Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Undying Heavenly Emperor, Jiang Zhu celebrated with Ye Fan and their companions, then revealed that immortality could be attained through the Red Dust Immortal Path. Years later, Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan remained at their peaks while Jiang Zhu traveled quietly with Yan Ruyu to visit aging acquaintances.

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor vanished after Jiang Zhu severed his arm, and the universe celebrated Jiang Zhu’s victory for a year.
• At a banquet, Jiang Zhu’s companions feasted on the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Immortal Phoenix Wings until the Saint Prince’s mischievous son escaped divine source and damaged ancient halls with Pang Gu.
• Jiang Zhu told Ye Fan that the Immortal Domain held longevity substance but explained that he planned to enter it later and that the Red Dust Immortal Path offered another route to immortality.
• Ye Fan resolved to follow the Red Dust Immortal Path, while the Old Madman, Wei Yi, Pang Bo, the Saint Prince, and others accepted that they would instead enter divine source and wait for the future.
• More than six thousand years later, Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan remained youthful and powerful, and Jiang Zhu secretly traveled with Yan Ruyu to visit old acquaintances who had grown old.

Jiang Zhu watched the Golden Age fade, sealed Yan Ruyu in Divine Source, and wandered the mortal world alone before meeting the still-living Azure Emperor. He explained the Immortal King’s role in creating an Immortal Domain, revealing why the Azure Emperor’s plan had failed.

• God Venerable and other Heavenly Prodigies challenged Jiang Zhu, but none could defeat him or become an emperor.
• Yan Ruyu feared growing old and leaving Jiang Zhu alone, but he promised to open the gate to eternity; two hundred years later, he sealed her in Divine Source.
• Jiang Zhu traveled the mortal world for thousands of years, living among ordinary people and witnessing their joys and hardships.
• Jiang Zhu met the Azure Emperor, who revealed that he had lodged his Primordial Spirit in the Desolate Pagoda and tried to create an Immortal Domain within it.
• Jiang Zhu explained the conditions for opening an Immortal Domain, and the Azure Emperor realized that his path had been wrong from the start.

Jiang Zhu revealed the truth about the Immortal Domain to the Azure Emperor, then reunited with the aging Ye Fan and comforted Xiao Nannan. Ye Fan began his second life and challenged Jiang Zhu, whose overwhelming strength left the universe stunned and drew fresh faith to their treasures.

• Jiang Zhu explained that the Immortal Domain had been devastated in an ancient war and that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had hidden an incomplete Immortal Domain inside the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin; the Azure Emperor, Wan Qing, set off to seek it.
• Jiang Zhu reunited with Ye Fan after nearly twenty thousand years, and they shared wine and memories while Ye Fan mourned their absent friends and joked about Duan De.
• Jiang Zhu comforted Xiao Nannan after she woke from a long sleep frightened that he had abandoned her, and promised he would not leave.
• Ye Fan consumed the Immortal Medicine and began his second life after twenty-six thousand years, then challenged Jiang Zhu to a fight.
• Jiang Zhu caught Ye Fan's Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi and used it to beat Ye Fan in their brief sparring match, astonishing onlookers across the universe.
• Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan returned to Big Dipper, while power of faith from across the universe flowed into the Chaos Bell and the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi.

Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan endured the passage of eras, with Ye Fan reaching his third and fourth lifetimes as the universe eventually entered a new golden age. In the 125,000th year of the Heavenly Emperor Era, sealed geniuses began returning, including Di Huang, while another powerful figure emerged from a shattered star.

• Jiang Zhu spent tens of thousands of years watching generations rise and fall, and took the Little Saint Ape to visit Ye Fan before sealing him again.
• Ye Fan used Jiang Zhu's scripture to complete a nirvana transformation and live into his third lifetime, then later reached his fourth by observing the Immortal Medicine.
• At the hundred-thousandth year of the Heavenly Emperor Era, the Great Dao's pressure began to weaken, and the universe's vitality gradually returned.
• By the 120,000th year, the Starry Sky Ancient Road flourished and a golden age of cultivation took shape while Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan remained on the Immortal Soil.
• In the 125,000th year, Di Huang emerged from a shattered star after more than a hundred thousand years of sealing, and another powerful figure soon appeared from a dead star.

Ancient prodigies returned to the mortal world and gathered at the Immortal Soil, where they learned that Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan still stood above them. The reunion ended in a grand feast, but the returning experts struggled with the realization that the Heavenly Emperors had left them no path to Dao attainment.

