Chapter Summaries

More than a century after the Dark Turmoil, the starry domains recovered and a golden age of young prodigies began, with Jiang Zhu still revered as an unmatched legend despite rumors that his cultivation had stalled. In seclusion on Earth with Yan Ruyu, Jiang Zhu continued refining the Chaos Bell as the imprints of the supreme beings’ laws within him gradually crumbled.

• The Underworld quietly gathered the remains of fallen experts, while regional conflicts and unrest followed the end of the Dark Turmoil before fading away.
• Across the restored starry domains, a generation of powerful prodigies rose, including Ye Fan, Ji Zi, the Myriad Dragon Emperor's Daughter, and the Saint Prince.
• Young challengers searched for Jiang Zhu, while rumors spread that his battle with the supreme beings had shackled his cultivation and ended his prospects on the Emperor Road.
• Jiang Zhu remained in the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains on Earth with Yan Ruyu, surrounded by divine medicines and the Chaos Bell, which had absorbed other Immortal Gold Bells.
• After a hundred and fifty years of seclusion, Jiang Zhu continued organizing his being and refining the Chaos Bell, causing the supreme beings’ law imprints within him to crumble gradually.

After refining the lingering Supreme laws within his body, Jiang Zhu pierced through the Immortal Platform and began the Great Emperor Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier. As he fought through the universe-shaking tribulation, the Underworld intervened with an ancient diagram and a gigantic hand.

• Jiang Zhu used Dao Fire to refine the Supreme remnants within his body, then began transforming toward Alternative Dao Attainment.
• Jiang Zhu stepped into the Cosmic Frontier, where the Nine Heavens Heavenly Tribulation descended and startled the Forbidden Zone Supremes.
• The Dao Attainment Tribulation began, causing the universe's prodigies and Quasi-Emperors to fear the loss of their chance at the imperial throne.
• The Golden Crow Great Emperor recognized Jiang Zhu's tribulation and despaired that his own plans to prove the Dao might be ruined, but he chose to remain hidden.
• Jiang Zhu endured the Great Emperor Tribulation, absorbing its power as a host of divine beasts and terrifying Immortal Medicines appeared in the Sea of Thunder.
• An ancient diagram identified as the Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Venerable's Array Patterns tore open the Sea of Thunder, and a gigantic hand struck toward Jiang Zhu.

During his Dao-attainment tribulation, Jiang Zhu faced an assault by the Underworld and several forbidden zones, whose Supremes sought to kill him and harvest his blood. Though the siege intensified, he declared that he would use their blood to strengthen his emperor foundation and become the Heavenly Emperor.

• Jiang Zhu used his Ten Fiends Precious Techniques to burn away the Underworld’s curse and shatter an attack aimed at him.
• The Underworld’s artificial chaos body emerged with the Source God and Source Ghost, then the Immortal Matriarch, Spirit Emperor, and Corpse Emperor arrived to join the siege.
• Jiang Zhu wounded the Spirit Emperor with the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass Precious Technique and used his Chaos Bell to swallow the Corpse Emperor’s attack.
• The Roc Emperor emerged from the Big Dipper and attacked Jiang Zhu with his Twenty-Eight-Section God-Smiting Whip before the Immortal Matriarch reminded him of their purpose.
• Jiang Zhu faced the assembled enemies beneath the tribulation lightning and vowed to use their blood to establish his emperor foundation and become the Heavenly Emperor.

Jiang Zhu was surrounded by seven Supremes wielding the formations of five forbidden zones, but he shattered the barrier around his Dao-attainment tribulation and forced his enemies to face it. He killed the Source Ghost and then wounded the Immortal Matriarch, leaving the battle raging.

• The Supremes mocked Jiang Zhu’s claim to be the Heavenly Emperor and manifested the formations of their forbidden zones around him.
• Jiang Zhu fought back against the seven Supremes, while secretly waiting for the formations’ power to peak.
• Jiang Zhu hurled the Chaos Bell at the barrier sealing off his Dao-attainment tribulation and shattered it, unleashing the full heavenly punishment upon the battlefield.
• As the Supremes retreated from the tribulation, Jiang Zhu attacked the Source Ghost and killed him with a series of devastating blows.
• Jiang Zhu charged the Immortal Matriarch, shattered her Jade Ruyi, and wounded her with its flying fragments.

