Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhu defeated and suppressed four supreme Immortal Kings in the Boundary Sea, then shared their treasures with Immortal King Ling Guang and the Stone Clan elder. He traveled with them to the Foreign Realm and discovered statues of Anlan and Yu Tuo, kneeling in confession.

• Jiang Zhu destroyed Yuan Hao's body and Primordial Spirit, suppressed his origin great Dao runes, and defeated Tai Yong despite his attempts to intervene.
• Jiang Zhu suppressed Tai Yong and then helped Immortal King Ling Guang and the Stone Clan elder defeat and refine two more Immortal Kings.
• Jiang Zhu challenged the watching experts, thanked Ling Guang and the Stone Clan elder for their help, and offered them treasures taken from the defeated Immortal Kings.
• Jiang Zhu accepted Ling Guang and the Stone Clan elder's invitation to visit the Foreign Realm and admired its flourishing lands and immense cities.
• Jiang Zhu recognized the kneeling statues in the Foreign Realm's imitation Imperial Pass as Anlan and Yu Tuo, and recalled that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had defeated them and made them atone.

Jiang Zhu learned why the Boundary Sea’s Immortal Kings had tried to seize him, then studied Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s statues and gained insight into several cultivation systems. After two and a half years of study, he began his tribulation to become an Immortal King, shaking the universe as his body endured the breakthrough.

• Lingguang Immortal King explained that Desolate Heavenly Emperor had left the kneeling statues facing Sin Province, and Jiang Zhu hoped to study their runes.
• Jiang Zhu told Lingguang Immortal King and the other elders about the Shrouding the Heavens Universe, and they recounted Heavenly Court’s departure and the darkness’s return.
• The Stone Clan elder explained that fear of Heavenly Court’s fate and the dark calamity had driven Immortal Kings to covet Jiang Zhu’s inheritance and purification method.
• Jiang Zhu sensed the statues’ Dao principles, gained new understanding of the Divine Dao Method and the Chaotic Ancient Method, and studied while refining Immortal King primordial spirits for two and a half years.
• Jiang Zhu went to a barren planet and began his Immortal King tribulation, causing his secret realms to blaze and his body to crack under the pressure.
• Jiang Zhu’s breakthrough shook the starry sky, alarming beings throughout the world, including a powerful Immortal who said he could barely withstand the fluctuations.

Jiang Zhu endured the Immortal King tribulation, fused the primordial spirits within his ten reincarnation seal marks, and opened his sixth secret realm. He reached a realm beyond Immortal King giants, his Chaos Bell advanced into an Immortal King weapon, and he resolved to return to protect the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

• Jiang Zhu withstood the Immortal King tribulation’s attacks on his body and primordial spirit while refining himself with chaos energy.
• The Ten Fiends within Jiang Zhu’s reincarnation seal marks awakened and fused into one primordial spirit.
• Jiang Zhu opened his sixth secret realm, manifested the light of transcendence, and leapt beyond the Immortal King giants.
• The tribulation stopped, while Lingguang Immortal King and the other observers recognized Jiang Zhu’s overwhelming power.
• The Chaos Bell advanced into an Immortal King weapon after the tribulation baptized it.
• Jiang Zhu put away the Chaos Bell and decided to return to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands to protect his homeland.

Jiang Zhu returned to the Immortal Domain Fragment as an Immortal King, reunited with his friends and met the triplet sons of Jiang Qing and Ye Zi. He warned everyone about the dark matter and taught them a method to purify it, then urged them to cultivate before the darkness returned.

• Jiang Zhu returned from the Boundary Sea, and Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, and the others realized he had become an Immortal King.
• Ye Fan told Jiang Zhu that they had joined nearby Immortal Domain Fragments, while Wang Bo had become a Quasi-Immortal King and the Immortal Medicines were nearing restoration.
• Jiang Zhu met the triplet sons of Jiang Qing and Ye Zi, prompting Ye Fan and the others to joke about their new family ties.
• Jiang Zhu described dark matter, its corruption of living beings, the history of the Otherworld, and his encounter with a Dark Immortal King.
• Jiang Zhu showed everyone a method for purifying dark matter, and Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, and the others studied it.
• Jiang Zhu estimated that the darkness might return in several hundred thousand to a million years and urged everyone to cultivate.