• Old Golden Crow awoke after more than a hundred thousand years and vowed to claim the Emperor Road for himself.
• Ancient experts including Tai Chu, Zhang Bairen, Di Huang, Huo Qizi, and others returned, and Zhang Bairen and Di Huang fought while revealing their extraordinary origins.
• The ancient prodigies gathered at the Immortal Soil and called for old acquaintances, prompting Ye Tong, Jiang Tingting, Old Madman, Wei Yi, and others to appear.
• Ye Fan revealed that he was in his fourth life, then Jiang Zhu appeared and shocked the gathered prodigies by showing he still ruled as Heavenly Emperor.
• Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan welcomed their old acquaintances to a feast, where Huo Qizi drunkenly lamented that the Heavenly Emperor had cut off the path to Dao attainment for later generations.

Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan shared the secrets of the Immortal Road, then welcomed Ye Tong and Jiang Tingting’s flawless Chaos Body daughter, Ye Xian. More than a hundred thousand years later, Duan De awoke from his tomb, reunited with the two Heavenly Emperors, and began another reincarnation cycle after learning how far they had progressed.

• Jiang Zhu explained that he had reined in his Great Dao, while Ye Fan revealed that his three divine cauldrons suppressed his imperial power.
• Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan discussed the Immortal Road with the gathered cultivators and urged them to pursue immortality with patience.
• More than a decade later, Ye Tong and Jiang Tingting’s daughter was born as a flawless Chaos Body, and Jiang Zhu named her Ye Xian.
• Duan De awoke on Gou Chen Star to find little Saint Spirits playing music, then recognized Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan waiting to greet him.
• Duan De learned that Ye Fan was in his fourth life and Jiang Zhu had lived for more than 125,000 years, while he had accumulated five Reincarnation Seals.
• Duan De said he would sever his ties to his previous life, and Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan promised to meet him again before he entered a new reincarnation cycle.

After living for more than 160,000 years, Jiang Zhu severed the decayed parts of his body and began a second life, gaining a clearer view of the barriers blocking immortality. He then launched a dangerous attempt to become a Battle Immortal, repeatedly rebuilding his shattered body as the universe trembled.

• Jiang Zhu returned to the Heavenly Court, sealed Ye Tong, Jiang Tingting, and the others, and spent more than ten thousand years studying the Reincarnation Seal, the Flying Immortal Waterfall, and the chaos physique.
• At the end of the age, Jiang Zhu found Duan De, gave him cultivation imprints from his previous life, and kicked him into his own grave.
• Jiang Zhu survived past 160,000 years, severed the decayed parts of his body, and was reborn in a second life with a blossoming Dao Seed and all his Gates of Potential opened.
• After his rebirth, Jiang Zhu perceived the layers of restrictions and immortal traces blocking the universe from the road to immortality.
• Jiang Zhu used the Fighting Saint Emperor's method to attempt becoming a Battle Immortal, drawing in the universe's essence and enduring repeated bodily destruction and repair through the Phoenix Nirvana Divine Flame.
• Jiang Zhu continued launching assaults on the Battle Immortal realm while Ye Fan and the Saint Prince watched in shock.

Jiang Zhu continued attempting to become a Battle Immortal, strengthening his Gate of Potential through successive lives as a new era of challengers emerged. After Di Que became emperor, Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan prepared Ye Xian to face Wang Bo, an ancient chaos body who defeated her in their first encounter.

• Jiang Zhu swallowed a True Dragon Pearl to begin his third life, then forcibly transformed into his fourth life using the True Phoenix Nirvana Art.
• In the year 220,000 of the Heavenly Emperor Era, Di Que and the God-Slaying Insect underwent their Dao-Proving Tribulations, and Di Que killed the insect to become a Great Emperor.
• After Di Que's reign ended, Jiang Zhu unsealed Ye Xian and taught her the Ten Fiends Precious Techniques while Ye Fan taught her his Chaos Great Dao scripture.
• Ye Fan identified Wang Bo as a chaos body from the Mythological Era who had returned to cultivation and risen to Great Sage despite deliberately building his foundations.
• Ye Xian left the Immortal Soil and eventually fought Wang Bo, losing and escaping back to Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan with serious injuries.
• Jiang Zhu explained Wang Bo's past and pent-up grievance, while Ye Fan said Wang Bo had spared Ye Xian and that they had sent her out to be tempered by him.