Jiang Zhu fought the Supremes while enduring a devastating Dao-attainment tribulation, turning the heavenly punishment against his enemies. He killed the Artificial Chaos Body, Roc Emperor, and Corpse Emperor, while the surviving Supremes remained battered beneath the storm.

• Jiang Zhu shattered an Imperial Dao weapon and overpowered the Supremes, killing the Source God with a single punch.
• The Spirit Emperor urged the Supremes to undergo ultimate sublimation, and they joined forces against Jiang Zhu as the tribulation intensified.
• The Chaos World-Destroying Divine Thunder severely wounded Jiang Zhu and the Supremes, especially the Artificial Chaos Body, whose unstable foundation drew the lightning's fiercest assault.
• Jiang Zhu used Void Flowers to kill the Artificial Chaos Body and suppress the Heaven-Penetrating Underworld Treasure, then tore apart and killed the Roc Emperor.
• The Corpse Emperor attacked with the Reincarnation Seal, but Jiang Zhu and the Lingbao Killing Sword shattered it before he killed the Corpse Emperor with the sword and Chaos Bell.

Jiang Zhu killed the seven invading Ancient Emperors, survived a tribulation of Immortal King phantoms, and stood on the verge of attaining the Imperial Dao. Before he could claim the Heavenly Heart, Carefree Heavenly Venerate ambushed him in hopes of taking his body, drawing the attention of old enemies.

• Jiang Zhu crushed the fleeing Immortal Matriarch and annihilated the Spirit Emperor, then suppressed the Heaven-Penetrating Underworld Artifact as all seven invading Ancient Emperors fell.
• Jiang Zhu refined the Supremes’ blood essence during his tribulation and fought the Immortal King phantoms manifested by heaven.
• Jiang Zhu defeated the phantoms and approached the final step of joining with the Heavenly Heart, while people across the universe hailed him as the Heavenly Emperor.
• A hidden Supreme attacked Jiang Zhu as he prepared to attain the Dao, but Jiang Zhu evaded the strike with Disordered Time and Space and wounded his attacker.
• Jiang Zhu recognized the attacker as Carefree Heavenly Venerate, who revealed his intent to seize Jiang Zhu’s body and place.
• Two other ancient beings from the Seven Great Forbidden Zones emerged and challenged Carefree Heavenly Venerate over old grudges.

Jiang Zhu defeated Carefree Heavenly Venerate in a battle of time-based arts, then shattered the myriad Daos to become an emperor without merging with the Heavenly Heart Imprint. He destroyed the Reincarnation Sea and left the remaining forbidden zones hidden from his reach.

• Carefree Heavenly Venerate attacked Jiang Zhu to seize his body, but Jiang Zhu’s Heavenly Emperor manifestation surpassed him in speed and control over time.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate recognized Jiang Zhu’s immortal art, then unleashed the Light of Time and a final River of Time attack; Jiang Zhu countered with his own time art and killed him.
• Jiang Zhu recovered from his wounds, shattered the myriad Daos and the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and attained the Imperial Dao above all Daos.
• Jiang Zhu destroyed the Reincarnation Sea, while the other Life Forbidden Zones remained concealed from him.

After studying the limits of the Battle Immortal Path, Jiang Zhu concluded that becoming a Red Dust Immortal was the only feasible way to attain immortality in the broken universe. More than a century after the great battles, he returned to Big Dipper with Yan Ruyu and promised to preach the Dao for a year.

• Jiang Zhu studied the Heavenly Heart Imprint and judged that the Battle Immortal Path demanded an impossible amount of power and resources in the broken universe.
• Jiang Zhu concluded that he would pursue the Red Dust Immortal Path through successive transformations and lifetimes.
• More than a century after Big Dipper's devastation, cultivators and pilgrims gathered there to visit its restored sites and Jiang Zhu's former retreats.
• Jiang Zhu and Yan Ruyu returned to Big Dipper on a golden avenue, and the Peacock King and other leaders welcomed them.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Black Emperor, Huahua, and the great powers of Big Dipper gathered to greet Jiang Zhu and Yan Ruyu.
• Jiang Zhu announced that he would preach the Dao for one year, then sat with Yan Ruyu atop the newly named Heavenly Emperor Mountain.

After a year of teaching the Great Dao on Heavenly Emperor Mountain, Jiang Zhu reunited with old friends and welcomed a crowded banquet. Xiao Nannan awoke from her long sleep after the Dark Turmoil, leaving everyone astonished and overjoyed.

