Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhu faced the Emperor Lord’s invasion of Ziwei Ancient Star, while the Black Emperor deployed thousands of incomplete Great Emperor Killing Formation platforms against him. After the Emperor Lord broke through the formations and attacked Jiang Zhu, their battle beyond the star revealed that Jiang Zhu could unleash an aura like a Great Emperor and match the Emperor Lord’s forbidden-domain power.

• The Emperor Lord’s army demanded Jiang Zhu surrender the Emperor Tower and Chaos Bell, but the Black Emperor’s Formation Platforms were destroyed by the Emperor Lord’s aura.
• The Black Emperor raised over a thousand platforms bearing incomplete patterns of Great Emperor Wushi’s Slaughter Formation, and the Emperor Lord broke through them in Vermilion Bird form.
• The Emperor Lord discovered that his connection to the Thirty-Three-Story Emperor Tower had been severed, then furiously charged Jiang Zhu and shattered the formations.
• Jiang Zhu used the Lingbao Formation Diagram to draw the Emperor Tower into the Demon-Refining Pot and calmly confronted the Emperor Lord as he attacked.
• Jiang Zhu struck the Emperor Lord’s Vermilion Bird form with an ordinary-looking punch and carried the battle beyond Ziwei Ancient Star.
• Jiang Zhu unleashed the True Spirit Fist in the forbidden domain, and his Great Emperor-like aura clashed with the Emperor Lord’s power as the Emperor Lord realized Jiang Zhu’s body rivaled his own.

Jiang Zhu fought the Divine Court's Emperor Lord across the Star Sea, using space-time techniques and peerless speed to wound the stronger Quasi-Emperor before the Emperor Lord unleashed his full power. Their battle reached the Mythic Battlefield with both grievously injured, drawing the attention of the Life Forbidden Zone's supreme beings, who wondered what kind of physique Jiang Zhu possessed.

• The Emperor Lord recognized Jiang Zhu and attacked him as a Vermilion Bird, but Jiang Zhu used Void Ripples and Kun Peng Extreme Speed to pierce the bird's wing.
• The Emperor Lord formed nine Heaven-Burning domains and pursued Jiang Zhu, but Jiang Zhu used Momentary Eternal to evade his punch and wound him again.
• Jiang Zhu continued dodging and counterattacking until the Emperor Lord erupted with his full power, forcing Jiang Zhu to prepare to fight him head-on.
• Jiang Zhu and the Emperor Lord battled through the depths of the universe, and beings across the Star Sea feared that the two near-emperors would block the Emperor Road for other prodigies.
• The two fought into the Mythic Battlefield and were both grievously wounded as their clashes destroyed vast star domains.
• The supreme beings of the Life Forbidden Zone watched the battle and questioned Jiang Zhu's physique and the consequences of his extraordinary combat strength.

Jiang Zhu killed the Divine Court Emperor Lord with several Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons, turning the battle for Ziwei into a rout and bringing down the Divine Court. The Heavenly Court seized Divine Court territory, while the Black Emperor taunted the captured princes and ministers in Ziwei.

• Jiang Zhu trapped the Divine Court Emperor Lord in the Lingbao Slaughter Formation and destroyed his Quasi-Emperor Artifacts.
• Jiang Zhu killed the Emperor Lord, and the Black Emperor led Ziwei's forces in routing the leaderless Divine Army.
• The Heavenly Court captured hundreds of Resource Planets as the Divine Court's enemies rebelled and seized its lands.
• The Divine Court's nine sons and veteran ministers were captured or killed, and important prisoners were sent to Ziwei.
• The Black Emperor mocked the captured elders and identified five of the Emperor Lord's sons, while the other four princes had died in battle.

After the Divine Court fell, the Phoenix Nest, Underworld, and God Organization chose to lie low rather than challenge the Forbidden Zone Supremes. Jiang Zhu returned to Ziwei Ancient Star healed and stronger, distributed the Divine Court’s former domains to his allies, and revealed that he had obtained the Wushi Scripture.