Jiang Zhu continued his lives and transformations, defeating Wang Bo and overseeing the rise of new emperors while glimpsing powerful figures across time. After Ruthless Great Emperor absorbed the essence of her ancient bodies and the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, she came to Immortal Soil, where Xiao Nannan entered her brow and the Empress realized Jiang Zhu was not the person she had awaited.

• Ye Xian defeated Wang Bo after more than eight hundred years of duels, and Jiang Zhu sealed her before she could become a Chaos Great Emperor.
• Wang Bo became the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, challenged Jiang Zhu, and was sent flying by a single finger; Jiang Zhu then used a Grand Formation to begin his fifth life.
• Wang Bo abandoned his cultivation and began anew, while Jiang Zhu released Divine Child, who fought Wang Bo to a draw before being sealed again.
• Wang Bo challenged Jiang Zhu once more, lost in a single move, then used Jiang Zhu's coordinates to enter the Strange World; Jiang Zhu went on to live through his eighth life and witnessed visions of figures from across time.
• Feathered Great Emperor attained the Dao again as a stone spirit, but Ruthless Great Emperor absorbed the power of her ancient bodies and the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, causing him to retreat to Feathered Ancient Star.
• Ruthless Great Emperor came to Immortal Soil, where Xiao Nannan entered her brow; the Empress recognized that Jiang Zhu was not the person she had awaited and wept.

Jiang Zhu began his ninth life through brutal battles with his equal inside the restored Void Immortal Gold Stele, then discovered the Shrouding Method’s sixth secret realm and considered how to create his own path. Eight hundred years later, immortal light filled the universe, and all living beings believed Jiang Zhu had become an immortal.

• Ruthless Great Emperor left for the Immortal Domain, and Ye Fan rescued Xiao Nannan from her Immortal Platform.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s second son and Ye Yishui became rival prodigies, fighting from the King realm until both attained emperor or sovereign status.
• Jiang Zhu restored the Void Immortal Gold Stele and used its deadly battles against an equal to begin his ninth life and master his tenth true spirit transformation.
• Jiang Zhu perceived the sixth secret realm and resolved to pursue further bloodline transformations before transcending them through his own cultivation path.
• After eight hundred years, dazzling immortal light and auspicious phenomena spread across the universe, and its inhabitants declared that Jiang Zhu had become an immortal.

Jiang Zhu became an immortal just as Emperor Zun began refining the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands into a World Cauldron. After helping Ye Fan, Azure Emperor, and Ruthless Great Emperor fight Emperor Zun, Jiang Zhu killed him and refined his blood into the Chaos Bell.

• Jiang Zhu ascended to immortality, but Emperor Zun appeared and began turning the world and its inhabitants into a cauldron.
• Jiang Zhu used the Chaos Bell and God-Sealing List, while Azure Emperor and Ruthless Great Emperor disrupted Emperor Zun's World Cauldron formation.
• Ruthless Great Emperor, Ye Fan, and Azure Emperor battled Emperor Zun in the Chaos Sea and were badly wounded.
• Jiang Zhu joined the battle, struck Emperor Zun with his immortal techniques, and killed him within a few exchanges.
• Jiang Zhu refined Emperor Zun's blood with the Chaos Bell, adding a blood-colored imprint to the artifact.

After defeating Emperor Zun, Jiang Zhu and the other Heavenly Emperors gathered powerful figures from across the ages and prepared a vast force for the Immortal Road. Jiang Zhu opened a breach into the Immortal Road and led the army into a strange world, while the true Immortal Domain remained beyond another passage.

• News spread that Jiang Zhu, Ye Fan, the Ruthless Great Emperor, and the Azure Emperor had slain Emperor Zun and would campaign on the Immortal Road, drawing ancient experts to the Big Dipper Immortal Soil.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor completed her transformation, and Ye Fan later lived a ninth life as Jiang Zhu released dormant experts from their seals.
• Jiang Zhu protected a group of experts as they proved their Dao and became Great Emperors, then helped them consolidate their cultivation and take Nine-Turn Immortal Pills.
• Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan reunited with Duan De, who declined to join the campaign until he reached perfection and schemed to explore the Immortal Soil after they left.
• The Heavenly Emperors assembled their old comrades and a vast army, and Jiang Zhu punched open the universe's barrier to enter the Immortal Road.
• Jiang Zhu guarded a passage toward another world while Ye Fan held the way open, and the army followed them into the strange world on its way to the damaged Immortal Domain.

