Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhu defeated the Soul River Immortal Kings, revealed his Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin Blood to Willow Deity, and received Willow Deity's precious technique. Elsewhere, his old friends continued fighting the darkness and wondering where he had gone, while Jiang Zhu discovered the Sun God Tree in the age of Emperor's Fall.

• Jiang Zhu killed and sealed the four Soul River Immortal Kings, then told Willow Deity his name and explained his bloodline cultivation method.
• Jiang Zhu showed Willow Deity his Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin Blood, and Willow Deity gave him a branch containing a precious technique for him to refine.
• The Black Emperor, Duan De, Ye Fan, Wang Bo, and the Azure Emperor endured brutal battles against the forces of darkness, while Ye Fan and the Azure Emperor fought back.
• The white-robed Empress battled a Dark Immortal King and dismissed his certainty that darkness could not be resisted, invoking Jiang Zhu's strength.
• Yan Ruyu waited in the Immortal Domain Fragment, worried about her old friends and asking when Jiang Zhu would return.
• In the age of Emperor's Fall, Jiang Zhu recognized the Sun God Tree rising from a vast sea of magma.

Jiang Zhu reached the Golden Crow Clan’s ancestral land in the Emperor's Fall Era, where he found a Golden Crow woman hatching atop World Mountain and studied the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s records. The records revealed how the earliest Immortal Kings founded the Heavenly Court, uncovered the Land of Darkness, and were later destroyed, while the Golden Crow bloodline survived through the Heavenly Emperor’s preparations.

• Jiang Zhu arrived at the Golden Ancient Tree and found World Mountain beside the Chaos Ancient Hall, where a golden-winged woman was hatching inside a Sun God Flower.
• The woman mistook Jiang Zhu for a powerful member of the Golden Crow Clan and directed him to the Chaos Ancient Hall.
• Jiang Zhu entered the hall, memorized the Original True Explanation and the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s incomplete method for reaching the quasi-immortal emperor realm, and found that the complete method was in the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• Jiang Zhu released his Golden Crow aura and activated records showing the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor and other early Immortal Kings creating the Immortal Domain Cultivation Method and founding the Heavenly Court.
• Jiang Zhu learned that the Immortal Kings discovered the Reception Ancient Hall led to the Land of Darkness, angered its dark quasi-immortal emperors, and were destroyed, while the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor saved some of his clan by sending them to the lower realm.

Jiang Zhu created the Kindling Flame Scripture, a cultivation method that let anyone strengthen their origin, then left the past era and survived a nine-year Law-Creation Tribulation in the Boundary Sea. He emerged greatly strengthened, and the Dark Immortal Kings recognized the Heavenly Court Descendant who had killed two Giants.

• Jiang Zhu studied the Immortal Ancient, Chaotic Ancient, and other cultivation methods, then weakened the Demon-Refining Divine Flame into the Kindling Flame and created the Kindling Flame Scripture.
• Jiang Zhu sent the Golden Crow Woman a method for strengthening her origin before returning to his own era.
• Jiang Zhu faced a devastating Law-Creation Tribulation in the Boundary Sea, while Immortal Kings and Giants watched from afar and identified the calamity.
• After nine years of tribulation and a year of recovery, Jiang Zhu emerged with vastly improved Dao cultivation and Great Dao comprehension.
• Dark Immortal Kings recognized Jiang Zhu as the Heavenly Court Descendant who had killed two Giants and feared the strength he had gained.

Jiang Zhu returned from the past and annihilated twenty Dark Immortal Kings on the Boundary Sea, revealing power that stunned the Heavens and Myriad Worlds. After reuniting with Yan Ruyu and his old companions, he warned them that darkness was stronger than expected and explained that opening the sixth secret realm could free them from system erosion.

• Jiang Zhu stopped the fleeing Dark Immortal Kings, defeated their coalition, and killed their Giants and Immortal Kings across the Boundary Sea.
• Jiang Zhu collected the fallen Dark Giants’ weapons and treasures, then planned to forge a supreme weapon from the spoils.
• News of Jiang Zhu’s return spread through the Heavens and Myriad Worlds; Black Emperor, Great Emperor Wushi, Duan De, Ye Fan, and Ruthless Great Emperor reacted to it.
• A hidden figure learned that someone from Desolate’s cultivation system was approaching another breakthrough and ordered dark beings to accelerate their plans to destroy that system.
• Jiang Zhu reunited with Yan Ruyu and told her that darkness was more powerful than he had expected.
• Jiang Zhu recounted his past journey and explained system erosion to Ye Fan and the others, saying that opening the sixth secret realm could free them from contamination.