Jiang Zhu explained the threat of the Strange Clan, nourished the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and then led Ye Fan and the others into the Boundary Sea to confront dark creatures. After their first battle, he described the sixth secret realm as a unique Dao Fruit shaped by each cultivator’s own path.

• Jiang Zhu agreed to take Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, the Azure Emperor, the Ruthless Great Emperor, and the others to the Boundary Sea after returning to the Mortal World Realm.
• Jiang Zhu told Yan Ruyu about the Strange Clan, the Pollen Emperor, and the past defeats that had left the Heavens and Boundary Sea vulnerable to dark forces.
• Jiang Zhu nourished the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands with his power, and its people recognized him as Jiang Heavenly Emperor; Duan De emerged from his tomb after Jiang Zhu had left.
• Jiang Zhu, Ye Fan, and the others encountered a half-lost Immortal King in the Boundary Sea, defeated him, and burned his corpse in the True Phoenix Divine Flame.
• Jiang Zhu told the group that each cultivator’s sixth secret realm was a personal Dao Fruit that could not be learned from another person.

Jiang Zhu explained how cultivators could become Immortal King Giants by perfecting their bodies, Primordial Spirits, and Great Daos, then faced four Immortal King Giants in the Boundary Sea. He unleashed his strongest techniques against them, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Jiang Zhu explained that the Sixth Secret Realm had to be comprehended individually and that cultivators could temper their Primordial Spirits to advance without it.
• Jiang Zhu showed his ascension to Immortal King, and the Black Emperor was overwhelmed after swallowing a wisp of Immortal King essence before Great Emperor Wushi refined it for him.
• Ye Fan and the others tempered their bodies with the Immortal King essence, while Jiang Zhu explained that perfecting the body, Primordial Spirit, and Great Dao could make someone an Immortal King Giant.
• Ye Fan, the Ruthless Great Emperor, and their companions hunted three Fallen Immortal Kings in the Boundary Sea as four Immortal King Giants confronted Jiang Zhu.
• Jiang Zhu used Disordered Time and Space to turn the Gray-Robed Elder's War Halberd against the Red-Haired Burly Man's Crimson Furnace and wounded the two scale-covered giants.
• Jiang Zhu attacked with the Chaos Bell and his strongest techniques, but the four giants avoided meeting his blows head-on and fought cautiously.

Jiang Zhu fought his way out of an ambush by the World-Destroying Army, killing one Dark titan and capturing another before escaping the remaining pursuers. He left the red-haired titan, the Variant Beast titan, and more than twenty Dark Immortal Kings behind, furious and unable to stop him.

• Jiang Zhu intercepted four Dark titans and evaded their attacks while trying to keep Ye Fan, the Ruthless Great Emperor, and their companions concealed.
• Jiang Zhu used his temporal art and True Spirit Fist to kill the gray-robed Dark Giant, then detonated the Giant's broken War Halberd to hinder the pursuit.
• Jiang Zhu wounded the Variant Beast titan, captured its Primordial Spirit with a Divine Furnace, and fled as his own body neared collapse.
• Jiang Zhu taunted the pursuing titans and struck down a black-haired Immortal King who challenged him, then escaped the remaining Dark forces.

After learning that the dark forces were erasing traces of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, Jiang Zhu followed a coordinate from a defeated giant’s memories to a hidden temple complex in an Immortal Domain Fragment. He began searching the temples for a connection to Above the Heavens and a way to preserve the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s path back.

• News spread that Jiang Zhu had slain two of four Dark Giants, and the Divine Bird Immortal King abandoned its plans for revenge and fled into the Boundary Sea.
• Jiang Zhu questioned the captured Variant Beast giant, drew the Dark Matter from his body, then refined his Primordial Spirit and searched its memories.
• Jiang Zhu learned that dark forces had ordered their subordinates to find traces of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and erase them, and he followed a set of coordinates from the giant’s memories.
• Jiang Zhu arrived at a bustling ancient city and used his Heavenly Eye to discover a hidden complex of temples that he believed the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had established.
• Jiang Zhu explored the abandoned temples and found shattered divine statues and a few damaged remnants of the Immortal Kings once worshipped there.