• The Undying Heavenly Empress ordered the Phoenix Nest to watch and wait, while the Underworld chose to stay hidden and gather Battle Bodies and bloodlines through its pawns.
• The God Organization suspended its expansion plans and decided to avoid direct conflict with Jiang Zhu as the Star Sea settled into an eerie calm.
• Jiang Zhu recovered in the Mythic Battlefield, assessed the danger posed by the Forbidden Zone Supremes, and resolved to raise his cultivation.
• Jiang Zhu returned to Ziwei Ancient Star, where Black Emperor, Ye Yue, and the Star Sea experts welcomed him; he allowed them to take possession of the Divine Court’s former star domains.
• Black Emperor warned Jiang Zhu that the Forbidden Zone Supremes might target him, but Jiang Zhu revealed the Wushi Scripture, astonishing Black Emperor.

Jiang Zhu refined the Nine Nether Ao's Origin Blood and recalled the battle between Shi Hao and the World-Ending Elder, where he saw future great figures cross the River of Time. His future self killed an Immortal Emperor who tried to escape, while Shi Hao and the World-Ending Elder continued their desperate fight.

• Black Emperor said Jiang Zhu could use the Wushi Scripture, Emperor Weapons, and the Grand Formation to withstand Supremes who did not fully emerge.
• Jiang Zhu refined the Nine Nether Ao's Origin Blood, revealing the beast's savage aura and recalling his vision of the World-Ending Elder fighting Shi Hao.
• Jiang Zhu saw future Wushi, the Ruthless Great Emperor, Ye Fan, and his own future self battle enemies across the River of Time.
• A future Immortal Emperor noticed Jiang Zhu and decided to have him erased, but future Jiang Zhu struck him down before he could escape.
• Shi Hao and the World-Ending Elder resumed their brutal fight, and the World-Ending Elder transformed into his monstrous Nine Nether Ao form and lunged to swallow Shi Hao.

Shi Hao defeated and suppressed the World-Ending Elder in the Boundary Sea, while Jiang Zhu drew strength from witnessing his future self and broke through three quasi-emperor tribulations at once. The chapter ended with a lightning-formed Kunlun Immortal Bell descending to test Jiang Zhu and temper his Chaos Bell.

• Shi Hao tore apart the World-Ending Elder’s Nine Nether Ao form and defeated his strongest attack.
• Shi Hao cut off the World-Ending Elder’s escape and suppressed his primordial spirit inside the Pool of Laws.
• Jiang Zhu accepted the vision of his powerful future self as proof of his path and resolved to surpass that future through his own efforts.
• Jiang Zhu underwent three quasi-emperor tribulations simultaneously and advanced from the Second Heaven to the Fifth Heaven.
• A phantom Kunlun Immortal Bell appeared in the fading tribulation and pressed down on Jiang Zhu and his Chaos Bell.

Jiang Zhu survived his threefold Heavenly Tribulation and completed a fierce transformation that made him one of the universe’s strongest figures. The God Organization then sought his help, and its elder recounted how Emperor Zun’s attempt to lead the Heavenly Court into the Immortal Domain was thwarted, ending with Emperor Zun’s retreat and burial at his birthplace.

• Jiang Zhu endured the Immortal Bell’s lightning and the myriad dao karmic fire, rebuilding his flesh and bones through the ordeal.
• Jiang Zhu completed his tribulation, reached the fifth heaven of the Quasi-Emperor realm, and restored his weakened body with the universe’s essence.
• The God Organization’s elder and a white-haired Quasi-Emperor appeared before Jiang Zhu and Black Emperor, then brought them to a small star to speak.
• The elder explained that Emperor Zun had rejected reincarnation and had tried to lead the Ancient Heavenly Court into the Immortal Domain with the Immortal Ascension Cauldron.
• The elder revealed that Longevity Heavenly Venerable, the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and beings from Life Forbidden Zones had attacked Emperor Zun during his attempt to enter the Immortal Domain.
• Emperor Zun survived the battle, killed two beings in a Life Forbidden Zone, and eventually returned to his birthplace to bury himself.

Jiang Zhu returned to Big Dipper and reunited with Yan Ruyu, Pang Bo, and his other old friends as the Road to Immortality approached. The God Organization identified the Divine Child as Emperor Zun, but the child’s unruly personality shocked everyone.

• The old man asked Jiang Zhu to join forces against the Longevity Heavenly Venerable during the opening of the Road to Immortality, and Jiang Zhu agreed to strike if the opportunity arose.
• Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor arrived at the Azure Flood Dragon King Minor World, where Pang Bo, Yan Ruyu, Li Heishui, and Wu Zhongtian welcomed them and asked about Jiang Zhu’s victory over the Divine Court Emperor Lord.
• Jiang Zhu warned Yan Ruyu that Big Dipper would face great danger, and she vowed to stay wherever he was.
• Huahua brought the Divine Child, sealed in Immortal Source, to Old God and the White-Haired Sword God, who asked Jiang Zhu to entrust the child to them.
• Jiang Zhu and the White-Haired Sword God confirmed that the Divine Child was Emperor Zun, while the child rejected the God Organization and ordered them to beat Huahua.