Jiang Zhu discussed the threat of dark matter and shared cultivation systems with Ye Fan and the others, then opened the Nine-Layer Coffin and awakened the God Emperor. The God Emperor emerged in ten-colored immortal light, with an eleventh color faintly appearing.

• Jiang Zhu estimated that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor could hold back the corruption of the cultivation system for at least a million years and offered his own system and the Darkness Faction's methods for study.
• Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, the Azure Emperor, Ruthless Great Emperor, Duan De, and the others examined Jiang Zhu's system while he cultivated nearby.
• Jiang Zhu concluded that he needed to refine a thirteenth bloodline and brought out the Nine-Layer Coffin to consult the God Emperor about perfecting his scripture.
• Jiang Zhu used ten fiends origin blood to open all nine layers of the coffin, releasing the God Emperor and awakening his Primordial Emperor's Battle Garment.
• The Divine Silkworm Daoist recognized the God Emperor as his father, and Jiang Zhu's call awakened him fully.
• The God Emperor opened his eyes as ten-colored immortal light surged around him, with a faint eleventh color flickering within it.

The God Emperor discussed his life-and-death transformations with Jiang Zhu, then cultivated Jiang Zhu’s True Spirit Method and gained a clearer path toward the Immortal King Realm. He then announced that he would test the method on dark origin blood, alarming everyone as the chapter ended before the dangerous experiment began.

• The Divine Silkworm Daoist reunited with his father, the God Emperor, who showed stern affection toward him but doted on Little Divine Silkworm.
• Jiang Zhu and the God Emperor discussed their cultivation methods, and Jiang Zhu identified flaws in the God Emperor’s life-and-death transformation.
• The God Emperor agreed to cultivate the True Spirit Method, and Jiang Zhu planted a crimson-gold kindling flame within him.
• Several hundred years later, the God Emperor’s kindling flame had smelted his bloodlines, and he shared insights that made his path toward a breakthrough clearer.
• The God Emperor announced that he would smelt dark origin blood, prompting Ye Fan, Wushi, the Azure Emperor, Ruthless, the Divine Silkworm Daoist, and others to warn him against the danger.

The God Emperor chose to absorb Jiang Zhu’s dark origin blood and, after a century of refining it, learned to control its power. He sacrificed a Dark Immortal King to complete his transformation, then survived the Immortal King Tribulation and became the second Immortal King of the Shrouding the Heavens Realm.

• The God Emperor rejected the others’ warnings and asked Jiang Zhu to help him attempt to refine the dark origin blood.
• Jiang Zhu placed a drop of dark origin blood on the God Emperor, who used his kindling flame to resist and smelt its power.
• After a hundred years, the God Emperor gained control over the darkness and used it to devour a Dark Immortal King.
• Twelve-colored immortal light erupted around the God Emperor, and the Immortal King Tribulation descended upon him.
• The God Emperor endured the tribulation and became the second Immortal King of the Shrouding the Heavens Realm after Jiang Zhu.

After the God Emperor became a peak Immortal King by refining darkness with Jiang Zhu’s True Spirit Method, Jiang Zhu helped the others cultivate the same way. A thousand years later, they invaded a dark realm and clashed with its Immortal Kings near a World Tree, beginning a battle that left the True Immortals fighting below.

• The God Emperor survived the dark origin blood, broke through to become a peak Immortal King, and thanked Jiang Zhu for the True Spirit Method.
• Ye Fan, the Azure Emperor, Wushi, the Ruthless Great Emperor, and others volunteered to refine darkness, and Jiang Zhu planted kindling flames within them.
• After a thousand years of cultivation, Ye Fan and the Ruthless Great Emperor became Immortal Kings, while several former emperors reached the Quasi-Immortal King realm.
• Jiang Zhu led the group into a dark great realm, where Ye Fan attacked its World Tree and drew out the Black Sun Saint Ancestor and the realm’s Dark Immortal Kings.
• Ye Fan and the other Immortal Kings engaged the dark forces in battle, while the True Immortals of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands charged at the realm’s True Immortals.