Jiang Zhu found the Willow Deity’s remains and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s statue in the central Divine Temples, where a drop of emperor blood revealed the battle in which the Corpse Immortal Emperor killed Shi Hao across time. The blood scattered through the River of Time, leaving Shi Hao’s remnants and blood essence in many eras, while a force of cause and effect blocked them from reaching the distant future.

• Jiang Zhu collected the Willow Deity’s remains as a possible way to contact the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and his companions.
• Jiang Zhu entered the central temple, packed away the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s statue, and discovered a drop of the emperor’s blood.
• The drop of blood showed the Desolate Heavenly Emperor fighting the Corpse Immortal Emperor, who trapped him with the Great Luo Sword Embryo and struck him through time.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor and the sword shattered Shi Hao, scattering his blood into countless drops across different times and spaces.
• Shi Hao’s blood remnants took form and cultivated outside the worlds, but a power of cause and effect prevented them from flowing into the distant future.

Jiang Zhu witnessed the Desolate Heavenly Emperor use the He Transforms into Freedom Art to defeat and destroy the Corpse Immortal Emperor, then carried the emperor blood into the River of Time to explore the past. His journey stirred the power of great cause and effect, awakening a supreme existence who recognized Desolate’s handiwork.

• Shi Hao returned as a true Immortal Emperor and confronted the restored Corpse Immortal Emperor beyond the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• Shi Hao used the He Transforms into Freedom Art to summon multiple incarnations, overwhelm the Corpse Immortal Emperor, and destroy his body and soul.
• Jiang Zhu realized that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had rewritten the ages and decided to travel into the past with the emperor blood.
• Jiang Zhu entered the River of Time, using the emperor blood as a guide to cross its vast currents.
• The power of great cause and effect awakened a supreme existence in a blood-soaked realm, who wondered whether the disturbance was Desolate’s handiwork.

Jiang Zhu followed the emperor blood through the River of Time as the Crimson King crossed from the distant past to kill Shi Hao. Jiang Zhu intervened and effortlessly erased the Crimson King's attacks, leaving the Female Immortal horrified by his power.

• A Quasi-Immortal Emperor of the Soul River sent more than a dozen pinnacle Immortal Kings upstream to kill whoever was disrupting the ages.
• Jiang Zhu saw darkness and cages consuming the River of Time, then followed the emperor blood toward the Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal King's Daoist Arena.
• The Crimson King appeared across time and revealed that he had come from the distant past to erase Shi Hao, while the Female Immortal warned him about the karmic dangers.
• Jiang Zhu arrived on the River of Time, and Shi Hao recognized the great bell above his head from encounters beneath the Burial Realm Black Abyss and in the Immortal Ancient World.
• The Crimson King unleashed countless divine abilities against Jiang Zhu, but Jiang Zhu's aura dissolved every attack and left the Female Immortal stunned.

Jiang Zhu slew the Crimson King's Dharma Body, but the Crimson King then summoned powerful black demon shadows from the Foreign Realm's Origin Ancient Artifact. After battling them, Jiang Zhu severed the River of Time to stop further attacks, though he was left badly wounded.

• Jiang Zhu shattered and killed the Crimson King's Dharma Body with two powerful punches as it tried to kill Shi Hao.
• The Female Immortal explained that only the Crimson King's Dharma Body had crossed time, and his defeat threatened his true body in the past.
• The Crimson King's true body appeared in an Ancient Temple upstream and used a scripture to summon immense black demon shadows from the Origin Ancient Artifact.
• Jiang Zhu fought the first shadow, but a second joined it and the Crimson King summoned a third.
• Jiang Zhu unleashed his strongest strike, then severed the River of Time to stop the shadows from attacking again, leaving himself covered in blood.

Shi Hao witnessed Jiang Zhu flee a host of Soul River Immortal Kings, then reflected on the horrors awaiting in the future. At Imperial Pass, its defenders sacrificed themselves to unleash the First Slaughter Formation against Anlan, but he destroyed it, leaving the last surviving King to strike back through the Heavenly Abyss.

