huaizun and three Great Sages despite their resistance.
• Jiang Zhu approached Granny Feng over their unresolved karmic accounts and destroyed her body and soul with the four Lingbao Killing Swords.
• The crowd fled from Great Saint Hun Tuo and later discussed Jiang Zhu’s strength and the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s Formation Diagram.
• An ancient war chariot pulled by a stone tiger Saint Spirit arrived at the gathering with three black-armored attendants.
• A pale, handsome young man stepped out of the chariot before the great hall, revealing no intimidating aura.

Anpu, the Stone Emperor’s son from the Undying Mountain, challenged Jiang Zhu to test their strength and was decisively defeated. The headless Quasi-Emperor intervened, but Anpu honored the agreement with the Ji Family, shared Enlightenment Immortal Tea, and warned Jiang Zhu that they would be mortal enemies when they met again.

• Anpu entered the Ji Family’s gathering and revealed that he was the Stone Emperor’s son, seeking to test Jiang Zhu’s strength.
• Anpu attacked with his battle halberd, but Jiang Zhu blocked him and shattered his arms with a single blow.
• Jiang Zhu struck again and destroyed Anpu’s body, prompting the headless Quasi-Emperor servant of the Stone Emperor to intervene.
• The Ji Family Great Sage confronted the death knight, while Jiang Zhu readied several Emperor Weapons; Anpu ordered his servant not to attack and said the Undying Mountain would keep its agreement.
• Anpu offered Enlightenment Immortal Tea to Jiang Zhu and the gathered guests, then declared that he and Jiang Zhu would be mortal enemies the next time they met.

Jiang Zhu explored Flying Immortal Star, learning about its sealed Central Immortal Soil, the powerful Kunlun Remnant Clan, and the Pre-Qin Qi Refiners. He met an unassuming old Daoist who recognized him as Eastern Emperor Jiang Zhu or Emperor Zun and recalled a prophecy of someone whose achievements might rival Emperor Zun's.

• Jiang Yifei explained that nearly all the Jiang Family's Imperial Sons had died fighting the Dark Turmoil, while one survivor had disappeared to settle a karmic tie.
• Jiang Zhu left Big Dipper for Flying Immortal Star after the gathering established that Saints and stronger fighters must battle beyond the domain.
• Jiang Zhu examined the sealed Central Immortal Soil and recognized that Emperor Zun had used the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's Magic Formation to create the Immortal Transformation Formation.
• Jiang Zhu crossed the territories of the Kunlun Remnant Clan, including the Qiongqi Tribe and Torch Dragon Tribe, and then visited the Pre-Qin Qi Refiners.
• An old Daoist greeted Jiang Zhu as a possible Emperor Zun and told him of a divination predicting a figure whose achievements would rival Emperor Zun's.

Jiang Zhu freed Ge Xuan’s heroic spirit from the sealed ground on Flying Immortal Star, then visited the Great Thunderclap Temple and reunited with the Fighting Buddha and Gu Tianshu. After advancing to the eighth heaven of the Great Sage realm, he found massacred ape populations and suspected the Teng Snake clan’s recovering supreme expert.

• Jiang Zhu revealed Emperor Zun’s aura and the Green Copper fragment, provoking Ge Xuan’s heroic spirit to attack before Jiang Zhu used the Lingbao Formation Diagram and a Dao Shout to free him from the sealed being’s control.
• Jiang Zhu and Ge Xuan discussed the Dao for seven days, and Ge Xuan passed on the Shangqing Golden Liquid Divine Pill Scripture before his heroic spirit vanished.
• Jiang Zhu visited the Great Thunderclap Temple and reunited with the Fighting Buddha and Gu Tianshu, who discussed Sakyamuni’s search for the Immortal Road and the Saint Prince’s encounter with the Six-Eared Macaque.
• Jiang Zhu left the temple, underwent a tribulation, and reached the eighth heaven of the Great Sage realm.
• Jiang Zhu found stars and a Minor World filled with the corpses of apes and suspected the Teng Snake clan had slaughtered them while its supreme expert recovered from old wounds.

Jiang Zhu arrived at an ancient starfield where the Divine Court was waging war against the local forces. When Black Emperor pursued a mass of Emperor Source through the battlefield, Jiang Zhu intervened and revealed a terrifying Killing Sword, leaving the Divine Court’s forces in retreat.

• Jiang Zhu reached the ancient starfield and witnessed the Divine Court’s armies fighting the forces defending the great star.
• The ancient star’s Great Sage defeated the crimson-haired divine general, but the Divine Court’s leader attacked him with a Quasi-Emperor Weapon.
• Black Emperor chased the Emperor Source across the battlefield and used two corners of the Beginningless Killing Formation to hold back the Divine Court’s forces.
• Jiang Zhu pursued the Emperor Source and put it into the Demon-Refining Pot as a divine general rode around the formation to attack him.
• Jiang Zhu drew his Killing Sword and severed the divine general’s Quasi-Emperor Sword, then slaughtered the surrounding Divine Court forces.
• Black Emperor dispelled his formation, rushed to Jiang Zhu, and stared longingly at the Killing Sword.