Jiang Zhu explained that the Divine Child was the reincarnated deity of the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, not Emperor Zun’s blood descendant, while the God Organization considered taking him away. After Jiang Zhu and his companions gathered for a feast and vowed to face the Forbidden Zone Supremes, the Road to Immortality opened near the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, where the Immortal Domain Rift proved deadly to those who tried to force their way inside.

• Jiang Zhu told the old god and the white-haired sword god that the Divine Child was an artifact spirit reborn as a living being, carrying traces of Emperor Zun’s legacy.
• Xiao Nannan reunited with Jiang Zhu, and the old god sensed a terrifying presence from her.
• Jiang Zhu, Ye Fan, Ji Zi, and their companions shared a feast and agreed to fight the Forbidden Zone Supremes when the Road to Immortality opened.
• Several days later, news spread that the Road to Immortality had appeared, and Jiang Zhu and the others went to the rift near the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Cultivators fought over immortal light spilling from the rift, while Jiang Zhu recognized that the Road to Immortality was truly about to open.
• A cultivator attacked the rift with a Saint Weapon and was incinerated, confirming that even powerful figures could not force their way inside.

After a deadly fissure appeared on the Road to Immortality, a Forbidden Zone Supreme turned his attention to Jiang Zhu before withdrawing. Jiang Zhu refused to flee Big Dipper, resolved to fight the coming dark turmoil, and the chapter ended as a Quasi-Emperor arrived and was suppressed by the Immortal Mausoleum.

• A Supreme’s mist from the Divine Ruins examined the Immortal Domain Rift, focused on Jiang Zhu, and then dispersed after their silent confrontation.
• Jiang Zhu led his companions away from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, where he glimpsed a woman bound by chains of immortal gold.
• The Ji Family and Jiang Family patriarchs asked Jiang Zhu to leave Big Dipper with them, but he vowed to stay and slay Supremes to quell the coming turmoil.
• Ye Fan and others repeatedly investigated the fissure, while more lives and powerful artifacts vanished into it over the following months.
• A Quasi-Emperor descended from beyond the world, but a cold snort from the Immortal Mausoleum dispersed the immense pressure and left the world in dread.

Jiang Zhu brought Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and the others to Mars to investigate the Immortal Bell imprint and found the Northern Sea Eye, where a black ocean, ghost ships, and a Buddhist vessel emerged. After Jiang Zhu stopped the sea eye from resealing, a surviving monk who had taught Shakyamuni opened his eyes.

• After eight years of battles around the fissure into the Immortal Domain, Jiang Zhu decided to visit Mars and brought several companions and Emperor Weapons with him.
• Jiang Zhu found the ruins of the Great Thunderclap Temple and then led the group to the Northern Sea Eye.
• A black ocean surged across Mars, and ghost ships carrying ancient corpses attacked the group before the Black Emperor and Ye Fan stopped them.
• A radiant Buddhist ship carrying the Five Hundred Golden Arhat Bodies drove back the ghost ships, and the sea withdrew into the Northern Sea Eye.
• Jiang Zhu stopped the sea eye from resealing, and a surviving monk opened his eyes; Jiang Zhu explained that the monk had once taught Shakyamuni.

Jiang Zhu led the group into the Demon Sea Eye beneath Mars, where they uncovered an ancient battlefield and the remains of devoured Emperor-level beings. As a hidden power began controlling Ye Fan and Pang Bo, the group faced an unknown threat in the battlefield’s depths.

• The old monk revealed that he had once guided Shakyamuni and agreed to lead Jiang Zhu and the others into the Demon Sea Eye after accepting Northern Pole Immortal Light.
• Jiang Zhu led the group across the boundless underground sea, where they found a Star Beast’s enormous skeleton and defeated an undead Octopus made from rotting flesh.
• Jiang Zhu broke through Shakyamuni’s seals and brought the group into an ancient battlefield littered with bones and shattered Quasi-Emperor Artifacts.
• The group discovered that someone had gathered the dead to nourish a single person, and they found the flesh and blood of Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors inside a palace.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo lost control of their bodies as a demonic power began urging them to sacrifice their blood essence.