• Radiant rain shielded Shi Hao from cause and effect, and Jiang Zhu said he would recover and no longer face attacks from the River of Time.
• A dozen Soul River Monsters at the Immortal King Pinnacle attacked Jiang Zhu, who used the True Phoenix Divine Flame, the Chaos Bell, and the Gu Race Precious Technique to escape downstream.
• Shi Hao watched the clash vanish into the River of Time and resolved that the future could still be changed and that Jiang Zhu would survive.
• At Imperial Pass, the oldest Supreme activated a fragment of the First Slaughter Formation, sacrificing himself and the elders who powered it, but the silent figure in Anlan’s war chariot destroyed the formation.
• As Anlan supported the Primordial Imperial City and suppressed the Heavenly Abyss, the last surviving King attacked him with the Heavenly Abyss’s power and the five Imperial Edicts.

A bloodied figure and a colossal bell emerged from the River of Time as Anlan attacked the Primordial Imperial City, and the figure’s True Dragon Dharma Body nearly beheaded him. Yu Tuo rescued Anlan while Jiang Zhu fought the other ancient beings who had reached through the Heavenly Abyss, leaving the battle raging amid temporal backlash.

• A colossal bell and the bloodied Jiang Zhu appeared from the River of Time, forcing the golden-backed Mighty Bull to its knees and drawing the witch’s recognition of the bell.
• Shi Hao watched from the Imperial Pass as a blurred figure appeared on the right flower of his Great Dao, while Anlan judged that fighting Jiang Zhu could unleash disastrous temporal consequences.
• Anlan attacked the Primordial Imperial City, but Jiang Zhu’s quiet snort dispelled his attack and shattered the golden-backed Mighty Bull’s bones.
• Jiang Zhu formed a True Dragon Dharma Body and struck Anlan, whose head was severed as the Foreign Realm’s army retreated.
• Yu Tuo reached in to rescue Anlan as several other beings attacked Jiang Zhu through the Heavenly Abyss; Jiang Zhu fought them and suffered cause-and-effect backlash.
• Yu Tuo pulled Anlan from the dragon claw, and Anlan’s head rejoined his neck as his wound rapidly healed.

Jiang Zhu fought the Soul River Immortal Kings as the Heavenly Abyss collapsed, trapping Anlan and Yu Tuo beneath a flood of laws and the burning Primordial Imperial City. As the battle left the Imperial Pass exposed, Anlan reached through the chaos to seize something from the city, tearing away its gate tower and killing tens of thousands of defenders.

• Jiang Zhu battled the Soul River Monsters while Anlan entered the Heavenly Abyss and attacked him with the Crimson Peak Spear.
• Jiang Zhu’s Chaos Bell shattered Anlan’s spear, shield, and immortal body, leaving only Anlan’s damaged Primordial Spirit as Yu Tuo tried to rescue him.
• The Heavenly Abyss collapsed into a sea of blood-colored laws, suppressing Jiang Zhu, the Soul River Monsters, Anlan, and Yu Tuo.
• The Primordial Imperial City pinned Anlan and Yu Tuo beneath the law-ocean and began burning as its last king chose to perish with his enemies.
• Anlan ignored Jiang Zhu and reached toward the Imperial Pass to retrieve an object connected to the Origin Ancient Artifact.
• Anlan’s Primordial Spirit tore away the gate tower, killing tens of thousands of defenders before the Imperial Pass’s runes protected the rest of the city.

Shi Hao used a mysterious drop of blood to manifest three forms and battle Anlan, Yu Tuo, and the Foreign Realm’s Immortal Kings. As Jiang Zhu fought in the Heavenly Abyss, he grasped the beginnings of his own Dao, “Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin,” and began merging his powers.

• Shi Hao’s drop of blood merged his Reincarnation Seals and transformed him, allowing him to block Anlan’s attack at the Imperial Pass.
• Shi Hao manifested three powerful forms that overwhelmed Anlan and Yu Tuo, while the Foreign Realm’s experts identified his technique as the He Transforms into Freedom Art.
• Several Immortal Kings and their Imperial Edicts attacked Shi Hao together, while Jiang Zhu continued fighting more than a dozen enemies in the Heavenly Abyss.
• Jiang Zhu understood that his own path differed from Shi Hao’s and named it “Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin,” seeking to unify all spirits and powers within himself.
• Jiang Zhu drew Thunder Emperor Origin Blood and Golden Crow Origin Blood from the Demon-Refining Pot and began merging them as his flames shattered the surrounding void.