The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands army overwhelmed the dark forces, and Jiang Zhu killed Black Sun Saint Ancestor. After the Dark Immortal Kings summoned the Soul River, its creature devoured six of them, then recoiled at the extraordinary darkness within Jiang Zhu and his companions.

• The Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors slaughtered dark True Immortals, while Black Emperor hunted weaker opponents and refined dark Origin Blood.
• Duan De and the others battled the Dark Immortal Kings, and Jiang Zhu cleaved Black Sun Saint Ancestor apart before destroying him and both of his suns.
• The Dark Immortal Kings lit Soul-Summoning Incense, bringing a tributary of the Soul River into their realm.
• Ye Fan, Ruthless, Wushi, Duan De, and the others examined the tributary as a Twelve-Winged Soul River Creature emerged from it.
• The Twelve-Winged Soul River Creature devoured six Dark Immortal Kings as sacrifices, then discovered that Jiang Zhu and his companions held more Dark Matter than it did.

Jiang Zhu and the others were mistaken for descendants of Immortal Emperors by a Twelve-Winged Soul River Immortal King, who then killed the Dark Immortal Kings and revealed that the Underworld and Soul River were preparing the Heavens Sacrifice. Jiang Zhu explained the threat posed by the dark powers and their many Quasi-Immortal Emperors, leaving the group to consider hiding within the darkness until they could fight back.

• The Twelve-Winged Creature mistook Ye Fan, Wushi, the God Emperor, and the others for exalted descendants of Immortal Emperors and knelt before Jiang Zhu.
• Jiang Zhu questioned the Twelve-Winged Creature, which explained that Soul-Summoning Incense summoned Soul River forces to kill enemies and collect souls or offerings.
• The Twelve-Winged Creature killed the remaining Dark Immortal Kings to demonstrate its loyalty, then feared Jiang Zhu’s rebuke after mentioning the Heavens Sacrifice.
• The Twelve-Winged Creature revealed that the Underworld presided over the Heavens Sacrifice with the Soul River assisting, while Jiang Zhu explained that the dark powers controlled supposed reincarnation.
• Jiang Zhu told the group that the dark powers had at least fifteen Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level beings and even stronger forces above the heavens.
• Jiang Zhu proposed that the group hide among the darkness until they could turn against its rulers, and Ye Fan and the others reluctantly accepted the strategy.

Jiang Zhu and the disguised emperors learned that a corrupted veteran from the Heavenly Court could lure out its remnants, but the veteran attacked Ye Fan after being brought to them. As Jiang Zhu traced the veteran’s recurring darkness to a hidden passage, he sensed it led toward an illusory realm filled with Immortal Emperor-level origin dark matter.

• Jiang Zhu explained the epochal Heavens Sacrifice and said that their darkened group no longer feared it because the true spirit method offered a way forward.
• A Twelve-Winged Being named Ming'e offered to bring out a corrupted Heavenly Court veteran as bait to lure the remnants, and Jiang Zhu ordered it to do so.
• Ming'e brought the veteran to the group, and Ye Fan rewarded Ming'e with dark origin blood before the being left.
• The veteran attacked Ye Fan with the Grass Character Sword Art, the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art, and the Pingluan Art, but Ye Fan defeated and beheaded him.
• The veteran briefly regained clarity and said only death could end his recurring corruption, while Jiang Zhu traced the source to a hidden passage carrying Immortal Emperor-level origin dark matter into an uncanny illusory realm.

Jiang Zhu discovered that dark matter in the old soldier came from a passage linking the Heavens to his Gate of Potential, then used the Demon-Refining Divine Flame and True Spirit Method to refine it and give him a new life. Two thousand years later, Jiang Zhu was still forging a treasure while the others waited to fight.