Jiang Zhu reunited with the Black Emperor, shared Emperor Source and divine liquids with him, and entered seclusion to refine them. Thirty years later, Jiang Zhu’s body broke through to the Quasi-Emperor realm, triggering a fearsome Heavenly Tribulation.

• The Black Emperor eagerly examined Jiang Zhu’s Killing Sword and bargained for a share of the Emperor Source and divine liquids.
• Jiang Zhu warned that the Divine Court’s surviving forces would seek revenge, then followed the Black Emperor to an Ancient Great Sage’s Cave Abode.
• Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor secluded themselves to refine the Emperor Source, divine liquids, and other treasures.
• After thirty years, the Black Emperor finished refining his share and went out to undergo tribulations while Jiang Zhu continued tempering his body with Emperor Source.
• Jiang Zhu’s flesh reached the Quasi-Emperor realm, and a powerful Heavenly Tribulation sent enormous dragon phantoms surging from the Sea of Thunder.

Jiang Zhu endured successive Heavenly Tribulations by absorbing their power and using it to temper his body, Chaos World, primordial spirit, and dao-attainment artifact. He then faced a far more dangerous Quasi-Emperor tribulation filled with Great Emperor and Ancient Emperor phantoms, and the Black Emperor believed Jiang Zhu had reached its final stage.

• Jiang Zhu defeated nine azure True Dragons with the True Dragon and Kun Peng Precious Techniques, then absorbed their lightning and dao principles.
• He fought the Ten Fiends Immortal Spirits, countering their attacks with matching techniques and drawing their laws into his body to refine himself.
• Jiang Zhu used his Chaos World to withstand a strange tribulation of worlds, gods, demons, and Heavenly Court visions, merging its phenomena into his inner universe.
• After refining the lightning, Jiang Zhu broke through into the Quasi-Emperor realm and triggered a vast tribulation that engulfed a Star Domain.
• Jiang Zhu fought Emperor and Ancient Emperor phantoms for days and nights, then overcame the Taiyin Human Emperor's attack with his Yin-Yang Dao Diagram.
• The Black Emperor sensed that Jiang Zhu's Quasi-Emperor tribulation had reached its final stage as more Emperor phantoms gathered to challenge him.

After surviving his Quasi-Emperor Tribulation, Jiang Zhu reached Quasi-Emperor Second Heaven and discovered that the Chaos Bell had grown immensely stronger. Hearing that the Soaring Serpent Supreme Powerhouse was pursuing Saint Prince and the Six-Eared Macaque, Jiang Zhu went to help and arrived as the serpent confronted him.

• Jiang Zhu completed his tribulation, recovered for seven days, and realized he had reached Quasi-Emperor Second Heaven.
• Jiang Zhu tested the transformed Chaos Bell, then left the ruined star domain with Black Emperor for Gou Chen Ancient Star.
• Jiang Zhu and Black Emperor heard that the Soaring Serpent Supreme Powerhouse was hunting Saint Prince and the Six-Eared Macaque, and Jiang Zhu decided to find them.
• The Soaring Serpent Supreme Powerhouse pursued Saint Prince and the Six-Eared Macaque across several ancient roads, while they fought back with the Immortal Iron Staff and damaged artifacts.
• Jiang Zhu and Black Emperor appeared during the chase, and the Soaring Serpent Supreme Powerhouse turned his attention to Jiang Zhu.

Jiang Zhu defeated the old Soaring Serpent and destroyed its Quasi-Emperor artifacts, then joined the Black Emperor and others in looting the Teng Snake Lineage. After news of his rise to Quasi-Emperor spread across the stars, Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor traveled to Ziwei, where they spotted an Immortal Island hosting guests.

• Jiang Zhu revealed himself as a Quasi-Emperor, broke through the old Soaring Serpent's Quasi-Emperor Magic Formation, and destroyed its artifacts with the True Spirit Fist before killing it.
• The Black Emperor collected the old Soaring Serpent's remains, then looted the Teng Snake Lineage's treasures and cemetery and fashioned golden shorts from its shed skin.
• Jiang Zhu, the Saint Prince, and the Six-Eared Macaque left the Teng Snake Ancient Star laden with spoils, and word of Jiang Zhu's victory spread across the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• The Saint Prince and the Six-Eared Macaque departed to train, while Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor traveled among the Ancient Life Stars and reached Ziwei's Northern Sea.
• Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor visited the Kunpeng Nest and Arctic Sea Eye, where Jiang Zhu left the Sun Saint Emperor's stone tower undisturbed.
• Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor saw an Immortal Island where someone was opening an ancient cave abode and welcoming guests from across the region.