Jiang Zhu and the others discovered that the flesh ball in the Burial Ground was an ancient supreme being undergoing transformation, and that the site held traces of the Immortal Bell and the Undying Heavenly Emperor. After witnessing the preserved confrontation between Great Emperor Wushi and the Undying Heavenly Emperor on the Road to Immortality, Jiang Zhu copied the Immortal Bell’s Dao patterns onto his bells and successfully transferred them to his Chaos Immortal Treasure Bell.

• Ji Zi found a blood-colored flesh ball on an altar, and Jiang Zhu explained that it was an ancient supreme being nourished by the corpses of fallen experts.
• Jiang Zhu summoned an imitation of the Immortal Bell from Dao patterns, and the group found scraps of the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s skin in the magma cave.
• The group discovered a Chaos Cave on the Road to Immortality and saw the preserved shadows of Great Emperor Wushi and the Undying Heavenly Emperor confronting each other.
• Jiang Zhu warned that disturbing the two shadows’ equilibrium could destroy the Star Domain, then brought out his nine immortal gold bells and Chaos Immortal Treasure Bell.
• Jiang Zhu copied the Immortal Bell’s Dao patterns onto his bells and successfully settled them onto the Chaos Immortal Treasure Bell.

Jiang Zhu and the others witnessed Great Emperor Wushi’s phantom and helped drive the reborn flesh sphere into another realm. After the battle ended, the fate of the Azure Emperor and Wushi remained uncertain.

• Great Emperor Wushi’s phantom recognized the Black Emperor, then instructed Jiang Zhu to use the Wushi Scripture to send the flesh sphere into another realm.
• When the Wushi Scripture and Chaos Green Lotus could not force the flesh sphere through, Jiang Zhu removed Mars from its sealed realm and carried it to a desolate region of the Cosmic Frontier.
• The Wushi Scripture manifested Wushi’s imperial battle power, while the Chaos Green Lotus awakened and fought the flesh sphere with the five-colored feathers it released.
• Jiang Zhu activated the Daoyan Immortal Robe and struck the flesh sphere, helping force it through the gate into another realm.
• Wushi’s phantom vanished and the Chaos Green Lotus returned to Yan Ruyu, leaving the group to wonder whether the bloodshed on Mars had truly ended.

Jiang Zhu and his companions opened Shakyamuni’s Star Prisons, subdued the ancient demons inside, and brought them back to Big Dipper. The returning group noticed that Big Dipper’s five continents might form an enormous Five-Colored Altar, while their arrival caused a sensation across the star.

• Jiang Zhu sealed Mars again and led the group to another prison planet, where Black Emperor pulled up the Demon-Sealing Stele and released the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow.
• The Great Xia Dragon Sparrow attacked Ye Fan and Ji Zi, but Jiang Zhu quickly subdued him and forced him to accompany the group.
• Black Emperor and the others opened more Star Prisons, releasing a Silver Snake, a Hundred-Legged Heavenly Insect, and other ancient powerhouses, who were beaten into submission.
• At the final prison, Mountain Phoenix attacked Jiang Zhu and was suppressed, then conceded and admitted he was a rooster spirit.
• Jiang Zhu and the group returned toward Big Dipper with a Quasi-Emperor and twelve supreme Great Sages, and Mountain Phoenix pointed out that the five continents might form a Five-Colored Altar.
• The group arrived at Big Dipper, where their return caused a sensation.

Jiang Zhu returned to Big Dipper with the Thirteen Demons, shared his Dao insights, and reunited with old friends as the Immortal Road remained unopened. At a banquet, Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue announced their intention to become Dao companions, prompting Jiang Zhu to ask Yan Ruyu to do the same.

• Jiang Zhu brought the Thirteen Demons to Big Dipper, then taught his companions and trusted allies his cultivation insights and the Immortal Bell's Dao Patterns.
• As years passed and the Immortal Road's fissure widened, Ji Haoyue returned with his son, Ji Chengdao, and revealed that he had suffered a crushing defeat among the stars.
• Ji Zi gave Ji Chengdao a mysterious jade talisman, while Ye Fan and Jiang Zhu each gave the boy a precious gift.
• Ye Fan announced that he and Ji Ziyue wished to become Dao companions, and their friends and family celebrated their decision.
• Seeing Yan Ruyu's quiet hope, Jiang Zhu stood and asked her to become his Dao companion and walk the Great Dao with him.