Jiang Zhu completed the transformation of his twelve peerless bloodlines while battling more than a dozen Soul River Immortal Kings, then overwhelmed his attackers with newly heightened strength. He killed one Immortal King and faced the leading monster as it unleashed a power that froze time and space.

• Jiang Zhu’s bloodlines transformed as his blood qi shook the universe, drawing the attention of Immortal Kings across the realms.
• Soul River Immortal Kings attacked Jiang Zhu during his transformation, and he fought back with seals and secret arts despite his wounds.
• Jiang Zhu activated his sixth secret realm and killed an Immortal King, then completed the refinement of the Golden Crow and Thunder Emperor Origin Blood to unite twelve peerless bloodlines.
• Jiang Zhu’s transformed strength let him maim three pinnacle Immortal Kings, including tearing off the leader’s arm and severing another’s head.
• Jiang Zhu destroyed the headless Immortal King’s body and Primordial Spirit with the power of his sixth secret realm.
• The leading Soul River Immortal King froze time and space and aimed its silver blade arms at Jiang Zhu.

Jiang Zhu killed the attacking Soul River Immortal Kings despite his severe injuries, while the remaining monsters fled through the River of Time and tried to distract him with self-detonations. Their actions kept him from reaching Shi Hao in time, and Anlan broke through the Imperial Pass and sent a vast hand toward the Three Thousand Provinces, destroying everything in its path.

• Jiang Zhu destroyed the Soul River monster in body and spirit, then fought off the remaining Immortal Kings despite his injuries.
• The Soul River Immortal Kings fled through the River of Time, but Jiang Zhu blocked their escape and killed those who remained behind.
• Two Soul River monsters detonated their primordial spirits to distract Jiang Zhu and impede the turbulent currents of order.
• At the Imperial Pass, Yu Tuo and the Imperial Edicts held Shi Hao back as Anlan broke through and reached toward the Three Thousand Provinces.
• Anlan's great hand swept across the Three Thousand Provinces, crushing the land and killing every being in its path.

Anlan tore Sin Province from the Three Thousand Provinces and carried it toward the Foreign Realm, prompting Shi Hao to attack him desperately. As Shi Hao tried to pursue across the Heavenly Abyss, Jiang Zhu briefly sheltered him from the Sea of Laws before fading from that time and space.

• Anlan's Primordial Spirit hand crossed the Three Thousand Provinces, restrained its destructive power, and seized the whole of Sin Province because he suspected it held a clue to the object he sought.
• Shi Hao recognized Sin Province in Anlan's grasp and charged after him alongside two allies, striking the enormous hand with his Sword Embryo despite Yu Tuo and five Imperial Edicts attacking him.
• Shi Hao saw crimson fire mulberry petals and a young girl in Sin Province, then roared at Anlan and pursued him through the Heavenly Abyss, but the fading power of the drop of blood could not sustain him.
• Jiang Zhu stirred the Sea of Laws and used the Chaos Bell to hold open a stable expanse of sky for Shi Hao, then began disappearing under the backlash of his actions.

Shi Hao survived the final battle at the Heavenly Abyss and rescued Fire Spirit'er, while the Primordial Imperial City and its last king vanished. In the Immortal Ancient Ruins, Willow Deity intercepted four fleeing Soul River Immortal Kings, giving Jiang Zhu the chance to catch up with them.

• Shi Hao and the two manifestations attacked Anlan with the Nine-Story Pagoda and great bell, while the five imperial edicts unleashed the imprints of the Immortal Kings.
• After the final clash, Jiang Zhu's manifestation carried away Fire Nation territory from Sin Province and reunited Shi Hao with Fire Spirit'er.
• Anlan tried to strike Shi Hao across the Heavenly Abyss, but the boiling laws shattered his hand and turned the abyss into a deadly sea of cause-and-effect flames.
• The Primordial Imperial City burned away with its heroic spirits, and the last surviving king dissipated before Jiang Zhu departed from the era.
• Willow Deity struck four Soul River Immortal Kings who were traveling upstream through time, delaying their escape as Jiang Zhu caught up and destroyed one of them.