Jiang Zhu attended the Northern Sea Black Tortoise Venerable’s birthday celebration, where Ziwei’s powerful figures welcomed him with reverence and Ye Yue greeted him as her uncle. After reassuring Ye Yue about her brother Ye Tong and revealing that the Golden Crow Clan had been destroyed while hunting him, Jiang Zhu gave her a newly forged Great Sage Weapon to help her cultivate.

• Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor arrived at the Black Tortoise Venerable’s island, and the Venerable hurried out with Ziwei’s leading figures to welcome Jiang Zhu.
• Ye Yue greeted Jiang Zhu as her uncle, and the gathered leaders paid their respects to him.
• Ye Yue asked about Ye Tong, and Jiang Zhu said he was thriving on the Big Dipper Ancient Star and nearing sainthood.
• Jiang Zhu told Ye Yue that the Golden Crow Clan had hunted Ye Tong but had been wiped out, reassuring her that the danger was over.
• Jiang Zhu forged a feather fan from a Fusang Divine Branch and Golden Crow Great Sage feathers, then gave it and divine liquids to Ye Yue to nourish her Sun Body.

At Master Black Tortoise’s birthday banquet, the Black Emperor suppressed the Golden Lamp Saint King, but a young Great Sage from the Divine Court arrived with an Imperial Edict and a powerful Emperor Tower. The Black Emperor’s incomplete Beginningless Killing Formation clashed with the tower, and their fight continued as the young Great Sage displayed power nearing that of a Great Emperor.

• Ye Yue accepted the Sun Feather Fan and divine liquids from Jiang Zhu, and the guests shared Black Tortoise Fruits and watched a Guanghan Palace dancer perform.
• The Golden Lamp Saint King arrived and confronted Ye Yue, but the Black Emperor trapped and suppressed him with Formation Platforms.
• A young Great Sage from the Divine Court appeared, demanded the Black Emperor release the Saint King, and presented an Imperial Edict ordering everyone to kneel.
• The young Great Sage invoked a Great Emperor behind him, while the Black Emperor challenged the claim and attacked him with the incomplete Beginningless Killing Formation.
• The young Great Sage summoned a thirty-three-story Emperor Tower made from Eternal Blue Gold and infused with Mother Qi of All Things, blocking the formation’s assault.
• The Black Emperor and the young Great Sage launched another exchange, and the Emperor Tower revealed power approaching that of a true Great Emperor Artifact.

Jiang Zhu revealed himself as a Quasi-Emperor when the Divine Court's Great Sage delivered the Emperor Lord's Imperial Edict demanding the Sun God Sect's allegiance. Jiang Zhu suppressed the Emperor Tower and forced the messenger to kneel and read the edict, leaving the gathering stunned.

• The Divine Court's Great Sage demanded that Jiang Zhu accept the Emperor Lord's decree and bring the Sun God Sect under the Divine Court.
• Jiang Zhu denounced the Emperor Lord as a coward who had not dared to trigger his tribulation, provoking the Great Sage to activate the Thirty-Three-Story Emperor Tower.
• Jiang Zhu unleashed Quasi-Emperor pressure, forcing nearly everyone at the banquet to their knees and revealing his realm.
• Jiang Zhu suppressed the awakened Emperor Tower with his hand and seized it, while the Divine Court's Great Sage collapsed in terror.
• Jiang Zhu ordered the Great Sage to read the Imperial Edict on his knees, and the Black Emperor mocked him as he obeyed.

The Divine Court's Emperor Lord emerged from seclusion and led his army toward Ziwei to punish Jiang Zhu for suppressing his artifact. As the Emperor Lord's forces arrived, Jiang Zhu killed the Great Sage who had renewed his threats, and the two sides stood on the brink of battle.

• The Divine Court's Great Sage asked Jiang Zhu to let him go after Jiang Zhu suppressed the Thirty-Three-Story Emperor Tower.
• The Emperor Lord emerged from his fiery-red star, ordered an assault on Ziwei, and led the Divine Court's army through Star Gates toward the ancient Star Domain.
• The Divine Court's full mobilization alarmed the universe's powers, who prepared for a clash that could reshape the Star Sea.
• At Ziwei, the Emperor Lord's forces demanded the Saint Emperor's Descendants surrender, while the Great Sage regained his confidence and insulted Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor.
• Jiang Zhu killed the Great Sage with a glance and condemned the Emperor Lord for avoiding his Dao-Proving Tribulation.
• The Divine Court's army drew its weapons and vowed to destroy Ziwei.