Jiang Zhu and his allies defeated the Undying Heavenly Emperor and the other Red Dust Immortal, then opened a passage into the Immortal Domain. They led their army through the gateway, where Jiang Zhu suppressed the Heavenly Heart Imprint and the newcomers began absorbing the domain’s abundant life essence.

• Ye Fan used the Heavenly Heart Imprint to learn that the Strange World had been created as a realm evolving toward an Immortal Domain, while the Undying Heavenly Emperor proposed joining forces to enter it.
• Little Saint Ape charged the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and Great Emperor Wushi arrived to confront the Strange World’s Red Dust Immortal.
• Jiang Zhu shattered the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s attack, tore off one of his wings, and suppressed him; the Chaos Bell captured his remains and immortal imprint.
• Ye Yishui killed Little Immortal Phoenix, while Great Emperor Wushi and the Wushi Bell killed the other Red Dust Immortal, ending the battle.
• Jiang Zhu, Ye Fan, the Ruthless Empress, the Azure Emperor, and Great Emperor Wushi opened a gateway at a weak node and led their army into the Immortal Domain.
• Jiang Zhu suppressed the Immortal Domain’s Heavenly Heart Imprint, allowing the newcomers to absorb its life essence and regain their vitality.

Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, and the others entered an Immortal Domain fragment, where its abundant longevity substance transformed them and revealed why its cultivators had not produced an Immortal since the domain shattered. Jiang Zhu left the group to investigate the Boundary Sea, and the fragment's Supremes realized they had witnessed a genuine Immortal.

• Ye Fan and the others absorbed the fragment's longevity substance, strengthening their wheels of life and fading their age marks.
• Great Emperor Wushi and Ye Fan concluded that the fragment's comfort and abundance had left its Supremes without the hardship needed to become Immortals.
• The fragment's Supremes watched the unfamiliar army and speculated about its origins, while some considered reporting it to Immortal King Descendants for their own advancement.
• Jiang Zhu told Ye Fan, Wushi, and the others he would investigate the Boundary Sea, then cut through the fragment's barrier and disappeared.
• The watching Supremes sensed Jiang Zhu's aura and realized that a genuine Immortal had appeared.

Jiang Zhu reached the Dam and spent thirty years comprehending the Great Dao before the Demon-Refining Pot opened a passage into the Boundary Sea. He crossed over and began tempering his body in its deadly waters, surviving repeated near-destruction.

• Jiang Zhu crossed the Thunder Abyss, collected several pools of lightning tribulation liquid, and followed the ancient footprints and warnings toward the Dam.
• Jiang Zhu reached the Dam, studied its profound Dao rules for thirty years, and discovered that the sword mark on the Demon-Refining Pot resonated with the boundary.
• Jiang Zhu saw the Boundary Sea through a passage opened by the sword mark and watched a struggling True Immortal perish in its waves.
• Jiang Zhu chose to enter the Boundary Sea, leaving the Immortal Domain behind to pursue a new path.
• Jiang Zhu cultivated in the Boundary Sea for over twenty years, enduring repeated near-destruction as he tempered his body.

After defeating a Quasi-Immortal King who had sacrificed his world, Jiang Zhu discovered dark matter within the remains and realized the Dark Era was still underway. He recognized the urgency of the coming conflict and then attacked a black-armored knight riding a black dragon in the Boundary Sea.

• Jiang Zhu ventured deeper into the Boundary Sea after spending twenty years observing its dangers and inhabitants.
• A Quasi-Immortal King attacked Jiang Zhu, and Jiang Zhu defeated him despite his transformation into a monstrous, blood-scaled form.
• Jiang Zhu found dark matter in the defeated Quasi-Immortal King's remains, spent seven days expelling it, and sealed it in a jade bottle.
• Jiang Zhu concluded that the Dark Era continued and worried about the Strange Clan's overwhelming strength and the limited time before the coming conflict.
• Jiang Zhu attacked a black-armored knight riding a black dragon, and their weapons and sword energy collided in the Boundary Sea.

Jiang Zhu fought a darkness-corrupted Immortal King in the Boundary Sea, resisting his dark energy with the True Phoenix Precious Technique and repeatedly overpowering him despite his own injuries. The dark knight, unable to recover from Jiang Zhu’s attacks, dissolved his flesh into a vast ocean of dark matter and unleashed it in a desperate final assault.