• Jiang Zhu taught the cultivators the fundamental principles of the Great Dao for a year, helping many listeners gain insight and improve their cultivation.
• Jiang Zhu ended his teachings, and cultivators thanked him before building Heavenly Emperor City beneath the mountain or returning home.
• Jiang Zhu joined old friends at a Northern Region banquet, where Black Emperor demanded treasures and the Demon Clan elders celebrated his achievements.
• Guests gathered for the feast, while Jade Pool Saintess confronted the suspected Dragon Loach thief Duan De and Black Emperor denied involvement.
• Xiao Nannan appeared hungry after years of deep sleep, and the gathered guests froze before rushing to greet her.

Jiang Zhu welcomed Xiao Nannan’s awakening and Gai Jiuyou’s visit, then revealed that the Heavenly Heart Imprint could be divided and recombined, proving that multiple emperors could coexist. He urged the young cultivators to persevere through the Age of Declining Dharma, and Saint Prince vowed to fight for a future where many emperors stood together.

• Xiao Nannan awakened and reunited with Jiang Zhu and Yan Ruyu, while Divine Child emerged from seclusion sealed inside Immortal Source.
• Gai Jiuyou visited Jiang Zhu and explained that he had once refused to attain the Dao because a lone emperor could not defeat multiple supreme beings.
• Gai Jiuyou asked whether Jiang Zhu could have attained the Dao even if another had already merged with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and Jiang Zhu confirmed that multiple emperors could coexist.
• Jiang Zhu split the Heavenly Heart Imprint into several pieces and restored it, demonstrating that a sufficiently strong Dao could transcend its restraints.
• Jiang Zhu advised Ye Fan and the others to cultivate patiently and build their foundations despite slow progress in the Age of Declining Dharma.
• Tu Fei, Pang Bo, and Saint Prince voiced confidence in the road ahead, and Saint Prince vowed to fight for an age of multiple emperors.

Jiang Zhu revealed the Divine Flower to his gathered friends, then spent two centuries studying it and gaining insight into the Dao. As the Starry Sky Ancient Road neared its peak and his son Jiang Qing grew, Jiang Zhu asked Yan Ruyu whether she wanted to seek the Immortal Domain when the Road to Immortality opened.

• Jiang Zhu opened the rotten wooden box and planted the Divine Flower, allowing Ye Fan and the others to witness its dazzling bloom and the fairy that emerged from it.
• Jiang Zhu contemplated the Divine Flower for ten years, while Xiao Nannan stayed with him; after more than a century, the flower withered into a seed that Jiang Zhu sealed away.
• Over the following century, many young talents became Quasi-Emperors, while Jiang Zhu refined forbidden-zone materials and Emperor Weapons into his seven-colored Chaos Bell.
• Jiang Qing, the son of Jiang Zhu and Yan Ruyu, ran to his father with Little Divine Silkworm, and Jiang Zhu embraced him and Xiao Nannan before playing with them.
• Jiang Qing touched the Chaos Bell, which chimed in response, and Jiang Zhu asked Yan Ruyu whether she wanted to go to the Immortal Domain when the Road to Immortality opened.

Jiang Zhu refused to enter the Immortal Domain, and Yan Ruyu chose to remain with him as he returned to seclusion. As the age’s prodigies sealed themselves away or struggled under his Great Dao, Jiang Qing rose to fame, while a transformation on Flying Immortal Star drew the Supremes toward a Road to Immortality that Jiang Zhu said would let someone become an immortal in this lifetime.

• Jiang Zhu explained that entering the Immortal Domain would require him to abandon his Imperial Dao foundation, and Yan Ruyu decided to stay with him and their child.
• After spending several years with his family, Jiang Zhu entered seclusion to refine the Immortal Gold Bell, while Tai Chu, Huo Qizi, Huo Lin'er, the Divine Silkworm Daoist, and other prodigies sealed themselves away.
• The Saint Prince continued fighting, Ye Fan sought to reopen the Sacred Body’s severed path, and Jiang Qing gained renown by defeating powerful opponents on the Ultimate Ancient Road.
• Four cracks appeared in the seal on Flying Immortal Star, drawing Supremes and cultivators to its ancient steles as people feared another Dark Turmoil.
• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor questioned Jiang Zhu about the Supremes’ return, and Jiang Zhu revealed that someone would become an immortal in this lifetime.
• The Supremes gathered to observe Flying Immortal Star and await the Immortal Road’s opening as chains rattled above the sealed site.