• Jiang Zhu learned that the old soldier’s darkness was connected to the Gate of Potential and that the old soldier feared becoming a tool to corrupt the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s method.
• Jiang Zhu used the Demon-Refining Divine Flame to refine the old soldier’s darkness, transform his Gate of Potential, and destroy the passage anchoring the contamination.
• The old soldier, Li Feng, was reborn with Quasi-Immortal Emperor light and vowed to repay Jiang Zhu and fight the eerie beings.
• Two thousand years passed as the people of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands refined dark origin blood and learned to control both dark and normal origins.
• Little Saint Ape and Black Emperor waited for Jiang Zhu to finish forging as immortal gold and Great Dao runes filled the World Tree with firelight.

Jiang Zhu forged a Divine Pot and Sword Embryo from Immortal King weapons, the laws of fallen Dark Giants, and a mysterious black stone, raising both artifacts to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level. After leaving seclusion, he found the newly formed Medicine-Transformed Spirits asking their Phoenix leader about going to the Boundary Sea.

• Jiang Zhu brought out a vast collection of Immortal King treasures to forge his own weapons, while Black Emperor begged for a share and Ye Fan told him to quiet down.
• Jiang Zhu forged a Divine Pot with half the Immortal King weapons and extracted the Great Dao laws from the Dark Giants' Primordial Spirits before destroying them.
• Jiang Zhu used the Divine Pot to forge a murderous Sword Embryo from the remaining Immortal King weapons.
• Jiang Zhu added a mysterious black stone and the Demon-Refining Pot's divine fire, elevating both artifacts to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level and linking them to himself.
• Jiang Zhu emerged from seclusion and saw the Medicine-Transformed Spirits gathered around their Phoenix leader, asking whether they could go to the Boundary Sea to make their mark.

Jiang Zhu promised the transformed children they could join the Boundary Sea battles once they reached the Supreme level, then showed them the dangers of the battlefield. After the God Emperor's Dark Dharma Body reported a region resonating with their dark origin blood, Jiang Zhu traveled there and found Ye Fan and the others fighting a powerful Nine-Headed Monster.

• Jiang Zhu told the children they could go to the Boundary Sea once they were strong enough to leave their world on their own, and took them to see the battlefield before returning them to cultivate.
• The God Emperor's Dark Dharma Body reported a dangerous Chaos Region where their dark origin blood had reacted, and Jiang Zhu suspected it was connected to a Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Jiang Zhu entered the Chaos Region, endured its altered laws and attacks of dark origin, and followed the scent of Immortal King blood toward a towering black mountain.
• Jiang Zhu found Ye Fan and the others battling a Nine-Headed Monster that wielded the power of an Emperor Light Immortal King.
• Jiang Zhu struck the Nine-Headed Monster with a Fist Seal, causing its manifested flesh-and-blood body to explode.

Jiang Zhu led Ye Fan and the others into a dark mountain region, where they discovered a vast sea of bones and a mass grave filled with fresh corpses. The chapter left them facing a devastating storm of dark Dao runes that Jiang Zhu suspected came from a Quasi-Immortal Emperor's attack.

• Jiang Zhu reunited with Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, Ruthless Great Emperor, and the others after killing the Nine-Headed Monster, and they headed toward the mountain that resonated with their origin blood.
• Duan De touched a long-dead qilin skeleton, causing it to crumble into dust, and Black Emperor mocked him for destroying the remains.
• The group reached the summit, saw darkened divine medicines and a vast rift, then crossed a sea of bones containing the remains of exceptionally gifted beings.
• Jiang Zhu and the others discovered mountains of relatively fresh corpses beside a foul sea of multicolored blood.
• A violent storm of black Dao runes swept across the mass grave, and Jiang Zhu suspected it was the lingering force of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor's attack.

Jiang Zhu fought a Quasi-Immortal Emperor-linked monster in the Land of Darkness, while Ye Fan, Duan De, and the others watched the battle shake the River of Time and shatter worlds. After manifesting twelve supreme true spirits and merging them into himself, Jiang Zhu destroyed the monster with a single punch.

• A monster pieced together from strange substances emerged from the blood sea, and Jiang Zhu sensed its connection to a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Jiang Zhu shattered the monster's Slaughter Formation with his Sword Embryo, then used his Divine Pot to block its colossal bone claw.
• Jiang Zhu and the monster clashed across the Land of Darkness and different stretches of the River of Time, opening worlds with the force of their blows as Ye Fan, Duan De, and the others watched.
• Jiang Zhu manifested twelve supreme true spirits, including the Nine Nether Ao, then called them all into his body to reach his peak strength.
• Jiang Zhu shattered the monster's body and Primordial Spirit with a single punch.