• The dark knight charged Jiang Zhu on a black dragon, and Jiang Zhu used the True Phoenix Precious Technique to resist the Immortal King’s corrosive darkness.
• Jiang Zhu and the dark knight exchanged devastating blows, and the knight recognized the True Phoenix inheritance and suspected Jiang Zhu was connected to the Heavenly Court and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• Jiang Zhu wounded the dark knight with his Chaos Sword Qi and severed his head, then combined the power of his Five Great Secret Realms to blast a hole through the knight’s body.
• Jiang Zhu repeatedly cut apart the dark knight as he tried to flee, leaving the Immortal King unable to reassemble his body under the assault.
• The dark knight burned his blood essence and dissolved his flesh into dark matter, sending the engulfing mass surging toward Jiang Zhu.

Jiang Zhu defeated the dark knight with his Divine Furnace and sword techniques, but the knight destroyed his own Primordial Spirit before Jiang Zhu could learn who had given him Dark Matter. As Jiang Zhu faced five Immortal Kings demanding the emperor’s inheritance and Ten Fiends Precious Techniques, he refused to yield.

• Jiang Zhu used his Divine Furnace to overpower the dark knight, refine his Dark Matter, and threaten his imperishable Primordial Spirit.
• The dark knight broke free with the aid of surrounding Dark Matter, but Jiang Zhu split his Primordial Spirit with the Grass Character Sword Art and suppressed him with the God-Striking Stone Precious Technique.
• The dark knight ignited his Primordial Spirit and died rather than reveal what he knew, while Boundary Sea experts praised Jiang Zhu’s strength and debated his coming Immortal King Tribulation.
• A Peak Immortal King struck Jiang Zhu with a golden hand, nearly destroying him, then demanded the emperor’s inheritance and Ten Fiends Precious Techniques.
• Four more Immortal Kings surrounded Jiang Zhu and urged him to hand over the inheritance for the sake of the worlds threatened by darkness, but Jiang Zhu refused and challenged their claims about the greater picture.

Jiang Zhu confronted five Immortal Kings who sought the emperor’s legacy, accusing them of greed and hypocrisy. Descendants of the Seven Kings of the Borderlands intervened, but three supreme Immortal Kings attacked Jiang Zhu, who unleashed the Ten Fiends’ true forms and continued fighting under mounting pressure.

• Jiang Zhu accused the five Immortal Kings of ignoring the dark creatures’ atrocities and coming only to seize the emperor’s legacy.
• Taiyong Immortal King attacked Jiang Zhu, but an old Stone Clan Immortal King intervened, and Lingguang Immortal King arrived to support him.
• Jiang Zhu recognized the two newcomers as descendants of the Seven Kings of the Borderlands and learned the origins of their royal markings and inheritances.
• Dao Ling Immortal King and another supreme Immortal King blocked Lingguang and the Stone Clan elder, leaving Jiang Zhu to face Taiyong and two other supreme Immortal Kings.
• Jiang Zhu resisted their combined attacks, aided by Lingguang’s divine fire, then summoned the Ten Fiends’ true forms to battle the three Immortal Kings.

Jiang Zhu used dark-origin power to drive the Divine Bird Immortal King from the battle, then absorbed the darkness back into the Demon-Refining Pot and faced renewed attacks from the other Immortal Kings. The battle raged on, with Jiang Zhu trading devastating blows with Tai Yong and Yuan Hao.

• Immortal King Yuan Hao attacked the Stone Clan elder with a concealed bone spear, but Jiang Zhu knocked it away and broke the Immortal Kings’ encirclement with dark-origin power.
• Jiang Zhu battered the Divine Bird Immortal King and struck his Primordial Spirit with dark origin, forcing him to retreat to cut away the corruption.
• Jiang Zhu drew all the dark origin back into the Demon-Refining Pot, dispelling the signs of corruption and shocking the Immortal Kings.
• Tai Yong, Dao Ling, Yuan Hao, and another Immortal King attacked Jiang Zhu, while Lingguang Immortal King and the Stone Clan elder defended him.
• Jiang Zhu fought Tai Yong and Yuan Hao across the Boundary Sea, badly wounding Yuan Hao and battling Tai Yong with mounting ferocity.