The seals beneath Flying Immortal Star broke open, releasing Hua Snake, Annihilation Heavenly Venerable, and a mad creature from the Chaotic Ancient Era as the Road to Immortality appeared. As the supreme beings emerged to pursue immortality, Annihilation Heavenly Venerable stood in their way.

• The stone steles rearranged across Flying Immortal Star, revealing the sealed land and opening an Immortal Domain Rift.
• Hua Snake and Annihilation Heavenly Venerable broke free, and Jiang Zhu told Ye Fan and Gai Jiuyou that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had sealed a mysterious creature there in the Chaotic Ancient Era.
• The ancient seal shattered, releasing a scarlet, monstrous creature whose mind was damaged.
• The Road to Immortality opened, and Hua Snake charged onto it ahead of the others.
• The Myriad Dragon Emperor emerged from the Primordial Ancient Mine, followed by the Phoenix Wings Gilt Halberd, the progenitor of Blood Phoenix Mountain.
• Annihilation Heavenly Venerable declared that anyone seeking to pass would have to defeat him first.

More than ten Ancient Supremes joined forces on Flying Immortal Star to breach the Road to Immortality, while Jiang Zhu, Ye Fan, and Gai Jiuyou planned to exploit their rivalry and eliminate the forbidden zones. As the battle escalated, Emperor Zun’s aura emerged from an ancient formation, and the Supremes attacked the phantom as Hua Snake and the Prehistoric Creature revealed secrets about their sealing.

• Beast God, White Tiger Daoist, the Supreme from the Immortal Mausoleum, and other Ancient Supremes arrived on Flying Immortal Star and joined the battle against Hua Snake, Annihilation Heavenly Venerable, and the Prehistoric Creature.
• Jiang Zhu told Ye Fan and Gai Jiuyou that the Supremes’ alliance would collapse when only two or three could attain immortality, and proposed destroying the forbidden zones while their Supremes were away.
• An ancient formation appeared and drew power from the battlefield and the universe, revealing Emperor Zun’s aura and forming a majestic phantom before the Road to Immortality.
• White Tiger Daoist, Beast God, the Supreme from the Immortal Mausoleum, and the other Supremes attacked Emperor Zun’s phantom, while Annihilation Heavenly Venerable fell into madness.
• Hua Snake recalled that Emperor Zun had sealed him for a future resurrection, and the Prehistoric Creature revealed that the Master of the Desolate Pagoda had once suppressed him.

Jiang Zhu, Ye Fan, and Gai Jiuyou took advantage of the Supremes’ assault on the Immortal Road to confront the Life Forbidden Zones. As the Supremes pushed toward the Immortal Pass with the reborn Immortal Ascension Cauldron, Jiang Zhu declared his intent to end the Dark Turmoil and the forbidden zones’ repeated slaughter of living beings.

• The Supremes’ attacks failed to stop Emperor Zun’s resurrection plan, but their power and the scattered fragments of the Immortal Ascension Cauldron reforged the cauldron instead.
• The reconstructed cauldron summoned Divine Child from Big Dipper, and Divine Child merged with its core, restoring the deity within it.
• Beast God and White Tiger Daoist led the Supremes forward with the cauldron to breach the Immortal Road, where they encountered an ancient stele and a guarded Immortal Pass.
• Jiang Zhu, Ye Fan, and Gai Jiuyou left for the Life Forbidden Zones while the Supremes were occupied, prompting beings across the universe to pray for their success.
• Jiang Zhu confronted the forbidden-zone Supremes and condemned them for causing Dark Turmoils to prolong their lives, vowing to end the recurring tragedy.

Jiang Zhu, Ye Fan, and Gai Jiuyou destroyed the forbidden zones, ending the threat of future Dark Turmoil, then turned their attention to Flying Immortal Star. On the Road to Immortality, the surviving Supremes found a stele left by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and resumed fighting over the few places they believed led to immortality.

• Jiang Zhu uprooted the Primordial Ancient Mine and killed its Supreme and the Supreme of the Heavens, while Ye Fan and Gai Jiuyou fought the Divine Ruins and Immortal Mausoleum Supremes.
• Ye Fan killed the Supreme of the Divine Ruins, and he and Gai Jiuyou recovered as the universe celebrated the destruction of the forbidden zones.
• Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan prepared to deal with Flying Immortal Star while Gai Jiuyou stayed behind to recover.
• The Supremes on the Road to Immortality discovered a physical stone stele bearing an inscription left by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• The Supremes attacked one another over the possibility of reaching the Immortal Domain, and the fighting left them bloodied and their weapons damaged.