Jiang Zhu and Yan Ruyu married amid a vast gathering of the races, while Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue also held their wedding. Days later, the Immortal Road began to open and the Ancient Supremes stirred, as a creature representing the Divine Ruins arrived at the fissure outside the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.

• Jiang Zhu and Yan Ruyu accepted each other, and Ye Fan went with his companions to the Ji Family to propose marriage.
• The Minor World hosted a grand celebration attended by powerful figures and representatives from across the races, where Jiang Zhu and Yan Ruyu and Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue completed their weddings.
• Several days later, a tremendous upheaval shook Big Dipper as the Immortal Road began opening and the Seven Great Life Forbidden Zones erupted with light.
• A silver-backed, red-horned qilin emerged from the Divine Ruins and traveled to the Immortal Road fissure outside the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• The qilin observed the fissure alongside two Quasi-Emperors as immortal substances and burning objects fell from the Immortal Road, while the gathered cultivators dared not approach.

The Immortal Road fissure released the remains of ancient rulers who had died just short of entering the Immortal Domain, and Jiang Zhu explained why the opening could not be used by the current Supremes. As the group prepared for the coming Dark Turmoil, Ye Fan and the others entrusted their Emperor Weapons to Jiang Zhu for the battle ahead.

• Two Quasi-Emperors and the Qilin examined the remains that fell from the Immortal Road, and Jiang Zhu identified them as those of an ancient Heavenly Venerable who had died near the Immortal Domain.
• The Heavenly Venerable’s corpse underwent Dao Dissolution, and the awakened Supremes withdrew their oppressive might while preparing for the coming battle for immortality.
• More remains fell from the widening fissure, and Ye Fan recognized the Taiyin Human Emperor’s aura before collecting his ashes for burial.
• Jiang Zhu explained that entering the Immortal Domain required the right time, place, and person, and revealed that Great Emperor Wushi had entered another Strange World instead.
• Xiao Nannan pointed out a woman watching her from the forbidden land, and Jiang Zhu withdrew his gaze when the woman warned him off.
• Ye Fan and the others discussed fighting the Ancient Supremes and handed Jiang Zhu the Chaos Green Lotus, the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron, the Void Mirror, and the Immortal Iron Staff.

As the Road to Immortality and Dark Turmoil drew near, Jiang Zhu helped arrange evacuations across Big Dipper while choosing to remain and face the coming crisis. The chapter ended as the nine Sacred Mountains of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land split apart and the mysterious woman within was bound by chains of Immortal Gold.

• Jiang Zhu accepted several Emperor Weapons and half of the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, then advised the others to withdraw beyond the star domain.
• Major powers began relocating, and Yan Ruyu embraced Jiang Zhu before leaving with the departing group.
• Jiang Zhu visited the regions and lineages preparing to evacuate, while the Western Desert's Buddhist devotees gathered at Mount Sumeru.
• Jiang Zhu urged the great clans to move mortals beyond Big Dipper, but they stopped when people resisted leaving their homes.
• The fissure outside the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land widened, and changes across the Seven Great Life Forbidden Zones signaled that the Road to Immortality was near.
• The nine Sacred Mountains split apart, revealing a mysterious woman bound by chains of Immortal Gold.

The Ruthless Great Emperor reunited the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine, broke free of her shackles, and entered the Road to Immortality with the Desolate Slaves. As the Immortal Road began to open on Big Dipper, Longevity Heavenly Venerable confronted the true Huang, a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, and powerful figures from across the universe gathered to await the coming struggle.

• The nine Divine Medicines merged into the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine as the Sacred Mountains collapsed and revealed the Road to Immortality and the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist stele.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor entered the Road to Immortality with the Nine Marvels Divine Medicine and the Desolate Slaves, while the two steles became doors that blocked the passage.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable emerged from the Immortal Mausoleum and confronted the golden-haired true Huang, who revealed that the Ruthless Great Emperor had kept him alive and challenged him to fight.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable departed after promising to face Huang, and the five continents of Big Dipper began glowing like a Five-Colored Altar as the Immortal Road neared its opening.
• Quasi-Emperors, heavenly prodigies including Tai Chu and Di Huang, and countless forces from other star domains arrived at Big Dipper to await their chance.