Jiang Zhu suppressed a dark monster, extracted its memories of the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, and refined its Quasi-Immortal Emperor blood into his thirteenth bloodline origin. He began breaking through the King Realm to become an Emperor, causing a cosmic disturbance that drew powerful beings’ attention.

• Jiang Zhu used the Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin Method to combine twelve supreme powers and destroy the monster’s reformed body with a punch.
• Jiang Zhu trapped the monster in the Divine Pot, healed his injuries, and extracted its memories as the pot refined it.
• Jiang Zhu learned that the monster had formed in a fragment of the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, where a light Quasi-Immortal Emperor and a dark Quasi-Immortal Emperor had battled.
• Jiang Zhu refined the monster into dark origin blood and merged it as the thirteenth origin in his bloodline.
• Jiang Zhu began fusing transcendence with his body to break through the King Realm, and the resulting upheaval alarmed beings across the Boundary Sea.

Jiang Zhu fused his transcendent primordial spirit with his body and became a Quasi-Immortal Emperor. He returned with the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit fragment sealed as a pearl and began an eighty-one-day Dao discourse on the World Tree.

• Jiang Zhu endured the violent fusion of his primordial spirit, Dao, and body as his flesh collapsed and a seed absorbed his spirit and thirteen bloodlines.
• The seed burst open and formed Jiang Zhu’s new body, and he emerged as a Quasi-Immortal Emperor before Ye Fan, Wushi, Ruthless, and the others.
• Jiang Zhu crossed the Boundary Sea in a single step and compressed the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit fragment into a fist-sized pearl.
• Jiang Zhu returned with everyone to the World Tree and announced that he would expound the Dao for eighty-one days.
• Jiang Zhu began his Dao discourse before a vast crowd, and cultivators gained insight, broke through realms, and faced heavenly tribulations.

Jiang Zhu explained that Quasi-Immortal Emperors were Dao Ancestors who advanced cultivation by creating or extending their own paths. After Ye Fan, Wushi, Ruthless, and the others shared their views on supreme strength, Jiang Zhu left them with the direction to find and endlessly develop what made their Dao uniquely their own.

• Jiang Zhu lectured on the Great Dao for eighty-one days, helping Ye Fan, Wushi, Ruthless, and the others clarify their cultivation paths.
• Ye Fan, Wushi, Ruthless, Azure Emperor, the God Emperor, and Wang Bo each described their understanding of supreme strength, while Duan De argued that survival, patience, and hidden tricks were what mattered most.
• Black Emperor proposed a life of comfort and leisure, including using Jiang Zhu's treasures as household tools, and Jiang Zhu replied that such freedom required enough strength to claim it.
• Jiang Zhu explained that Quasi-Immortal Emperors were called Dao Ancestors because they created new cultivation paths or advanced existing ones for later generations.
• Jiang Zhu said there was no single method to reach the realm; each cultivator had to discover and develop their own distinctive Dao, art, obsession, or understanding of the world.

After explaining his path to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, Jiang Zhu watched Yan Ruyu and the others enter seclusion before traveling to the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit to seek a worthy opponent. There, he confronted the Quasi-Immortal Emperor hidden in the abyss, and their clash began as the creature twisted time and space.

• Jiang Zhu explained that each cultivator had to find their own path, then left the Dao Platform as the listeners returned to seclusion.
• Yan Ruyu told Jiang Zhu she planned to fuse the Taiyin Jade Rabbit bloodline and gradually nurture a world, while Jiang Qing received his father's book of cultivation insights and went home.
• After Yan Ruyu entered seclusion, Jiang Zhu sought a worthy opponent and opened a passage to the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit.
• Jiang Zhu entered the abyss and suppressed its rotting corpses and rivers of blood with his Quasi-Immortal Emperor power.
• A vast eye opened in the darkness, and its owner confronted Jiang Zhu; Jiang Zhu declared himself the Heavenly Emperor as the hidden Quasi-Immortal Emperor began warping time and space.