The Supremes reached the Heavenly Gate and learned that an Imperial Dao expert had to be sacrificed to open it. Jiang Zhu arrived as they fought, and although the gate revealed the Immortal Domain, he chose to keep battling the Supremes rather than enter.

• The Supremes discovered that the world beyond the Immortal Road was a threshold, and the Heavenly Gate required an Imperial Dao sacrifice to open.
• The Supremes fought brutally, killing the Divine Ruins Supreme and gravely wounding the Immortal Mausoleum Supreme, but their attacks only cracked the gate.
• Jiang Zhu arrived as the White Tiger Daoist prepared to sacrifice the Immortal Mausoleum Supreme, while the Myriad Dragon Emperor and Golden Ancient Emperor stood aside.
• Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan killed the Immortal Mausoleum Supreme and another Supreme, and their imperial blood caused the Heavenly Gate to open onto a world of immortals.
• The Beast God and other surviving Supremes urged Jiang Zhu to enter the Immortal Domain, but he said he had no interest in it and continued attacking them.

Jiang Zhu defeated the Supremes on the Road to Immortality, while Laozi, Shakyamuni, and Gai Jiuyou entered the Immortal Domain and Ye Fan chose to remain in the mortal world. After the Immortal Road collapsed, Jiang Zhu helped the Immortal Ascension Cauldron break free of its existence as a weapon, leaving a powerless child in his care.

• Jiang Zhu killed the Supremes who attacked the Immortal Road, while the Myriad Dragon Emperor and Golden Ancient Emperor stayed back.
• The Immortal Ascension Cauldron asked Jiang Zhu to help it transcend being a weapon, and he pulled it away from the Immortal Gate.
• Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan declined to enter the Immortal Domain, and the Yellow Emperor and Shennong chose to remain in their homeland.
• Laozi and Shakyamuni endured the cleansing of their Imperial Dao foundations as they entered the Immortal Domain with Gai Jiuyou.
• The Immortal Road collapsed after the three entered, and cultivators across the universe celebrated the proof that immortals existed.
• Jiang Zhu and the others shattered the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, freeing its deity, which reincarnated as a powerless child whom Jiang Zhu placed in his Sea of Bitterness.

Jiang Zhu refined the Heavenly Horned Ant bloodline and mastered the Indestructible Scripture, then dispersed Human Demon’s Emperor Tribulation with a single word. Five hundred years later, Ye Fan transcended the myriad Daos and attempted to become a Great Emperor, but fell back from the tribulation gravely wounded.

• Jiang Zhu gained the Heavenly Horned Ant inheritance and cultivated the Indestructible Scripture, extending his lifespan to at least 150,000 years per emperor’s mandate.
• Human Demon, Dongfang Taiyi, attempted Dao attainment, and Jiang Zhu dispersed his tribulation with a single command.
• Jiang Zhu chose to leave the Heavenly Heart Imprint’s suppression in place while Ye Fan continued tempering himself.
• Five hundred years later, Ye Fan underwent his Great Emperor Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier and fought through the immortal figures that appeared.
• Ye Fan rose above the myriad Daos, but fell back bloodied after the tribulation, with severe wounds and a damaged Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi.

Ye Fan and Jiang Zhu lured the Undying Heavenly Emperor into attacking through the Flying Immortal Waterfall, then fought back across the boundary between realms. Jiang Zhu broke the Undying Heavenly Blade, severed the emperor’s arm, and shattered the waterfall, leaving the Undying Heavenly Emperor unable to interfere with the Mortal World.

• Xiao Song carried the gravely injured Ye Fan toward Big Dipper as news of his apparent defeat spread across the universe.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor attacked with his Five-Colored Heavenly Blade, but Ye Fan revealed that his injuries were a trap and struck back.
• The Flying Immortal Waterfall opened, allowing several Supremes to attack Ye Fan while the Undying Heavenly Emperor tried to cross into the Mortal World.
• Jiang Zhu clashed with the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s arm, and his blow broke the Undying Heavenly Blade as Ye Fan killed the attacking Supremes.
• Jiang Zhu used the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass to sever the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s arm and shatter the Flying Immortal Waterfall, then took the Immortal Phoenix Wing.